Something a white person gets when they spend the whole day fighting against racism in the United States of America (USA).
I’ve been on Twitter for hours, I think I’m experiencing racism fatigue.
Racial battle fatigue is a term coined by professor William A. Smith that refers to the cognitive, emotional and physiological effects of being a person of color in environments that are both implicitly and explicitly racist.
Basically, it is the ways that racism has a negative effect on the psychology and physiology of people of color.
Physiological symptoms of RBF: tension headaches, backaches, elevated heartbeat, rapid breathing in anticipation of conflict, upset stomach, extreme fatigue, loss of appetite, ulcers, elevated blood pressure. Psychological symptoms of RBF: constant anxiety and worrying, inability to sleep, sleep broken by haunting, conflict-specific dreams, intrusive thoughts and images, loss of self-confidence.
I can't go to that meeting with them White folks today, I'm struggling with Racial Battle Fatigue
We have to protect our students from Racial Battle Fatigue by connecting them with people who will love and support them
An increasingly common ailment across the United States, particularly with the gainfully employed.
Symptoms include the overwhelming urge to curse and yell "Really????" when reading almost any headline, or email bulletin from Human Resources.
The stress from the modern work environment may often cause suffers to consume alcohol, and or play the guitar at Volume 11.
Causes are well understood. The human brain is not hardwired to speak as the everything should be filtered through a "lawyer buffer". Those on earth that still have some sort of "Sense of Humor" find the modern work environment challenging. (Not the WORK part.....the EGGSHELLS part
CPCFS (Chronic Political Correctness Fatigue Syndrome) is the reason for Happy Hour.
Becoming exceedingly tired of the endless shenanigans that take place in low income areas, particularly urban areas.
I was watching the news and the story showed some ill behaving folks in the city when I was guy with ghetto fatigue.
A global feeling of annoyance towards black culture
I'm tired of seeing the same people run into stores and steal everything. I now have N fatigue
The intense feeling of exhaustion and burnout you feel from constant activism and internal thought policing for a group you do not belong to.
Monique is suffering from allyship fatigue and considering burning the cape for black men after realizing she's chronically neglected her own needs.
When someone who is a strong advocate for social justice is utterly and absolutely tired of beating their head against a wall trying to explain to ignorant assholes with what you would think is unequivocal evidence, that racism exists
I have blackplaining fatigue from arguing with the willfully ignorant on facebook.