Black college students can become overweight and in bad health because of racism, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill psychology professor.
According to the Daily Caller, the professor, Enrique W. Neblett, Jr., made this black college students claim during a guest lecture at the University of Georgia, reports The Red & Black (the student newspaper at UGA).
Neblett’s Monday lecture was entitled “Racism-Related Stress and Mental Health: A Study of African American College Students During the Transition to Young Adulthood.”
According to his findings and the findings of others, Neblett said, racism plays a role in causing high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, depression, anxiety — and many other diseases.