Black youth in Canada are in incredible pain right now
Thousands of people gather for a peaceful vigil in Vancouver on Friday, June 5, 2020 in solidarity with the George Floyd protests across the United States.Dr. Amy Gajaria is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.It has been a sobering time to be a person providing mental health care to Black youth.
As Canadians, we love to talk about this as an American problem – “Thank goodness we’re not in the U.S.” But these patients all live in Toronto. They are Canadian. This is their experience, too. As children, young Black people experience a school system that explicitly and implicitly tells them they are not smart enough, that they are “too aggressive,” that they are too much to manage, and that disproportionately suspends and expels them. And, as my constant caveat, yes, here in Canada, too. As adolescents, Black youth start to notice how they are subtly and not so subtly moved out of public spaces and are seen as “dangerous” when they gather outside.
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