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By Maya Pottiger,
\nWord In Black<\/p>\n

People aren\u2019t rubber bands.<\/p>\n

Even as kids attend school in-person full-time again and life slowly returns to normal, they aren\u2019t going to snap back to who they were and how they felt before the COVID-19 pandemic. It had a deep and lasting impact on everyone, especially Black families and Black children, that we are still learning about, says Fitzgerald<\/a>, Ph.D., EdM and MSW, an internal consultant with the National Council for Mental Wellbeing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And one of the keys to understanding these impacts and finding solutions is acknowledging the important variables that we like to ignore, Fitzgerald says, like race, gender, and class, which all play a role in a person\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to be able to take race into consideration more often as we think about solutions versus these universal solutions that we think apply to every child,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cThat does a disservice to children, and it also ignores their pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parents of K-12 students overwhelmingly agreed that the pandemic had a somewhat to very negative impact on both their children\u2019s education (61 percent) and emotional well-being (48 percent), according to an October 2022 study by Pew Research Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, while Black parents were the least likely to say the pandemic had a negative impact on their children\u2019s emotional well-being (39 percent), they were the most likely to say the emotional impact hasn\u2019t gotten better (30 percent).<\/p>\n

How can both be true? In an interview with Word In Black, Fitzgerald spoke about Black folks\u2019 history with trauma and mental health, and how we move forward from here.<\/p>\n

Word In Black: When we\u2019re talking about this lingering negative impact on emotional well-being, what does that look like, especially in Black students in the K-12 age range?<\/h4>\n

Terence Fitzgerald: <\/strong>When we think about children specifically, trauma can play out in attention span. It can play out in behaviors where you\u2019re already within a system where you\u2019re already being scrutinized differently. So not paying attention, maybe displaying unwanted academic behaviors.<\/p>\n

The majority of teachers, specifically non-teachers of color, will see that behavior as, \u201cOh, that\u2019s how they are. This is how they act,\u201d and it feeds into the stereotype about people of color, especially kids of color. And when it comes to the parents\u2019 response, it\u2019s like, \u201coh, they don\u2019t care about their kids\u2019 education. Look how they\u2019re responding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, they\u2019re responding in an adaptive way due to the trauma that they\u2019re already undergoing. So it plays out much differently. Our schools, our doctors, our institutions \u2014 any institution that deals with children already has issues with understanding trauma, so the fact that people of color, and others who don\u2019t fit into the stereotype, display trauma differently.<\/p>\n

WIB: Many have argued that we\u2019ve returned to normal: kids are in school, masks have been optional for a long time. Can you explain why these negative impacts are sticking around?<\/h4>\n

Fitzgerald: Because that\u2019s trauma. Trauma doesn\u2019t end just because the event is no longer occurring.<\/p>\n

For example, we can think about 9\/11. Yes, this city is clean, the debris is removed, we have all of these other safety protocols put into place. That doesn\u2019t stop the trauma that initially occurred. It\u2019s like throwing a 50-ton boulder in a lake. Those ripples that are created continue on and on, even though where that initial boulder landed is far away. That\u2019s trauma.<\/p>\n

Trauma continues on, so we\u2019re going to see the effects until someone is able to put into place measures where we\u2019re able to say, this is what trauma is, this is how we deal with it, this is how we can help those who have these concerns. But by putting it in the rearview mirror and going, \u201cit\u2019s in the past\u201d does a disservice to children because they\u2019re still dealing with those repercussions. We know on a cellular level that trauma can change and can have an effect on one\u2019s DNA. That\u2019s how powerful trauma is.<\/p>\n

WIB: Why do you think Black parents were the least likely to say the pandemic impacted their kids\u2019 emotional well-being?<\/h4>\n

Fitzgerald: It\u2019s important, when we look at this, to take into consideration the history of Black people, and the history of Black people and its relation to environmental stress, as we think about trauma and this prolonged trauma. So having experience with prolonged trauma as it relates to being a person of color in a system, which is rooted in oppression and marginalization, and subjugation, you become accustomed to what that looks like. It becomes nothing new to you.<\/p>\n

If you know that racism and the fact that your life is considered less than in comparison to people who are non-people of color, specifically, White, you live with this. You grew up in this environment, what that trauma brings, and you\u2019re reminded daily that your value is less than. Even though it doesn\u2019t look the same as it did in the 1960s or 50s, people of color, specifically, Black and Native Americans, are consistently reminded \u2014 through policies and procedures, institutions, the media, movies, the way stories are covered, music, and daily interactions \u2014 that your value is less than, so that set of circumstances has created historical trauma, intergenerational trauma, so this is not new to people of color. It isn\u2019t new.<\/p>\n

WIB: The other piece of the research is that Black parents were the most likely to say emotional well-being hasn\u2019t improved. Why is that?<\/h4>\n

Fitzgerald: If there is strife, or feelings of unsurmountable social economic changes that have created this set of circumstances for people to live in, and the emotions that people undergo with these traumatic events, it\u2019s a harsher pain for those who are oppressed \u2014 historically oppressed.<\/p>\n

So what White people feel as we think about COVID, and what they saw in relation to schooling, how a majority of schools were inadequate in preparation for a national pandemic, we saw how schools were ineffective in putting into place a plan. We saw the effects on the kids, to children in their learning. We still don\u2019t know the full extent of the effect of COVID on the social and emotional well-being of children.<\/p>\n

Now, put that into context. This is what white people are feeling: \u201cOh, my gosh, this is traumatic.\u201d This is not new for people of color, to be left out, for people not to have a plan, for systems to be inadequate in addressing the needs and concerns. This isn\u2019t new.<\/p>\n

Maybe what the data is showing is that people of color are like, \u201cno, this is par for the course.\u201d And the fact that we don\u2019t historically take in consideration mental health, and that\u2019s a historical thing, that\u2019s a historical fact. We think about historical research around psychology, psychiatry: people of color were left out.<\/p>\n

If we think about the institutions that were then put into place to deal with those concerns, they didn\u2019t offer the same services or offer any services, at times, to people of color. So if you grew up in a society where you\u2019re seeing mental health discussed over here, but your mental health isn\u2019t seen as a concern, people then adapt. They create their own strategies for dealing with it.<\/p>\n

Now we\u2019re dealing with the fact that people of color are \u2014 even more so now than I ever heard growing up \u2014 hearing these conversations about mental health and Black communities. White communities have been having this much longer. Now we\u2019re also doing this sort of catch-up. So Black parents may not be able to recognize how that trauma may be playing out in their lives.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s different. Trauma plays out differently, gender-wise, cultural, ethnic, religious, or racial. It plays out differently. So when the majority of the news is covering \u201cthis is what trauma is, this is what it looks like,\u201d and Black parents are going, \u201cOh, my kid isn\u2019t doing this.\u201d But they are displaying it \u2014\u00a0 it\u2019s just different. And we don\u2019t talk about those differences enough, how trauma looks along racial lines.<\/p>\n

WIB: What are some ways that parents can support their children who are still experiencing this negative impact from the pandemic?<\/h4>\n

Fitzgerald: One is to have a sense of understanding and forgiveness. Forgiveness for the fact that their children are still displaying the ramifications of undergoing trauma, as we think about COVID. To have some forgiveness in our hearts that these children are, in a sense, suffering, and it is our responsibility, then, to understand trauma. What does trauma look like? How can it affect us? How can I advocate for my child as they are displaying these particular traits of trauma? How can I support my child? How can I educate those within their lives that what you\u2019re seeing is not what you think it is?<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a child being defiant for defiance sake. This isn\u2019t a child who fits into your false narrative of people of color: \u201cThat\u2019s how Black kids work or how Black kids act in schools,\u201d but to say, wait a minute, I have to educate them to let them know this is what this is. And because of that, it will hopefully force people to confront what trauma is. It also ties into building resiliency within these children. Since I know what trauma looks like now, I\u2019m advocating for my child.<\/p>\n

How can I then set up my child to be more resilient? How can I build off of this strength for them to meet these challenges of what COVID had? What COVID presented? What COVID did?<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared in <\/em>The Afro<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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