This digital representation depicts the what and why of racial exhaustion endured by Dr. Hotchkins and numerous other people of African descent throughout the course of their lives; in particular, in 2020. In fact, this picture accurately shows what being racially overwhelmed can look like if not appropriately addressed. The red outline around the Black figure depicts increasing levels of mundane extreme environmental stress due to unrelenting exposure to racism, racial microaggressions and the normative gaze of Whiteness as culturally intrusive. The cumulative outcome of consistently being inundated with having to navigate the geographies of racism can lead to racial battle fatigue, which contributes to adverse psychological, physiological and behavioral responses that shorten the lives of those who experience it. 

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