Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) do not only right historical wrongs. When we factor in brain research, we see they could act as pain medication for the agony of racism.
Racism's repeated blows to neurobiology come from individuals, employers, culture, politics, and society.
Targets of bullying – whether it’s due to racism or any other impulse to harm – are put in an out-group, objectified, dehumanized, and considered not deserving of empathy according to perpetrators and the systems that all too often enable them. Extensive neurobiological research shows that this repeat rejection and social exclusion causes, the catalyst for studying research on the way in which abusive behavior impacts the brain was misogyny and homophobia.
In order to relieve this individual, collective, and social pain and alleviate it, there needs to be at the very minimum an equal response. When we look at the impact of racist bullying through a neurobiological lens, and especially understand how it’s physically harming the brain and causing chronic pain, then diversity, equity, and inclusion are not only attempts to establish some kind of reparative justice, they are pain-killers. They are medicine.
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