According to an article titled, "The Epigenetics of Being Black and Feeling Blue: Understanding African American Vulnerability to Disease", written by Dr. Darron Smith African American are suffering from various mental health serious due to racial discrimination, which remains a societal norm and a routine a part of their everyday lives. It influences human biology and physiology at the cellular level, leaving the poor, the impoverished, and the targeted more vulnerable to chronic disease. The result is epigenetic tags with harmful gene expressions. 

Nana Evison