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This ex-Super Bowl champion wants to help make mental health more affordable for Black millennials
CNBC ^ | 5/5/2022 | Megan Sauer

Posted on 05/12/2022 10:41:14 AM PDT by Nifty

n 2016, Ryan Mundy was sitting in a room full of venture capitalists fielding start-up pitches when a thought occurred to him: None of the ideas he’d heard were geared toward solving the biggest issues in his own life.

Mundy, a Super Bowl champion in 2009 with the Pittsburgh Steelers, was struggling to find a purpose after leaving the NFL in 2015. He suffered from anxiety, stemming from multiple relatives being sequentially diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and cardiovascular disease.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: black; health; millennials
I ask..... Why not all millennials? Why not all people, regardless of race?

If people want everyone to be equal, and when the champions of equality call out things that are not "equal", then why not call out everyone who classifies and segregate groups of people and seek to treat them differently.

1 posted on 05/12/2022 10:41:14 AM PDT by Nifty
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To: Nifty

I know. Stupidity. Racial stupidity.


2 posted on 05/12/2022 10:46:10 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: Nifty

Killing has to stop first. The rest won’t be necessary after the fathers come home.


3 posted on 05/12/2022 10:46:11 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Nifty

How about diet and exercise? That would fix a lot of diabetes and heart disease problems. Doesn’t cost anything.


4 posted on 05/12/2022 10:49:23 AM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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But not for whites or Hispanics or Asians. Ok, got it.


5 posted on 05/12/2022 10:53:51 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Nifty

The more woke-progressive we become, the further black children fall, and the more help they apparently need.


6 posted on 05/12/2022 10:59:16 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: imabadboy99

Somebody has to subsidize the costs. it can’t be cheap for everybody.


8 posted on 05/12/2022 11:14:28 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I never dated Jennifer Gardner because she always asked "What's in your wallet". That's a red flag.)
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To: Nifty

They are the race that gets the most money thrown at them with zero positive results or improvements.


9 posted on 05/12/2022 11:39:16 AM PDT by Trillian
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Start by telling them they are equal and not to embrace victimhood. He can improve their mental health by referring to them as “black”, not “Black”.


10 posted on 05/12/2022 12:19:09 PM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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Considering all the snake oil salesmen and pill-pushers in the “mental health” profession these days, its probably an advantage to black millennials to not have access to it.


11 posted on 05/12/2022 12:23:04 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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If I dress in black face and identify as black, can I get this too?

It works for the trans folks! (who simply dress in offensive stereotypes of what they think women look like)


12 posted on 05/12/2022 12:25:16 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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