Black Men Let Us Become Conscious Breathers

 “I'm blessed and still breathing.” – 2Pac

Indeed, Black men we don’t have to think to breath because our autonomic nervous system is a network of nerves throughout your body that control unconscious processes. These are things that happen without us thinking about them, such as breathing and your heart beating.

Not having to think to breath results in so many Black men taking breathing for granted as ‘unconscious breathers’, not appreciating breathing and jeopardizing it with health neglect, risky actions, and self-destructive behaviors.

Black men let us become ‘conscious breathers’ being aware that our lives starts and stops with a breath. That we can survive without food for weeks, without water for days, but without air we cannot survive more than a few minutes.