Racism Causes Depression!

Here's an article from the Salt Lake Tribune, claiming that depression among Latinos is caused by racism. The reporter offers no evidence of racism per se, but claims that Latinos aren't made to feel welcome in Utah and that that leads them down the slippery slope into depression. I won't even begin to poke at this nonsense--using the R word is the first default of activists when they cannot explain things any other way. But Utah isn't the most welcoming place to white outsiders either. When my family moved to Salt Lake City when I was 14, there was a lot of pressure for me, a non-Mormon, to fit in by becoming Mormon. This pressure often came from school officials. I kid you not. As nasty as that business can be, it sure as hell isn't at the root of depression. It's just ugly.