Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Saturday, August 12, 2017
MENTAL HEALTH
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH
The removal of mental health care facilities from most American communities may have been an attempt to deter dismantling the edifice of racism, a mentation that is based upon the false doctrine of racial white supremacy, upon which American history is largely based.
Many white people in America are mentally ill from exposure to and intake of unrelenting, false religious doctrine, contrived history, "fake news," false propaganda , lying science, about black people and themselves, all of which yet remain under the economic, political aegis of President Donald Trump/people.
Sadly, ineluctably, many American black people are as perversely, inversely, exposed to, and/or impacted by, the same malignant mendacities, as are many racist whites. But,these blacks lack that suffused power or the organizational cognizance to attempt to arrest their commensurate mental, spiritual, material underdevelopment, that's concomitant to that of the equally-oblivious whites.
Therefore, mental health must be recognized to be as important as physical health for the American people of all races, ages, religions.
Of course physical health is having a tough go of it under President Donald Trump, as well, i.e. "Obamacare ." But to the President's recent credit he has recognized an "opioid crisis" among the white people, disproportionate to that among the too-long-suffering blacks' woeful heroin, crack-cocaine spates that sparked the infamous "War on Drugs" and massive incarceration after 1983.
Perhaps, then, from opioids, President Trump may, miraculously,segue to an understanding of the general importance of all kinds of health mental, physical, social, to all of the American people, be the first person in line for treatment!