Black Caucus Regonizes Mental Health
Sep 29 2008 | Comment 1
Here’s a deadline-day post for you:
The National Black Caucus of State Legislators today announced it will host its 15th Annual Mental Health Conference to address the more pertinent mental health issues on both state and federal levels facing us today. The goal of the conference is to educate state legislators, healthcare professionals, community leaders and the public about mental illness and what can be done to reduce the cultural stigmas and barriers that prevent access in the African American community.
Rock on, Black Caucus!
liz | 2:56 PM | Uncategorized
This cannot be addressed soon enough! Mental health issues are a plague in the African-American community, which already has enough devastating socio-economic problems.
On September 23rd, Troy Davis (http://danomacnamarrah.blogspot.com/2008/09/troy-davis-death-on-hold.html) was granted a stay of execution in the State of Georgia, two hours before they were going to electrocute him to death.
His is a case that has drawn pleas for clemency from the Pope, President Jimmy Carter, Rep. John Lewis and many more.
It’s a sad fact that the overwhelming people on Death Row are poor, Southern African-Americans, many of whom are of diminished mental health and/or capacity.
This may not seem important to those of us who have not walked in these horrendous shoes. But this is only the tip of the ice-berg.
I know how hard it is to fight a mental illness, when I have been given so much. I cannot imagine how much more awful it could be, if I were not white, educated and able to draw on a net-work of people who are not marginalized.
Great post. It does a body good to read it.
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