Still rocking on my Ol’ Dirty train of thought…
Dealing with mental illness in the Black community is even more taboo than the machismo and mysogyny that plagues the least educated sectors. You can have aliments like drug dependency and even a crippling handicap like a deformity. Just don’t be crazy.
1 in 5 young adults has personality disorder
I peeped this article which says that twenty percent (20%) of young adults has a mental disorder, and then only twenty five percent (25%) of that group receives some kind of counseling or treatment.
Damn. That is a whole lot of crazy niggas in America. Now I’m also a little depressed that more people aren’t embracing my perverse video rendition of ‘Love Lockdown‘. That shit should be dead center in some of y’all’s wheelhouses.
Black folks have historically had a difficult time being diagnosed for shit since we have seen the marginalization and disenfranchisement that comes from being ill and unable to generate production. If you couldn’t work your ass would be killed. There was no welfare for slaves.
Black folks still speak in hushed whispers when one of their relatives ain’t quite right. I don’t know why they do this because that nigga can still hear you. And you know what? He hates you too. The real question I have is why aren’t white folks getting their treatments for the crazies?
Racism is some shit that kicks everyone’s ass. I’m not saying that the young adult white in this survey are getting the crazies because they have come to see the fraudulent, duplicitous nature of supremacy, but racism is still fucked the fuck up. Half-Black president and the whole nine.
Maybe some of these young adult white are learning that they are being scammed by these colleges and paying off a school loan into your late thirties is a fucking bitch. While racism is fucked the fuck up, classism is the worst. Going into debt to hold onto the veneer of a ‘Have’ is starting to wear off on some people.
That is why some of the most advanced Blacks stay winning on they futuristic Sun-Ra shit by staying home all day playing Grand Theft Auto and collecting them welfare checks.
