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"That other set of judicial robes
It hasn’t yet arrived in the mail, but I got word yesterday that a higher court has affirmed the right of Tulsa’s U.S. District Court to treat people with mental illnesses, like depression and PTSD, as second-rate citizens who have no right to protest that status. Among other things, it reminds me of the day I left TCBH, the Tulsa “Center for Behavioral Health”, or “This Can’t Be Happening”.
They gave back only one of two sets of keys on rings that I had when I went in. This particular set had been given to some movers I had to hire to get my things out of my apartment, so that the Manager of Glenwood Apartments wouldn’t just throw them into the street. As she reportedly threatened to the moving company, in violation of Oklahoma Landlord-Tenant law. The movers had assured me that they had given the keys back to TCBH.
I was getting frustrated and irritated because the woman behind the TCBH intake counter put on a Freddy Prince “Ees not my yob” attitude. In other words, she couldn’t do anything if they didn’t have them, because it must have been someone else’s mistake. And of course, I had keys on that ring that no one else should have. As soon as I let that show in my voice, she threatened to call a Tulsa Sheriff’s Deputy to deal with me.
She let me know in no uncertain terms that people like me don’t have the right to be angry or upset at any frustration. That her first proper assumption should be that it signals the threat and intention to do violence. If it weren’t for the similar pale color of our skins, you might think she was having a problem with my race. That I don’t have any right to speak up at indifference and incompetence, because my kind don’t deserve any better. No offense meant to people of color.
When many if not most Judges deal with people who have mental illnesses, they have no problem with anyone taking advantage of us, just because we are vulnerable, we have few resources to fight back with, and they can. This kind of prejudicial judicial treatment goes all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States; in the 1979 Addington v. Texas case, for example. So much for the Constitution; it doesn’t quite apply to the likes of us.
They act almost like the judicial equivalent of the white supremacists who want to euthanize all the kids with harelips. They behave as if they are wearing a second set of robes under their black ones – robes made up of white sheets. "
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