Abraham Nussbaum

Physician, Teacher, Writer


When They Call You A Terrorist, Patrisse Khan-Cullors

People with mental illness deserve better: “For my brother, hospitals signaled harm if not outright hatred.” Khan-Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, writes about the failures of her brother Monte’s mental health treatment. She sees her brother in spit masks and restraints. She writes clearly about the ways law enforcement and mental health are authorities which govern the bodies of Black people. Reform is urgently needed. (But: what worries me is the “they”: Us vs. Them. Over and over again.)