On Racial Discrimination At The Arizona State Hospital: Substandard Mental-Medical Health Care No Matte How You Look At It. Wherein, an inquiry is presented concerning how it is that Caucasians being granted long term in-patient mental health care at The Arizona State Hospital, which is the state's only long term public mental health facility, outnumber African Americans at a ratio of twelve to one (12:1). Roughly.

        As per the basic premise of numerous studies in relation to an issue that is pretty much common knowledge today, whereby African Americans are incarcerated at ten times the rate of Caucasians in Arizona and throughout the nation, I challenge the Supervisor of the Arizona State Hospital, Cory "crazycorycorner.weebly.com" Nelson, or any other like representative of the Arizona Department of Health Services/Behavioral Services (ADHS/BHS) to answer this question:
       HOW IS IT ACCEPTABLE FOR NON-AFRICAN AMERICANS IN ARIZONA TO BE GRANTED  TWELVE TIMES THE AMOUNT OF ACCESS TO LONG TERM MENTAL HEALTH CARE AT ASH THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE?
        This is an inquiry, for the most part presented at this time in good faith, that may not seem to have much bearing on my thus far presented dedication to addressing the crimes that I witnessed and was personally subjected to during my hospitalization at ASH. But nothing could be farther from the truth. The issue of racial disparity and related discrimination is of no less importance than any of my other constitutionally grounded concerns about patient abuse at ASH, and even my own personal graduate level education related to race relations in the United States. So as with all the other forms of criminal conduct thatI observed while hospitalized at ASH, I found it impossible to ignore the issue of patent racial discrimination when I observed there at ASH.
        But the really cool news today is that one of our nation's leading scholars on the topic is very interested in these issues as they arise in places like ASH. Michele Alexander, who is on the faculty at The Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, and who very recently published the critical text, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," (2012, New Press, NY, NY), takes the issue of constitutionally banned denials of state services very seriously, indeed. In short, the radically disproportionate prosecution and incarceration of people of color in the prisons though out the entirety of the United States, most markedly African Americans, takes on new meaning in Arizona, where non-African Americans enjoy the fundamental privileges and liberties afforded them through the state and federal constitutions in relation to state provided mental health care at more than two times the rate that their dark skinned fellow Americans do (sic). It's freaky, I tell you, so utterly out of sorts with the how our country operates today that, yet again, I simply must present a painfully disturbing example of how corrupt the state of Arizona's administrators and agency officials are. Yet again, as it were, a graphic image relating to the bare bone fact that the administrators at ASH effectively suspend reality as soon as they enter that facility, and the patients there either suffer, or- in the case of Caucasians, benefit- from the consequent conditions a constant basis, Substandard mental/medical health care, no matter how you look at it.  

        Could it be that African Americans are disproportionately unaffected by serious mental illness in Arizona? Could it be that white people are so proportionately the majority population in terms of serious mental illness? Or is more a matter of gross racial discrimination and favoritism in the AZ criminal courts and in the related state health care system?
        Clearly, the AZ criminal justice and public legal system is at the root of this fact, but the administrators at ASH and in the affiliated state agencies are aware of it, not to mention the physicians at ASH, and the numerous African Americans who work there in the ore menial positions (because to my knowledge, there are no blacks in positions of authority at ASH, or beyond in the health care network). From Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who has a son at ASH, to ADHS Director, Will Humble, and Attorney General Tom Horne, and so on, there are few facts as graphically evident to anybody who as so much as been granted a summary tour of ASH as this one.
        As per my experience, nobody can be admitted to ASH without the initiation and establishment of some form of civil or criminal court order specific to extended in-patient mental health treatment within the state system.
        In my own case, I discussed this fact at length with my primary care psychiatrist in Tucson, AZ, and it was through a cooperative agreement, in essence, that I willingly participated in the process of initiating and establishing my specific civil court order. There is a "harm to self" statute in Arizona that grants physicians the authority to place individuals in ASH is doing so is deemed critical in terms of the individuals health, well being, and very survival. Formerly, a person like I would have committed them self to ASH, in effect, but that simply is not possible, today. This is my understanding of the situation, anyway. In any case, a number of administratively authorized proceedings come into play before a person winds up at ASH, a process that involves licensed physicians and county and private hospitals, social workers, attorneys and judicial officials, at a minimum; as well as possible family members. friends, and even relative strangers, and so on. And yet somehow, in the mix of it all, African Americans who for whatever reason are subjected to the exact same system that I was only gain admission into The Arizona State Hospital at a proportion of twelve to one. Roughly.
            What's up with this, Cory? How the hell do you sleep at night knowing via your own daily supervision of the ASH operation that African Americans are systematically denied the services provided at ASH? Even with all of my other well documented concerns, what is your explanation for this specific matter? Where the hell do people like you come from, man? Are you really this bloody racist, this much of a monster?! 
                                 I DARE YOU TO TRY AND RESPOND TO THIS SIMPLE TOPIC IN A PUBLIC FORUM, CORY "CRAZYCORYCORNER.WEEBLY.COM" NELSON! LET'S SEE WHAT KIND OF A MAN YOU REALLY ARE.

       In closing: I had the chance to discuss the graphic racial disparity at The Arizona State Hospital one day with a staff member who I had never met, but who was black and seemed nice at the time, so I asked him:
      "What do you think is going on with the low percentage of African Americans here at ASH?", to which he replied, in classically evasive fashion:
       "You know, you're right, and that is a good topic for conversation. But honestly, I never really thought about it too much...."
        State employees, I tell you, the doctors, the administrators, the overworked and under paid technicians and the related endemic fear that they have about making waves of any kind, lest they be out of a job... It's a sad, sad thing to see in this day in age, and the clock instill running in terms of the abuse at ASH. There are people there today who suffer these wrongs day in and day out. Substandard medical care as a matter of standard practice. Whad'ya say, oh reader? Let's put a stop to it now.

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