#antonia hylton

[larrywilmore]

Institutional racism & its deep effect on mental health in the black community

Journalist Antonia Hylton & I talk about the history of institutional racism and the twisted way black people's health and well-being was, and to some degree still is, deeply impacted by those views.

Listen to our full conversation on @spotify

#larry wilmore #black on the air #the ringer #spotify #antonia hylton #Institutional racism #mental health #jim crow

[fenrislorsrai]

And one of the things that was most shocking to me that I found when I first embarked on all this research was that this is the only hospital in the state of Maryland and quite possibly the only hospital in the history of the United States that forced its own patients to build it from the ground up. And this is because doctors at the time had very particular beliefs about Black people and their minds, their mental well-being. Many of them believed that emancipation was a mistake and that Black people weren't able to handle freedom, and that this rise in mental illness, in emotional disturbances that they were witnessing in the years after emancipation, they figured, well, it must be because they can't handle freedom. No one seemed to pause and ask, well, what effect might have enslavement had on Black Americans? And so they create these segregated institutions from the very beginning with this idea that Black people are different and therefore need to be treated differently, and that the solution, part of the therapy, the treatment is to put them back to work. And so these patients in 1911 are brought into a forest, and they're not just carrying some water or sandbags and helping some contractors out. They are pouring cement. They are moving railways. They are building massive structures from the ground up. And they are working side by side through the day and night with contractors and electricians to build a hospital that, once it's complete, they're going to be marched inside and they're going to become its first patients. And so I often share that story with people so that they understand that this is really the beginning, the genesis of a story that comes to reflect so much of how Black people are then treated. And the hospital's founding, it represents that moment after emancipation. It comes to represent fights over integration, civil rights, the fight for Black people's complete and honest representation and participation in this country.

#Antonia Hylton #mental hospital #racism #jim crow #mental asylum

[discoverybody]

Today Star’s Prompt Led to NBC’s Antonia Hylton’s Cancer Diagnosis

Antonia Hylton, an NBC News journalist, recently discussed her struggle with a rare type of cancer, a neuroendocrine tumor, on the Third Hour of Today. She admits to neglecting her symptoms, particularly chronic stomach pains, for a long period, blaming them on her hectic travel schedule and nutrition.

However, after hearing Craig Melvin's story about his brother's death from colon cancer and watching a TikTok video about a young woman with colon cancer, Antonia decided to see a doctor. On her 30th birthday, she received a worrying phone call from her doctor after a colonoscopy discovered a polyp that turned out to be a rare neuroendocrine tumour. Fortunately, it was found early and treated.

#antonia hylton #cancer #information #health

[gudguy1a]

Citibank – Racial Equity Commercial

Citibank – Racial Equity Commercial

Hello Citibank (Citigroup / Citi….). You recently started a commercial series on racial equity. Well, how serious are you and how deep are you willing to go in order to help with ‘racial equity’…? Check out the situation that is occurring in West Jasper County, Mississippi – in that school’s district first black school superintendent. Dr. Kenitra Ezi. Ezi is likely to be terminated due to…

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#1st black school superintendent #activist students #Antonia hylton #Bay Springs high school #citi #Citibank #discrimination #dr. kenitra ezi #first black school superintendent #inequality #inequities #inequity #kenitra ezi #Mississippi #MSNBC #nbc #racial equality #west jasper #west jasper school district #Yasmin Vossoughian

[ausetkmt]

The New York Times: Book Review: ‘Madness,’ by Antonia Hylton

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This summer the Texas Education Agency took control of the Houston Independent School District, replacing the community’s elected school board members and pushing out the superintendent to install a new one. The new district leader, Mike Miles, has implemented a “New Education System” which, among other changes, has replaced some school libraries with centers for work and discipline for students. Antonia Hylton, correspondent for NBC News, reports.

#youtube #texas #book bans #books & libraries #gop #republicans

[therealfailwhale]

My March reads in yellow!! * means I definitely recommend it

Nonfiction:

**Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton (This was powerful and excellent)

DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible by Allan Horowitz

Fiction:

*Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler (I definitely teared up a few times)

Death at the Voyager Hotel by Kwei Quartey

Sacrifices: Stories by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

Poetry:

Shrapnel Maps by Philip Metres

Banga Sea by Jiselle Singh

Unfortunately it was paradise by Mahmoud Darwish

*The January Children by Safia Elhillo (Some beautiful and moving poems in this collection)

#reading goal 2024 #nonfiction #poetry #palestinian poetry

[waterspoutskies]

NBC made a pair of podcast series' about my childhood hometown area.

Ok, I've been formatting this post for a hot minute but given the timing. The primaries start in two weeks. It is three weeks to Super Tuesday. And I am beginning to be sorely worried.

I'm not so steady on how to phrase this, how to explain the sheer magnitude of how and why this election matters So Very Much. (And maybe that's why I'm writing this so late at night with the fog of medication settling in.) But I will try.

I am originally from Texas- North Texas, specifically, and Northeast Tarrant County to really zoom in the lens. I grew up on the cutting edge of both gifted student and disability accessible programs, surrounded by teachers who taught us we could and would go anywhere, supported by parents who loved and fought for our futures. We lived in an idyll. An American dreamscape.

There was a battleground brewing underneath it all.

For you see, this is conservative, (majority) white, christian, suburban North Texas. And the same school where our valedictorian is gay and our prom queen is lesbian harbored the quiet laboratory for pushing intolerance to the masses- One upset megachurch attendee at a time.

First it was Southlake.

In the Southlake podcast, the topics and recordings include blatant, overt racism. They include explicit and vulgar language. There are points recounting anti-LGBTQ+ commentary, racial slurs, deriding mental illnesses, the whole nine yards. Every episode comes with a necessary warning preceding the vicious parts.

And then, god help me, it was my quiet, tolerant, always insulated hometown. Grapevine.

In the Grapevine podcast, the topics and recordings include anti-LGBTQ+ commentary of all levels. They cover conversion therapy, deadnaming, homophobia. They cover how parents ruined lives and careers for their own interest. Anything that you have seen spouted online is fair game. As with Southlake, every episode comes with a necessary warning preceding the vicious parts.

I cannot and will not make anyone listen to/read (transcripts are available for each episode) these, but I hope people will.

In short, the sum is that we do not win. In Southlake, white supremacy wins. In Grapevine, evangelical nonsense wins.

And I need people to understand that this is the kind of thing at stake in the elections this year. This is my hometown. This is where my classmates took our educational opportunities and made them political weapons. This is where the same people who shook my hand and smiled so brightly as I campaigned against them are those who want my friends in conversion therapy, run out of town, or dead.

Some of the students highlighted within these podcasts are friends and acquaintances of mine. My best friend and I walk one student's dogs when their family is on vacation. Another plays the 7 foot something war-axe wielding barbarian in our D&D campaign.

Mercifully, we have or are able to get out. But there are so many who are not as close or free to escape as we were.

So please, please, do not skip this election. Do not stay at home. Do not think your vote does not matter, because it does. Every inch we can claw back, from the municipal to the legislative to making our anger known in the primaries, it matters. This starts in your town, and yes, it does goes all the way up. But there are so. many. steps, and offices, and intervening laws, and political entities in between here and the White House. And if there is anywhere you can throw in a wrench or shock the system, you should.

A lot of queer kids in my hometown high school will thank you.

(I think, following this, I'm going to go back and try to explain a little more of the situation and the buildup to how we've gotten here, how this has been bubbling up to the surface for years longer than the last four. But not now, and not in this post. I just needed to get this out there.)

#Oh look it's 2024 #2024 elections #us elections #US politics #politics #Please vote #Please dear god go vote #This isn't me trying to be alarmist. This happened and is still happening. #Please learn from us.

[larrywilmore]

The trauma of the brutal Jim Crow era still lingers

TW Graphic description of lynching

In her new book "Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum," Journalist Antonia Hylton describes in detail the brutality of lynchings & the lasting trauma that affects current generations. We both agree 'just moving on' isn't possible until that trauma is dealt with in a real way.

Listen to our full conversation on @spotify

#larry wilmore #black on the air #spotify #podcast #antonia hylton #jim crow #lynching #madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum #racism

[gwydionmisha]

#Students #School #Religious Extremists #Christian Dominionists #Resistance #News

[meandmybigmouth]

WOULDN’T YOU BE?. THE COPS TOO AFRAID TO MAKE A MOVE! STANDING AROUND IN THE HALLS WITH THEIR PATHETIC PUNISHER PHONE SCREEN SAVERS! KNOWING THE NRA OWNED REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL NOT LIFT A FINGER TO PROTECT THEM BUT, THEY’LL SURE AS HELL ATTACK THEM IF THEY ARE CALLING THEMSELVES TRANS!

TEXAS IS A JUST ANOTHER RED STATE SHITHOLE!

[biotech-news-feed]

A journalist’s impassioned and rigorous study of a 20th-century psychiatric hospital uncovers how Black Americans were institutionalised by a country still in thrall to the logic of slaveryAt the beginning of this heartfelt, deeply researched inquir #BioTech #science

#Blockchain #Crypto

[sublimeobservationarcade]

Madness, Race & Insanity: A Fair Description Of America

The more I delve into the history of the United States of America the more shocked I become at the depravity of southerners in how they treated African Americans over the journey. Many Americans get understandably righteous about the evil doings in Nazi Germany but what the south got up to via slavery, the black codes and Jim Crow was far more degrading over a much longer period. I have been tuning into Antonia Hylton’s Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum – listening to her speak about this important new book. I was thinking about the level of human depravity produced by slavery and the generational consequences of that dehumanizing institution. Children being born into slavery and how that indoctrinated disempowerment and low self-esteem for lifetimes and generations. Slavery is the most evil thing ever to be unleashed upon another human being.

The Evil Of White Southerners & Their Treatment Of African Americans

This book charts the creation and life span of the Crownsville Hospital, which was formerly known as the Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland. It opened in 1911 and the authorities forced the inmates to build it brick by brick. It operated as a working tobacco and cattle farm, again with the mental patients working it for free. “Hylton notes that from its opening until the late 1950s, the hospital operated as a segregated farm colony, with new Black patients being committed each week and the farm expanding, year after year. Patients at Crownsville ran everything from the laundry to the morgue, and were forced to cook meals and serve the white staff.” - (https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227498861/antonia-hylton-madness-crownsville-hospital)

The White Taint Of American Medicine Persists

Medicine in America still bears the taint of racism and the white medical establishment led the charge in pseudo-scientifically dehumanizing African Americans. The Nazis in Germany, of course, looked to the US in the 1930s for examples of how eugenics was being practiced as public health policy in many states. Still today, African Americans represent only 6% of the total number of MDs in the US. The white establishment has run a closed shop wherever possible, closing down African American medical schools and limiting placements at their own schools and colleges. The huge number of African American deaths from Covid during the pandemic was clear evidence of the lack of available and affordable medical care for non-whites. White Supremacy, Trump & Going To Prison It would be a national shame if this segregated and racist country gave a hoot about the plight of those who live on the periphery of their cities and towns. White supremacy is going through a bit of a renaissance with Donald Trump 2.0 on the hustings at the moment. The former President still has not been prosecuted, tried, and convicted for inciting an insurrection at the Capital and election interference. What do you have to do to get convicted in America if you are wealthy and white!!! In contrast to this the US has the largest prison population in the world. It is very apparent that it is much easier to get incarcerated if you are black, brown, yellow, red or poor and white. “In total, roughly 1.9 million people are incarcerated in the United States, 803,000 people are on parole, and a staggering 2.9 million people are on probation.” - (https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/03/14/whole_pie_2023/) The Jim Crow South & Insanity If You Were Black Antonia Hylton raises the horrendous spectre of what it was like to get locked up in an asylum in the Jim Crow south. All the doctors and nurses were white for the first 40 years of operation at Crownsville. The Black patients were more working slaves than anything else. They were all bunched in together whether they were violent criminals or just depressed. “If you go back to the early 20th century to 1911, when Crownsville is first being created, you start to see the way in which the legacy of slavery and the ideas that white doctors and politicians and thinkers of the time, the way that their beliefs about Black people's bodies and minds completely shape the creation of this system, and it informs their decision to purposefully segregate Black and white patients, to create these separate facilities and then to treat them differently within those facilities. And so this was going on even before emancipation. Doctors would write very openly about their theories. Initially, the belief was that Black people were immune to mental illness because they so enjoyed being enslaved. They were protected by their masters, and they got lots of good time in the outdoors, while working on plantations.” - (Tonya Mosley interviewing Antonia Hylton) Yes, medical theories from white doctors at the time promoted the idea that African Americans enjoyed slavery – how very convenient. Today, we think of most doctors as the good guys or good people, but trawl through history and you can find plenty of horrendous attitudes and lots of stupidity. Self-serving white doctors looking after their white communities and treating Blacks as nothing more than animals is a common occurrence within the medical profession of the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0wJeLIYEgM Of course, asylums in the 19C and early 20C were unfortunate places whatever the colour of your skin. Mental illness remains today a largely chemically restrained condition, especially for those incarcerated within institutions. You can imagine what ex-slaver states thought about the idea of Blacks being too crazy to function normally within the confines of their Jim Crow societies. Insane or not they were put to work, like the animals they considered them to be. Controlled by white orderlies, doctors, and nurses. "This was about getting access to free Black labor," she says. "In the hospital records ... what you often see was a lot more commentary about the labor and the amount of products that patients could produce than you would see about mental health care outcomes, which, I think, tells you a lot about a facility's priority." - (Antonia Hylton) “The United States has a long and troubled history of manipulating psychology to control Black Americans, quell resistance, rationalize unpaid labor and justify cruelty. At the depths of chattel slavery, white physicians argued that Black people were immune to mental illness, kept emotionally healthy by the kindness of their enslavers and the fresh air and exercise provided by working in the fields. As growing numbers of enslaved people attempted to escape, this itself was classified as a mental illness, “drapetomania.” Dr. Samuel Cartwright, a Southern “expert” in Negro medicine, prescribed one of the cures as “whipping the devil out of them.” ” - (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/books/review/madness-antonia-hylton.html) https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/145624993 Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters: Navigating Credit, Debt & Financial Freedom ©HouseTherapy Read the full article

#America #humanrights #madness #morality #racism #Trump

[in-the-stacks]

Presenting Madness by Antonia Hylton. Reviewed by Read Local for In the Stacks.

#race #insanity #mental illness #african americans #mentally ill #psychiatric hospitals #history #racism #abuse

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