I’m not going to debate the picture in Virginia Governor Ralph Northram’s yearbook. But it got me to thinking about prejudice in general which goes way beyond race.
It’s prejudice I’ve been fighting for the last nine years for the topics of both substance use disorder and mental illness.
Every time we say “commit suicide” we are making a prejudiced remark that those who die by suicide are criminals. Here in Virginia, we’ve been unsuccessful in eradicating the ancient 1600s law that suicide is a crime despite that government agencies and scientific studies having declared it a public health issue.… Read more...