The #SeaTac highjacker is the perfect example of how we handle narratives of mental health. Only a white man who jacked a fucking plane, took off and flew it over Tacoma/the sound would be eulogized in essays on mental illness.
The #SeaTac highjacker is an example of how only white people are allowed to suffer from mental illness and have that be the core narrative of their meltdowns, of their failures, of their actions. People of color are never allowed to be mentally ill, just monsters.
If a man of color had done this--- and if this man turns out to be a PoC, the narrative around this meltdown will transform overnight. We will stop talking about mental illness and suddenly try to identify the "true reason" for his actions, scrapping through his life history.
Everyone in my mentions calling me a bitch, discriminator, and and apparently race baiter needs to ask themselves why bringing up a well documented phenomenon of how we treat narratives of mental health in relation to race is making them mouth froth.
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