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{ timecode: 0, handler: 'blob', id: 1, data: {text: 'REPRESENTATIVE BARBARA BALLARD: I have been asked to do the invocation. So if I could please ask you to be quiet, bow your head, and we are going to be thankful for the food we are about to eat. Dear '}},
{ timecode: 13, handler: 'blob', id: 2, data: {text: 'Father, thank you so much for providing the opportunity along with Eli Lilly for us all to be together today to discuss the stigma attached to mental health. We know that any time there are stigmas '}},
{ timecode: 26, handler: 'blob', id: 3, data: {text: 'attached people don’t pay attention or they stereotype it. And they don’t consider we should do anything about it. But we are here today to do something about it. To get rid of the stigma '}},
{ timecode: 37, handler: 'blob', id: 4, data: {text: 'and to realize that all of us deserve the opportunity to be the best people we can and not to have something taken from us. And with that we ask that you allow us a very productive day and we will '}},
{ timecode: 51, handler: 'blob', id: 5, data: {text: 'keep you in mind because we need your guidance and your strength. And may you bless our food not only for the nourishment of our bodies, but to keep our minds fresh and alert. We thank you for all our '}},
{ timecode: 65, handler: 'blob', id: 6, data: {text: 'speakers today and the opportunity to get together to once again do something for our constituents and all the people in the nation. REPRESENTATIVE CALVIN SMYRE: Thank you all. I’d like to '}},
{ timecode: 79, handler: 'blob', id: 7, data: {text: 'welcome you all to our luncheon and we want to thank you for being here. We thank those that are listening in, in Columbia, South Carolina and Jackson, Mississippi as we simulcast this mental health '}},
{ timecode: 92, handler: 'blob', id: 8, data: {text: 'conference to those respective sites and those that are online on the Internet as well. We welcome you to join in with us today and we appreciate you being online and we appreciate both of the state '}},
{ timecode: 109, handler: 'blob', id: 9, data: {text: 'representatives in Jackson and in Columbia and all those that are online with us here today in Indianapolis, Indiana. Again, I want to thank Nate Miles and Eli Lilly for their hospitality - we thank '}},
{ timecode: 124, handler: 'blob', id: 10, data: {text: 'you Nate. I was sharing with Nate some of y\'all’s comments, and they have all been positive. The panelists this morning were superb. I was just telling, I was just sharing some of the '}},
{ timecode: 141, handler: 'blob', id: 11, data: {text: 'information with Judge Mathis about some of the issues that you all departed on us and it was just absolutely rousing and, and, and piqued our conscience as in relation to those issues that we deal '}},
{ timecode: 156, handler: 'blob', id: 12, data: {text: 'with as state legislators and those of us who are elected officials, we set public policy every day, and public policy determines how people live every day, so we have to be cognizant of that and we '}},
{ timecode: 168, handler: 'blob', id: 13, data: {text: 'are delighted that you all are here with us as well. I want to thank the chair, Madam Chair Summers of the Indiana Legislative Black Caucus for her leadership and bringing all the members of Indiana '}},
{ timecode: 181, handler: 'blob', id: 14, data: {text: 'here, thank you Vanessa. Vanessa has been very helpful in pulling this together and all the members of the Indiana Legislative Black Caucus, we thank them for being here. We thank you all, all the '}},
{ timecode: 195, handler: 'blob', id: 15, data: {text: 'members of NBCSL for coming and for participating - an organization of 625 state legislators in 42 states, including the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. So, we thank everybody for being '}},
{ timecode: 210, handler: 'blob', id: 16, data: {text: 'here. It’s been a great evening last evening and a great first half, and now we got a, what, a great speaker. A man - we’ve got a good man that is with us and before I saw our National '}},
{ timecode: 224, handler: 'blob', id: 17, data: {text: 'President, I saw Mary H. Coleman from Jackson, Mississippi, our former National President. Let’s give her a hand... and our Vice President Barbara Ballard from Kansas, we thank her. They have '}},
{ timecode: 240, handler: 'blob', id: 18, data: {text: 'given me an honor today of introducing and presenting, more so presenting than introducing, because all of us know Judge Greg Mathis and he is a nationally known figure. A lot of you all know him from '}},
{ timecode: 258, handler: 'blob', id: 19, data: {text: 'TV and - but I’ve been knowing him now, as some of you all have, for many, many years. I have gotten to know him personally and I’ve watched him as he goes around the country and fights '}},
{ timecode: 272, handler: 'blob', id: 20, data: {text: 'and advocates for equal justice, not just ice, justice, and, and, and he has been vigilant in that role and in his earlier days as related to voter registration and being involved in the political '}},
{ timecode: 291, handler: 'blob', id: 21, data: {text: 'arena. He has been doing that since he graduated from law school from the University of Detroit school of law in 1987 and he has just been involved in youth and pulling others up by the bootstrap. I '}},
{ timecode: 304, handler: 'blob', id: 22, data: {text: 'have talked to him often and he is always talking about “reach one, teach one,” always pulling others up by the bootstraps. Just walking in here today, young people just gravitated to him '}},
{ timecode: 315, handler: 'blob', id: 23, data: {text: 'because they know that he is always imparting good information, always pulling others up, and always making sure that, that, that we are all measured with the same yardstick. A lot of times in our '}},
{ timecode: 329, handler: 'blob', id: 24, data: {text: 'careers and in our professions we are not measured with the same yardstick and but he has always been there for us and always been on the front end of equal opportunity job training and college '}},
{ timecode: 344, handler: 'blob', id: 25, data: {text: 'enrollment, assisting young people. In fact, he was telling me that he had opened five non-profit preschools in the city of Detroit and was raising five million dollars for these political and youth '}},
{ timecode: 358, handler: 'blob', id: 26, data: {text: 'causes, so we ought to give him a round of applause for that - for reaching these young people. He is proud married man and a proud father of four children - one, a couple of them I have met, and they '}},
{ timecode: 372, handler: 'blob', id: 27, data: {text: 'are now in school, one in law school and the other one as well and we’re just so happy and delighted to have a man who has through Operation Push, through the NAACP, through the SCLC, always has '}},
{ timecode: 389, handler: 'blob', id: 28, data: {text: 'been on the front line of fighting so that we all could have a better quality of life. I am happy he is here. We are so delighted that he has consented to come. So, I want you all to give a warm NBCSL '}},
{ timecode: 403, handler: 'blob', id: 29, data: {text: 'welcome to the judge: my friend and your friend, Greg Mathis. JUDGE GREG MATHIS: Thank you, thank you all who are honorable today and some who may be… I know we don’t we don’t have '}},
{ timecode: 435, handler: 'blob', id: 30, data: {text: 'any dishonorable in here, so to all the honorable leaders of your communities, I thank you for allowing me to come and spread some enlightenment and awareness that I have in the area of mental health. '}},
{ timecode: 450, handler: 'blob', id: 31, data: {text: 'I first want to also, as Representative Smyre has done, recognize the leadership, and that being, of course, the chair of the caucus, Representative Summers. Give em\' a hand now, give em\' a hand. '}},
{ timecode: 467, handler: 'blob', id: 32, data: {text: 'Also, chairman of the health committee, Representative Armstrong, give em\' a hand. Your beautiful vice president, Representative Ballard. Give her a big hand. And my dear friend and you all’s - '}},
{ timecode: 493, handler: 'blob', id: 33, data: {text: 'let me tell you bout’ him, he was honored last week at what many regard as the primary conference for the African American community in general, but in specific, the Congressional Black Caucus '}},
{ timecode: 515, handler: 'blob', id: 34, data: {text: 'represents, in many instances, the leadership of our country in the area of black politics, so he was honored right there among the president of the United States, of these United States, among the '}},
{ timecode: 538, handler: 'blob', id: 35, data: {text: 'ranking members of the House of Representatives, among the corporate leaders of America and among the grassroots, who really strengthen all of us and all of those whom I just mentioned. But, he was '}},
{ timecode: 554, handler: 'blob', id: 36, data: {text: 'honored, and he was so humble about it. Everyone waited and waited for him to speak about himself, even though they had seen many of his accomplishments displayed by video, you know, folks expect you '}},
{ timecode: 569, handler: 'blob', id: 37, data: {text: 'to come up there and thank you for honoring them and I’ve done my best to do x, y, z, and I hope that I have made a difference. All he talked about was you all - all he talked about is the '}},
{ timecode: 586, handler: 'blob', id: 38, data: {text: 'reason for his leadership success is you all. He talked about how the National Black Caucus of State Legislators inspire him to do the work he is doing now. He is very proud to serve as your '}},
{ timecode: 604, handler: 'blob', id: 39, data: {text: 'president, even behind your back. See, folks don’t always say good things behind your back, but I don’t know how many of you were there and if you were there, you could bear witness to '}},
{ timecode: 616, handler: 'blob', id: 40, data: {text: 'what I am saying about his remarks, a brother there, he could bear witness that he really gave most of the praise and honor to you all. So, I think that he is the type of humble leader and a leader '}},
{ timecode: 632, handler: 'blob', id: 41, data: {text: 'who shares the leadership duties, as well as the leadership accomplishments with all of his colleagues and all those who are part of the legislative caucus. Give him a big hand once again - Calvin '}},
{ timecode: 650, handler: 'blob', id: 42, data: {text: 'Smyre. You know, I thanked you all for inviting me earlier, but quite frankly I don’t know if I should thank you or spank you, because I believe you all invited me, I believe this was a trick. I '}},
{ timecode: 677, handler: 'blob', id: 43, data: {text: 'believe it was a set-up, \'cause my friend Smyre set me up. He usually looks for me, he has helped my daughter get down at Georgia State, where she received a great quality education and now is in law '}},
{ timecode: 692, handler: 'blob', id: 44, data: {text: 'school as he said. We are always friendly and hanging out when we’re in the same town, we both sit on the Morehouse School of Medicine board. So, I said, well, if it’s Smyre, I will '}},
{ timecode: 703, handler: 'blob', id: 45, data: {text: 'definitely do it and I assumed it was a political subject, because as he has shared with you, I made by bones in politics, in Detroit, working for the city council, the mayor, and running campaigns, '}},
{ timecode: 715, handler: 'blob', id: 46, data: {text: 'etc., and I am still a political and social justice activist. I said, “Okay, that’s what it’s about, clearly.” I turned to my assistants and they said, “Judge, they want '}},
{ timecode: 726, handler: 'blob', id: 47, data: {text: 'you to speak on mental health.” I said, “There go that Smyre, trying to set me up and make fun of my show.” Now, all those folks aren’t mentally ill that you see on the Judge '}},
{ timecode: 749, handler: 'blob', id: 48, data: {text: 'Mathis Show, but no, people wonder in many instances, and I thank you all who support my show. We are in our 11th year and certainly, we wouldn’t be there without you and your constituents '}},
{ timecode: 770, handler: 'blob', id: 49, data: {text: 'watching. But many people question me about whether those folks are real - “Are those real people, where ya get those people from?” That’s one of the most irritating questions and so '}},
{ timecode: 782, handler: 'blob', id: 50, data: {text: 'now I’ve gotten a little snappy when folks ask me that. I used to go for it and “Oh, we just get them from the small claims courts when they, our researchers go and find the cases,” '}},
{ timecode: 793, handler: 'blob', id: 51, data: {text: 'and they do, they go and find cases that have already been filed around small claims courts of the country and they ask the litigants - they’ll call them and ask if they want to remove the case '}},
{ timecode: 804, handler: 'blob', id: 52, data: {text: 'from their local small claims court and bring it to us as arbitrators, we really serve as arbitrators, and we must adhere to the Federal Arbitration Act. So, I go through, I used to go through all '}},
{ timecode: 818, handler: 'blob', id: 53, data: {text: 'that explanation and that’s where we get the folks from and I know some of them are a little wild sometimes and please understand and duh, duh, duh, but now I’ve changed that whole '}},
{ timecode: 828, handler: 'blob', id: 54, data: {text: 'response. “Where do ya get those crazy people from? Duh, duh, duh, duh,” and I say, “I get em\' from your family and your neighborhoods.” You know, folks try to get brand new on '}},
{ timecode: 842, handler: 'blob', id: 55, data: {text: 'you. They act like they’ve always been in the county commission and they’ve always been on city council and they’ve always lived these lives and their whole family have lived these '}},
{ timecode: 855, handler: 'blob', id: 56, data: {text: 'privileged lives and when you go to their family reunions everybody is speaking professionally and wearing suits at the park and everything else. When, in fact, everyone in this room, if you watch my '}},
{ timecode: 871, handler: 'blob', id: 57, data: {text: 'show for one week, I promise you you’ll see someone who reminds you of your relatives or your neighbors. So, when they ask me that question and they say, “Where do you get em\' from?” '}},
{ timecode: 887, handler: 'blob', id: 58, data: {text: '- “I get em\' from your neighborhoods, I get em\' from your church, I get em\' from your family, that’s where I get em\' from.” These people are a reflection of what society really looks '}},
{ timecode: 899, handler: 'blob', id: 59, data: {text: 'like. They are a reflection of that. In many of these cases, I have a little fun with them, because they are small claim cases and it’s not life or death and no one is going to prison and the '}},
{ timecode: 914, handler: 'blob', id: 60, data: {text: 'awards don’t exceed five thousand dollars and no one is having a breakdown as a result of the decision. Many of them don’t mind me having a little fun on bantering back and forth with '}},
{ timecode: 927, handler: 'blob', id: 61, data: {text: 'them, because, once again, these aren’t life or death cases, but you know, in a real way, even though I’ll have fun and some of the stuff is really funny, as you have seen, the fact is, '}},
{ timecode: 939, handler: 'blob', id: 62, data: {text: 'when we look at the mental health of some of the people who come before me, we clearly know that some of them are challenged and need help. Many of them are getting help and if they’re not, I '}},
{ timecode: 953, handler: 'blob', id: 63, data: {text: 'will order them for an evaluation and the show offers to pay for the help that the healthcare in their state will not pay for. And, I do this, because I recognize that, yeah we have a little fun here, '}},
{ timecode: 970, handler: 'blob', id: 64, data: {text: 'but the fact is, there is nothing funny about the state of mental health and the treatment that is being given or a lack thereof both federally and state to state. There’s nothing funny about '}},
{ timecode: 990, handler: 'blob', id: 65, data: {text: 'the fact that 29% of our jails are holding mentally ill people without charging them with anything. Without charging them with anything. Then we know that there is nothing funny about the shift that '}},
{ timecode: 1014, handler: 'blob', id: 66, data: {text: 'we are seeing for the mentally ill from hospitals to prisons and to the homeless streets of America. In many states, where they had residential care for the mentally ill, in Michigan, where I am from, '}},
{ timecode: 1031, handler: 'blob', id: 67, data: {text: 'the right wing Republican governor, when he came in, there were community foster care homes caring for the mentally ill, there were local institutions that housed 20, 50, or 100 people at a time. '}},
{ timecode: 1047, handler: 'blob', id: 68, data: {text: 'Immediately, he closed down those programs and threw tens of thousands of mentally ill patients onto the streets saying that they should go and be cared for by their relatives. We’ll provide the '}},
{ timecode: 1072, handler: 'blob', id: 69, data: {text: 'monies and stipends and support for the relatives to take care of you, but the institutional help is over. And, so, we see that it’s nothing funny about how our mentally ill are being treated. '}},
{ timecode: 1092, handler: 'blob', id: 70, data: {text: 'It’s nothing funny at all that over half of the black youth who are in foster care right now, that need healthcare, will perhaps never receive it. Over 50% of the black youth in foster care, it '}},
{ timecode: 1111, handler: 'blob', id: 71, data: {text: 'is projected that they never receive treatment for their mental illnesses. In many instances, they fail to diagnose it. And it isn’t because some of the caretakers don’t have a good heart, '}},
{ timecode: 1125, handler: 'blob', id: 72, data: {text: 'it’s because they may have a good heart, but they don’t have good resources. They don’t have the resources as we do in the general administration of the foster care system from state '}},
{ timecode: 1138, handler: 'blob', id: 73, data: {text: 'to state. We are essentially throwing away the most vulnerable youth in our society. Then we like to talk so much about our troubled young people after we have failed them. After society has failed '}},
{ timecode: 1158, handler: 'blob', id: 74, data: {text: 'them. I mean you say, “Well judge, I haven’t done anything to fail them, I do my best.” Well, I’m not talking about you in particular, I’m talking about all of society. I '}},
{ timecode: 1166, handler: 'blob', id: 75, data: {text: 'tell you who can’t fail, they can’t fail us, we have failed them. A child is born to us with a clean mind, clean hands, and a pure heart, and it’s what we put in their minds, their '}},
{ timecode: 1181, handler: 'blob', id: 76, data: {text: 'hands, and their heart that determine what our young people become. They can’t fail us, we failed them. We failed them in our schools. We failed them in our foster care systems. We failed them '}},
{ timecode: 1197, handler: 'blob', id: 77, data: {text: 'in our churches. And we failed them in our legislatures. All of us play a role. And so, we must, in working with our young people - one, get to the parents. Why do I say get to the parents? Because, '}},
{ timecode: 1217, handler: 'blob', id: 78, data: {text: 'in many instances, they are the ones that create the wedge between treatment of that young person or self destructive lives of the young person. These parents that have these stigmas toward mental '}},
{ timecode: 1241, handler: 'blob', id: 79, data: {text: 'health challenges. One, they don’t want to accept the behavioral challenges of the young people, let alone let the child be diagnosed or analyzed, or counseled, or medicated. They don’t '}},
{ timecode: 1256, handler: 'blob', id: 80, data: {text: 'even want to accept the destructive behavior. Send em\' to school and they want to point the finger at the teacher and the teacher wants to point the finger at them and, “Argh, the teacher just '}},
{ timecode: 1266, handler: 'blob', id: 81, data: {text: 'don’t like my son. He ain’t doing nothing, they just don’t like him.” They don’t like him disrupting the class. They don’t like you failing to take him to '}},
{ timecode: 1278, handler: 'blob', id: 82, data: {text: 'counseling. Don’t like the fact that you are in denial. These stigmas. Well, let me say that I would suggest that these parents and you should relay this message to those parents as activists '}},
{ timecode: 1297, handler: 'blob', id: 83, data: {text: 'and as community servants that it’s much easier and more efficient and less time-consuming and less expensive to go and take that child to the school or to the neighborhood counseling agency '}},
{ timecode: 1319, handler: 'blob', id: 84, data: {text: 'now, as opposed to visiting and going 2 hours upstate to see that child in prison 20 years from now. So, we must get through to our parents that if your child is exhibiting a consistent pattern of '}},
{ timecode: 1351, handler: 'blob', id: 85, data: {text: 'self-destruction and rage and a type of withdrawal that indicates depression or the up and down that afflicts bipolar patients, then you need to have them treated and counseled. Don’t just walk '}},
{ timecode: 1368, handler: 'blob', id: 86, data: {text: 'around, “Ah, hah, ho, he just crazy.” Now, indeed he might be and he gonna get crazier if you don’t get him treated because mental illness is a progressive disease in many instances. '}},
{ timecode: 1388, handler: 'blob', id: 87, data: {text: 'And I hate to use the word crazy - certainly, I wouldn’t, that’s terribly unprofessional and it adds to the stigma that we’re trying to eliminate. I am using the term that '}},
{ timecode: 1397, handler: 'blob', id: 88, data: {text: 'unfortunately many in our community use. That’s what a stigma is reinforced consistently. You been over to so and so house? “Her son is crazy.” You get over there to the mama’s '}},
{ timecode: 1411, handler: 'blob', id: 89, data: {text: 'house and so and so and so and so, “Yeah, I heard your son did it…” “Oh, he just crazy.” So, that’s not what the judge believes and that’s not the label. '}},
{ timecode: 1420, handler: 'blob', id: 90, data: {text: 'I’m giving it to you real. And once again, our young people most frequently suffer from three mental disorders that are particularly disruptive in their lives and in their behavior. One, being '}},
{ timecode: 1439, handler: 'blob', id: 91, data: {text: 'ADHD, can’t keep the child still in school and can’t keep the child focused, so instead of developing a course of education that gives particular attention to that child or obtaining '}},
{ timecode: 1461, handler: 'blob', id: 92, data: {text: 'counseling for that child to teach them to cope with the ADHD, they’ll just toss the child to the side and put him in special education, where all they’re doing is slowing down the process '}},
{ timecode: 1474, handler: 'blob', id: 93, data: {text: 'of their education, not treating the illness, but slowing down the process of their development. Then we have, of course, the bipolar disorder in which many instances we see rage, outbursts, '}},
{ timecode: 1490, handler: 'blob', id: 94, data: {text: 'uncontrollable rage. We see destructive behavior. We see self medicating, using drugs and alcohol. And what do we say? “Well, my child don’t need no medicine.” But your child is '}},
{ timecode: 1510, handler: 'blob', id: 95, data: {text: 'depressed and he’s sitting at home. When he comes home he goes into the room and doesn’t come out. When he comes out, he looks disheveled. The teaches say he doesn’t pay attention in '}},
{ timecode: 1520, handler: 'blob', id: 96, data: {text: 'class, that he always looks sad. He doesn’t associate with the other children, but yet, you don’t think he needs some type of medication. Now, I am not one that believes that every symptom '}},
{ timecode: 1535, handler: 'blob', id: 97, data: {text: 'of disruption in a child’s life or a misbehavior or every symptom that exemplifies things that might be characterized as ADHD or bipolar disorder or depression - certainly, I believe, in many '}},
{ timecode: 1559, handler: 'blob', id: 98, data: {text: 'instances, it can be counseled. However, many of those illnesses are a result of a chemical imbalance in the brain and you cannot counsel away a chemical imbalance - can’t counsel that away. '}},
{ timecode: 1580, handler: 'blob', id: 99, data: {text: 'That must be treated with medication, whether we want to accept it or not. And I say, we must choose counseling and medication over incarceration. Because that’s what we’re seeing. We have '}},
{ timecode: 1601, handler: 'blob', id: 100, data: {text: 'to find better choices for our young people than just incarcerating them. You know, the privileged kids, privileged kids, they go to counseling. Our children go to jail. I will say it again, '}},
{ timecode: 1614, handler: 'blob', id: 101, data: {text: 'privileged kids go to counseling - our children go to jail. In fact, perhaps, one of the biggest challenges in the mental health field is the treatment counseling and helping to rehabilitate the minds '}},
{ timecode: 1638, handler: 'blob', id: 102, data: {text: 'of the black men who are in prison. You know, we make up half the prison population, but nearly 15% of those diagnosed with mental illness, then there are an additional amount, estimated to be nearly '}},
{ timecode: 1662, handler: 'blob', id: 103, data: {text: '10% more, that are undiagnosed. And then we wonder why we have a revolving door in prison. Even those who tried their best when they come home - if they’re mentally ill, which we are suggesting '}},
{ timecode: 1680, handler: 'blob', id: 104, data: {text: 'perhaps up to a third might be - if they’re mentally ill , have mental disorders, then we are going to see the same thing occur. They’re gonna go right back and they’re gonna cost us '}},
{ timecode: 1692, handler: 'blob', id: 105, data: {text: 'more money. We find, when myself and Dr. David Satcher, we worked together when he was president of Morehouse Medical School, we held several forums around the country dealing with mental health and '}},
{ timecode: 1717, handler: 'blob', id: 106, data: {text: 'the prison system. And, as I said, we found that many, who’ve already been diagnosed comprise nearly 15% and there is estimated that another 10% undiagnosed, not just bipolar and ADHD, '}},
{ timecode: 1736, handler: 'blob', id: 107, data: {text: 'there’s other mental illness that are affected - defiant disorder of some type, I am missing the particular reference, but there are many things other than the outside environment. What we do '}},
{ timecode: 1754, handler: 'blob', id: 108, data: {text: 'see as well and found in our studies and in our travels - Dr. Satcher and the others of us who were on the committee - is that 25% of the African Americans diagnosed with mental illness meet the same '}},
{ timecode: 1774, handler: 'blob', id: 109, data: {text: 'criteria of symptoms that are displayed from army men when they return home from war. The same symptoms as post-traumatic stress disorder - same symptoms. And it makes sense. Why? Because 25% of our '}},
{ timecode: 1802, handler: 'blob', id: 110, data: {text: 'community lives in poverty and every impoverished neighborhood in America you’ll find drugs, you’ll find guns, and you’ll find self destruction which exceeds, in many instances, the '}},
{ timecode: 1820, handler: 'blob', id: 111, data: {text: 'violence that occurs in the war zones overseas. We have war zones right in our community. More so. You have more black men in this past year that died from violence in the war zones of America than '}},
{ timecode: 1841, handler: 'blob', id: 112, data: {text: 'you’ve had die in the entire war of Iraq. One year the black men have died at a rate that exceeds the entire, the entire number of men that have died in Iraq. Some of you, in your own cities, '}},
{ timecode: 1867, handler: 'blob', id: 113, data: {text: 'brother Smyre, some of you have a murder rate, a homicide rate, in the hundreds. Where I’m from in Detroit, we have nearly 700 on average. Chicago is leading the country right now in murders, in '}},
{ timecode: 1891, handler: 'blob', id: 114, data: {text: 'the several hundreds - nearly a thousand. So these are just three cities that I’ve mentioned thus far that make up perhaps nearly three thousand murders. Three, out of the top 50. If we just '}},
{ timecode: 1912, handler: 'blob', id: 115, data: {text: 'look at the top 50, we will find more black men murdered in the top 50 cities of America than were murdered during the entire war in Iraq. And we talk about why our black men behave in such a self '}},
{ timecode: 1935, handler: 'blob', id: 116, data: {text: 'destructive manner, because they’re traumatized from living in a war zone and they behave like an army man does, even though they’re a little more scary than the army men. You know, I talk '}},
{ timecode: 1962, handler: 'blob', id: 117, data: {text: 'about some of these tough guys, these brothers are hanging on the corner and in the street and got the chest stuck out and talk about how they think they\'re the man and they want their respect and '}},
{ timecode: 1977, handler: 'blob', id: 118, data: {text: 'duh, duh, duh…well, you gotta show me a little more courage before you can get my respect. One, you have to take care of those children you’re producing. That don’t take, you can '}},
{ timecode: 1989, handler: 'blob', id: 119, data: {text: 'still deal with bipolar and take care of those children. You can still deal with ADHD and take care of those children. You can still deal with post-traumatic stress syndrome and take care of those '}},
{ timecode: 2001, handler: 'blob', id: 120, data: {text: 'children. You can get a check from somewhere. You can work, function. Then you want my respect and say you’re courageous, but you’re destroying your community instead of uplifting your '}},
{ timecode: 2016, handler: 'blob', id: 121, data: {text: 'community. Running around shooting and running - what kind of courage is that? That’s what a drive-by shooting is - that’s what it is “the drive by.” You shoot and you run. And '}},
{ timecode: 2033, handler: 'blob', id: 122, data: {text: 'can’t even shoot straight, hitting innocent children and seniors. Talking about you’re courageous and you want your respect, you want your props, your dap. You’re not courageous at '}},
{ timecode: 2049, handler: 'blob', id: 123, data: {text: 'all. You’re a punk. You’re a punk. If you cannot protect your community, if you are instead shooting and running, you want to shoot so much, go over there and shoot in Afghanistan. Do some '}},
{ timecode: 2068, handler: 'blob', id: 124, data: {text: 'drive-bys over there. That’s courage and then maybe you’ll hit Bin Laden by accident, since you can’t shoot straight and since you\'re used to shooting by accident. We must work '}},
{ timecode: 2086, handler: 'blob', id: 125, data: {text: 'diligently to find solutions to the challenges that affect our community. We must work smart to address these challenges. We spend, right now, nearly one hundred million dollars each year to house '}},
{ timecode: 2109, handler: 'blob', id: 126, data: {text: 'youth who are waiting for community health services. But, it is more cost-efficient to invest in the proper medical treatment and in therapy rather than incarcerating them. It’s more '}},
{ timecode: 2126, handler: 'blob', id: 127, data: {text: 'cost-efficient, even if you don’t care about the mentally ill. If you’re elected, state-wide, and you wanna say you wanna spare your budget. If you’re a taxpayer, you wanna reduce '}},
{ timecode: 2137, handler: 'blob', id: 128, data: {text: 'your taxes, so it’s more cost-efficient. It costs approximately six thousand dollars to incarcerate someone for a year and to incarcerate a mentally ill person for a year it is approximately '}},
{ timecode: 2152, handler: 'blob', id: 129, data: {text: '60,000 dollars, but less than 10,000 dollars to provide counseling and medication if necessary for the same mentally ill person - 60,000 in jail, less than 10,000 to treat and medicate. So, I think '}},
{ timecode: 2175, handler: 'blob', id: 130, data: {text: 'most of us want to pay less taxes and we want a little more sense of security. So, that we know, that those of our community who are most vulnerable to mental health issues will not harm us or our '}},
{ timecode: 2191, handler: 'blob', id: 131, data: {text: 'children, so I say, as I close, if we provide the type of programs and funding in our communities that churches and community-based organizations can use to raise awareness about mental illness and '}},
{ timecode: 2212, handler: 'blob', id: 132, data: {text: 'behavioral disorders among our young people that will help remove the stigma. That’s one of the biggest challenges is removing the stigma, particularly through the minds of the parents. We have '}},
{ timecode: 2226, handler: 'blob', id: 133, data: {text: 'to implement programs in school and after school that focus on removing the stigma. So, I say, if we provide those programs, we can overcome this. If we provide the type of healthcare funding that is '}},
{ timecode: 2245, handler: 'blob', id: 134, data: {text: 'necessary to provide a sufficient amount of mental health services, we can overcome this. If we provide financial incentives for those who seek to be healthcare providers, because there is a shortage '}},
{ timecode: 2266, handler: 'blob', id: 135, data: {text: 'and that’s one of the problems, there is a shortage of professional healthcare providers, particularly in our community where our residents will only trust some of us. So, if we provide '}},
{ timecode: 2279, handler: 'blob', id: 136, data: {text: 'incentives to go to college and we’ll wipe away your grants if you major in mental health and come back and work in your community or we’ll provide you more grant money or wipe away your '}},
{ timecode: 2291, handler: 'blob', id: 137, data: {text: 'loans, those incentives will help us overcome it. But, even if we do not, even if we fail to get the resources from the government agencies and the various sources that might otherwise provide funding '}},
{ timecode: 2313, handler: 'blob', id: 138, data: {text: 'for us to address this problem, we can’t give up. Can’t give up on the mentally ill in our community or else we are giving up on ourselves. We must lift them up, not give them up to the '}},
{ timecode: 2329, handler: 'blob', id: 139, data: {text: 'streets and jails of America - lift them up, not give them up. You know, there is a saying, some of you may have heard, particularly those who may have come from the South, that if you don’t '}},
{ timecode: 2350, handler: 'blob', id: 140, data: {text: 'have what you need, use what you have until you get what you want. Therefore, I say that we must work with what we have until we can get what we need and what we want. You know, we’re used to '}},
{ timecode: 2371, handler: 'blob', id: 141, data: {text: 'working with little or nothing. During slavery and segregation, we couldn’t even meet our basic human needs, but we held on and we used what we had and we kept our faith. So, as we did in the '}},
{ timecode: 2392, handler: 'blob', id: 142, data: {text: 'darkest days of our sojourn here in America - we must hold on, use what we have, and keep our faith. When we can’t get the support we need from the mental institutions of America, we must hold '}},
{ timecode: 2411, handler: 'blob', id: 143, data: {text: 'on, use what we got, and keep our faith when we can’t get the funding from the federal and state healthcare programs that we need to take care of our mentally ill, we must hold on, use what we '}},
{ timecode: 2426, handler: 'blob', id: 144, data: {text: 'got, and keep our faith. When we can’t get your colleagues in the legislature to work to provide funding for mentally ill in our communities - hold on, use your vote, and we can then overcome '}},
{ timecode: 2449, handler: 'blob', id: 145, data: {text: 'it, we can then keep our faith, be persistent, and like we have in the struggles of the past, we will once again win in victory. Thank you all for listening. God bless you and thank you for all your '}},
{ timecode: 2467, handler: 'blob', id: 146, data: {text: 'work in the community. Thank you. REPRESENTATIVE CALVIN SMYRE: All right, let’s hear it for Judge Mathis you all. Yeah, that was a set-up all right, he came ready and prepared talking about '}},
{ timecode: 2491, handler: 'blob', id: 147, data: {text: 'here. Okay, set up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know he can handle it, because guess what, he’s in the trenches you all every day. Although, what, a TV personality, but what, in the trenches. And, '}},
{ timecode: 2505, handler: 'blob', id: 148, data: {text: 'today, you saw, that’s the real deal - that’s the real Judge Mathis, because ever since I have known him, he’s had his knees to the grinding stone and it was about what? Equal '}},
{ timecode: 2517, handler: 'blob', id: 149, data: {text: 'justice and change. And that TV and those lights have not changed him. His heart is still right and his commitment is still there, so give him a round of applause - our friend Judge Mathis. He hit on '}},
{ timecode: 2531, handler: 'blob', id: 150, data: {text: 'one issue that we’re getting ready to talk about and this is major, military and veterans, he hit it. Military and veterans - we’ve got to do, we’ve got to get on top of this issue '}},
{ timecode: 2543, handler: 'blob', id: 151, data: {text: 'and we’ve got to quit what? Pushing back. We gotta go to the issue. We gotta get rid of this stigma and we gotta get rid of these barriers. The only way we are gonna get rid of this is if we as '}},
{ timecode: 2553, handler: 'blob', id: 152, data: {text: 'elected officials start talking about it. For far too long, we have abdicated our responsibility. That’s the truth. We have not spoken out as much as we have on other issues and we gotta do '}},
{ timecode: 2567, handler: 'blob', id: 153, data: {text: 'better. We gotta become more advocates, we’ve gotta make this a part of our advocacy - is veterans and military people. They deserve better. They deserve better. And, guess what, we gonna what, '}},
{ timecode: 2584, handler: 'blob', id: 154, data: {text: 'do better. That’s what it’s all about. So let’s leave here. Thank you again Judge Mathis for coming and being with us. We are going now and Representative Armstrong is gonna meet us '}},
{ timecode: 2595, handler: 'blob', id: 155, data: {text: 'in the next room where we’re gonna what, start on that, that panel. Thank you all and God bless you. Thank you.'}}
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