How Racial Problems Affected the Treatment of the Developmentally Delayed
Racial Problems have been a huge problem all over the world for as long as anyone can remember. The problems that come from racism can be mild but some problems can be horrible and end in horrific tragedies. An immense problem in the early 1900s was sending African Americans that have a minute amount of problems to a mental hospital where they were classified as the ‘Negro’ Insane. At these hospitals, African Americans were brutally abused instead of being treated properly. For people “who grew up in the Sixties and Seventies, lunatic asylums were part of the landscape” (Bedell). Children would tease and taunt each other about going there and it was treated so normally. …show more content…
There are some patients that still can’t talk about what happened to them while they were at the asylum, and the majority of people that this happened to were African American. With all of the stories told from black and white people, knowing how African Americans were treated in the 1900s, and the horrible “treatments” that some people went through in the asylums, it is clear from evidence that African Americans, and other races, who were developmentally delayed in the 1950s were treated worse than the regular white people in this period of time in history.
Today, there are many former asylum patients still living, and most are living within the communities where other people don’t even know who they are or know anything about their stories. There are many stories about how African Americans and other races were treated more horribly than white people in this time period. Annemarie Randall was one of the people who was treated horribly in the asylum. Annemarie never knew her real parents and was adopted. Her new mother had died of TB and her new father remarried a women who physically abused her. When she was fourteen she dropped out of school even though she was very successful
Racial Problems have been a huge problem all over the world for as long as anyone can remember. The problems that come from racism can be mild but some problems can be horrible and end in horrific tragedies. An immense problem in the early 1900s was sending African Americans that have a minute amount of problems to a mental hospital where they were classified as the ‘Negro’ Insane. At these hospitals, African Americans were brutally abused instead of being treated properly. For people “who grew up in the Sixties and Seventies, lunatic asylums were part of the landscape” (Bedell). Children would tease and taunt each other about going there and it was treated so normally. …show more content…
There are some patients that still can’t talk about what happened to them while they were at the asylum, and the majority of people that this happened to were African American. With all of the stories told from black and white people, knowing how African Americans were treated in the 1900s, and the horrible “treatments” that some people went through in the asylums, it is clear from evidence that African Americans, and other races, who were developmentally delayed in the 1950s were treated worse than the regular white people in this period of time in history.
Today, there are many former asylum patients still living, and most are living within the communities where other people don’t even know who they are or know anything about their stories. There are many stories about how African Americans and other races were treated more horribly than white people in this time period. Annemarie Randall was one of the people who was treated horribly in the asylum. Annemarie never knew her real parents and was adopted. Her new mother had died of TB and her new father remarried a women who physically abused her. When she was fourteen she dropped out of school even though she was very successful