TGIF

After this week started on such a high note with the wonderful Michael Buble concert Sunday night, I'm glad to see it winding down after so much bad news. I blogged Wednesday about the series of incidents in New York with random people being attacked with scissors, bricks, and even a lead pipe by homeless guys and now a mentally ill woman was shot in a blaze of bullets in Washington. Mental illness is a serious problem and there are a lot of people out there who need help. Black people, in particular, need to recognize that mental illness isn't just something that happens to other (i.e. white) people. We have mental health issues also that need to be addressed. Too often blacks are encouraged to pray about any mental problems they're having or just buck up rather than being encouraged to seek professional help and that's a shame. Mental illness needs to be recognized and dealt with in all communities.