I am a very passionate advocate for asking and at times demanding that government officials, Federal & State agencies, family, friends, the general public take care of Christopher Meade and other people like him suffering from a mental disability, the negative accolades that it carries, and the vicissitudes that such disabled individuals experience, because such neglect on behalf of all the aforementioned entities is not only unacceptable, but also abusive! However, the "Behavioral & Financial Challenges of Caring for Chris" are not easy to deal with.
There are people that work in downtown Athens, TN, where Christopher primarily lives as a homeless man, that help him and are kind to him, but, in very minimal ways, which I consider are "unacceptable", because as healthcare and social service entities they could be doing more to help Christopher, but, recently, places like the District Attorney's Office, where for two years he had been going to get water to drink from Amanda Cooley, whom by the ways treats him very kindly, honorably, with respect and love, now all of a sudden "it appears" that she is being prohibited from doing so, I don't know if by rules of a new District Attorney, or a new systemic town effort on behalf of State agencies or entities to more severely "DISCRIMINATE" against and "ABUSE" homeless disabled Americans/people like Christopher Meade.
After seeing the recent drama behind Presidential U.S. American politics, where recently convicted felons such as Donald Trump, whom by the way was previously "impeached" from serving in government or public office, it is to me personally more confirming what has always been evident, which is a highly ignorant and unqualified voting majority that votes based on excitability, emotion, deleterious perceptions of people and things which they obviously are not intellectually capable of critically assessing or judging, and a population that power-seeking billionaires and other influential people can easily psychologically manipulate into voting. Kamala Harris in my view is not a Presidential Office caliber candidate either, but, in reference to Trump in particular, the important of going on this judging moral tangent on the topic of Christopher, is that if the highest offices of power and leadership of a country behave with such disregard to the upholding of fair treatment of all, but instead shows clearly that money buys power and more judicial leniency for wrongdoing or criminal behavior, what can be expected of the State or local judicial systems? Such as is the case in Athens, Tennessee! But, we as Americans have always had difficult battles and wars against injustice, against corruption of power, against abuses of humanity and the curtailed progress or advancement of civility and better balance spectrums of justice. We cannot stop fighting the good fights, even if most human beings are incredibly selfish, are not capable of fairly and rationally governing themselves, unless enough power, deterrence and good, compassionate, but firm leadership has generalized holdings of law-making and decision-making in general. We cannot allow "UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION, WILLFUL NEGLECT, ABUSE OF ANY KIND, UNFAIRLY JUSTIFIED CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR" to take place on any part, area, or form of social, political, religious, educational, or economic fabric of our American society!
Christopher told me a few days ago, after I showed him some Facebook profiles of his relatives living in Athens, Tennessee, and he says that he wants nothing to do with them, that they are evil, etcetera, adding that they signed papers saying that he was not a fit totaled care of his daughters, which he loves more than anything, and had him committed to a psychiatric hospital. Now, I will say that given what I know about Christopher's mental and behavioral state, that such concerns about him raising two small children has great validity, in terms of the children's well being, however, what is unjust and inhumane in such a case, or factual scenario, is that neither the relatives nor the healthcare facilities or entities, nor the State agencies or entities did nor have done enough to properly care for the mental nor physical health of a disabled American like Christopher Meade! It was the and compassionate human duty of his relatives, and the fair and rational duty of professionals to ensure that Christopher Meade's daughters were not ripped out of his life without the proper venues for him to still care for, albeit indirectly, and love his children! Imagine how traumatizing that is to somebody that has enough cognizance to feel that to be an injustice, but not having the mental capacity, orwhat is more a profound mental and cognitive disability that does not allow him to counter judicially and socially the injustice of such ill treatment from other human beings who do have the average mental and intellectual capacity to know and do better, as it pertains to the fair and compassionate treatment of others, and of the very important aspect of good justice for a civilized people, or the delusions of "civilization" or "civilized nature" thereof!
To not make this point or statement too long, I understand that not everyone may be able to or unwilling to share their personal finances and caring efforts for Christopher as much as I do, for I literally spend at least half my income in doing so, however, they can very easily collaborate with each other, or be diligent in asking for Federal assistance to mitigate the mental and physical abuses and neglect that they have done or caused to Christopher Meade. And I say physical too, because when he has beaten by gangs or criminals, as the result of living homeless on the streets due to judicial malpractice and negligence, as it also applies to other State and Federal government agencies, the proxy of such abuses are in fact those judicial and government entities that facilitated the physical abused against Christopher Meade, by forcing him or negligently letting him live in such precarious homeless conditions, surrounded by crime and criminal abuse. But, also, due to the fact that "hunger" is also another form of physical abuse, that not only can have the devastating consequences of physical pain and body deterioration, but also the mental anguish, sadness, depression, feeling of being unwanted and unfairly rejected, and in the case of Christopher in particular those frustrations being greater and more emotionally/psychologically painful, because he cannot articulate a sound or proper defense against such abuses and criminal behaviors, on behalf of both street thugs and criminals, & from professional ones as well.
I took Chris to eat in Dennis earlier this week, and he was being greatly disrespectful, right near her sometimes, to a very nice and welcoming young waiter (although his behavior does not discriminate on age, sex, status, etc., he misbehaves equally against anyone), so I oftentimes now have become more of a parent role towards him, than a good friend. And he also has gotten to consider me his care taker, thus, overall he does heed my attempts to teach him, or stops misbehaving when I call out his rudeness towards others. It is a difficult situation, because he is considered an "independent adult", and yet his behavior is at times harder to curtail, manage, or adjust, than that of the average sound mind child, because Chris' mental cognitive disability does not process context, deterrent, cause and effect, and other normative social rules of norms and behavior in a rational way. And I am by nature, personality-wise a very empathetic, caring,compassionate, understanding, slow-to-anger, forgiving, and intellectually as well as emotionally gifted individual, whom has also for years cared for individuals of all ages in healthcare settings and at home, and has also been temporarily a substitute teacher of students with special needs, however, for most other people dealing with Chris, or trying to help him can be a lot more challenging!
Yesterday I took him to eat at Dennis again, and he was being disrespectful to the elderly couple sitting on the table next to us, he was being loud, also yelling and pointing at customers in far sits, putting his feet on his seat, etcetera, so I have to act more as a parent than as a friend, to ensure that he is behaving properly, without disrespecting nor mistreating others, while learning proper norms of behavior, or reminding him of it, because in all truth, he is actually very clean, dresses nicely, is super nice most of the time, but primarily with me, well to me he is always nice, but other people get him impatient sometimes, and I have to manage his subsequent misbehavior towards others or around them. On the financial aspect, I give him money to put on a wallet that I have designated his "savings wallet", which he keeps on his furniture drawers, and I also give him money to keep on his wallet that he keeps on him, and I put money on a Greendot card that I got him. But, he does not understand concepts of money or finance properly, as I have mentioned and written about times before. Yesterday, I gave him $40 to keep in his wallet, and a few times he took the money out of the wallet while we were waiting for our food, until one time the first day young waitress passes by our table, and he tells her: "You want this $40 dollars!" And she replies: "Sure, I will get any money that you wanna give me!" She, of course had notice that he has a mental/cognitive issue, yet she took his money anyways and quickly walked away! Of course, I was not going to tell him at that point: "Don't give her that money!" Earlier this week I gave him $100 dollars for his body wallet, all gone by yesterday, and last week it was $200 that I gave him before the $100. That of course, only for him to have his own spending money, because he also buys the nicotine vaporizing type of products, and canned tobacco. He does not do drugs, nor drinks alcohol, at least not ever in my presence nor company, because he knows that I do not do nor have ever done any of those habits. I also buy all his meals, whatever he likes to eat, or as much. I let him order whatever he wants in restaurants, regardless of price, but, I told him today that I was not going to go eat with him in expensive restaurants as often as we usually do, because he is not properly understanding that I work for that money, and he cannot either be giving away the money that I give him. He does have a kind heart, and in times past he has expressed to me that he wants to help other people, the way that I help him. Thus, perhaps in his mind giving money away to others is helping them, only that he is unable to understand that I cannot be caring for all his financial needs, and also for him to give away part of the money that with great sacrifice I give him for his personal use.
Thus, of course, when some of his backstabbing so called "friends" in Athens, TN pretend to want to help Christopher, and to collaborate with me to find him help, while they let him sleep on the streets, or in inhumane conditions, and do not feed him every dayblike I do, and then tell Christopher behind my back that "I am not whom I say that I am!", I will need to continue my own path towards finding him Federal and State help, demanding accountability for the abuse and neglect of such entities, while helping him as a caring friend and financially. Ironically I was not even upset when I found out about that particular person telling Christopher that about me, but, instead, he was meeting with her, and calls me in front of her to tell me precisely what she was telling him about me. And, since then him of his own fruition/decision told me that he did not even want to talk to her anymore! Why? Because he now sees me as his primary caretaker! Because I have been loving, compassionate, and caring towards him as a good friend or parent would, and even somebody like him with a mental disability can appreciaapp that quality of care, but, more especially so, somebody that now oftentimes tell me that he does not want to go back to Athens because sometimes he out of desperation has to eat food from garbage cans (imagine how inhumane, undignified, and "dangerous" it is for a disabled person to have to return to that!), has to sleep in cold, hot, wet, smelly places, and the police keeps harassing him, having him sign papers for trespassing, and for unfair complaints of business owners, etc.
So, yes, Athenians of Tennesse, whether or not you like the fact that I am an "immigrant" to this country, or question my motives for helping Christopher Meade, the fact remains, that I am giving him "BETTER CARE" than any of his relatives, so called "friends", "professionals", and U.S. born "Americans"! As a matter of fact, let me give a little rational and sound perspective to that ignorant mind of yours:
"I am an "IMMIGRANT", yes, and so were "ALL YOUR ANCESTORS", because this is originally the land of "NATIVE AMERICANS", not of the "EUROPEANS THAT STOLD IT, AND MURDERED THEM TO TAKE POSSESION OF IT!"
Furthermore, I came to this country in June 1992, so any of you, or any of your children "BORN IN THIS COUNTRY" after that, is "IN FACT LESS AMERICAN THAN I AM", because "I HAVE LIVED IN THIS COUNTRY, IN THIS LAND, LONGER THAN THEM OR YOU HAVE!"
Now, in addition to that, how many of you willfully ignorant "Americans" have been willing to die on behalf of the interests of this country's government, like I have, by joining the US Military, and going to war in the most critical forms that military service can pose or demand!
Thus, take the big pieces of wood out of your eyes, before you tell me to remove the tiny piece in one of mine!
Jesimiel Millar
(November 10th, 2024)
Hebron, Indiana
1:19 AM
