All good observations, BD. I think, at the end of the day, that the stigma of mental illness is overall much more severe than the stigma of being a person of color, in the eyes of most Americans today.

I learned about racism when I was 5 in West Texas. We were visiting my grandparents and a local rancher brought one of his Mexican farmhands by for some medical attention. The rancher came over for lunch. An hour later, they all went outside. This man, this patient, was waiting in a hot truck the entire time. It was at least 100 degrees. 1969.

The rancher did not want to offent my parents and grandparents by asking a lowly Mexican into their home, so they made him wait in the sun. Hotter than hell.

My dad was furious. I will never forget his reaction. So angry, once he found out they had made him wait in the sun like that. Freaking barbaric. Absolute scumbag, that rancher. Evil. And that is when I learned about human rights from my dad.

So, yes, in my strong opinion, there are evil people. Absolutely. And they must be stopped, irrespective of the cost. Hitler. Pol Pot. Stalin. The People's Republic of China. Saudi Arabia. Iran. The entire freaking Russian Federation. Certain Americans. Evil. Completely, totally evil. To their molten centers. In my personal opinion.