The United States has a violent history of treating people of African descent as well below second-class citizens. One of the ways has been through the simultaneous weaponization of mental health disabilities and unjust (mis)diagnoses and the denial of access to quality, affordable mental health care. This course will explore this history and offer insight into the experiences of people with psychiatric disabilities. We will also discuss how racism within psychology, psychiatry, and social work has caused centuries of harm to people of African descent.