March 14 [, 2009]
Mass. Legal Papers
The following "Personal Statement" was found in The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. According to Tyson R. Ence, for the plaintiff, in a letter to the Cambridge District Court dated Monday, March 9, 2009: "By agreement of the parties, we respectfully ask the court to move the Summary Process trial [No. 200952SU000107] in the abovementioned matter to Thursday, April 2, 2009. The parties are presently engaged in ongoing settlement discussions and are optimistic this matter can be resolved before trial." Professor Wilmot Max Ramsay's "Mental Health" Defense is hereby entered below.
A Personal Statement intended for a Court in Cambridge
Cambridge, MA, USA
Monday, February 2, 2009
Cambridge District Court (Room 13-A)
40 Thorndike Street,
Cambridge, MA 02141
Re rent: I paid my rent for February 2009 along with my December 2008 utilities. It must be noted that utilities for the month of January 2009 [are] yet to be furnished to me.
Neither I nor my roommate have any knowledge of "damage" to the 2nd Floor - ("Unit 2"). We reside on the 3rd Floor.
I will, for my defense, report to this honorable court that my "participation" in the "North Charles Mental Health Research and Training Foundation, Inc." has been of a dignified and cooperative manner and can be attested to by members of the Cambridge community. However, being cooperative does not mean that we are not to "question, discuss and reflect" on the thesis at hand.
With the above preamble, I would like to address my concerns for the above-named "Training Foundation." Having been a client/tenant for some thirteen (13) years residing at 10 - 12 Hunting Street, Cambridge, Mass., has always presented itself as a place for my academic pursuit. It was from there, in 2005, that I journeyed to the University of Massachusetts Boston, my alma mater, for my graduation ceremony with my father, Charles Adolphus Ramsay; my therapist, Linda Miller; Lillian Brown, a community member and my college friends, Dat Hoang and John (Yianni) Koveos. John gave of his time and with a limousine for that day's events with an assortment of Greek, American and Jamaican cuisines.
As a proud recipient of Cambridge's prestigious Key-To-The-City, (Monday, October 5, 1987, in the Sullivan Room at City Hall), it goes without saying that I have standards to uphold and as such, to date, I have refrained from shouting matches with "North Charles." I have been told by a former director of housing that: "It's you I am here for," to the clatter of laughter, on her part. Shortly, thereafter, I was escorted by a police officer to Cambridge City Hospital. For the record, this former employee's name is "Eileen Pincus." It was only while at the hospital, and naturally upset about the tactic employed, when someone I believed to be a student nurse, referred to me as "Professor" as she smiled, winked and said that my being there, at the hospital, was just an experiment conducted in conjunction with the State. This was in 2008.
The question is: What are we training people at "North Charles" to become? Bigots? Through my research, I herein submit that "North Charles" has exhibited a Jim Crow-like attitude toward me in instances of which I am prepared to discuss. It is true that ever since I received my degree, following equally racial turmoil, that the housing sector of the "mental health" agency has tried to exert added control over my person. Recently, since the repair of the apartment bell, for which I have been an avid advocate, the signals from "North Charles" have been strained; almost mute.
The political landscape has changed and this change has left some people bruised, bitter and not happy with the outcome. We live in the United States of America where, up to the past year, race mattered. President Barack Hussein Obama's rise to the White House proves that a single person of color put in a socio-political and psychological milieu can, given the support, overcome. Service to one's community, therefore, public or private, should include fair-play. We cannot have Africans who say that they are not Americans. It will take for the collective will and effort of all the people for us to succeed.
Is it that the "mental health" experiment on my person is now exhausted and there is need for another subject? I fear for such a candidate, who might be a person of color, if the treatment, as meted out to me, is not changed. Mine has been a perfect setting to be the only male person of color residing at the above-listed abode.
In conclusion, being a Cantabrigian living here in Cambridge at said residence aforementioned, I hereby await the judicious dictates in this matter of which "North Charles" has caused me to respond in a true version as a person in residence and in "training." A 'North Charles Fellowship' could be in order.
In the words of Walt Whitman, as quoted in James Baldwin's 'Giovanni's Room': "I am the man, I [have] suffered, I [am] there."
Respectfully yours,
[SGD]
Wilmot Maximillian Ramsay
"Professor"
NOTES: The Cambridge Court ruled in Professor Ramsay's favor.
April 2, 2009 is the 19th Anniversary of Ramsay's "A Look At Dante And Petrarca's Styles" which ignited the Honors Program War at the University of Massachusetts at Boston where Councillor Max Ramsay studied as a Chancellor's Scholar.
