Gerard Gopaul

Two years ago, “Health” Secretary RFK Jr. said that Black children prescribed depression or ADHD medication should be “re-parented.” This month, he was confronted with that statement by Representative Terri Sewell—a Black Democrat from Alabama—and denied ever saying it. Unfortunately for him, we have the recording. “In a 2024 podcast interview, you suggested that Black children on ADHD medication should be ‘re-parented.’ You said: ‘Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence,’ and that those children are going to have to go somewhere to get ‘re-parented,’” Sewell said. “Have you ever ‘re-parented,’ or parented, a Black child?” RFK Jr. immediately went on the defensive. “I don’t even know what that phrase means, and I doubt that I said it,” he replied. “It’s just a yes or no answer,” Sewell responded. “I doubt that I said that phrase, no. Not gonna answer something that I didn’t say.” “You absolutely said it.” “I’d like to hear the recording.” Kennedy is completely wrong here, and he said what Sewell is accusing him of saying nearly verbatim. Here’s the recording: “My Peace Corps program is going to be wellness farms, rehabilitation facilities that I’m gonna start in rural areas all over the country, where people—any American—can go for free,” Kennedy said, painting a utopian picture for his solution to the prescription drug epidemic. “Psychiatric drugs, which every Black kid is now just standard put on—Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence—and those kids are gonna have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented, to live in a community where there’ll be no cell phones, no screens, you’ll actually have to talk to people.” He’s a conspiracy theorist. A cult member. AND a liar. America deserves better.