Dr. Benjamin Rush, often called the Father of American Psychiatry, is not my father of psychiatry—or yours. Despite his abolitionist stance, Rush held racist beliefs, including the idea that Black people suffered from a "leprosy" called negritude, curable only by becoming white. These harmful ideas laid the groundwork for scientific racism in healthcare, shaping inequities that persist today. To build an antiracist psychiatry today, we must confront these roots and reimagine the field’s future.