In regards to the situations at hand. I would like to make it clear; I am aware and understand injustice is global and subject to everyone.
But I am a Black American, not placing our problems above anyone. I have come to state that the systems created to destroy us have extended to its goal.
As in the intended plan of separating black communities has been successful. No, not everyone suffered the same. To state facts is not to be in a state of victimization. In fact, one opposing the truth in the face, is a state of victimhood. Oh, your eyes can't consume the pain our ancestors passed.
I write today to discuss the rather clear ochtratated and accomplished system.
A system which creates an imbalance, "Over 50 percent of Black children in the U.S. will experience a child welfare investigation before their eighteenth birthday" (White & Persson, 2022).
In simple terms more than half of black children experience a system created in protection.
For the child or violence?
Who does the system protect if, "Federal laws are, unfortunately, a key component in why Black children face discrimination and unequal outcomes in the U.S. child welfare system" (White & Persson, 2022). If standards were applied evenly, other races would be disconnected and displaced at the same rates.
If the standards for removal are neglect. Then we must ask:
Would leaving a child in the hands of murderers be any less different than telling families who were freed or those already free and land owning, that they had no capacity to take care of their kids?
We all know black women were enlisted with obligation to feed from their bodies the children. Children in which of those would one day create children that would be on the playing field with their grandchild.
Imagine
You are no less than cattle
A carton
A package
Secured with insurance
And when the time came, your 2nd great-grandchildren had gained hope again, through freedom.
They were told they had no capacity to care or nurture for their own.
Could you state the difference?
Or maybe when they fought back each time, and were hosed, jailed, or hung, flooded, and burned.
And under classical conditioning, the black communities later became disconnected. Dysfunctional. But no less of the families who set out to destroy other people. Based on the presumption that those people (Black Americans) would continue to rise and raise their own kind.
There is not a change or difference; "more than forty years later the situation has seldom changed. Indeed, in 2017, while Black youth represented approximately 14% of the general population, they accounted for 23% of youth in care" (Dettlaff et al., 2020).
If one could praise the extensive gains of what was taken and extracted from communities as trust funds and successful businesses. Then one cannot also make the claim that it is Black American families to blame. For they must carry still the trauma that lays the weight of tomorrow before they wake to catch their breath.
The shame of not wanting the world to fully grasp the battle endured does not outweigh the truth.
The foster care system was and is an extension of the guardianship programs created.
When Black Americans that were enslaved became free, they were given back what was theirs. Granted, but soon white Americans realized they had given the wrong pieces to these black families. As majority of the land had minerals or benefits to extract. So, to control the outcomes white people obligated the black American families partake in surveillance, opposition to family structure, and more.
Well, get over it.
Yes, exactly so shall one give up what was taken too.
No because doing so would admit the pain black Americans experience today is a direct result of that.
The overall struggles of the fight for a place has disrupted the black family. Further disrupting the community. As people and cultures need a place to thrive outside of the home. And after time and time again, communities were shown if you gather, destruction will follow.
So, they found it best to not participate, but not communicating has led to what the system wanted. If one doesn't communicate, organize, and plan in masses.
Then, change does not occur.
Fear is rippling through families.
If black families are disqualified from being able to care for their children for the trauma created by these systems, then shall those people who created these systems be disqualified from raising children as well
If research in multiple fields supports the characteristics that one holds to exert such behavior is relatively evil.
By the standards and logic placed on the black communities, it proves there is a major line between what is true and what is created to destroy us, "Every day in the United States, Black children are investigated by the child welfare system and forcibly separated from their parents, at rates far greater than their white peers. Decades of data, research, and lived experiences reveal the deep disparities and discrimination within this system" (White & Persson, 2022).
Therefore, the question must be,
Who defines our struggle and pain?
Shall we continue to let them write tomorrow for us?
This blog is not to negate the fact that no matter the color, abuse occurs, but to establish the fact that money does not equate freedom from abuse. So one shall not judge upon standards created by systems to destroy.
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