The murder of Ma’Khia Bryant hit me particularly hard because abolitionist spaces have generally not centered the family regulation system in their analysis. To the degree it’s mentioned, I see stats on outcomes or language of “kinder gentler policing”
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The moment you come into contact with child welfare, you’re like 11:59 of the doomsday clock. If you don’t open the door, they’re calling the cops, if you get too loud they’re calling the cops, 5 min late, cops, cops, cops
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Kids in care end up dead all the time; in foster homes, group homes, residential, detention center, but who’s demanding an autopsy? Would we have known if it was an Adoptive parent or group home worker and not a cop that killed her?
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They strip search every kid in the house when there’s a child welfare investigation. There is nothing kind or gentle about the family regulation system. Plantation metaphors don’t do it justice cuz it’s like the auction block was never dismantled just professionalized
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Reminder to please listen to #adoptees#FFY and people currently in the foster care system (of which I’m not but am always down to amplify those who are)https://twitter.com/upfromthecracks/status/1385383533926092807 …Show this thread - End of conversation
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I knew a woman who grew up in foster care. Any time her foster family was unhappy with her they'd check her into a mental hospital. They utterly destroyed her.
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And treats the kids as the perpetrators of the crimes their parents committed.
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My mom and her fellow teachers at her inner city school would move Heaven and earth to keep a kid from the Foster System. Because of exactly this.
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Yes, yes, yes.... 100%
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