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Erin

Amani Marshall, Historian describes “Enslaved people lived with the perpetual possibility of separation through the sale of one or more family members. . . . A father might be sold away by his owner while the mother and children remained behind, or the mother and children might be sold. Enslaved families were also divided for inheritance when an owner died, or because the owners’ adult children moved away to create new lives, taking some of the enslaved people with them. These decisions were, of course, beyond the control of the people whose lives they affected most. Sometimes an enslaved man or woman pleaded with an owner to purchase his or her spouse to avoid separation. The intervention was not always successful. . . . The fear of separation haunted adults who knew how likely it was to happen. Young children, innocently unaware of the possibilities, learned quickly of the pain that such separations could cos”

This is a system that relies on traditional frameworks of State control inherited from chattel slavery, and enforces racially oppressive mandates on Black Reproduction.

It truly is a modern day iteration of slavery, and its principles. To believe otherwise is to avoid all facts about this system and the history of our country

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Socialization over Safety

The Irish and Italian Catholic immigrant children targeted by the “Orphan Train” movement, established by a New York Protestant minister, Charles Loring Brace, in 1852, were not viewed as white when they were forcibly taken from their families and placed on farms all over the country, in the hundreds of thousands.[1] The foster system wanted to protect “decent society” from not just the “menace” their poverty posed but also their “otherness” too, forcibly placing them in middle class Protestant households to socialize them to white middle class ways.[2]

Brace had seen the revolutions in Europe of 1848, and they terrified him. In particular, he was terrified of poor immigrant Catholics, whom he branded a “stupid, foreign criminal class” and the “scum and refuse of ill-formed civilizations.” He worried that “some demagogue might arouse their passions and fuse all the elements for a Parisian scene of riot and blood.”

And, of course, Brace explained, these Catholic immigrant parents were genetically inferior, passing bad “gemmules” on to their children. Fortunately, these ill effects could be reversed – by taking away the children and shipping them out to middle class Protestant farmers in the countryside.

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MORE THAN 2/3 OF STATES USE A PARENT'S DISABILITY AS A SOLE LEGAL BASIS TO PERMANENTLY SEVER THE PARENT/CHILD RELATIONSHIP

IN 2012, APPROXIMATELY 80% OF PARENTS WITH REPORTED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES HAD THEIR CHILDREN REMOVED

PARENTS WITH A DISABILITY ARE MORE THAN THREE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO HAVE THEIR CHILDREN PERMANENTLY TAKEN

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War on Drugs

Punitive

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Erin Miles Cloud, Erin.Cloud@movementforfamilypower.org

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