Are Family Courts and Foster Care Destroying Communities Of Color Even More Then Police Brutality?
By Woody Henderson The question is, “Do you have to tell someone that you are declaring war on him or her before you declare war on them?” If the answer to that question is no, then perhaps there are those in this society that have already declared war on people of color. While people of good will are justly focused on bringing a end to police brutality and murder of unarmed innocent people of color in general, and black men in particular there is something even more sinister taking place in our communities. Some of the institutions paid to protect and serve communities of color are implementing and carrying out policies that are having a devastating affect on the very ones they are mandated to serve. The Administration for Children’s Service’s, (ACS) New York City’s child protective service, is one such institution. In the name of protecting children at risk ACS and child protective agencies around the country, are destroying many of them, armed with the help of a police force, some u
