It appears to be like like racism simply took two extra younger black lives — however that is left-wing racism, pushing child-welfare staff to not take away kids from harmful houses on the grounds that the system finds “too many” black mother and father who pose a risk to their children.
Saturday evening, 11-month-old Octavius Canada and his brother DeShawn Fleming, 3, had been discovered useless of their residence at a Bronx homeless shelter. Their mom, Dimone Fleming, confessed to stabbing them to demise, believing they had been possessed by demons.
Like so many comparable tragedies, sources knowledgeable The Publish that the Administration for Kids’s Providers probed Fleming shortly after DeShawn’s beginning. It’s unclear how the case obtained resolved, or what followup ACS did.
Final week, The New York Instances highlighted an unreleased survey of ACS staff (only a few dozen, out of 1000’s) who described their company as a “predatory system subjecting black mother and father to a unique degree of scrutiny” than white households; the story gave comparable voice to advocates charging the identical. This cost has plainly influenced ACS to, in truth, maintain off from intervening just because dangerous-seeming mother and father are black.
Nevertheless it’s black kids who pay the value. Deep in its report, the Instances additionally famous that its personal “evaluation of 83 little one homicides from 2016 to 2022 discovered that Black kids within the metropolis had been killed in instances the place members of the family had been charged at about seven instances the speed for white and Asian kids and 3 times the speed for Hispanic kids.”
That’s a transparent signal that black mother and father are being held to a decrease customary, due to politics. Beneath City Council pressure, ACS has tried to lower family-court involvement and foster-care placements due to the “racism” complaints.
It might be the best tragedy of recent progressivism that it retains harming the very folks it imagines it’s serving to.
