Fear of seeming racist prompts ACS to endanger black children

NYC's youngster providers has fallen flat on defending two younger black lives.
Helayne Seidman

It seems to be like racism simply took two extra younger black lives — however that is left-wing racism, pushing child-welfare staff to not take away youngsters from harmful houses on the grounds that the system finds “too many” black dad and mom who pose a menace to their youngsters.

Saturday night time, 11-month-old Octavius Canada and his brother DeShawn Fleming, 3, had been discovered lifeless of their condominium 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 Put up that the Administration for Youngsters’s Companies probed Fleming shortly after DeShawn’s delivery. It’s unclear how the case bought resolved, or what followup ACS did.

DeShawn Fleming, a 3-year-old, was discovered lifeless in a Bronx homeless shelter.

Final week, The New York Occasions highlighted an unreleased survey of ACS staff (just some dozen, out of hundreds) who described their company as a “predatory system subjecting black dad and mom to a distinct stage of scrutiny” than white households; the story gave comparable voice to advocates charging the identical. This cost has plainly influenced ACS to, in actual fact, maintain off from intervening just because dangerous-seeming dad and mom are black.

But it surely’s black youngsters who pay the worth. Deep in its report, the Occasions additionally famous that its personal “evaluation of 83 youngster homicides from 2016 to 2022 discovered that Black youngsters within the metropolis had been killed in circumstances the place members of the family had been charged at about seven occasions the speed for white and Asian youngsters and thrice the speed for Hispanic youngsters.”

Octavius Canada and his brother had been allegedly murdered by their mom, Dimone Fleming.

That’s a transparent signal that black dad and mom are being held to a decrease customary, due to politics. Beneath Metropolis Council stress, ACS has tried to lower family-court involvement and foster-care placements due to the “racism” complaints.

It could be the best tragedy of contemporary progressivism that it retains harming the very individuals it imagines it’s serving to.