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capriciousnerd:

superopinionated:

everythingrhymeswithalcohol:

“Laura Browder said she took her 6-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son with her to a mall for a suddenly scheduled job interview because she didn’t have enough time to line up child care.  According to Browder, she bought the children lunch at the McDonald’s in the food court and sat them at a table approximately 30 feet away and well within sight while she interviewed.

Browder was taken into custody by police when she went to claim her kids, after someone at the mall called police saying the children had been left there crying.

Browder said she was arrested after accepting the job offer, but now worries if the arrest may cause her to lose it.The woman appeared before a judge who released her and gave her full custody of her children although Child Protective Services is still investigating. 

Browder released a statement saying, “This was very unfortunate this happened. I had a interview with a very great company with lots of career growth. I am a college student and mother of two. I would never put my name, background or children in harms way intentionally. I have a promising future ahead of me regardless of what the media tries to portray me as.””

Why would you *arrest* her jfc

Rhetorical, I know, but I’m pretty sure the answer is “because she’s a black woman.” And having worked with the foster care system? They (honestly, we white people) are looking for reasons to take kids away from so-called “lazy” black/dark-skinned Latinx parents. So we can either “raise them with proper values” (should they get a better-than-bad home) or let them get abused into thinking they’re not worth having a loving family and pushing them into the childhood-to-prison pipeline (should they get a bad home).

Note: That isn’t to say that foster care is bad and inappropriate for all children. But CPS is less likely to a) remove white children from genuinely abusive white parents (because of beliefs about white people being more innocent) or b) remove East Asian children from genuinely abusive East Asian parents (because of the belief of what a ’Tiger Mom’ is or that abuse is normal within the various East Asian communities). But they’re okay with over-representing Black, Latinx, and Native American/Indigenous children because of racism. There is so much that can be said about the lack of diversity among the staff in these systems.