A man named Dwight Mitchell and a group of other parents who make up an organization called “Stop Child Protection Services from Legally Kidnapping” are launching a civil rights lawsuit at state agencies in Minnesota and Dakota County who enforce child protection laws.
They are alleging that black children are targets of unnecessary investigations which are triggered by simple allegations or social worker discretion. This ultimately causes black children to be removed from their homes and Mitchell and his associates say that this occurs five times more often with black children than white children.
Mitchell shared that his three children were taken into foster care after someone reported that he spanked his child. “Someone reported I spanked my child on his bottom. I was put in jail. My three children were taken away from me,” Mitchell states in a press release. “Even though everyone agreed I was a fit parent, even the county’s psychologists; it still took 22 months for me to get all my children back.”
The civil rights lawsuit states that Minnesota’s child protective standards illegally categorize these children as “child in need of protection or services” and then go on to place them in foster homes. Mitchell and his team point out that Minnesota provides “conflicting” and “vague” statutes when it comes to corporal punishment. This means that ordinary spankings that cause any type of pain or injury or even threatening the child places them in this “child in need of protection or services” category.
What’s odd about all of this is that while Minnesota prohibits parents from corporal punishment, but authorizes it in private schools.
The lawsuit details a conversation between Mitchell and social worker Susan Boreland’s in which she said, “Why are all black families so quick to spank their children? You are unfit to be parents and don’t deserve to have children!” Shocked by the racially discriminative, negative, and generalized statement from the social worker, Mitchell responded, “First, this is not true, and you will never understand us because you are a White American and not African-American.”
He continued, “You have no true concept of the underlying racism against African-Americans. Our children must learn to respect and adhere to authority because they are being unjustly discriminated against and killed by the police on a daily basis as seen on the TV and Internet. African-American children fear the police and their parents are attempting to protect them from detrimental treatment. The same cannot be said about Caucasians.”
You guys can read more about this case here in the Stop CPS From Legally Kidnapping Children group on Facebook!
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