Worship Services - How R U going to manage Injustice in The Golden Age with The Golden Rule? Part I

How are you going to manage all the injustices in the era of The Golden Age, where everyone is supposed to be prosperous, peaceful, and culturally advanced? This era is supposed to be defined by justice and peace. Does the term "The Golden Age" remain metaphoric, allegorical, or is it going to be literal or real?

This is what we will discuss along with the Golden Rule and its nonapplication in a society that is unjust. That is what is wrong with the USA: it always uses superior terms but delivers substandard behavior and actions. For example, Child Protection Services (CPS) has a long overreaching arm that destroys the Nuclear Family, especially the Black and Brown. Surveillant Assemblage or linked systems come to an intimate, interpersonal level by monitoring systems with Mandated Reporters, Initial CPS screeners, Social Workers, Field Investigators, Family Court Judges, Guardian At Litem (GAL), Foster Care, Researchers, Policymakers, District Attorneys, and Social Workers who may be contributing to the racial disparities and disproportionalities in outcomes based on ethnicity. 

This problem is advanced in the title of Surveillance and Care intersect, which exacerbates social stratification. These Street-level bureaucrats construct systemic problems as personal failures, which opens a possibility of responses. This paradox of poverty governance consists of macro-level historical links and micro-level mechanisms that create this expansive surveillance (Fong, K.,2020). This massive experiment of greed is wreaking havoc on real people with real families and real lives, who are the most vulnerable and unsuspecting of this gargantuan of corruption. This Surveillant Assemblage or linked systems reaches over in every aspect of our lives, criminal justice system, housing, healthcare, education, and medical, and then all these things are turned political. Men and Women, this is how you get your systemic or institutional racism that never goes away.

Despite a variety of reforms, CPS is detrimental to a child’s well-being, physical, emotional, and mental. CPS is disproportionately targeting and policing Black families due to a need from the racist power system that finds it necessary to remain relevant in this society (Roberts, 2022). The scholarly community should know the experiences of white and black families concerning Child Protection Services (CPS) investigations with Initial CPS screeners, Field Investigators, Judges, Guardian at litem, and Social Workers who may be contributing to the disparities and inequalities in outcomes based on ethnicity.

In Addition, Dettlaff et.al., 2020 examined the history and consequences of racial disproportionality and disparities, why they exist, and why, after decades of attempts to reform the CPS, it is time to acknowledge that reforms cannot right a significant wrong. Next, the unproductive dialogue and response to racial disproportionality and disparities. At this time, the upend movement began with acknowledging that reforms are no longer sufficient and seeks to end the current CPS as we know it and reimagine new, anti-racist means of keeping children, families, and communities together. Racism is so deeply rooted in CPS history, policies, and practices that it cannot be modified or revised. Forced family separation has its roots in the dehumanizing system of slavery.

CPS and its funding need to be abolished, and the funding needs to be transferred to the communities, the families and children reside in, with a real mantra of “Protecting Families and Children.”  Abolition is a goal that requires actively dismantling of racist policies and practices and in their place, creating and implementing anti-racists policies and practices that promote

healing and reducing harm.

References

Dettlaff, A. J., & Boyd, R. (2020). Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System: Why Do They Exist, and What Can Be Done to Address Them?The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 692(1),253-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716220980329

Dettlaff, A. J., Weber, K., Pendleton, M., Boyd, R., Bettencourt, B., & Burton, L.(2020). It is not a broken system, it is a system that needs to be broken: the upEND movement to abolish the child welfare system. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 14(5), 500–517. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2020.1814542

Dettlaff, A. J., Weber, K., Pendleton, M., Boyd, R., Bettencourt, B., & Burton, L. (2020). It is not a broken system, it is a system that needs to be broken: the upEND movement to abolish the child welfare system. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 14(5), 500–517. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2020.1814542

Dettlaff, A. J., & Boyd, R. (2020). Racial disproportionality and disparities in the child welfare system: Why do they exist, and what can be done to address them? Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 692(1), 253–274. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716220980329

Fong, K. (2020). Getting Eyes in the Home: Child Protective Services Investigations and State Surveillance of Family Life. American Sociological Review, 85(4), 610-638. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122420938460

Roberts, D. (2022). Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare Systems Destroy Black Families-and How abolition can build a safer world. Basic Books: New York.