Police brutality and abuse of power is a global issue. Last night, several Nigerians exercising their right to peacefully protest lost their lives at the hands of SARS, a tyrannical federal organization that violates the civil rights of its citizens. As fellow human beings, we owe the Nigerian people our empathy, solidarity, and efforts to spread awareness and get informed. #ENDSARS 🇳🇬
Resources:
( https://www.wsj.com/articles/nigeria-protests-whats-happening-and-why-are-people-demonstrating-11603277989 )
( https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/10/nigeria-authorities-repeatedly-failing-to-tackle-impunity-enjoyed-by-notorious-sars-police-unit/ )
( https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/13/sake-democracy-nigerias-endsars-campaign-against-police-brutality-must-prevail/ )
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The “Adultification” of Black Girls. Adultification Bias refers to the perception of black girls as more adult-like and less innocent than their white counterparts.
Why does the “adultcification” of black girls matter?
-To counter inequality we must begin internally, by analyzing how we perceive other humans (black girls in this instance) and if that perception is fair or pervaded with subconscious bias.
-Georgetown Law sites adultification, or the perception of Black girls as less innocent, as a potential contributing factor to the disproportionate rates of punitive treatment in the education and juvenile justice systems for Black girls.
-Acknowledging internal prejudices and inappropriate perceptions of black girls is a step towards confronting and dismantling the deep-rooted manifestation of implicit bias against young women of color.
-Researches suggests that adultification may play a role in the child welfare system; Authorities in this system who view Black girls as more independent and less needing of nurture and protection may assign them different placement or treatment plans from their white girl counterparts.
-To quote Girl Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood, “Ultimately, adultification is a form of dehumanization, robbing Black children of the
very essence of what makes childhood distinct from all other developmental periods: innocence.”
Some instances are less overt. I speak to this from personal experience, having encountered variants of adultification myself. Most prominently is my experience with disproportionate objectification on tv sets; having to wear less makeup and more layers, as compared to young girls who are not POC, because I was looked at as “more mature” and “less innocent”.
I share this in hopes that, if any other young black/poc girls out there who stumble upon this ‘post’ have experienced adultification bias now feel less alone, and as importantly… that their feelings in regard to experiencing this type of prejudice are valid.
Xx
The “Adultification” of Black Girls. Adultification Bias refers to the perception of black girls as more adult-like and less innocent than their white counterparts.
Why does the “adultcification” of black girls matter?
-To counter inequality we must begin internally, by analyzing how we perceive other humans (black girls in this instance) and if that perception is fair or pervaded with subconscious bias.
-Georgetown Law sites adultification, or the perception of Black girls as less innocent, as a potential contributing factor to the disproportionate rates of punitive treatment in the education and juvenile justice systems for Black girls.
-Acknowledging internal prejudices and inappropriate perceptions of black girls is a step towards confronting and dismantling the deep-rooted manifestation of implicit bias against young women of color.
-Researches suggests that adultification may play a role in the child welfare system; Authorities in this system who view Black girls as more independent and less needing of nurture and protection may assign them different placement or treatment plans from their white girl counterparts.
-To quote Girl Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood, “Ultimately, adultification is a form of dehumanization, robbing Black children of the
very essence of what makes childhood distinct from all other developmental periods: innocence.”
Some instances are less overt. I speak to this from personal experience, having encountered variants of adultification myself. Most prominently is my experience with disproportionate objectification on tv sets; having to wear less makeup and more layers, as compared to young girls who are not POC, because I was looked at as “more mature” and “less innocent”.
I share this in hopes that, if any other young black/poc girls out there who stumble upon this ‘post’ have experienced adultification bias now feel less alone, and as importantly… that their feelings in regard to experiencing this type of prejudice are valid.
Xx
The “Adultification” of Black Girls. Adultification Bias refers to the perception of black girls as more adult-like and less innocent than their white counterparts.
Why does the “adultcification” of black girls matter?
-To counter inequality we must begin internally, by analyzing how we perceive other humans (black girls in this instance) and if that perception is fair or pervaded with subconscious bias.
-Georgetown Law sites adultification, or the perception of Black girls as less innocent, as a potential contributing factor to the disproportionate rates of punitive treatment in the education and juvenile justice systems for Black girls.
-Acknowledging internal prejudices and inappropriate perceptions of black girls is a step towards confronting and dismantling the deep-rooted manifestation of implicit bias against young women of color.
-Researches suggests that adultification may play a role in the child welfare system; Authorities in this system who view Black girls as more independent and less needing of nurture and protection may assign them different placement or treatment plans from their white girl counterparts.
-To quote Girl Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood, “Ultimately, adultification is a form of dehumanization, robbing Black children of the
very essence of what makes childhood distinct from all other developmental periods: innocence.”
Some instances are less overt. I speak to this from personal experience, having encountered variants of adultification myself. Most prominently is my experience with disproportionate objectification on tv sets; having to wear less makeup and more layers, as compared to young girls who are not POC, because I was looked at as “more mature” and “less innocent”.
I share this in hopes that, if any other young black/poc girls out there who stumble upon this ‘post’ have experienced adultification bias now feel less alone, and as importantly… that their feelings in regard to experiencing this type of prejudice are valid.
Xx
The “Adultification” of Black Girls. Adultification Bias refers to the perception of black girls as more adult-like and less innocent than their white counterparts.
Why does the “adultcification” of black girls matter?
-To counter inequality we must begin internally, by analyzing how we perceive other humans (black girls in this instance) and if that perception is fair or pervaded with subconscious bias.
-Georgetown Law sites adultification, or the perception of Black girls as less innocent, as a potential contributing factor to the disproportionate rates of punitive treatment in the education and juvenile justice systems for Black girls.
-Acknowledging internal prejudices and inappropriate perceptions of black girls is a step towards confronting and dismantling the deep-rooted manifestation of implicit bias against young women of color.
-Researches suggests that adultification may play a role in the child welfare system; Authorities in this system who view Black girls as more independent and less needing of nurture and protection may assign them different placement or treatment plans from their white girl counterparts.
-To quote Girl Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood, “Ultimately, adultification is a form of dehumanization, robbing Black children of the
very essence of what makes childhood distinct from all other developmental periods: innocence.”
Some instances are less overt. I speak to this from personal experience, having encountered variants of adultification myself. Most prominently is my experience with disproportionate objectification on tv sets; having to wear less makeup and more layers, as compared to young girls who are not POC, because I was looked at as “more mature” and “less innocent”.
I share this in hopes that, if any other young black/poc girls out there who stumble upon this ‘post’ have experienced adultification bias now feel less alone, and as importantly… that their feelings in regard to experiencing this type of prejudice are valid.
Xx
The ‘Kamloops Indian Residential School’ in 1937. You might be thinking, what is a residential school?
The residential school system was a network of mandatory boarding schools across The United States, Canada, and Australia meant to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children into western society by stripping them of their native language, traditions and culture. The last of which only closed as recent as 1996. The children at these schools were mistreated, abused, and assaulted, enduring physical and phycological harm. In Canada, between 1863 and 1996, more than 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in these schools, a large number of which never returned home.
Just a month ago, on May 28th, representatives of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation reported finding the remains of 215 children that were buried at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School that is pictured above. Just a few weeks later, on June 24, the Cowessess First Nation announced that up to 751 unmarked graves were detected at the site of the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan. Then, on June 30 members of the Ktunaxa Nation, revealed that another 182 unmarked graves holding children’s remains was uncovered at the site of the former St. Eugene’s Mission School. Over 1,000 indigenous children, now unidentifiable, because of abhorrent neglect.
We cannot leave these truths, no matter how shameful and despicable, unspoken. The cultural genocide of Indigenous people was directly funded and inflicted by western governments, through these residential “schools”. To move forward progressively in the fight for BIPOC justice, history and its everlasting impact, must be acknowledged. Please make time to independently research the extent of atrocities committed against indigenous peoples as a result of western colonialism — Swipe for resources! 🌱
The ‘Kamloops Indian Residential School’ in 1937. You might be thinking, what is a residential school?
The residential school system was a network of mandatory boarding schools across The United States, Canada, and Australia meant to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children into western society by stripping them of their native language, traditions and culture. The last of which only closed as recent as 1996. The children at these schools were mistreated, abused, and assaulted, enduring physical and phycological harm. In Canada, between 1863 and 1996, more than 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in these schools, a large number of which never returned home.
Just a month ago, on May 28th, representatives of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation reported finding the remains of 215 children that were buried at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School that is pictured above. Just a few weeks later, on June 24, the Cowessess First Nation announced that up to 751 unmarked graves were detected at the site of the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan. Then, on June 30 members of the Ktunaxa Nation, revealed that another 182 unmarked graves holding children’s remains was uncovered at the site of the former St. Eugene’s Mission School. Over 1,000 indigenous children, now unidentifiable, because of abhorrent neglect.
We cannot leave these truths, no matter how shameful and despicable, unspoken. The cultural genocide of Indigenous people was directly funded and inflicted by western governments, through these residential “schools”. To move forward progressively in the fight for BIPOC justice, history and its everlasting impact, must be acknowledged. Please make time to independently research the extent of atrocities committed against indigenous peoples as a result of western colonialism — Swipe for resources! 🌱
The ‘Kamloops Indian Residential School’ in 1937. You might be thinking, what is a residential school?
The residential school system was a network of mandatory boarding schools across The United States, Canada, and Australia meant to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children into western society by stripping them of their native language, traditions and culture. The last of which only closed as recent as 1996. The children at these schools were mistreated, abused, and assaulted, enduring physical and phycological harm. In Canada, between 1863 and 1996, more than 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in these schools, a large number of which never returned home.
Just a month ago, on May 28th, representatives of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation reported finding the remains of 215 children that were buried at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School that is pictured above. Just a few weeks later, on June 24, the Cowessess First Nation announced that up to 751 unmarked graves were detected at the site of the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan. Then, on June 30 members of the Ktunaxa Nation, revealed that another 182 unmarked graves holding children’s remains was uncovered at the site of the former St. Eugene’s Mission School. Over 1,000 indigenous children, now unidentifiable, because of abhorrent neglect.
We cannot leave these truths, no matter how shameful and despicable, unspoken. The cultural genocide of Indigenous people was directly funded and inflicted by western governments, through these residential “schools”. To move forward progressively in the fight for BIPOC justice, history and its everlasting impact, must be acknowledged. Please make time to independently research the extent of atrocities committed against indigenous peoples as a result of western colonialism — Swipe for resources! 🌱