By Jeremy Loudenback, Photo: Jeremy Loudenback, The Imprint, May 17, 2022
Hoisting signs that read “Fund Families, Not Systems” and “Poverty Is Not Neglect,” protesters in downtown Los Angeles today chanted “Black Families Matter!” and shared their wrenching experiences of family separation through the foster care system.
“If you are outraged that the Supreme Court may soon allow the government to reach into your womb and control whether you have children, you should be deeply outraged that every day the government reaches into the living rooms of Black, brown and Indigenous families and separates children from their parents and guardians,” coalition member Tauheedah Shakur told the audience.
Hours later, the county Board of Supervisors, the nation’s largest local government, voted to pursue an approach to preventing some child removals that is gaining strength nationwide — providing parents with free legal counsel well before a child welfare agency files accusations against them in court.
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