SILENCE OF THE CLINICIANS ON THE PLANTATION

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.
 ----Desmond Tu Tu

The clinicians working at Connecticut Juvenile Training School are suppose to be caregivers. They provide comfort for those incarcerated residents who might have cognitive issues. Many of these clinicians are handsomely paid for their skills and in all honesty probably do help souls tormented by mental anguish. However does the responsibility of clinicians at CJTS begin or end only with taking care of residents cognitive problems. These clinicians are people of higher learning and reasoning, so why are they silent about injustices at the facility where they work?

For a seven year period employees in a certain economic bracket [ Youth Service Officers ] were fighting for egalitarian rights against an oppressive management system. The mostly white management discrimnated against employees of color by disproportionate terminations and disciplines. The white YSOs caught hell too, just by being in the same economic class as blacks---Latinos. Clinicians never voiced their concern over what was happening in front of them, they continued to ignore all signs pointing to injustice. Why? It seems incomprehensible clinicians could go about healing residents minds while ignoring warped worldviews of CJTS management that allowed them to bully employees. When conversations were broached about what management did openly against employees, most clinicians refused to engage in conversation. Instead they buried their noses in the Diagnostic Statisical Manual or some other lofty publication. Meanwhile back at the ranch natives suffered mental and spiritual pain that needed addressing through praxis. However esoteric thinking clinicians kept their heads in the clouds- not seeing what transpired on the ground.

Hey,  by the way, most clinicians at CJTS look like the top tier of management. Perhaps the identification with the rulers( ethnically and in thought ) and not the natives is one reason clinicians keep silent. Hell, no matter how much therapy clinicians give out if  [those] employees are not from your tribe does it matter ?
In the opinion of this blog writer all injustices suffered at the hands of management by employees has been co-signed by clinicians, whose major concern is getting a check bi-weekly, while not being true to the code of caregivers.
The above quote by Desmond TuTu certainly is appropriate for this blog story.