THE PUBLIC FACES OF PLANTATION TROUBLES ARE BLACK MEN

The management team of Connecticut Juvenile Training School / Department of Children and Families are under tremendous pressure from media and lawmakers concerning employee restraints at CJTS. Not only are lawmakers holding hearings and conducting property inspections at the facility, but looking for scapegoats too. In America whenever there are problems in society it is necessary -in the words of character Clay in Sons of Anarchy- " to blame it on the black man." In previous blog stories Youth Service Officer Dupree became the black man CJTS /DCF blamed for harmful restraint practices. Yeah man, Dupree's name and address were given to media; leaked videos showed this large black man restraining some resident at CJTS. However sources report the technique shown in that video is taught at Safe Crisis Management Trainings authorized by plantation hierarchy. Let me not digress from the point. Dupree is now the face of all that is supposedly wrong with client restraints. He is now terminated from a job with CJTS. This is not the only black man to be depicted as menacing and marauding through the DCF / CJTS countryside ...like Frankenstein.

Former employee [ retired ] YSO Cornell Lewis did not see an altercation between two residents while working at CJTS. Lewis and staff were looking at something on a computer during the fight  that lasted seconds. Lewis attempts at organizing employees to address favoritism, racial animus made management angry--- so they gas lighted him. Lewis got paced on administrative leave for being harmful to children at that facility.The arbitrator failed to see Lewis as any kind of threat and restored his employment with benefits and back pay. However for one year the scenario was the same as the one for Dupree; black man is dangerous. In Lewis case he fought back, he refused to be part of some jive narrative that assassinated his character ... put out by vengeful management. Now it is 3 years after Lewis arbitration vindication that brother Dupree is sacrificed as some black male Frankenstein, who ravages the CJTS countryside.

Hold on, in 2009 a white male YSO physically struck some resident and only received 10 days off. The white male YSO did not get terminated for hitting the resident in front of witnesses, nor was his address placed in newspapers. In Dupree's case mobile news trucks sat in front of his house after the story of him as dangerous black man surfaced.

THE PUBLIC FACES OF PLANTATION TROUBLES ARE BLACK MEN !!