Alan Dettlaff
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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That's where I think, you know, questions about accidents versus non accidents and the assessments that humans who are prone to these biases are socialized to believe many of these things.
That's where I think the problem lies.
Yeah, the concept of white saviorism, I mean, a lot of it is rooted in the international adoption movement, like you just talked about.
But a lot of it is born out of or began during the era of slavery as well, where narratives were spread about black parents that they...
did not really care about their children, did not feel pain when their children were separated from them and couldn't really supervise their children well without some type of intervention by their white enslavers.
And those were false narratives, but narratives that were spread for the purpose of absolving
and slavers and helping them feel better about selling their children away because they told themselves that they didn't really feel that much and didn't really grieve for those children.
But then we see those narratives continue after slavery was abolished.
We see those narratives continue with the idea that black people were lazy and living off of the government.
Then that eventually evolved in the 1960s to the idea of welfare mothers.
and Black mothers that would have babies for the purpose of getting welfare money.
And then that led to the welfare queen of the Ronald Reagan era.
And all of these, and then the crack baby epidemic that was solely focused on Black mothers and their crack use and
The narrative was that they didn't care about their children.
They cared about the drugs more.
All of that's created an idea of black parents not really caring about their children and not being able to really take care of them without some type of government intervention.
And even that stereotype is widely believed today as it relates to welfare or financial assistance, that black people in many ways are dependent on welfare and don't want to work because then that will jeopardize their welfare benefits.
All of those things then impact decisions that are made, particularly around policies.
that the child welfare system is built on.
And white saviorism comes into play because all of those myths over the centuries have created the idea that white intervention is needed to rescue Black children from the tangle of pathology that Moynihan talked about.
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