Chattel Law Lives: White House Report on Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color:

It is with the greatest pleasure that I stand and pay tribute to the excellent work of the White House to elevate the historically pervasive issues in dealing with women and girls of color, but, while I am standing, allow me to snatch the mic and continue on this public platform to state that this report is just the tip of the iceberg in dealing with these economic and social polices.

The two largest affronts to opportunity in the lives of women and girls of color are law and policy and its administration, thereof.

Yes, it is true.  There is no oversight in dealing with opportunities for women and girls of color.

I contain my focus upon child welfare (i.e.. foster care, juvenile justice, SNAP, education, health care).

Administrative law and policy are specifically reflective of the architecture of the peculiar institution for which I shall take the time to illuminate for those who have no idea of what I speak, to be American slavery.

Yes, this is also true.  Women and girls of color are still on the books under chattel law and society still deems women and girls of color as property.

The curriculum of our academic institutions continue to instill in its students and graduates, that women must rise to the bar of codified social morality, meaning they must be affluent or follow the natural order of textbook theories.

This is racial profiling in social and economic policies.

Try being considered a woman of color, single, going to school with disabled children. working odd jobs, on social assistance programs which provide little to no help except for the generation of referral to Child Protective Services, to remove your kids and put them up for adoption, just because, according to the research, you will never be able to provide for the well-being of your children, as poverty is considered, by law and policy, as child abuse and neglect.

Then, when your name is placed on the Central Registry of Abuse and Neglect, for the crime of being poor, if you are even lucky enough to be tried as guilty until proven innocent, try finding a job or obtaining a high school diploma, or a university degree, for that matter.

Our policies defy logic and nature when identifying women who are poor and of color by being codified as "targeted populations" or "vulnerable populations"  These terms carry a quantifiable dollar amount, dependent upon which social program policy is being enforced.  There are even different cost reimbursements when dealing with girls of color in foster care; they are cheaper.

Look at Medicaid in child welfare.  Fraudulent billing is rampant yet nothing is being done about it.

In essence, the targeting of poor women and girls of color is pro forma for the administraton of social programs which are federally funded, and now being privatized through another layer of statutory protections for religious organizations to become immune from public scrutiny of its operations which have never met any clearly set benchmarks, for which are nothing more than revenue-maximization schemes.

QUESTION:  If advancing equity for women and girls of color is to be considered a civil right, then why are we not teaching this in university curriculae of social work, law enforcement, education,  religion and government?

ANSWER:  Poverty for women and girls of color is a multi-billion dollar industry and I am an original source.

Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color Report: The White House Council on Women and Girls

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