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Scientific racism targets inner-city youth
M Inner-city minority
children aged 7 - 13
the target of “scientif
ic racism” in psychiat
ric study of anti-social
and violent behavior.
By Greg Williams
Special to AUGUSTA FOCUS
Psychiatry once again has tar
geted for study minority urban
and inner-city children and
youths and their families to de
termine what makes them “anti
social and prone to violence.”
A study funded by the Nation
al Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH) at a cost of almost one
million dollars is underway to
study why inner-city youths, who
are predominantly African-
Americans, are “prone to violent
behavior.” o
Though no study has ever prov
en inner-city children are vio
lence-prone, psychiatrists and
psychologists insist on trying to
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perintendent search. “And we
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ple of a certain ethnic back
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prove that these children are
genetically inclined to anti-so
cial and violent behavior. Some
experts believe this is scientific
racism.
Prevention of “violence” in Af
rican-American communities has
been studied for decades, yet the
U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services revealed in its
report, “An African-Centered
Model of Prevention for African-
American Youth at High Risk,”
that “there is little systemic evi
dence of what constitutes effec
tive preventionin African-Amer
ican communities.”
The NIMH study and inter
vention program are firmly
grounded in psychological theo
ry and are part of the Metropol
itan Area Child Study, in which
16 schools participate. The child
in the classroom and his family
are the subjects of the experi
ment and intervention programs.
Intervention in the form of psy
chological behavioral modifica
tion of children in grades 1 - 6 is
the goal of this inner-city child
study.
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The level of this NIMH psychi
atric intervention program is
reported as being intense and
comprehensive. This usually
means in these studies that the
children and their families will
be subjected to privacy-invading
psychiatric techniques and the
use of mind altering drugs to
prevent these children’s alleged
anti-social and violent behavior
proneness.
The usual procedurein psychi
atric intervention programsis to
target the children and youth,
using the child’s “condition” to
then draw family members into
the mental health intervention
“scheme.” Psychiatry has long
held that the source of children’s
mental disorders is their par
ents, family traditions, and the
whole family setting. Psychiatry
has also held that a child’s public
school teacher, Sunday school
teacher, and minister all dam
agethe child psychologically with
“poisonous certainties,” such as
academic education, religion and
morals.
This study called “Preventing
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Anti-Social Behavior in High
Risk Children” is no different
from other psychiatric studies of
this kind, as all psychiatric pro
grams encompassing school chil
dren are designed to use the
school as a mental health clinic
for the child, his family, and his
entire community.
A bill before Congress, House
Resolution 1284, proposes just
such a school-based community
clinic for the child and his par
ents.
Psychiatry has been using the
“problems” of the “at-risk- or
high-risk-behaviors child” for
several decades now as a means
of widening its influence and con
trol into society. Psychiatry and
psychology constantly demand
increasing funds from state gov
ernments and the federal gov
ernment to handle the worsen
ing social chaos that they have
claimed for many decades that
only they can handle.
Yes, there is violence in the
inner-city, but that violence is
not a matter of genetics or be
haviorinherentinthose wholive
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there. The condition of the in
ner-city and its inhabitants is a
completely created one: created
by external influence and vested
interest. Let’s not forget that
many children and youths first
put on psychotropic drugs end
up addicted to street drugs. In
creased crime and violence fol
lows. Nor should we forget that
numerous psychiatric drugs,
such as ritalin, become street
drugs. Letting psychiatry loose
in the inner-city to experiment
and treat children has proven to
worsen anti-social behavior in
children and create violence.
One has to ask how bad must it
get before psychiatric programs
begin to work to better society.
It seems that, instead of help
ing make society better, psychia
trists are destroying the future
by creating the chaos that now
runs rampantly throughout our
society. For over four decades,
psychiatry has been arbitrarily
declaring that more and more
Americans are becoming men
tallyill and treating greater num
bers of Americans with psychiat
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ric therapies from shock treat
ment to death education to mind
altering drugs. Psychiatry has
continuously manufactured new
mental illness labels that are
designed to catch greater num
bers of children in the psychiat
ric industry net. These so-called
mental disorders have no proven
scientific basis. Children can
now suffer from “writing disor
der,” “reading disorder,” “school
phobia,” “conduct disorder,” and
the UFO of mental disorders
called “unspecified mental dis
order.”
Are we “ODing” on too much
psychology?
The answer is yes we are.
The answer is to stop wasting
billions on psychiatric child and
youth behavioral experiments
and programs that are worsen
ing children’s lives, and instead
demand those billions be spent
on providing education and skills
that children can apply to their
lives to better them.
« The answer is not in turning
children and their families into
life-long psychiatric patients.
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