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At 10:08 AM 10/28/00 -0700 s-acc@egroups.com wrote:Let me clarify what Jose and I were thinking here. Racism is primarily enforced today by an intimidation dynamic related to wholesale state prison incarcerations. It is not the place of the clients movement to solve this problem. Certainly not on its own, maybe in coalition with other groups it could act meaningfully. The immediate problem is that respect and rage need to be gauged by the ‘state prison standard’, if we are to have an adequate psychology that ‘makes sense’ to ethnic minority clients. And ‘state prison support component’ doesn’t mean that we are trying to elbow out of the way those who are working on this matter already. Rather it means that we consult with them so that we are operating in sync. It means likely something like (1) a support group for people invested in this topic and (2) an available volunteer component framed in dialogue with the people who are already involved in this struggle.one place to start is to put a state prison support component into our self-help organizingIf you want it, there might be some federal money available for a pilot project of that sort. Community Development Block Grants come to mind, as well as other possibilities. Even a consumer TA Center devoted to this. Tom Lane in NM has a strong interest in forensics. People of Color have formed a national consumer group. The intersection of forensics and color might get funded. It could also mean educating those who are active to the role of madness and the issues of the clients. For instance Angela Davis is a renowned spokesperson for the fight against this state prison ‘oppression system’, but to listen to her, she doesn’t GET IT with our issues. We are never going to make it if we divert our movement from its focus on the primary concerns of madness. But we do have to look at what kind of dialogue is appropriate if we intend to be as reasonable as possible. Andrew | ||||||||
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