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Yes, never forget. The state took the children from their mother because she suffered from cocaine addiction, then took them from their aunt because she let their mother visit. They sent them hundreds of miles away to two White women, who abused them then drove them over a cliff.
...The boy pictured, Devonte, became nationally known in 2015 after his eventual murderers staged a photo with him tearfully hugging a police officer. His body has never been found...
...The children were not taken from their mother for any record of abuse, but because when her sixth child was born, she blood tested positive for cocaine. The murderers on the other hand, had already plead guilty to being physical abusive, yet were allowed to keep the children.
...The states of Texas and Oregon are guilty of murder, every bit as guilty as the ones who drove over the cliff. This case should be taught in every social work program in this country...
...There is a long history of Black mothers and Black families being presumed unfit and having their children taken away on flimsy pretense, it is unconscionable yet widespread. It is also genocidal under the terms of the UN Genocide convention: 
...But above all, in this case, it was murder, foul murder; by a neglectful, misogynoiristic, White supremacist state that assumed Black children would be better off with White saviors than with their own family. Never forget.
