Author Khadijah Kanji in a Rabble blog https://rabble.ca/ The ‘benevolent’ policing of social work and mental health outlines the impacts of racism in mental health and calls on us as a profession to address the fueling of racism.
… As a social worker, I join my critical peers in challenging this assumption. Indeed, our profession comes out of the very same system that has produced the police and, together, we ensure the same thing: the perpetuity of the colonial, white supremacist and capitalist status quo.
We don’t carry guns or tasers, but we do have our own tools and tactics of violence. …
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See the article here: https://rabble.ca/blogs/blogge...rk-and-mental-health