Kamala Harris arrested Black Parents for far less, like missing school because the child was sick:
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Kalonda Mulamba
Aug 18, 2020·6 min read
2. Harris Locked Up African Parents Because Their Children Missed School
As San Francisco’s district attorney, Harris also charged, criminalized and
imprisoned African parents because their children were truant, meaning they regularly missed school. Once she became attorney general in 2011, she persuaded the state legislature to adopt harsher penalties for truancy. Under the new law, parents of a truant child could be fined $2,500 or more, or face one year in jail.
At her attorney general inauguration Harris stated, “If you fail in your responsibility to your kids, we are going to work to make sure you face the full force and consequences of the law.”
Locking parents up, however, further feeds the problem of mass incarceration of Africans and other colonized people. It does not address the root causes of why students may miss out on school in the first place.
Cheree Peoples was arrested in April 2013 for her daughter’s truancy, even though her daughter’s sickle cell caused her to miss school.
Harris’ truancy law ignored the effects that colonialism and parasitic capitalism have on Africans and other colonized people. It had no regard for the poverty, health issues and other social issues that we endure which causes our kids to miss school.
This was a purely anti-African law that functioned to put money into the State and send our people to jail.
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