Survivor to Provider
SUD CONFERENCE
September 16th, 2013
Emmet E. Mitchell
Today’s Goals
• Goal #1 – To highlight the importance cultural
competency.
• Goal #2- To discuss how Root Cause Analysis plays a
part in identifying and breaking cycles of at-risk
behavior.
• Goal #3 – To use the challenges and barriers within
the African-American culture as a discussion topic for
root cause analysis
Cultural Competency Defined
• Cultural competence is defined as a set of
congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that
come together in a system, AGENCY, or among
PROFESSIONALS and enables that system, agency,
or those professionals to work effectively in cross–
cultural situations .
ICEBERG
Surface Service
Life Changing Services
Basic
Permanent
Needs
Prevention
Prevention
Cultural
Competency
Cultural
Competency
Root Cause Analysis Defined
Process by which you attempt to solve a problem or set
of problems by identifying and correcting the root cause
of the events, as opposed to addressing them by
symptom. By addressing and correcting root cause,
problem reoccurrence can be prevented.
Root Cause Analysis
Promotes Permanent Prevention
Ask yourself the question
Why? five times….
The roots will affect how
the tree grows…..
“To Be Ignorant Of What Occurred Before You Were
Born Is To Remain Always A Child. For What Is The
Worth Of Human Life, Unless It Is Woven Into The
Life Of Our Ancestors By The Record Of History.“
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Author, Orator, & Politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
Survivor To Provider
Emmet E. Mitchell
The Milestones Agency
www.themilestonesagency.org
(313) 444-2055
Survivor & Provider Defined...
• Survivor
• a person who continues to “function” in spite of
opposition, hardship or setbacks
• Provider
• a person who supports a family or another person
If you control a man’s thinking,
The Miseducation
of the Negro
you don’t have to worry about his
Carter G. Woodson
have to concern yourself about
actions.
When you determine
what a man shall think, you don’t
what he will do. If you make a
man feel that he is inferior, you
don’t have to compel him to
accept an inferior status, for he
will seek it for himself. If you
make a man think that he is justly
an outcast, you don’t have to
order him to the back door. He
will go without being told; and if
there is no back door, his very
nature will demand one.
Nothing is more
dangerous than
sincere ignorance and
conscientious
stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
% U.S.
Population
% Prisoner
Population
White
66%
34%
Black
13%
40%
Hispanics
15%
20%
Other
6%
6%
Ethnicity
2010 U.S. Census Bureau
The New Jim Crowe
Michelle Alexander
A black child born today is less
likely to be raised by both
parents, than a black child
born during slavery.
The
recent disintegration of the
African-American family is
due in large part to the mass
imprisonment of black fathers.
If the father is absent…
The daughter may end up here…….
If the father is absent…
The son may follow him here…..
If the father is absent…
The son may end up here
Poverty, Ignorance and
Depression is a state of being
Not a statistic, derogatory tag, or diagnosis - EEM
That state of being…
Promotes hopelessness and hopelessness
ignites self-destruction and the need to
escape. Escape is a form of survival.
Pulp Fiction
Ezekiel 25:17
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all
sides by the inequities of the selfish and the
tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the
name of charity and good will, shepherds the
weak through the valley of darkness, for he is
truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost
children.” – Jules
“You cannot provide in survivor mode!”
- Emmet E. Mitchell
How Did This Happen ?
• The Miseducation of the Black Man in America was a
premeditated strategy to help build the economic
infrastructure of this country.
• Capitalism
• Racism
• Elitism
The Willie Lynch Letter Manual
The Making of a Slave
December 25th 1712
The Willie Lynch Letter Was Not A Letter!
“I guarantee everyone of you that if installed correctly, it will
control the slaves for at least 300 years.”
• It was a manual to teach novice slave owners how to control their
slaves using fear, distrust, and envy for control
– Using small differences among the slaves and made them bigger:
• Division:
– Age – young vs. old
– Color – black vs. white (overseer must distrust blacks)
– Intelligence – smart vs. ignorant
– Size – big vs. small
– Sex – Man vs. WOMAN
– Shade – light vs. dark
– Status – house nigger vs. field nigger
Let’s Make A Slave!
A black nigger male
A black nigger female
A black nigger boy
Reduce them from their
“Natural State” in nature
• For an orderly future, special attention must be paid to the female and
youngest offspring
• Both must be taught to respond to a new language, psychological and
physical instruction
• He went on to warn that if you are not careful, they may kill you in your
sleep (return)
• You can’t trust them or get them to work in their “natural state”
• Pay no attention to the generation of original breaking but concentrate on
future generations
Let’s Make A Slave!
• Break the mother/she will break the offspring in its early years
of development, and deliver it up to you. Her normal female
protective tendencies will have been lost in the original
breaking process
• Take the meanest and most restless nigger, strip him of his
clothes in front of the remaining male niggers, the female
nigger, and the infant nigger. Tar, feather and draw and quarter
him. The next step is to take a bullwhip and beat the
remaining nigger male to the point of death.
• When in complete submission, she will train her offspring in
the early years to submit to labor when they become of age.
Breaking the African Woman
Where is the black man?
• Relationship reversal
• No longer a strong dependency on black male
• Limited protective tendency toward her independent male offspring
and would raise male offspring to be dependent on her
• We reverse nature by pulling a civilized nigger apart in her presence.
By her being left alone, unprotected, with the male image destroyed,
the ordeal caused her to move from her psychological dependent
state to a FROZEN INDEPENDENT STATE
• She will raise her MALE offspring in reversed roles for fear of the
young male’s life, she will psychologically train him to be mentally
weak and dependent, but be physically strong.
• Nigger female out front – nigger man behind and scared
If you control a man’s thinking...CGW
• Before the breaking process, we had to be alert all the
time. Now, we can sleep soundly, the nigger female
stands ground for us.
• By killing off the protective male image, we created an
orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis FOREVER,
unless a phenomenon occurs and re-shifts the position
of male/female slaves.***
Natural State Language
• Work
• to build self, family, community
• Provide
• love, food, shelter, knowledge
• Protect
• family, home, assets, beliefs
The Replacement Language
• Peculiar Institution – it is empowering and it leads to
the heart of people
• Foreigners
• Teach a slave your language
• “Our Crops” Django
• “Man to Man”
• The Hog Pen Story / He will soon be in your house
What is the modern day hogpen?
The Modern Day Hogpen
I freed thousands of slaves and could have freed more if
they knew they were slaves – Harriet Tubman
What the modern day language should look like…
• Spiritually Conscious
• Values and Expectations
• Either they are never established
• Or they are not reinforced by male leadership (theory vs.
practice)
• Quality of Living
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Healthcare
Education
Wealth building
Relationships
All history is a current event
“The events to which transpired 5,000 years ago, 5 years, or 5
minutes ago have determined what will happen 5 minutes
from now, 5 years from now or 5,000 years from now. All
history is a current event.”
John Henrik Clarke
The Moynihan Report,1966
The Case For National Action
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan – New York Senator until 2001:
• Chapter 1 – The Negro American Revolution
• Chapter 2 – The Negro American Family
• Chapter 3 – The Roots of the Problem
• Chapter 4 – The Tangle of Pathology
• Chapter 5 – The Case for National Action
The Negro American Revolution
• “Lincoln freed the slaves”, but they were given liberty,
not equality. It was therefore possible in the century
that followed to deprived their descendants of much of
their liberty as well. – D.P. M.
• The negro family battered and harassed by
discrimination, injustice and uprooting, is in the
deepest trouble. While many young negroes are
moving ahead to unprecedented achievement, many
more are falling further and further behind.
The Negro American Revolution
• At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of Negro society
is the deterioration of the NEGRO FAMILY
• A fundamental insight of psychoanalytic theory, for example, is
that the child learns a way of looking at life in his early years
through which all later experience is viewed and profoundly
shapes his adult conduct.
(Generations have been raised by Willie Lynch)
The Roots of the Problem
• As a direct result of divorce, separation, and desertion,
a very large percent of Negro families are headed by
females
• His existence as a human being was given no
recognition by any religious or secular agency, he was
totally ignorant of and completely cut off from his past
and he was offered absolutely no hope for the future
• His children could be sold
• His wife could be violated
• His so-called marriage was somewhat comical
Jim Crow
• The negro male was most affected by Jim Crow
• Destructive to the male psyche to “keep him in his place”
• The female was no threat (WL)
• Jim Crow worked against the emergence of a strong male
figure in most cases
• At a man’s essence is his “swagger” - In the Jim Crow south,
the “sassy nigger” was lynched.
• By 1863, at the time of emancipation, Negro women were
already “accustomed” to playing the dominant role in
family and marriage relations
The Tangle of Pathology
• In essence, the negro community has been forced into
a matriarchal structure which, because it is out of line
with the rest of American society seriously retards the
progress of the group as a whole, and imposes a
crushing burden on the negro male, and in
consequence, on a great many negro women as well.
• The arrangements of American society facilitate male
leadership, and rewards it. A subculture, such as the
Negro American, in which this is not the pattern is
placed at a distinct disadvantage.
The Tangle of Pathology
• Thomas Pettigrew
• “The negro wife in this situation can easily become disgusted
with her financially dependent husband, and her rejection of
him further alienates the male from family life”
• Whitney Young
• “Both as a husband and as a father, the Negro male is made to
feel inadequate, not because he is unlovable or unaffectionate,
lacks intelligence or even a grey flannel suit, but in a society
that measures a man by the size of his paycheck, he doesn’t
stand very tall in comparison with his white counterparts. To
this situation he may react with withdrawal, bitterness,
aggression both within the family, and racial group, self-hatred,
or crime; or he may escape through a number of avenues that
help him to lose himself in fantasy or to compensate for his low
status through a variety of exploits.”
Fantasy and compensation…
Willie Lynch Letter meets The Moynihan Report
• It was by destroying the Negro family under slavery
that white America broke the will of the Negro people.
Although that will has reasserted itself in our time, it is
a resurgence doomed to frustration unless the
viability of the Negro Family Is Restored!***
Willie Lynch’s Training Manual Has Traveled A Great
Distance
Where do we go from here?
The game has now changed.......
• Things the black man must unlearn
• Self-hatred
• Drugs in any form are acceptable
• The misuse of the black women – his most precious resource
• Conspicuous consumption
• There is a limit to my greatness
• Things the black man must learn to value
• GOD
• Family
• Health
The Secret
• Education
• Wealth
• Legacy
Swag is relative….
Family Business
“I always felt it was important for my
children to see me loving my wife”
– Lou Holtz
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