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In Re: “You’re From America” – Excuses, Insults, and the Institutional Humiliation of a U.S. Citizen Child


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Filed Dispatch – Journal Evidence Series, Vol. V

“You’re from America, So…”

In Re: Racialised Deflection, Asthma Risk Denial, and Weaponised Correction in Foster Care

Metadata

Filed: 1 August 2025
Reference Code: SWANK-JOURNAL-0825-DEFLECTIONDENIAL
Filename: 2025-08-01_SWANK_JournalEntry_FosterArgument_RacialDeflectionAndControl.pdf
1-Line Summary:
Handwritten journal extract documenting racialised deflection, belittlement, and asthma-risk minimisation in state care.

I. WHAT HAPPENED

This page — simply titled “Argument” — was written during or directly after an incident involving foster carers Dec and Shopna.

It documents a disturbing exchange including:

  • The justification that saying “You can’t eat because you’re 10” is acceptable.

  • A claim that such statements “correlate with your IQ”, implying intellectual deficiency.

  • A racialised dismissal from Shopna: “You’re from America so a lot of what we say might get lost in translation.”

  • Personal insults such as:

    • “We learnt Regal doesn’t care about his siblings.”

    • “You don’t know how to ride your bike.”

  • Disregard for factual truth: “It doesn’t matter if the trampolines were or not — Kingdom and Heir have to listen.”

  • Shopna’s threat that something “true” will happen.

The page reads like a classroom in coercion — where gaslighting replaces guidance, and racism is rationalised as miscommunication.

II. WHAT THE COMPLAINT ESTABLISHES

Each line evidences one or more of the following:

  • Racial Deflection: Framing inappropriate conduct as a cultural misunderstanding weaponises ethnicity against accountability.

  • Medical Negligence Minimisation: Justifying asthma-related restrictions (“you can’t eat because you’re 10”) as tied to IQ demonstrates staggering ignorance.

  • Emotional Abuse via Gaslighting: Repeated assertions that truth doesn’t matter, or that “you don’t know how to ride bikes”, reframe valid resistance as incompetence.

  • Sibling Alienation: Suggesting a child “doesn’t care about his siblings” undermines familial bonds, which should be preserved in care, not sabotaged.

  • Punitive Threats: Shopna’s reference to making something “true” happen constitutes psychological intimidation.

III. WHY SWANK LOGGED IT

Because when a child writes something down after an incident, that’s testimony.

Because when carers defend cruelty by mocking intelligence and citizenship, that’s not protection — it’s projection.

Because no one in safeguarding has the right to say:

“You’re from America, so you don’t understand.”

And because the institutional use of “IQ,” “truth,” and “obedience” as tools of control against children with asthma is not just offensive — it is dangerous.

IV. VIOLATIONS

  • Children Act 1989, Section 1(3)(e) – Consideration of harm caused by carers’ conduct

  • Equality Act 2010, Section 19 – Indirect racial discrimination via institutional policy and tone

  • UNCRC Articles 12 & 13 – Suppression of voice and identity

  • Article 3, ECHR – Inhuman or degrading treatment (verbal abuse, coercion, threats)

  • Health & Disability Standards – Minimisation of medical needs (asthma-related nutrition and emotional regulation)

V. SWANK’S POSITION

This entry now forms part of the Regal Journal Series and is formally logged in the SWANK Evidentiary Catalogueas corroborative child voice evidence.

It reflects institutional failure not just to protect — but to refrain from actively injuring.

We do not treat cultural differences as a punchline.
We do not excuse asthma neglect as parenting style.
We do not tolerate threats toward children — linguistic, psychological, or procedural.

This notebook was not written for publication.
But it is now evidence.

Filed in lawful fury and postcolonial precision,
Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd.
www.swanklondon.com

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