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<title>TWENTY CHARGES/ COUNTS OF APA HARM (possible class action suit)</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2022 16:02:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The APAs (American Psychological Association and American Psychiatric Association) as agents and arbiters of the field of Euro-American psychology should be charged with multiple counts (n=20) of social, physical, and psychological harm related to:
1.	Failing to oppose the invasion, kidnapping, torturing, maiming, trafficking, domination, dehumanizing, denigration of African culture, customs, and traditions (resulting in intentional miseducation) and attempted murder of African thought and beliefs.
2.	Contributing to a social atmosphere of anger, toxicity, violence, fear, hurt, hate, danger, damage, and destruction by allowing, justifying, condoning, perpetuating and in many instances directing agents and/or advocates of white psychology to continue to perpetuate human atrocity in society globally.
3.	Erroneous and consistent imposition of use of the term psychology as universal which, in fact, is Euro-American psychology that is ‘indigenous” to the Euro-American sense of “Whiteness”
4.	Serving as the scientific extension, explanation and justification of the Western Grand Narrative of Black domination, negation, and nullification.
5.	Knowingly and historically justified and gave legitimacy to reification of Euro-American thought and beliefs as universal.
6.	 Directly and/or indirectly contributed to and supported individual and state supported acts and beliefs leading to the death and destruction of Black lives.
7.	Having an essential role in the defamation, slander, and libelous assault on the character, conduct and consciousness of African people.
8.	Pretending to be arbiter of universal human functioning.
9.	Being complicit in, and not independent of, the torture and maltreatment of Black people by medical and psychiatric practitioners and establishment.
10.	Provided safe harbors to the practitioners of White supremacy by shrouding America’s rabid caste system as a class and race problem.
11.	Acts of omission in supporting the profound and lingering psychological effect of global human trafficking, consistently referred to as “slavery”, and colonialism has impacted the psyche of regular everyday African and Euro-American people
12.	Providing and requiring foundational texts that serve to continually recruit, misorient and validate the erroneous supremacist ideology within the required domain of “history and systems of psychology
13.	Supporting ideas and beliefs that minimized if not eliminated black people’s ability to attain those resources necessary to sustain and advance life and living
14.	Failure to acknowledge its role in the defamation, slander, and libelous assault on the character, conduct and consciousness of African people.
15.	Abdicate its unjustifiable claim to be the arbiter of universal human functioning.
16.	Failure to acknowledge that Euro-American psychology has been complicit in, and not independent of, the torture and maltreatment of Black people by medical and psychiatric practitioners and establishment.
17.	Failure to admit that its members and/or divisions have provided safe harbors to the practitioners of White supremacy by shrouding America’s rabid caste system as a class and race problem.
18.	Failure to address how its support of the profound and lingering psychological effect of global human trafficking, consistently referred to as “slavery”, and colonialism has impacted the psyche of regular everyday African and Euro-American people.
19.	Failure to recognize the historical legacy of foundational texts that serve to continually recruit, misorient and validate this erroneous supremacist ideology within the required domain of “history and systems of psychology”
20.	Failed to examine the co-mingling of whiteness, white privilege, and the pathology of white supremacy.

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