From Michele Dauber's Twitter:
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Although the prosecutor who wrote the article was defamed, what she wrote is generous toward the Central Park Five. Maybe she felt that she couldn't say anything else.
I don't feel generous toward them at all. The attack on that woman was murder; the only reason that she survived it was that her employer helped with the medical bills.
It is disgusting that those men are now millionaires.
There are a lot of good, black men and adolescent boys out there. It is disgusting that those who are or were criminals are being treated as if they are victims and heroes.
I'm not lying and I'm not delusional about what has happened since 2010. You can believe me or not, but everyone whom I am accusing of knowing about it knows that I'm telling the truth. Maybe seeing how incredulous you are will finally help them to understand what I have known all along, which is that nobody is going to want to believe what has happened because it is so horrific.
What they have wanted to believe is that what they have participated in and/or known about isn't that bad and that the world will be happy about it when the world finally knows about it. They have wanted to believe that I haven't really been trapped by them. They have wanted to believe that I haven't stopped them because I haven't really wanted to stop them.
You can see that, at the very least, my interactions with the M&E industry and elected officials are not delusions. You don't like everything that I say, but there's no question that I'm not imagining the interactions.
In a decade and counting, I have not been able to gain that level of belief from anyone in the social services or other helping professions. How could I? They're not going to take the time to read my blogs or scrutinize the interactions; they refuse to do that because it's their assumption that it's a waste of time. To the few with whom I have even made that doomed attempt, I don't say more than a few sentences before they have labeled me as a paranoid schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur and persecution.
Since I was hospitalized for the first time a few months before my 18th birthday and had extensive experience with social services before being ravaged by the conglomerate when I was 36, I knew that nobody was going to believe me.
Since the conglomerate is primarily made of privileged people and privileged organizations, they have spent a decade and counting either not understanding or not caring that I have never asked for their abuse and that there was nothing I could do to stop them. Even the people of color who have been part of it haven't understood that, because they don't know how debilitating psychiatric stigma is. They think they know everything there is to know about stigma and discrimination, and they don't.
