A fork of Rural Dictionary
A Cocoa Dump (1) is a a term used to describe a person of color finally finding a therapist that is also a person of color and proceeding to dump their entire life story onto them in 10 minutes because even though they've had therapists before they've with held information due to not feeling safe. This will usually take a multitude of avenues to process and not just this instant moment of relief. (2) can also be a term used to describe your children literally dumping a canister of cocoa onto the floor and it being so finely grounded that it makes a mess that you will need a multitude of ways to try to clean up.
A client just came into the crisis center and cocoa dumped on me. Or my darn kids just cocoa dumped on the floor!
1: Ethnic discrimination especially against African Americans and Black children by systemically racist institutions, including, but not limited to failing to return or reunite children with their biological relatives in the child welfare system and/or excessive legal enforcement in the criminal justice system.
2: Disparaging and offensive treatment of Black and Brown families by the systems that are supposed to be supporting and protecting them with or without malicious intent.
The child welfare system has engaged in systemically racist practices and procedures and should be formalized as Jimmy Crow as a nod to past echoes and current underpinnings.
To bravely speak out, stand up, or publicize a harrowingly wrong situation on behalf of yourself or someone else.
Sharing cell phone footage of police brutality is hero-ing and needed to affect change.
1: Ethnic Discrimination especially against Latinx children by systemically racist institutions, including but not limited to failing to return or reunite children with their biological relatives in the child welfare system and/or excessive legal enforcement in the criminal justice system and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement department.
2: Disparaging and offensive treatment of Latinx children by the systems that are supposed to be supporting and protecting them with or without malicious intent. See Jimmy Crow definition.
The child welfare system has engaged in systematically racist practices and procedures and should be formalized as Jaimito Cuervo as a nod to past echoes and current underpinnings of racial discrimination that hide in plain sight.
To self-scare (1) is to spread yourself so thin with home, work, and other people's obligations that you completely take caring for yourself off of the list and do something so out of character that it scares you.
When you forget to practice self-care, you'll self-scare.
To be mama'd (1) is to be in the middle of a foolish or juvenile action or outburst and have someone assertively, but supportively redirect you out of the chaotic moment you've created. (2) To display and declare direct, but firm instruction that causes unexpected calm like when you come home to visit a loving mother or pseudo-mother.
They were about to move across the country with no plan and got mama'd back to sanity and the need of a plan.
1)A strong adverse reaction by child welfare professionals or child representatives caked in bias, privilege, and racial discrimination that is applied to Black, Brown, or poor families and not their lighter or wealthier counterparts.
2)Recoiling from any emotion displays expressed by Black, Brown, or poor families and documenting them as irate, hostile, or other malicious negative terminology that evokes intensive racialized professional scrutiny.
3)A drastic act of retaliation or overcorrection by professionals against a Parent of Color for any deviation from perfection no matter how big or small the offense; recrimination when a Parent of Color attempts to stand up for themselves.
The child welfare professionals reacted with blacklash by reducing parenting time by 2.5 hours after learning that the Parent of Color drank a beer a week ago in response to stress.