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Clinical Social Work and Restorative Justice

I am seeking support as I pursue a dream I spent decades to obtain and pursue. I want a normal life

01/17/2025

Check out the video of my performance at the Open Mic "The Chime In" event at Lanzas Cafe in Carrboro on last Friday night. https://youtu.be/MXIqs1wvTKU?si=84ArCXsHxDiKBzNB

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Bruce Wants To Connect And Share with You His Story

This page is not only about an obvious example of injustice. It’s about losing hope and all that gives meaning to a person’s life. Reputation and character are so essential for someone like me. It took me decades to build a reputation that was essential for me to find any sense of meaning in life. I began by overcoming shyness and the journey took off from there. There CANNOT be any doubts about my character for me to find any meaning in life, as what gives meaning to my life is social in nature.

It began some 3 or so decades ago. I had spent over 15 years of hard work pursuing a dream. The dream came from a naive part of me that still saw the world as relatively “safe.” That was an idea that I had learned as part of my self-improvement efforts to overcome shyness. I had told myself that “nothing really bad is going to happen to me if I come out of my shell” or something to that effect. I had not been injured in a violent attack on me, yet. I was trying to overcome shyness and the many, many other mountains that must be climbed to become a therapist/healer. The overall journey began nearly 35 years ago when I first started coming out of my shell, as it were, overcoming shyness.

The harm has followed me every day of my life since then because I never got the supports I needed as a victim. Instead of protection from the police when I called them they found me to be guilty of a crime. This has laid a shadow over my life as so many people are and continue to assume I was the one at fault and therefore I have had 15 to 20 years of my life taken from me and STILL face barriers and challenges that stand in the way of my hopes, dreams and everything that gives meaning to my life.

All that work that I had begun in 1984 was being destroyed 16 years later by a couple of psychopaths who entered my life in different places and different settings. One was named John and the other was Ana. I don’t know that they ever spoke to each other. In both instances, I went to the police for help because I was hurt and injured. The violent and bloody attack by Ana was in 2004 yet I recall the cuts and ripping of my flesh to this day. She must have been wearing a ring when she assaulted me. In both instances, I called the police for protection from these very violent people. Both had left me bleeding but from different parts of my body.

Ana was the most audacious in that she was a stranger to me and yet she still claimed that she was the victim. I had no previous contact with her nor did I know who she was when she attacked me. She did claim that she was there to collect rent despite the fact that the person who collected rent lived on the premises. His name was Scott and there is no way a female would come into this residence unless she was on drugs - this was a bad part of town. Ana walked out of my apartment without a scratch and I called 911 immediately seeking protection and justice.

Later, I would be accused of a crime and that would destroy everything that ever meant anything to me because all those things rely on trusting me and my character cannot be in doubt if I am going to have any hpe in life. I hope you can see that it is not I who is dwelling on events in the past. A claim or conviction for a violent crime destroyed all that I had pursued in my life - all the skills, capabilities, and hopes for connecting with others. That is how we blame the victim by assuming the victim isnt’ even a victim but a perpetrator. That’s like pouring salt into a wound, or acid. I’d rather have acid poored into a real wound than to be treated in a way that is different than that of a victim!

There are no words to desribe the pain of not being believed and the lack of support that results from that. I only wanted a normal life like everyone else. Nothing more. Instead of the $100k per year over the past 15 to 20 years, I was poor and at times homeless. The civil and criminal justice system offers no remedy so I must reach out to you for support. I have set up a GoFundMe Campaign and will set up a Facebook campaign. Even five dollars or five dollars per month can add up and make a difference for me.

I also want to bring attention to our criminal and civil injustice systems that assume that all victims should seek a remedy within a limited period of time (aka within the “statute of limations”). As long as criminal databases are kept and made availale to the public one cannot claim that the past has no relevance on the here and now. If the past had no meaning there would be no reason to keep these records open to the public.