Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Daytop Village
DAYTOP Did Me Great Harm in the Long Run
SEKTO:
Look what I found recently. You'll LOVE this. Here is the Leroy BREWSTER of whom I wrote in earlier posts.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =230453083
Check out his photos:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... =230453083
Say, straight up: how come almost every posted photo of Leroy is set in a bar? I mean, what's up-he must frickin' LIVE at the bar. There's no pictures of him even, like, hiking or watching football or something. Just lots of pictures of him at the bar with this big shit-eating grin on his face, and surrounded by tipsy young women.
These people, these half-assed and totally unqualified DAYTOP counselors, had no business getting into my head or anybody else's.
I can't say for sure, but I imagine that most of them (especially Marcy) are a sad sight today. Just look at what Leroy's up to in '09.
All I see is one hell of a drunk old man, a lowlife pimp and small-time playa! This just infuriates me. How did he get hired?
This is the man who I was told once smoked a joint with a couple of the DAYTOP kids, on DAYTOP property no less, and then laughed about it with them!
And this is one of the people who was running our encounter groups and was responsible for helping to mold kids' minds?
This is a man who used to sit in on closed-door meetings in which the DAYTOP counselors would discuss our deep dark secrets and personal issues?
No college education at all, no certification, no nothing. What kind of educational requirements did DAYTOP have back then that allowed people like this to be on staff and with access to children?
Ursus:
Well... you knew him, I didn't. But people -- and, consequently, organizations composed of people -- have been trying to control one another since the beginning of time. Some less ethically than others.
SEKTO:
I'm not sure that I take your meaning there, Ursus; can you explain, expand on that, restate your point please?
Oh man, this pisses me off. It makes me want to punch a hole in the wall.
Check out Leroy at the James Brown Theme Party.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... Id=1083684
From the looks of things, he's a bouncer in a Denver bar called The Thin Man, and something of a literal pimp.
And this man was once in charge of helping to mold my mind and personality?
This man was once telling me about working on my personal growth?
This man once gave me haircuts and would run encounter groups, would get into our heads and was dealing with our innermost fears and insecurities?
What were his qualifications to be doing that kind of "counseling" work involving children?
Did he get his degree from the University of Straight Pimpin'?
Why, I'll bet he even got himself a PhD; a Pimpin' Hos Degree!
Judging by the looks of things, he's also taking plenty of continuing education hours too, to keep his pimp certification and credentials valid.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... D=11821351
Fuck DAYTOP.
Ursus:
Hey... slow down... Nothing personal and no offense intended. It was just a comment about the disparaging state of the human condition, and apparently my delivery was less than optimal!
When I said you knew him, I didn't...I only meant that I can't really comment on his personal mores, since I didn't know the man. Probably a stupid thing for me to say, sorry about that. If he was a dickhead, I'll take your word for it.
SEKTO:
Oh no Ursus, there must be some misunderstanding; your comment did not offend me in the least, I assure you. Pardon me if I gave you that impression.
I didn't even think twice about what you wrote, in terms of being rankled by it; it's only that I just didn't quite take your meaning.
Your input was not the source of my disgust, my discovery of those pictures is the source of my disgust. I am genuinely outraged.
The man had absolutely no educational credentials at all and very little experience in the counseling field, just a good deal of street smarts that helped him to relate well with the kids that he was dealing with. I think that he was on staff in the Buckner orphanage in some kind of counseling or mentorship position before he came to work for DAYTOP.
In all honesty, Leroy was one of the "cooler" and less sadistic counselors, and was a hell of a funny guy. I liked him, actually. He was a trip. He told us a story one time about how, back when he was in high school, he and a whole bunch of other kids from Lake Highlands High stole a school bus and drove it to a Parliament concert, partied it up in the bus the whole way to the show, ditched it in the parking lot when they got there, and never were caught. His thing was smoking a lot of grass, and he dealt Ecstasy back in the mid-eighties, shortly after it became illegal. He used to frequent Dallas' legendary Starck Club, where X first started gaining popularity. But he was supposedly sober when he worked with us. Probably not though. He was into a lot of funk and R&B stuff, so the James Brown Theme Party photos do not surprise me at all. That's the Leroy I remember.
What really gets me, what really pisses me off, is that there was a total lack of accountability and oversight in DAYTOP back then that allowed a guy like that to get hired to begin with, much less to be in a position of influence over a bunch of children. Not that Leroy is or was a bad guy per se; it's just that he wasn't qualified to be doing that kind of work at all.
If he really did smoke a joint with Mike and Jerry that time (and I don't know it for a fact, but Mike swore up and down that he smoked weed with Leroy), then I say he's an asshole for doing so. I find the thought of it to be particularly disheartening. Smoked weed with a couple of the kids on DAYTOP property. Damn, that's gansta.
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