Here's Why We Beat Black Kids

[KamaAina]

http://www.atlredline.com/heres-why-we-beat-black-kids-1739021801

Do you see the pattern here? We act like black kids only understand one thing: a beating. We act like there is only one form of true discipline for black kids: a whuppin’. We act like a belt or a nightstick or a choke hold or a GUN are our only tools for controlling black youths. Did you see what this cop did to this girl in the video? He flipped her over in her chair, then dragged her around by her hair and kept beating her... because she was acting up in class. Look at what the punishment was for not following the rules.

Would this ever happen to a white girl? Imagine the most obstinate, belligerent white girl you can. Imagine her refusing to leave a class. Does she EVER get flipped and beaten like that in school? Coriolanus Snow wouldn’t discipline Katniss Everdeen like this.

Lots of children have problems with authority. But only black children are supposed to have that problem beaten out of them. Society tells black parents that it’s their job to beat the crap out of their kids, leaders wax poetic about the old days when anybody in the neighborhood had the moral authority to beat the crap out of black kids in the community. And the thinly veiled threat is that if parents don’t sufficiently beat the crap out of their kids, the cops will step in and course correct for “absentee” parenting.

If the Spring Valley video sickens you, it’s because that’s what slavery looked like. That video just doesn’t show police brutality or the militarization of schools or decaying classroom etiquette. It shows a glimpse of how it was when black children were treated like wild chattel that needed to be tamed or broken before they could be productive farm equipment able to fetch a good price on the open market.

[Faux pas]

1. K N R and

[Yavin4]

2. Remember the Baltimore "Mom of the Year"? DU was largely supportive.

I got into heated arguments with other DUers about her. Many here felt empathy for her.

[KamaAina]

3. She was mentioned at the top of the article.

[stage left]

4. K&R

[hedgehog]

5. Thank you for posting this.

[KamaAina]

6. De nada.

[katsy]

7. k/r. Nt

[Downwinder]

8. What Science Says About Using Physical Force To Punish A Child

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/18/adrian-peterson-corporal-punishment-science_n_5831962.html

[meow2u3]

13. Fear gets only temporary results

Take a gun to my head, I'll do what you say. Take that gun away and the first thing I want to do is get even, not better.

Beating a kid doesn't teach a kid to respect the parents' authority; it teaches him or her to fear their parents.

[Downwinder]

15. And it doesn't matter what color they are.

They are human and it is a human trait.

[canuckledragger]

16. Once I turned 14

and was the same size as my abusive alcoholic stepfather...he tried to 'discipline' me for something and I gave it right back to him.

The beatings stopped after that, once the coward understood that his victim could fight back to the point that HE could be hurt pretty good as well.

[mountain grammy]

9. This is so true.

We assume white kids will grow into their roles in society. We assume black kids will rebel against their racially unequal destiny... unless we beat on them early and often. We don’t beat black children to knock some sense into them, we beat black children to knock the hope out of them.

And there is hell to pay if they don’t accept their lesson.

Can we ever get past this? Yes, I believe it can happen.

[jtuck004]

10. We don't sell people now. We use them to run registers at Walmart, empty bedpans at rest homes r us.

Pay, through rent, fees, fines, and bad deals any opportunity they might have been able to purchase, to people whose only purpose is profit. Never progress.

Selling something once is Walmart. Making a being pay for simply living another day, that takes banking.

Play the video again, watch the other kids. Can they bury their poor, scared heads any deeper into those books? Are they thinking trig or history, or just pleading with whatever fucking god they can conjure up that they will not be the next unarmed kid dead from someone's rage and hate this day?

The teacher and the administrator who supported the bully policeman are still there. Perhaps a bigger part of the problem, and thousands of kids to hurt. Paid for by taxpayers.

Guantanamo Memorial High

An injury to one is an injury to all. Feel it?

[Dont call me Shirley]

11. We all suffer for the trauma of oppression and abuse of black children....

Love is the answer.

[LiberalArkie]

12. That is the way it has always been in Merica. My grandad's brother had a

black maid and her son living in a 1 room house behind the owners house. The kid and I were both about 9 or 10. I knocked over a glass playing in the yard and broke it. I was told to whip the boy for breaking it. I would not do it, so my grandad's brother did it.

I never understood those people. My grandad was not like his brother, like I am not a racist like my brother is.

[malaise]

14. Yep - nailed it

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