Posted on 04/30/2015 5:35:02 PM PDT by Rusty0604
It’s not surprising that a black mother in Baltimore who chased down, cursed and beat her 16-year-old son in the middle of a riot has been called a hero. In this country, when black mothers fulfill stereotypes of mammies, angry and thwarting resistance to a system designed to kill their children, they get praised.
“He gave me eye contact,” Toya Graham told CBS News. “And at that point, you know, not even thinking about cameras or anything like that — that’s my only son and at the end of the day, I don’t want him to be a Freddie Gray. Is he the perfect boy? No he’s not, but he’s mine.”
In other words, Graham’s message to America is: I will teach my black son not to resist white supremacy so he can live.
The kind of violent discipline Graham unleashed on her son did not originate with her, ...or with the legions of black parents who equate pain with protection and love. The beatings originated with white supremacy, a history of cultural and physical violence that devalues black life at every turn. From slavery through Jim Crow, from the school-to-prison pipeline, the innocence and protection of black children has always been a dream deferred.
Praising Graham distracts from a hard truth: It doesn’t matter how black children behave – whether they throw rocks at the police, burn a CVS, join gangs, walk home from the store with candy in their pocket, listen to rap music in a car with friends, play with a toy gun in a park, or simply make eye contact with a police officer – they risk being killed and blamed for their own deaths because black youths are rarely viewed as innocent or worthy of protection.
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You forgot bo-jangling footloose thieves, Stacey. You know how mad it makes your communist handler when you forget things like that. Better clean up your act, or you'll get voted off the island.
She didn’t “beat” him. Look, a woman can throw blows at a male, but it has virtually no effect on him. Women lack the upper-body strength to do any damage.
My mother used the buckle end of my Dad’s belt. Now that’s a beating!
actually she’s right. if she was a white mother, beating her kid because he was kissing another boy, she would be arrested for abuse.
Wholeheartedly agree...
the “child” towered over his mother....16 maybe in regular years, but since we have all been lectured how early these people mature, I’d say he’s a good 25 in regular years....
The mother and son were on the View today......I’m so glad it was the view because so many liberals watch it. Here they were standing tall...it was great to see and hear them speak.
Whoever wrote this article a clue about raising kids in a rough neighborhood.....nor does she have a clue what child abuse is and what it isn’t. Only a fool could have written such garbage!
....”that was a mother being a father to her child, and I was happy to see it.”......
That’s a perfect way to put that.
I liked the poster that said “ This was a mother being a father to her child.
If only that were true. If a father were to beat a rioting teenage son, he would be in jail.
Of course, most sons with a father wouldn’t be there in the first place, but that is another subject.
....”If a father were to beat a rioting teenage son, he would be in jail....Of course, most sons with a father wouldn’t be there in the first place, but that is another subject.”....
In this life threatening situation I do not think if a father slapped his son three times as this woman did, that he would be in jail. Especially after the Mayor and others told parents to get their kids off the streets. And BTW She did not “beat” him. In fact the kid probably has had it a whole lot worse from the kids he hangs with.
Stacey Patton is an idiot.
I wondered what happened to Carrot Top.
LOL...right!
She lives in a universe of her own hysterical imagination.
Oh? She was out trying to shut down Planned Parenthood? She was trying to shut down the Democrat party? (That's the party of sucking out babies' brains.)
One of the stupidest lines in all of Scripture.
Only white liberal hand wringers would take issue with what that woman did. That rioting thug was out of control and she brought him back under control. Again, yet another example of the malfunctioned wiring of the liberal brain.
She slapped him around! These fairy reporters and editorialists don’t have a clue. And they’ve missed how cowed the kid was once mom showed up.
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