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Why is America celebrating the beating of a black child?
Washington Post ^ | 04/29/2015 | By Stacey Patton

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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Stacey Patton is a senior enterprise reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, an adjunct professor of American history at American University, and the author of "That Mean Old Yesterday."
1 posted on 04/30/2015 5:35:02 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

“beating”??!! — give me a break, will ya?!


2 posted on 04/30/2015 5:36:28 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: Rusty0604

A beating?

Pfffftttt...


3 posted on 04/30/2015 5:36:35 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Learn to search. Ask me how.)
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To: Rusty0604

Beating? Hey, she may have been very demonstrative but the method fit the crime.


4 posted on 04/30/2015 5:37:47 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Rusty0604

Because you have a stupid article to write.

Because the demonstration of what it takes to prevent Black kids from destroying their towns is obvious enough so that even a navel-gazer like you [the author] can see it. But you continue to deny.


5 posted on 04/30/2015 5:38:08 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: Rusty0604

Yes, in today’s bizzaro world, that was child abuse.


6 posted on 04/30/2015 5:38:40 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Rusty0604

Some statements defy analysis.


7 posted on 04/30/2015 5:38:50 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Rusty0604

Killing and looting...cool.
Family discipline...out of bounds.

How are these people in charge?


8 posted on 04/30/2015 5:39:14 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Rusty0604

We should be celebrating the shooting of looters


9 posted on 04/30/2015 5:39:23 PM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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To: Rusty0604

Its a projection by the author. On the flip side the author is revealing that he was celebrating black rioting


10 posted on 04/30/2015 5:39:32 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Rusty0604

...and how many children has this twit raised to adulthood?

As my sainted mother used to say, “I never knew so much about raising children as I did before I had any”.


11 posted on 04/30/2015 5:40:15 PM PDT by AbnSarge
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Because a black “child” was all that was available. But have no fear, plenty of white “children” need the same.


12 posted on 04/30/2015 5:41:47 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Veggie Todd

Rush said he wouldn’t be surprised if the mom was charged with child abuse.


13 posted on 04/30/2015 5:41:48 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: cripplecreek

Spare the rod, spoil the child.


14 posted on 04/30/2015 5:43:04 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

People are celebrating a mother being a parent.


15 posted on 04/30/2015 5:44:49 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Rusty0604

Because he deserved it.


16 posted on 04/30/2015 5:50:17 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Rusty0604

A beating, what nonsense. This adjunct professor is a dolt.


17 posted on 04/30/2015 5:50:59 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Rusty0604
And she comes with an agenda. From the Chronicle of Higher Education's website:

In addition to her work as a journalist, she is also a nationally recognized child activist and founder of Spare the Kids Inc., an organization that combats child abuse.

18 posted on 04/30/2015 5:51:20 PM PDT by dorothy ( "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Rusty0604

That was not a beating, that was a mother being a father to her child, and I was happy to see it.


19 posted on 04/30/2015 5:52:57 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: Rusty0604

The beating????

In another thread, it claimed Mommie ‘dragged’ son back home.

Have the media circulated photos of poor widdle Mikey when he was 7 years old?

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Ironic that the media are all upset at a mother applying corrective action to her son, but they laud others who are throwing rocks at buildings and cars and looting stores.


20 posted on 04/30/2015 5:53:12 PM PDT by TomGuy
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