Posted on 11/01/2017 10:12:07 AM PDT by bigbob
A 28-year-old mother from Wisconsin is facing felony charges after she decided to strap her nine-year-old son to the roof of her minivan. According to Fox 6, Amber Schmunk had just bought a plastic pool and did not think it would fit inside her vehicle. Instead of getting rope and tying it down, she thought it would be a good idea to strap her son to the roof to hold the pool down.
Concerned motorists called police, who tracked the woman down at her sister's house. She told police that "she believed it was OK as her father let her do things like that when she was that age." Police didn't buy that excuse and arrested her, charging her with second degree recklessly endangering safety, which is a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Well, it worked.
“28 year-old with a 9 year-old son. Gotcha.”
You think God and nature are against young women having children, do you?
“28 year-old with a 9 year-old son. Gotcha.”
You think God and nature are against young women having children, do you?
God and nature? Not at all. Culture and society, yes.
“Our black man James ...”
You owned a black man?..............”
Back in the day that term wasn’t unusual in the south.
If your family hired the same black man to work for you during the planting and harvesting seasons he was referred to as “our black man”.
We had a black family who lived in a cabin on our property. He worked for us year round.
Living in the cabin was part of his pay as was one dressed beef each year.
He raised hogs that were his to sell or eat and had his own chicken coop and milk cow.
He was not owned in any sense and he would tell anyone he was free to do as he pleased.
We called him our hand or our man.
Several times I heard him refer to himself as our negro.
It’s just the way it was.
Some of the older folks, black and white, still use that term.
I know. I was born and bred in The South.
But to hear that term used in this day and age..................
Am I terrible for wondering why no one got a picture?
Seasonal clearance???
Culture and society are what have endorsed homosexuality and homosexuals raising children.
There was a time in this nation when teenagers were much more responsible than today’s average adult.
Maturity and wisdom are the problems in this case rather than the age at which the mother had her son.
Culture and society are what have endorsed homosexuality and homosexuals raising children.
There was a time in this nation when teenagers were much more responsible than today’s average adult.
Maturity and wisdom are the problems in this case rather than the age at which the mother had her son.
Yeah, it is unusual but I still hear it from time to time.
I take into account the age of the speaker and where they grew up.
The more rural the area the longer it lasted.
I was raised in Mississippi, and I’m 62, so yeah, I knew what he meant........................
I don’t see the harm done, if she used a couple three taut-line hitches, and kept the ropes clear of his chest and belly when she snugged em up.
I don’t owe anyone virtue signaling anything here
We had over 500 employees at our peak work force
Over half black
But one was special ....a few really but James was the closest male to our family
Hannah the cook was his female counterpart
He basically took care of everything personal
To the family and worked the equipment etc as well
In our case he’d showed up at my grandfathers horse farm at 15 orphaned and my grandfather put him to work and he lived in the tack room and used my grandfathers office bath shower
He ran the detail at our deer camp and helped with Horses and in the contracting biz
Eventually built his own place and raised his own family
He taught me to hunt and operate heavy equipment
He drank gin and doctor tichenors and smoked pall mall unfiltered he opened from the opposite end and shared with me
He could field dress deer and whip up a mess of perfectly scrambled eggs and homemade biscuits and salted ham at 4am like nothing even if he’d been out drankin till 3 and had walked the levee Home
He was black as onyx and always smelled musty and put that jell in his hair slicked back and carried a small 32 pistol and dressed just like my grandpa black mini me
Khakis and slouch hat or miners hard hat and lace up 1907 brown work boots
His funeral when I was 13 was my first
I was close to him
Non southerners don’t understand blacks
They just say what they think is the right answer so they won’t be called racist
So lemminglike
You asking for work?
I had my first son when I was 19. I didn’t tie him to a plastic pool atop my car though!
“But to hear that term used in this day and age..................”
has half of FR clutching their pearls and gasping
One thing you can be sure of is that none of them had cooks or hands who were like extended family. But they are as worried about not sounding properly PC as an intern at the SPLC.
Only because we know ‘others’ are watching and will report any off-hand remarks as negative as they can.................
It’s October. It’s Wisconsin. What the hell is this woman doing buying a kiddie pool?
Can you spell S-T-O-O-P-I-D???...........;)
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