Definitely negligence is a contributing factor, but the person who killed the child was the one who hit her. Actually I am shocked that this doesn’t happen a hundred times a day. I have NEVER seen black women holding their childrens’ hands. They stroll around with babies barely walking and tiny children trailing yards behind them. One will-sometimes- turn to scream at said child for going to slow, but the minute they can walk they are on their own. Mama/whoever is on the phone or otherwise occupied talking to a companion. It’s common, accepted, childcare to a vast majority of black women, in my observations-and I have black relatives-only one of whom I have ever seen hold her child’s hand when out.
I gotta agree with you, I have noticed this also. I also see a lot of black people dragging kids by the hand, when their feet can barely reach the floor, the kids are sort of tripping along on their tip toes. At that age I was carrying my kid, but I was a big carrier, my beloved mother in law (first generation Scandinavian-American fwiw) used to scold me for it all the time.