Posted on 09/14/2014 5:46:15 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Barkley told CBS’s Jim Rome that if tough standards were applied, that would lead to a lot of black parents potentially being in jail.
ROME: It doesn't matter where you're from, right is right, and wrong is wrong. It doesn't matter where you're from –
BARKLEY: I don't believe that because listen we spank kids in the South. I think the question about did Adrian Peterson go overboard. But listen Jim we all grew up in different environments. Listen, every black parent in my neighborhood in the South would be in trouble or in jail under those circumstances.
BARKLEY: Oh yeah, I got beat with switches. First of all, I don't like the term, when the media talks about it and somebody just said on television, beating a child. Listen –
ROME: That's what that was, Chuck –
BARKLEY: Well, we call it spanking or whooping our kids. ROME: If I see open wounds and bruises throughout a body that is a beating.
BARKLEY: Sure. Those pictures are disturbing. I think Adrian said he went overboard. But as far as being from the South, we all spanked our kids. I got spanked, me and my two brothers. ROME: Again Chuck, not now. 1964 is one thing, 2014 is another.
ARKLEY: And that’s fair. I totally agree with that. Maybe we need to rethink it but I think we have to really be careful trying to teach other parents how to discipline their kids. That’s a very fine line.
ROME: Alright, some disagreement here.
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I had one teacher who was so out there you got a choice between the paddle (which was something the woodshop teacher made up, guy had issues), or you could hold on to the wires of an old telephone magneto which she would crank briefly. Torqemada had nothing on her. However, it must be said that her classes were very well behaved!
CC
Agree. No four year old should be switched multiple times until he bleeds. Nobody should be subjected to that.
A firm swat to the butt, open handed, one time worked for me.
An adult who loves their child would not beat them that many times to the point of bleeding. I don’t care how old the kid is - that’s not right.
The black community by far uses the most corporal punishment—and they raise kids who do far more crime. I don’t think that association backs your argument.
We used to have the drama of going to the front yard and cut our own switch from the smoke tree.
Mom usually chickened out by then, but the switch was right there on the table for when Dad got home.
Actual whippin’s were rare and nothing more than a bruise or slight welt, but I still remember why I got a couple of them now 50+ years later.
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
Have you seen the pictures of what he did to his four-year-old son?
I remember seeing a black neighbor (a woman) who had an electric cord to whip her kids with. My dad had a belt, and after making my mom cry, I got whipped 17 times.
I never forgot it.
lol - yup.
Spare the rod, switch, whatever, spoil the child.
Black parents, including parents who aren’t very good by many standards, do try to discipline their children, and they do tend to be extremely harsh. They’re almost always looking at a particular behavior that is annoying to them, however, and not the big picture of how the child interacts with other people, including them; and this is not true only of blacks, but of lower income whites in the South (where I live).
I hear truly nasty abusive stuff coming out of both black and white mouths when I go to WalMart, and while I think the parents may mean well, I’m not surprised that the kids don’t turn out well. In any case, it’s usually a worn out “single mother,” sometimes with a thuggish boyfriend who doesn’t give a darn, so I wouldn’t say there’s any serious parenting going on there.
Both blacks and whites need more moral instruction and more ideas about how to love their children and each other. The churches have totally failed the poor on this.
There’s a difference between spanking and whipping to the point of bloodshed.
People, including a bunch of Freepers, can emote all they want, but there are a couple of irrefutable facts:
This type of discipline was far more common 50 years ago than it is today.
There were far more civilized children growing up 50 years ago.
Today the term ‘feral human’ is understood by most, because we have so many.
I have.
It would help to have the pictures posted.
The pictures give lie to those who claim this was some out of control rage.
It would have helped even more had they been posted further up thread.
I grew up in 1970s
My mom was one that spank my brother and I
We live in SO CAL
You know what Jim Rome he used to be good talk show host not anymore I try listen to him recently he sucks
He still pick on my fellow Raider fans
Yup bring it on Blues Brother Sister
My arms and legs look worse than those pics after a good day in the woods or fields hunting pheasants or grouse. I’ve seen the pics, those are scratches, not serious wounds. This is much ado about nothing. They will heal in a day or two.
Ha Ha....that’s great!
ooooooooooooooo doggie, we in America have gotten a bellyful of cultural behavior from looting in Ferguson, knocking out your baby mama and injuring your own flesh and blood in the last few weeks. Been a real eye opener. Cultural, eh? bee ess. Bad behavior. Period. End of discussion.
It does?
What type of brutish and idiotic father inflicts all of those bleeding cuts and bruises on a four-year-old in anything other than out of control rage?
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