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Baltimore Mom of the Year: ‘I don’t want him to be a Freddie Gray’
NY POST ^ | April 28, 2015 | By Sophia Rosenbaum and Bob Fredericks

Posted on 04/29/2015 6:46:44 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

When Baltimore mom Toya Graham turned on the evening news and saw her son on TV throwing rocks at cops in the streets during Monday’s riots, her instincts took over — her maternal instincts.

“I was shocked. I was angry, because you never want to see your child out there doing that,” Graham told CBS News of the moment she spotted her son, Michael, 16. “At that point, I just lost it.”

So Graham raced to the scene, smacked some sense into Michael and half-dragged, half-shamed him back home. Her actions, caught on video that has since gone viral, earned her praise on social media Tuesday as “Mom of the Year.” “He knew he was in trouble,” Graham told CBS. “He said, ‘When I seen you,’ he said, ‘Ma, my instinct was to run.’

“I’m a no-tolerant mother. Everybody that knows me, know I don’t play that,” she said.

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1 posted on 04/29/2015 6:46:44 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

No one should comment on her language.
In her culture, “MotherF’r” is a pronoun.


2 posted on 04/29/2015 6:47:38 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: COUNTrecount

Most important is the fact that she seems to understand that Freddy was the primary source of Freddy’s problems.


3 posted on 04/29/2015 6:51:01 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: COUNTrecount

cost of scumbag illegals to Maryland report
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/maryland-study-reveals-staggering-increase-of-illegal-immigration-costs-and-voter-dissatisfaction-78141522.html


4 posted on 04/29/2015 6:52:59 AM PDT by biggredd1
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To: MrB

Okay I will give her a pass on her language.

Anyone know the story behind her being a Single Parent of 6 little thuglings?


5 posted on 04/29/2015 6:53:38 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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pretty good interview with her....the person she’s most afraid of coming down on her for beating her kid is her pastor:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/baltimore-mother-toya-graham-on-why-she-smacked-son-i-dont-want-him-to-be-a-freddie-gray/


6 posted on 04/29/2015 6:54:58 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: COUNTrecount

Everyone is talking about what a great mother she is. Imagine if there was a FATHER around to straighten this kid out long before he became a rioting punk. Mom might have the stones and the attitude, but if her son were bigger (like, Michael Brown sized, for example) she’d have a hard time doing anything to stop him. Unfortunately, this kid’s father is likely nowhere to be found, and/or among those rioting in the streets himself, just like the majority of the other rioting “youths” in Baltimore and elsewhere.


7 posted on 04/29/2015 6:55:58 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: VRWCarea51

Well, she was told at a young age she’d get a monthly check, an apartment, and free food if she’d have a baby without being married, so she did that,

then, she found out later that the more kids she had without a husband, the bigger her check would be.

And the rest is history.


8 posted on 04/29/2015 6:57:31 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: COUNTrecount

I appreciate what she did. I am sorry that she has 6 kids with no father in the family. By God’s grace, this young man will turn out better than he might have, due to the exposure. Prayers for the whole family......I suspect she is doing the best she can at this moment in time.


9 posted on 04/29/2015 6:59:31 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Not my circus, not my monkeys.......)
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To: MrB

Well, she was told at a young age she’d get a monthly check, an apartment, and free food if she’d have a baby without being married, so she did that,

then, she found out later that the more kids she had without a husband, the bigger her check would be.

And the rest is history.

...

The Ruling Class wants to make sure there are plenty of people to vote for Bad Government, because Bad Government is what the Ruling Class wants to provide.


10 posted on 04/29/2015 7:00:56 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Many men in he black family are no better than a sperm donor. Who knows why she is a single mother? years ago my mother became a single mother of 6 children after 22 years of marriage resulted in a divorce.


11 posted on 04/29/2015 7:01:44 AM PDT by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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don’t sperm donors get paid?? they are not even smart enough to get that part down...


12 posted on 04/29/2015 7:20:38 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: MrB

Well, she was told at a young age she’d get a monthly check, an apartment, and free food if she’d have a baby without being married, so she did that,then, she found out later that the more kids she had without a husband, the bigger her check would be.

That would be Democrats telling her that like they have been doing there for the last 40 years.

Democrats gave them a poverty lifestyle depending on the system but they didn’t give them what they really needed - hope - a future. Democrats only want the vote and to hell with a future. These people needed good schools for their kids to go to - good programs to help them in the community and good churches and church families to stand with them in their times of need. All of which Democrats know nothing about. And, I never cease to blame the mainstream media for covering and abetting the Democrats in their human destruction.


13 posted on 04/29/2015 7:21:05 AM PDT by Bitsy
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Good communities, churches and families reduce dependency on government,

and that is something the left doesn’t want.


14 posted on 04/29/2015 7:22:34 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: COUNTrecount

“I don’t want him to be a Freddie Gray”

You know, all the nuances in the known universe, all the carefully evaluated counter-microaggressions and picoaggressions, all the Sharptonisms, all of BHOs’ highfallutin’ equivocal and meningless langauge do not come close to the eloquence of that statement.


15 posted on 04/29/2015 7:33:03 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: COUNTrecount

That’s a hoot watching Mom knocking Skippy’s pubies loose. The boy better listen to his mama. LOL!


16 posted on 04/29/2015 7:37:16 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hillary and the Ghosts of Nixons Past. An American Nightmare.)
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To: God luvs America

you are right. but these sperm donors have a different agenda - to impregnate as many women as they can without having to pay child support. Years go there was a guy in Chicago whom was the father of at least 30 different children from a leas 6 different women. Takes the meaning of sperm donor to a whole new level.


17 posted on 04/29/2015 7:41:07 AM PDT by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: COUNTrecount
“I’m a no-tolerant mother...she said.

Well, apparently she has no tolerance for whatever it was that caused her to be a mother, either.

Six times, in fact.

I give her credit for doing to the little wannabe thug, what she should have done years ago and what I hope she's doing to the rest of the wannabe thugs she has at home.

Now, if one of the fathers shows back up, she should do the same to him.

18 posted on 04/29/2015 7:55:54 AM PDT by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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To: MrB

Apparently, some of the ghetto knew who Freddy was.

Pray America is waking


19 posted on 04/29/2015 7:55:58 AM PDT by bray (Cruz to the WH)
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To: COUNTrecount

I like her! We could use more like her.


20 posted on 04/29/2015 7:58:16 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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