Posted on 04/30/2015 2:31:44 PM PDT by jazusamo
I read an opinion piece this week by liberal writer Joan Walsh decrying the presumed jubilation of "white America" and the media over a mother's public spanking of her son for participating in the Baltimore riots.
Walsh quotes the mother, Toya Graham, as acknowledging that she "just lost it" when she saw her son on camera and went into action to get him off the streets.
Walsh writes: "Her moment of losing it made her a hero to much of white America — and not just to the right. Coast to coast, the media is hyping Graham as 'Hero Mom' and her on-camera beating as 'Tough Love.'" She calls it "heartbreaking."
Walsh continues, "Anyone white who's applauding Graham's moment of desperation, along with the white media figures who are hyping her 'heroism,' is essentially justifying police brutality, and saying the only way to control black kids is to beat the s—- out of them." Hysteria much, Ms. Walsh?
Walsh acknowledges that she's aware many African-Americans are praising Graham, as well, but says her criticism isn't aimed at them. Their situation "is richer and more nuanced." Why is that, you ask? Because, she explains, "most black people debating the issue acknowledge that the desperate public beating came from centuries of black parents knowing they have to discipline their children harshly, or else white society will do it for them — and they may not survive it."
That's mighty self-congratulatory of Walsh, but it really is bizarre thinking. Maybe she presumes that because she's an all-empathizing and superior liberal, she can presume what motivates all black people to engage in certain behaviors. Perhaps she also presumes she knows what every white person is thinking because she is white and intelligent.
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Joe Walsh doesn’t think for me …...
“Nuanced” has become an elite cliché on the par with “at the end of the day.” And I’m amused that she thinks inner-city black people have nuanced thinking. Some of them can barely think at all.
Joan Maureen Walsh (born September 18, 1958) is an American editor, Democrat, writer, and blogger. She is editor-at-large of Salon.com and an MSNBC political analyst.
Career
From 2005 through 2010, she was the editor-in-chief of Salon.com, a San Francisco-based American liberal politics and culture website. She is the author of What’s the Matter With White People? Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was, published in August 2012 by John Wiley and Sons.
Joan Walsh Does Not Think
Fixed it
Maryland “Freak State” DANG!
Yep, a leftist (commie) or worse.
Perhaps Joan could remember that white "kid" that got caught keying cars in Singapore (iirc). He was caned, and lots of white folk thought it was a great punishment for such mindless vandalism.
Don’t forget ‘sock puppet’ for Chris Matthews.
she clearly isnt thinking for anybody...including her emotive sef!!
Being possessed by Omniscient “liberalism” rules out rational thought
Joan Walsh seems to me to be just another lazy, morally bankrupt seeker of the moral high ground.. Which makes her no different from any other liberal phony.
Joan Walsh may be right. The mother could have waited until the father got home from work to give his son ... oh, never mind.
Yeh whitey don’t live in the Ghetto Walsh. The Black mother has to do what the black mother has to do. They don’t call it a jungle for nothing.
Joan Walsh? Never heard of her.
life been good to him so far
beating your children is still de rigeur in lower SES households... regardless of race. They beat their pets too...
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