Posted on 04/30/2015 8:37:30 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
...How clueless media applause excuses police brutality
Praising a mom for beating her son suggests only violence can discipline black kids. And she doesn't feel heroic
Baltimore’s “Hero Mom” has a name. It’s Toya Graham.
And the woman lionized nationwide for beating her 16-year-old son on camera, and dragging him away from Monday night’s riots, doesn’t feel at all like a hero.
“I don’t. I don’t,” Graham told CBS “This Morning” on Wednesday. “My intention was just to get my son and have him be safe.” Later in the interview, Graham confesses, “I just lost it.” (Watch the whole thing at the end of this post.)
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.” It’s not just Fox News or the “New York Post,” whose tabloid “Send in the Moms” front page this time reflects rather than rebukes the mainstream media. And that’s heartbreaking.
The debate over the moment Graham says she “lost it” is complex. There’s a parallel black debate going on that, as always when it comes to racial issues, is richer and more nuanced. But 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 shit out of them.
I’m aware that a lot of African Americans are lauding Graham, too. This piece isn’t directed at them. Whether they applaud or critique Graham’s corporal punishment,
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I’ll read articles on FR from Wash post. Even ny daily news. Maybe even La Times. And NY times is good for a laugh. But I can never read a word from salon. they are beneath contempt
Wow, Joan Walsh is a major, grease-covered, racist slut of a degree almost unknown outside of an actual BDSM bordello.
The foundations of civilization are under heavy attack, at least in the virtual world of the MSM and cyberspace.
I don’t know how much effect this is having in the “real world.”
Tonight I was at a band rehearsal. All adults, grown-ups. There are two African Americans in the band. I don’t know either of them, but I’ve been playing in the band with them for almost a year (there are about 50 people in the band).
One of the songs we are playing is an arrangement of several civil-war era songs. I was uncomfortable playing it tonight. I was uncomfortable because I didn’t know if it was offensive to the A-A musicians. This took all the enjoyment out of it for me. I wanted to leave, which I’ve never felt like before.
As I said, I don’t know how this full frontal assault on the truth is going in the “real world.” I can’t tell. I do know this though. If the forces that are trying to undermine the mechanisms that society has developed for discovering and propagating the truth (like science and the justice system) we are in for a time of Biblical-scale violence and destruction.
Do you ever wonder what happened in Joan’s life to give her the common sense God gave a brick? Maybe she was born this way. Or a brick fell on her head.
Why don't you watch this video of Michael expressing regret over what he was doing and admitting his mom did what she did because she cares about him.
If you can handle it.
Son of Baltimore Mother Who Slapped Him Speaks Out
I'm sure your attention span is too short to watch the whole thing so just fast forward to about the 4 minute mark for the kid's comments, Joan.
Really??
Civil War Era songs are bad??
Totally absurd for her to make the parallel to the media outrage at Adrian Peterson’s switching his son. That kid was not fixing to participate in a friggin’ RIOT!
The honky guilt is strong in this one.
“Wow, Joan Walsh is a major, grease-covered, racist slut of a degree almost unknown outside of an actual BDSM bordello.”
That must mean that you’re the Joan Walsh of anti-Catholicism.
I’m just saying. . .
I’m surprised they haven’t tried to charge the mother with child abuse, given the way these people think.
Hey, if the mom “beating the sh!t out of” her kid is what it takes, then that’s what it takes. Now go peddle your liberal papers, Joan and leave the parenting to the adults.
I’m just saying. . .
Woah, where did THAT come from? You have some sort of context for your slander, or is that just a Catholic thing you do when inspired to be a part of the Armies of the Lord?
What's the deal, tough guy? Just bored, or did you take too much viagra again?
why did you make me read that lol.
ARE THEY KIDDING ME WITH THIS GARBAGE!!!!
I was a supervisor at a graphics center and black guy comes to work drunk. I covered for him. Would have NEVER done that for white guy and I was guilty as charged of the soft bigotry of low expectations. Someone else ratted him out anyway.
After that I treated everyone the same. And I had black Puerto Rican, white, Asian under me. I was incredibly non PC lol but very much liked. The savvier guys made a video game with me as the pudgy hero lol.
Babying them is the death of them.
HHMMM; I thought it was just a MOM being a MOM.
If my Mother had caught me doing that kind of crap as a kid she would have done more than just box my ears.
She would have beat my ass and nailed one foot to the floor so I couldn’t leave the house just to be sure.
And I am (or was many moons ago) a white boy.
And yet they believe in abortion. Go figure!
these libs criticizing her should have3 been beaten as kids- but since they weren’t- this is the kind of ignorance that springs forth from their mouths!
STFU, Joanie.
Respect and even fear of the authority of parents is what built Western civilization. Learning to be a friend to your child? Priceless, as in so expensive we cannot put a number on it.
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