I listen to Black folks day in and day out romanticize whuppings, pain, and trauma from their childhoods.
I listen to BLACK kids tell me how theyre scared of their parents and feel alone at home.
I don't have time to care about what white folks are doing, I know that spankings and fear are discipline techniques in our communities.
I know we romanticize tough love when really it's just plain ol abuse.
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This is something my friend wrote and I think she hit it right on the head
Also for reference:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/opinion/sunday/stop-beating-black-children.html
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.slat...top_spanking_its_kids_says_author_stacey.html
that's an ignorant point of view because it makes the assumption that this is a black exclusive discussion.
just cuz all you talk to in your life is black people, doesn't mean black people the only people having those discussions....
i feel like it's just another excuse for black people to attack black people....
my wife works in daycare... white couple just divorced because they had a disagreement on discipline for their son....the father believed in whoopings, the mom didn't...they couldn't come to an agreement... it ruined their marriage.....
this was a military dad... his dad was military......
the woman was venting to my wife about it all, about how the white guy and his white siblings would all talk about how their dad used to whoop them and this and that... blah blah blah...
point is.....it's ignorant to think that only black people are having these conversations...
but no... let's just attack our on people in general and say we're all mentally scarred, and we're so addicted to trauma......cuz we talk about the same shit that everybody else talk about
let's give black people heavier sentencing for commenting the same crimes everybody else does...
let's continue to act surprised every time a black father is there for his kids, when numbers have shown that in comparison we're far more present than many groups...
but perceptions....
when we do it.... it's cuz something is innately wrong with us....
when white folk whoop their kids... it's corporal punishment...
when black folk whoop their kids it's a mental deficiency...
:smh: