African American Child Terrorism Revisited
Terrorism by any other name is still evil! In March of 2010, I drew attention to the terrorism experienced by many black children across America. Angry adults beat black children with impunity.
Video of an adult African American Male beating two black girls with a cord went viral in less than 24 hours on Facebook and other social media. The girls are daughters of the attacking adult. Their father beats them to the floor and into a corner.
The younger daughter appears to be 10 - 12. The older daughter appears to be in her early teens.
The father's action does not differ in image than the beating black people experienced as slaves 200 years ago. What can be the prompt for this level of uncivilized and nonspiritual behavior in the 21st Century?
Are African American parents predisposed to investment in corporal punishment? Conversations among many African Americans reveal perceptions on child beating ranges from amusing to standard consideration.
In the work, Black Parents & Corporal Punishment: Are You Spanking or Beating, corporal punishment in black families is noted the norm. Black Comedians make sport out of talking about beating their kids. Church folk talk about black kids being bad as if a collective experience.
Historical images of white people beating black people cannot conceivably be the rationale for this behavior.Sparing the rod spoils the child from the Book of Proverbs is not an available excuse for this irrational inhuman behavior.
Angry adults generate angry children. Bullies generate bullies. Fear consumes the weak in search of a place to have power and the exercise of it even more over powerless others. Children are not available for living out of this dangerous and dysfunctional character.
Genevra Pittman reports psychological effects of bullying can last years. Children who experience this extreme form of bullying masquerading as behavioral modification become bullies and are at higher risk to experience anxiety disorders. Child beating is wrong, immoral, illegal, uncivilized and meets no standards for positive child growth and development.
Acts of violence consume the courts. News reports of violence consume the public. Victims of violence pay emotionally over a lifetime. Children should not have to pay this price whatever their color, culture, or religion.
Video of an adult African American Male beating two black girls with a cord went viral in less than 24 hours on Facebook and other social media. The girls are daughters of the attacking adult. Their father beats them to the floor and into a corner.
The younger daughter appears to be 10 - 12. The older daughter appears to be in her early teens.
The father's action does not differ in image than the beating black people experienced as slaves 200 years ago. What can be the prompt for this level of uncivilized and nonspiritual behavior in the 21st Century?
Are African American parents predisposed to investment in corporal punishment? Conversations among many African Americans reveal perceptions on child beating ranges from amusing to standard consideration.
In the work, Black Parents & Corporal Punishment: Are You Spanking or Beating, corporal punishment in black families is noted the norm. Black Comedians make sport out of talking about beating their kids. Church folk talk about black kids being bad as if a collective experience.
Historical images of white people beating black people cannot conceivably be the rationale for this behavior.Sparing the rod spoils the child from the Book of Proverbs is not an available excuse for this irrational inhuman behavior.
Angry adults generate angry children. Bullies generate bullies. Fear consumes the weak in search of a place to have power and the exercise of it even more over powerless others. Children are not available for living out of this dangerous and dysfunctional character.
Genevra Pittman reports psychological effects of bullying can last years. Children who experience this extreme form of bullying masquerading as behavioral modification become bullies and are at higher risk to experience anxiety disorders. Child beating is wrong, immoral, illegal, uncivilized and meets no standards for positive child growth and development.
Acts of violence consume the courts. News reports of violence consume the public. Victims of violence pay emotionally over a lifetime. Children should not have to pay this price whatever their color, culture, or religion.
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