Mainstream [white] media and a host of respectable Negroes are circulating this video of an enraged Baltimore mom violently attacking/cursing her masked son for participating in the uprising. They're literally headlining her as "Mom of the Year." Oh, word?
So... the message to the kid is 'violence is wrong when committed against public property, but not when committed against his body or those of Black people,' even in public. Is it not, at the very least, hypocritical to profusely praise this mom for beating her son in the streets because he was a part of a "riot" that began with the death of a young Black man being beaten in the streets? confused emoticon
Is this how low the bar has been set for Black parenting? Instead of approaching her son, understanding his rage, communicating to him her fear for his safety, and taking him aside to conspire a more productive and safer means of voicing his frustrations, just drag him by the neck, curse him out, pummel and humiliate him?
Surely, you see the mindf*ckery afoot? 'They' promote violence as a means of proper parenting, our kids learn to be violent or acquiesce to violent authority, and either end up docile, dead or a ward of the state--i.e. a legal slave, according to the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, EXCEPT as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
If this is what 'they' praise as great parenting--priming our kids to be state slaves--why don't we ever see any White parents beating the dog sh*t out of their kids at their own rallies or 'revelries' (riots)?
It would be too easy to judge this incident on the surface as 'bad' parenting, but beneath the surface, this is 'sad' parenting. I can only imagine the panic and fear beneath this mother's rage being exploited by other to deflect from the true impetus of the "riots." I totally disagree with her actions, but this is about more than her actions. This is about the utilization of her actions as propaganda by the very elements of society who created the conditions that led to her believing what she did was the best course of action.
She was not fighting her son to be "Mom of the Year", she was fighting to NOT be Freddie Gray's mom on that day. For that moment of desperation and raw emotions to be propagated as a responsible reaction to that her son's act of desperation and raw emotions is evidence that 'they' have a vested interest in the vicious cycle continuing. #dontBSyourself