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It is a sad day when people are so lawless that the only hope to be found is in a mother beating her son publicly for his involvement in the lawlessness.  <_<

 

As much as I love this mother's display of concern for her son, I have to wonder... Where is this young man's father? 

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It is a sad day when people are so lawless that the only hope to be found is in a mother beating her son publicly for his involvement in the lawlessness.  <_<

 

As much as I love this mother's display of concern for her son, I have to wonder... Where is this young man's father? 

I agree with you but like most mothers who take family seriously, the heart, the soul, the pain,the joy all start with an innocent babe in your arms! fathers are the icing on the family cake.

Women first then mothers they are the PILLARS upon which the family unit are built.

Moms rule Dads Drool!

Or that's what my 9 year old Grandaughter espouse's daily! :)

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I agree with you but like most mothers who take family seriously, the heart, the soul, the pain,the joy all start with an innocent babe in your arms! fathers are the icing on the family cake.

Women first then mothers they are the PILLARS upon which the family unit are built.

Moms rule Dads Drool!

Or that's what my 9 year old Grandaughter espouse's daily! :)

 

Yes of course.  But what child doesn't benefit from having a strong male role model?

 

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The “embarrassed” Baltimore protester who was yanked from the streets after his mother caught him with rioters spoke out Wednesday.

 

“I understand how much my mama really cares about me,” Michael Singleton told ABC News. “I just got to try to do better.”

 

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Singleton recounted the moment he saw his mother, Toya Graham, catch him on the Baltimore streets.

“I’m like, ‘Oh man. What is my mama doing down here?’” he said.

 

“I’m like, ‘Oh man. What is my mama doing down here?’”

 

Video of Graham approaching her son and slapping him on live television went viral. Many online hailed her as the “mom of the year” for her actions.

 

Singleton said that all his friends saw him get slapped around.

 

“They was around,” he told ABC News. “Everybody knew my mama. All my friends knew my mama.”

 

Graham said she wasn’t going to allow her son to participate in the rioting.

 

“To see him down there, doing what he was doing, that’s — we are not doing that,” she told ABC News. “I’m not angry at him anymore. As long as I have a breath in my body, you will not be on the streets selling drugs — you’re just not going to live like that. Not with me.”

 

She explained that she caught him with a rock in his hand and became enraged.

 

“I did. You know, once he threw that rock down I said, ‘You weren’t brought up like this,’ ” Graham told CNN.

 

Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said Tuesday that he had seen the video.

 

“I wish I had more parents who took charge of their kids tonight,” he said, according to WJZ-TV.

 

Baltimore descended into chaos Monday as individuals upset with the recent death of a man in police custody rioted across the city, setting fires and attacking police officers.

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You're right about the "strong male role model" WHN !  :twothumbs:

"Strong" being the operative word -- too often youth confuse it with "rich".

 

They look up to thug-rappers and wayward-behaving sports figures...

 

When they SHOULD be looking at Dr. King, Col. West, Gen. Powell, Pastors, Volunteers in their communities,

and real men who get up and go to work every day and do real work, hard work and take pride in that work.

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You're right about the "strong male role model" WHN !  :twothumbs:

"Strong" being the operative word -- too often youth confuse it with "rich".

 

They look up to thug-rappers and wayward-behaving sports figures...

 

When they SHOULD be looking at Dr. King, Col. West, Gen. Powell, Pastors, Volunteers in their communities,

and real men who get up and go to work every day and do real work, hard work and take pride in that work.

 

Sounds good, but you do not mention what should be the primary positive roll model.  That would, or should, be their father.  Other than that I agree 100%.

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All of those are/could be Fathers.

 

 

They all could be fathers, but they are not, and there just is no substitute for dad.  While I will agree with Muleslayer that mom is the pillar on which the family is built, when things got bad it was time to call in dad.  I truly believe that both are important and “wait until your mother finds out” was bad enough, but it was dwarfed by “wait until your father gets home”.

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Now Graham is being attacked by the libtards for publicly “beating” her child.  Furthermore, according to the libtards at Salon, if you are white and praising Graham it just proves you are a racist.  Pathetic, but unfortunately predictable. RV ME

 

 

Leftist Journos: Praising 'Baltimore Mom' Is Racist

 

By now, most of us have seen "Baltimore Mom" Toya Graham take matters into her own hands when she saw her son participating in Monday’s rioting in Baltimore.  The video of Graham going after her 16-year-old son went viral, making her somewhat of a celebrity, others would say hero.  Many have applauded Graham and her actions, while some in the media – particularly in liberal outlets like Salon.com and The Washington Post -- have condemned those who praise Graham for having "…chased down, cursed and beat her 16-year-old son in the middle of a riot."

 

Take for instance, this gem from an absurd piece written by Salon editor-at-large Joan Walsh, who denounces the  "hideous white hypocrisy" behind the praise of Ms. Graham:

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 s h i t  out of them

 

What Graham did to her 16 year old son wasn’t a beating, as concerned moms of every color can attest. But Walsh, perhaps because of the elite liberal circles she travels in, seems to think “white folks” eschew corporal punishment when it comes to their kids:

The hypocrisy of the white mainstream applauding Graham is sickening. Let’s be honest: many white folks are reflexive critics of the greater frequency of corporal punishment in the black community.

 

Well, this white Irish-Italian Catholic grew up in a household that practiced corporal punishment and I fail to see why giving a kid a spanking or a rebellious, backtalking teenager a slap across the cheek is racial in any way.

On the other hand, we shouldn’t be so shocked that Walsh would hack out such nonsense over at Salon. The Washington Post, liberal but far more rational than Salon, is a little bit different.

 

Stacey Patton, who is a senior enterprise reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, wrote a story for the Post titled, "Why is America celebrating the beating of a black child?"  Patton, who is black, admitted that her “adoptive mother… publicly beat me when I was a child,” so it’s not hard to see why she would take issue with Graham’s actions.

But rather than addressing why she feels such actions are counterproductive, she launched into a leftist tirade.
Black mothers, Patton complained, only get praise when they “fulfill stereotypes of mammies, angry and thwarting resistance to a system designed to kill their children.”  Patton continued by offering a history lesson of “black mother beatings” for her readers:

 

The beatings originated with white supremacy, a history of cultural and physical violence that devalues black life at every turn. From slavery through Jim Crow, from the school-to-prison pipeline, the innocence and protection of black children has always been a dream deferred.

 

To laud Ms. Graham, Patton insisted, only serves to “[distract] from a hard truth: It doesn’t matter how black children behave… they risk being killed and blamed for their own deaths because black youths are rarely viewed as innocent or worthy of protection.”

 

Surely Patton is aware that people of ALL races (yes, including African-American) are praising the “Baltimore Mom,” but, you see, she insist that white supremacy has brainwashed people of all races and backgrounds, including Ms. Graham, who, “Rather than embracing her son Michael, rather than hearing and seeing his pain and assuring him that she’s got his back, Graham beat and shamed him in front of the world.”

 

Seriously?! Would Patton have rather Ms. Graham had tried putting her son in time-out?  As infuriating as Patton and Walsh’s absurd left-wing drivel-filled arguments are, they are serving a purpose: reminding us all that it is liberals who are out of touch with reality, completely clueless about the parenting experiences of everyday Americans liberal or conservative, black or white.

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When my dad was gone mom was giving out the whacks. Only once did I hear "wait till your father gets home". My mom was so angry she was afraid she would hurt me. ( I said a bad word. I did not even know what it meant. I was about 10. It was the F word.) I survived the ordeal. I still cringe when I hear the word. Whoever caught one of us 7 would dole out the punishment. I think they invented the "tag team".

 

I applaud the mom for her actions but I am puzzled. If she was as a devoted disciplinary at home in private, why would her kid be out in that mess?

If we as kids had even thought about doing something like that, my parents would have buried us and just had more to replace us. :D   

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