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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Really? You approve of a mother beating her son? I understand why she did, given the context, but I abhor it. The son is engaging in violence so she...treats him with violence. And the cycle goes on. If this child had been a white boy from Bethesda and his mom was caught on tape beating him on the street she would be charged with abuse. But a black boy in the middle of a protest and everyone claps. Its bizarre. You can find hundreds of pages of threads on DCUM arguing about whether spanking is right, but all seem to agree that it should stop, if it is ever right at all, once the child can be reasoned with. I think the subtext to the approval of the beating of this boy is that because he is a poor black boy in West Baltimore he can't be reasoned with, can't be treated like other teens.[/quote]

The context is a bit more than simply the race of the mother and son. The son was in the midst of a riot in which participants were throwing bricks at police officers. The son had a rock in his hand when his mom saw him. She acknowledged that she "lost it", which I think is understandable in the situation. If "a white boy from Bethesda" was seen by his parent while he was holding a rock in the midst of a riot, I would forgive that parent for losing it.

If anything, the mother's reaction should highlight the brutal tactics normally displayed by the police toward young black offenders. The mom absolutely was correct to fear that her son could be killed. The parent of a white boy from Bethesda would likely not understand that sort of primal fear and might not react in the same manner. 
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