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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looks like some red herrings being introduced here.

I didn't see anyone here ever say or suggest that white people don't have bad parents among them.  They do.  Yes, some white parents scream at their children in public.  (and, I've witnessed AA parents do that as well).

The difference is, whites will readily and loudly condemn other whites for their bad parenting, and they won't sit and deny the fact that there are white parents who do a horrible job of parenting, nor will they blame anyone else for white parents being bad parents.

But nobody is allowed to talk about anyone else's bad parenting, because it immediately turns into an accusation of racism.[/quote]

What makes you think that there is no condemnation of bad parenting in the Black community? Because you have not witnessed it for yourself? As Black people we have a shared history, and while we do not condone bad parenting any more than whites do, we do have EMPATHY for the reasons why some of us are in the position we are in. Slave culture internalized for centuries handed down from the overseer that handled Black people as chattel and had zero compunction for beating, whipping, maiming, and/or killing any slave that dared step out of line will breed that sort of behavior.  We are still in the process of rising above it, but 400+ years of damage cannot be undone in a matter of decades.[/quote]

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