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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you here are so 1% suburban white that you squeak.  This was the mother of a black teen in an urban riot.  She sees her son with a black hood covering his face and about to throw a rock at police officers in riot gear and armed.  She tells him to stop and gets between him and the police and he tries to go around her and raises the rock.  After Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.and  Freddie Gray all she can see is if that rock leaves his hand the next time she sees him will be in the morgue .  Yes she snaps and. She uses any means at her disposal to stop that rock from leaving his hand. Including slapping some sense into him.  I'm sorry if Ms white Bethesda thinks that the voice of doom is sufficient but you have never beenin a situation where your child's next action could cause her to be killed by a frightened.police officer in a racially charged situation and your suggestion is ludicrous.   [/quote]
"Voice of doom" poster here. White but not suburban and definitely live in a neighborhood with a lot of folks like Ms. Graham.  I'm not condemning her.  I'm condemning the people who are so convinced that she's never hit her kid for the wrong reasons and in the wrong time.  I hope she hasn't.  I hope this was a time where she was so scared that she reacted in an unusually violent way.  [b]But I don't know why so many white folks are so convinced that she must be mother of the year -- the implication from some commentators being that if more black mothers hit their black boys that the world would be safer.[/b][/quote]

I'm the "squeaky white" PP above.  I understand your concern, but I think you're entirely missing the point.  One of the major contributors to urban teen violence, and specifically to black urban teen violence, is lack of parental or adult attention.  Most of the teens who get in trouble are children of inattentive parents for one reason or another (unfortunately, some of them have to work long hours or multiple jobs to make ends meet).  What everyone is applauding is the fact that she saw her teen and she stepped in to stop him from making a violent mistake.  If more black urban parents spent more time with or supervising their teens, there would be a decrease in black urban teen crime.  There is a reason why programs like Big Brothers and Sisters, Midnight Basketball League, etc had a huge impact on decreasing urban teen crime.  The adult interaction and attention made a huge difference in the lives of teens and kept many of them from making mistakes that they might live to regret.[/quote]

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