I never realized what assimilation was or is. I never gave a thought about genocide or Manifest Destiny and I thought the holocaust only pertained to what Hitler did to the Jewish people. And it didn’t matter to me, because I never gave a thought about it. I was busy living life as I knew how, a Lakota woman. I was raised in our traditional ways but never taught all those things until I was older. I just thought life was about being traditional, with our ceremonies, songs, traditions, and ways. Sure, I went to a Christian church with my friends, went to Vacation Bible School for a popsicle, and I tested out other religions as if dipping my toes in cold lake water, but I never felt right about it. I didn’t feel wrong about it, I just felt as if it wasn’t my thing. And I made my way back to who I was and who I knew myself and my people to be. Lakota. That is where I belonged and where I feel centered.

The first time I realized that a child raised without their culture and forced into another way of life develops a huge hole in their soul was in college. I read an essay by a Vietnamese American student. She was adopted as a baby, from Vietnam, by white parents here in America. She was given a good life, she was raised with little blonde brothers and sisters and she had a suburban sounding name like Caitlyn or something. She did everything right and everything she was supposed to do in life, plus she won a scholarship to a college away from her family. It was her first time on her own and she discovered herself questioning who she was. She was drawn to other Asians and began hanging out with them. She learned of their likes, dislikes, cultures, foods, and she felt “at home and at peace.” Many of them were also adoptees, taken from their families and countries and grew up American. They were drawn to each other to fill a need in their souls. Yet she felt this with a great deal of guilt towards her American family. She loved her adopted family but felt at home, finally, with her friends, who in turn felt the same.

That is the first time I realized how taking the culture away from someone can be somewhat traumatic or really traumatic. How lost it makes that person feel. As I grew older and started seeing cases of this same thing happening with my own Native people and it was shocking. I remember the first time, was when I met a lady in her twenties. I saw her at the casino we both worked at and asked her what tribe she was from. She became angry and said “The lady that gave birth to me was from so and so reservation but I’m white. I grew up white. I was raised white, so don’t ever ask me that again.”

All I could say was “Whoa.” I stood there shocked. I never in my life met another Indian who hated being Indian, and she had to nerve to say she was white, when she was a few shades from midnight? That’s when someone told me she was raised in a foster home, who eventually adopted her.

I began then to understand what it meant to be assimilated and colonized. I began reading of our history and how children were taken by the US government from Native families once they were put on reservations. Children were forcefully taken out of their homes at the age of 5 and put in residential schools until the age of 18. They made handcuffs so small to detain these children. They were beaten for speaking their language, hair was cut, and all for the purpose of “Kill The Indian, Save The Man.”

This generation was our grandparents and great grandparents, who suffered physical, sexual,and emotional abuse in the residential schools. They were never given the chance to heal because these stories were never told. They were kept on the down low by the Catholic church and the government who ran the residential schools. Many of these boarding schools who are now in operation are now making monetary payments, now wanting to hear the stories of abuse and now trying to make amends. After a few were hit with class action lawsuits.

The next generations, also suffered and still suffer. By the foster care systems. Children were taken from their homes and given to white foster families to raise. The families receiving funding for every foster child, would often take on many foster children. The state holds the households they take the children from to the standards set by white society. Without ever listening to how we set family structures, how we take care of our own, or how we live with our traditions, they set everything up to fit a mold, that they live by.

Based on a 1976 study by the Association on American Indian Affairs found that 25 to 35% of all Indian children were being placed in out-of-home care. (Eighty-five percent of those children were being placed in non-Indian homes or institutions.) Congress then passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (25 U.S.C. § 1901) in 1978 in order to keep American Indian Children with American Indian families.

However, this is not being followed in South Dakota. Why? Because South Dakota has a dirty little secret. According to a wonderful and very thorough investigation by National Public Radio that inspired me to find my brother who was lost for 21 years due to failure of the fact that DSS didn’t follow ICWA regulations and place him with family. I was 19 years old when he was taken from his mother. I was employed and had my own place and he was 8 years old. When I asked them why they didn’t ask me, all they said was sorry and also ,sorry we can’t help you find him now. That is when I began to search for him and I also began to investigate why so many of our Indian children in South Dakota are taken from their homes and placed in Non-Native homes, this is when I found their dirty little secret.

South Dakota’s Department of Social Services receives money for Native children they take custody of. They receive more money than the non-Native children they take from their homes. Native children in South Dakota make up 15% of all the children of South Dakota, yet over half the children placed in foster care are Native. And only 13% of those children are placed in Native foster homes. While Native foster home sit empty for months. South Dakota removes children from their homes at a rate 3 time higher than any other state. But according to state figures, less than 12 percent of the children in foster care in South Dakota have been actually physically or sexually abused in their own homes. That’s less than the national average.

I still didn’t get to the dirty little secret yet. South Dakota, years ago, designated all Native children as “special needs.” Which means every Indian child in every school benefits that school with more funding and it also means that every Indian child taken from their home by DSS benefits South Dakota more than non-Native children. And although the state says they match all the money coming in from the feds dollar for dollar, the match is not exact. According

to records from 2010, the feds reimbursed the state three quarters for what it spent on the children they removed from their homes. There is also an adoption incentive program nobody hears about. The federal government gives the states $4,000 for each child who is placed into adoption from foster care. That amount is $12,000 for “special needs” children. And of course over half the children removed from homes in South Dakota are Indian children, who, you guessed it, are designated by the state as “special needs” just for being American Indian. The state has made almost a million dollars in the last ten years off of our most precious resource. Our children. They moved us to dry, barren lands that cannot be farmed, the took the gold and every resource from the lands they stole. And now they are after our children.

Why is this not making a splash? Why is it not news? Especially , in South Dakota? Because they will go to any length to cover up what they do to take our children away. Even as our children are being violated in the homes they are placed in. Here is one case that will blow anyone’s mind and still has yet to reach the media in South Dakota.

Former assistant state attorney Brandon Taliaferro and court appointed child advocate Shirley Schwab go to trial tomorrow, January 7, 2013 for crimes they didn’t commit. Mr. Taliaferro and Ms. Schwab have been indicted by SD Attorney General Martin Jackley with witness tampering and disclosure of confidential, Department of Social Services information. They are being accused of these crimes for encouraging two teenage Lakota foster girls to tell the truth about being molested by their non-Native foster parent, who is now serving a 15 year prison sentence for rape of a child under 10.

According to the Daily Kos: Mr. Taliaferro and Ms. Schwab now assert that South Dakota is engaged in a criminal conspiracy to discriminate against Lakota foster children and their mothers, fathers, grandparents and relatives. “It is financially beneficial for the DSS to remove American Indian children from their homes and place them in [white] foster homes,” said Attorney Taliaferro to the Aberdeen News on December 19, 2011. “[Had I followed] the orders of [my boss with respect to the Mette investigation, it] would have required [me] to violate the law, and ethical rules that govern attorney conduct.” Mr. Taliaferro asserts that in 2011 he refused to participate in “a cover-up of misconduct” by the DSS.

The charges are believed to be a direct response to Mr. Taliaferro and Ms. Scwab for criticizing the state’s payroll during the NPR investigation. According to reporter Stephanie Woodard in her article for 100 Reporters “Rough Justice In Indian Child Welfare” where two state Department of Criminal Investigation agents are seen on a Youtube video planning the cover-up by the state against Mr. Taliaferro and Ms. Schwab. They are unaware, that though they are off camera, they left their microphones on.

This is all dirty, low down, Gestapo like tactics used by the Department of Social Services . And it shows how far the state will bend, how low they will go, to keep the millions of dollars they have coming in by stealing yet again from the Indigenous people of this land. Instead they don’t take from the land, they take from the womb.

They won’t get away with this much longer. Something has to be done.

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After reading this, you may ask: How can a mother stand there and let a man do such a thing to her child? Well, the answer is easy: The Bible teaches women to “submit” to their husbands. Additionally, it also says, “Spare the rod, spoil the child.” That said, isn’t it easy to understand why something like this actually happened in our much touted civilized society?

After all, isn’t it telling that when they found 7-year-old Roderick Arrington unresponsive after being beaten to near death a day earlier for not reading the Bible, instead of dialing 911, they called their pastor? My guess is that this was all God’s will as well, right? Yep, Jesus loves the little children of the world; yep, even the ones who are physically abused that are raised by parents who love him.

LAS VEGAS (KSNV MyNews3) — Markiece and Dina Palmer are accused in the murder of Dina Palmer’s 7-year-old son, who police say died from injuries consistent with child abuse.

It’s a heartbreaking story that’s left so many people asking the question. When the Palmers found second-grader Roderick Arringtonin the morning, the couple says he was unresponsive.

However, they told police they didn’t call 911 first. Instead they called a pastor.

Dina Palmer: Mother of Roderick Arrington

[...] Pastor Kenneth Hollingsworth says he’s as shocked as anyone that Markiece Palmer chose to call him before first-responders.

Metro police said they believe Roderick Arrington was abused at Markiece and Dina Palmer’s home near Decatur and Desert Inn.

Palmer admitted to hitting his stepson on multiple occasions in front of the boy’s mother.

He told police that’s how he would discipline the second-grader.

In the police report, detectives say they found a broken broom stick, belts, cords, spatulas and clothing — all with blood on them.

Roderick was taken to a hospital on Thursday and died a day later. (source)

Now, I’m not opposed to spanking my kids: and, I’ll be the first to admit that. No, you’ll get no argument from me when it comes to corporal punishment as a form of discipline. And I say that having been on the receiving end of more than a few as a child myself. However, whether deserved or not (yes mom, the jury is still out on a few of those). It’s very hard for me to rationalize inflicting the abuse to a child, for lying about reading the Bible. Having said that, I won’t be surprised if Roderick’s mother, Dina Palmer, is also a victim of religious-sanctioned physical and mentalabuse as well.

The arrest report details the child’s injuries, including open abrasions on his buttocks, severe bruising to his thighs, marks and bruises on his back and shoulders and evidence of previous beatings.

Markiece Palmer told police he and Dina Palmer spanked the child November 27th, because he lied about reading a Bible verse. Markiece Palmer said Roderick was spanked again the next day for not finishing his homework. In the arrest report, Markiece Palmer said the boy balled up his fists and “ran at him”. That resulted in Markiece shaking the child. He also told police Roderick slipped at the bottom of the stairs and hit his head on a table and the floor. (source)

Check out the following video:

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Looking through the current media available to the African American/Urban audience one could easily come to the conclusion that all Black women are heterosexual, church going, and desperate for marriage. On a recent article I addressed the impact of gender orientation, sexual identity and how it affected a person’s decision of whom they will and will not date.

I was met with the typical response from some commenters that sexual ambiguity is a deal breaker and how can one be sure they shared similar values if the other person is ‘like that’. People are hilarious sometimes, especially when I think of the amount of people who are married to what has recently been identified to me as a ‘beard’.

“Beard is a slang term describing a person who is used, knowingly or unknowingly, as a date, romantic partner (Boyfriend or Girlfriend), or spouse either to conceal infidelity or to conceal one’s sexual orientation.”

Now I don’t mean to be mean or anything, but I do find it peculiar that I am personally aware of waaaay more marriages where one partner is perceived as ‘‘questionable’, than I know of married couples where one spouse openly identified as homosexual, though married to a heterosexual.

I’m not saying that couples have to openly affirm their sexual orientation to society, but its not like people aren’t confused when these relationships are vigorously presented as simply a case of ‘boy meets girl’ when the boy in question has never, ever, ever been interested in girl until he decided to marry —->her.

Dating and marrying a thirty year old virgin doesn’t make a man special. Though some would love to think their un-tampered with unicorn’s lack of interest in mating with men before them, just meant they were waiting for ‘the one’ and he thinks she’s that “one”.

I’m not talking about the sexually conservative, or strict religious followers, I’m just talking about what I consider average peculiar behavior.

Arranged marriages and marriages of convenience are nothing new, but since we’re out here promoting marriage as a willing union and not as a business deal what is to be said about those using marriage as a front to hide their sexual orientation?

Everyone asks questions regarding the sexual orientation of one partner or the other; teachers and other family associates inquire as to the gender identity of the parent and at some point in time everyone begins to wonder what the REAL deal is.

While I have no problem with any couple (gay, straight or mixed) that marries for the sake of wanting to be together to take on life as a team what I do have a problem with are people who feel that it’s okay to front for the sake of saving face.

One partner marries someone whom they know could never love them the way they want but they are still willing to take a fraud of a relationship in order to feel special. One partner may sit idly by while the other partner continues to maintain their REAL romantic relationship with a same sex partner who they call their ‘best friend’. Yes, the bills are paid, the family piles into the car to attend church on Sundays and the portraits do look amazing but is this how you saw your marriage?

Surely this satisfies the requirement for some people’s definition of marriage but pardon me if I want more. Using a person as a front is selfish and cruel; allowing yourself to be used as a front shows desperation. Unfortunately, your willingness to be a tool won’t barter you the love you seek.

I’m not a witch doctor hunting down the mythical DL brothers because that facet of life is merely a half truth at best. But just as much as a man or woman has to be willing to lie and deceive others regarding his/her sexuality he/she must also have a partner who is willing to eat those lies and lick the bowl clean. If the wedding ring is more important than being able to look yourself and your spouse in the eye then the marriage isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

You may say these unions are no one business but their own…I disagree.

I do know White couples, Asian couples and some Middle Eastern couples who are married to a homosexual partner in spite of the variation of sexual orientation. They have chosen to live their lives this way for their own reasons, but what I do see is that they care about each other and their relationship is authentic, as it should be.

With the shortage of Black male dating prospects out here I’m sure there are plenty of women who would be willing to look the other way and forgive past transgressions for a man who was willing to ‘get saved’ and change his body language, social circle and friends in order to give a respectable “go” of the marriage.

But how many of them would marry a plain old bi/gay male who was willing to do the same thing but for change his orientation and sexual identity……not many I bet.

When little potential future homosexual children seek examples of who they will be when they grow up it saddens me to know the amount of people out there who are willing to lie and let lie rather than those willing to accept their authentic selves and each other.

With no space to exist some will feel forced to fit into roles that require them to wear a mask and there will be those heterosexual people right there ready for them when they do.

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Everyone may make mistakes, but there are some errors in judgement and actions that cannot be countenanced and that there is no easy path to redemption from. Shaquan Duley made some grave mistakes that, to this day most people are hard pressed to understand or relate to.A mother who killed her own children and initially tried to claim that their deaths were due to an “accident”.  The average mind boggles at how something so heinous could happen to two innocent little children.

Society likes to paint pictures of families and their dynamics as Norman Rockwell masterpieces.  Works of art that fit neatly into what people think or want families to be. This kind of thinking however, precludes the conversation regarding the prevalence of family dysfunction.

It is supposedly an ugly word – those family members that are bold enough to try to lay claim to some family issue are usually branded as trouble makers, ungrateful, misanthropes that should “try harder” at making their family dynamic work. This is due in part to people’s belief that all families are supposed to be perfect or damn near close to it.

Shaquan Duley's Now Deceased Children

The belief that every woman who gives birth to a child will make an ideal mother is another fallacy that – while mountains of evidence to the contrary exist, people refuse to accept. The thousands of babies born addicted to crack, neglected, and subjected to all manners of child abuse at the hands of family members, including their own mothers belies that theory of mandatory maternal instincts. There needs to be a dialog that allows for people   who do not have the family dynamic portrayed on Hallmark movie of the week or Lifetime – to speak without fear of reprisals or being branded negatively. There needs to be an understanding that becomes more widespread that recognizes that not all human beings are automatically born with empathy and a capacity to care in a positive way for others.  There needs to be an understanding that the experiences that happen in one’s life can create issues that preclude people from acting in ways that society can relate to and or understand.

Suffering in silence is what many members of dysfunctional family units are relegated to.  Some lucky souls might find there way into therapy where they can work those issues out, but so many more are forced to internalize and or self medicate in an attempt to cope with highly dysfunctional family members from mothers, fathers siblings, etc.  No one but the Duley family knows what issues the family has been facing and dealing with up to now. I would think that given the current situation with Shaquan, they would trade all the events of the last few years for some serious time spent in family counseling.

As to Shaquan herself, I do not personally know her. My heart as many others out there, felt pain at the loss of two beautiful children.  To hear her today get up  in court and plead guilty to the murder of her own two children weighs heavy on my heart.  In a horrible sense of time delay it would seem now, months later, she realizes the mistake that she made. There is nothing a court of law can do in the way of administering justice in this case. There  will not be any on this side of life.  No sentence can bring those boys back. No  punishment can equal the realization of knowing that you killed your own children  and tried to cover it up.

Some things have no reason or why and are inexplicable. Knee jerk reactions well up into emotional responses that are quick to condemn as evil that which defies our range of understanding.  Just because something defies one’s understanding, does not make it or in this case Shaquan Duley evil.

Lean not on your own understanding…..

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Okay, so now that you’ve heard about the Penn State sex scandal, let’s talk about the white version of Eddie Long. A slightly more sicker version, but nothing close to the Vatican cover up, the Penn State scandal is about a man who abused young boys, was busted but was concealed by an institution that is more worried about its reputation and money than the crimes committed.

Still today Penn State and its supporters are more concerned with maintaining its reputation than reparations for families that have been passed over and disrupted by a sick fuck. BTW, I wouldn’t have wanted my son next to a guy with teeth like the Devil. Do you see those canines? Yuck.

Jerry Loves The Kids

But the rabbit hole, or the anus hole goes deeper than the walls of Penn State. Sandusky’s sexual abuse has been on record since the 90s with a partial confession from Sandusky in a criminal investigation by local police officers reported in this article.

Apparently, parents have complained about Sandusky repeatedly, but somehow, these allegations slipped into the crevices of law enforcement bureaucracy. Interestingly, Pookie Jenkins can get time for half a gram of crack lodged in the crease of his pants, but a well-respected pedophile has to rape about a dozen or so boys to have substantial evidence.

Then the information about some of the young boys possibly being forced into a child-sex ring that prostituted them to big Penn State donors opens a can of worms that many in power do not want to see come out. You know that movie with Tom Cruise, “Eyes Wide Shut” that wasn’t just a fiction flick, it happens, and it is especially tantalizing when children are brought into the equation.

FACT: Child sex rings are commonplace among the elite in America. England isn’t the only country that has a high child abduction and prostitution ring. The United States covers up countless child sex scandals that involved wealthy sick fuckers and connected fuckers who flick off those assaulted like hardened boogers. Take for instance the White House scandals in the Reagan and Bush 1 and Bush 2 era.

However, let us remember who is really damaged in this case. Information was borrowed from a NY Times article.

VICTIM 1 He was 11 or 12 years old when he met Sandusky in 2005 or 2006 through the Second Mile, a charity Sandusky set up to help disadvantaged boys. The coach gave the boy gifts — golf clubs, a computer, clothes — and often had him stay at his house in a basement bedroom.

Sandusky would crawl into bed with him, have the boy lie on top of him and “crack his back,” pulling the boy against him and then rubbing his back. The grand jury said Sandusky performed oral sex on the boy more than 20 times in 2007 and 2008 and had the boy perform oral sex on him once.

VICTIM 2 A boy, about 10 years old, was seen naked in a locker-room shower at Penn State with Sandusky in 2002 by Mike McQueary, then a 28-year-old graduate assistant and aspiring coach. The grand jury report said McQueary saw the boy “with his hands up against the wall, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky.”

VICTIM 3 A boy, about 13, was invited by Sandusky in 2000 to his home for dinners, to go on walks and to attend Penn State football games. They exercised together and then showered. Sandusky patted him, rubbed his shoulders, washed his hair and gave him bear hugs. The boy stayed at Sandusky’s home, where Sandusky blew on his stomach, rubbed the inside of his thigh and touched his genitals.

VICTIM 4 A boy, 12 or 13, “was repeatedly subjected to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and indecent assault at the hands of Sandusky,” the report said. Contact took place in 1996 or 1997 in the locker-room shower and in hotel rooms. Sandusky gave the boy dozens of gifts — sports equipment, clothes and passes to sporting events — and threatened to send him home from the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio when the boy resisted his advances.

VICTIM 5 A boy, 7 or 8, was invited in 1995 or 1996 to Sandusky family events and football games. When the boy was 8 or 10, Sandusky would roughhouse with him, then say they needed to shower. At one point, Sandusky, naked, pinned the boy against a wall in the shower, then placed the boy’s hand on his genitals. The boy slid away, and Sandusky never touched him again.

VICTIM 6 When the boy was 11, in 1998, Sandusky was driving him to the university and put his hand on his thigh in the car. At the university they wrestled and Sandusky said they needed to shower. He lathered the boy in soap and bear-hugged him from behind. After the boy’s mother reported the incident to the university, Sandusky told investigators that he was wrong and that “I wish I were dead.”

VICTIM 7 A boy, about 10, was invited in 1994 to numerous events and sleepovers at Sandusky’s. After a couple of years, Sandusky began putting his hand on the boy’s thigh while they were driving and on at least one occasion put his hands down the boy’s pants, though never touching his genitals. Sandusky bear-hugged him, cracked his back and shared showers.

VICTIM 8 An unidentified “young” boy was seen in the shower with Sandusky at Penn State in 2000 by a university janitor. The janitor said Sandusky had pinned the boy against the wall and was performing oral sex on him.

Listen to this animal in his own words:

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So, apparently several people in authority took the “PEN” in Penn State just a little bit too seriously. You know, as in penitentiary? Not that I’ve spent any time in one. But I assume that’s probably the only place where turning a blind eye to rape is expected. For the life of me, I don’t understand how a witnessed act of sexual molestation can be swept up under a rug for one day, much less almost an entire decade. I’m sorry, but there’s a big difference to “horse play”, and the ass-raping of a 10-year-old boy, by a 60-year-old man.

This isn’t something you see everyday, so acceptance as normal behavior is beyond the pale.Sure people witnesscrimes everyday; and yes, the culture of not snitching exists. However, in spite of just how morally bankrupt our collective society may be. I’d like to think that even the most depraved in good conscience may have trouble sleeping at night knowing that nothing was done in the interest of protecting a child from sexual molestation.

So why are people mourning Joe Paterno? I know he’s a legendary coach and representative of all things associated with Nittany Lions football. I’m also aware of his successes and failures as a football coach. However, did he get raped? I’m only asking because one would think he’s a victim the way many reacting to his dismissal. For some, it’s as though Paterno is simply a sacrificial lamb offered up for political expediency. But really, what else should the board of trustees have done?

Again: did he get raped?

Does he wake up tomorrow with the anvil of guilt much like the many victims of his defense coordinator, Jerry Sandusky? Does he live a significant portion of his life with the feelings of hopelessness? Does he carry the feelings of inadequacy that accompanies the victims of childhood sexual abuse? Will he carry the unwanted shame of one time being a boy and having a grown man’s penis and ejaculation in his mouth? Will he have the life long confusion once these events get played out in his head over and over again? As a victim of said abuse, allow me to tell you: no he would not. Sadly as I watch the collective and individual reactions to this, I’m angered all over again.

Listen, by all accounts Paterno is a good man. We know he was a helluva football coach. We know he may have been the last of the “goog guys” in a sport where he established a standard for discipline, and simply doing the right thing. Rare characteristics of today’s coaches indeed; he was truly the last of the old school. However, as deserved as is his accolades, is his dismissal from the job he loved. If you don’t agree with me, or the decision of Penn State’s board of trustees. Do me a favor and give thought to the victims. After doing that, give some thought to the any number of little boys who were molested after that graduate student assistant saw what he saw in that locker room shower. There’s no telling how many of them there might have been. But I do know that if something was done other than taking away Sandusky’s locker room key was done — as in prosecuting him — that number would have been zero. No, Paterno wasn’t raped, but not acting as he should was a lot worse than missing a tackle in my opinion. He called the wrong play, and thus, he lost the game.

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So, err — where was the internet when I as getting my ass beaten by my parents with extension cords, frying pans, and tree trunks? No seriously, y’all. I’ve been hearing all the talk about about a Texas judge who was caught on tape giving his 16-year-old daughter an ass-whoopin’. Television media is running the story, and currently showing excerpts from the now viral video, and labeling it as “disturbing.” Now, according to the story, Judge William Adams can be seen disciplining his daughter with a leather belt, smacking her about twenty times. The video has sparked outrage from online viewers, and has received at least two million views on YouTube. According to an interview with the mother and father I just saw on MSNBC, she was being punished for illegally downloading music on her computer after being told not too. As “disturbing” as it may look, I don’t see the big deal. Take a few minutes (8 minutes total) to check out the “disturbing” video:

I don’t know about you, but I never had the luxury of being put on time out, or being grounded. Nope, my parents didn’t believe in that television sitcom styled punishment. And, from talking to my friends, their parents didn’t subscribe to that either. We all got beatings, and we remembered them. More important than remembering those ass-whoopins, is remembering what we did to deserve them. Or, remembering not to do the same thing more than once. Personally, I’m grateful for my beatings. Without them, I can say that my life may have been different. It’s quite possible that I would have never realized the severity of consequences for my actions. Hell, even to this day at 41-years-old, I think twice about shit because of those beatings. Sure I’m a grown-ass-man; but even so, I’m always fearful of catching a Momma RiPPa beatdown for making bad choices.

Obviously, things are different today. Today as a parent, you not only have to be concerned about about your kids snitching on you to po-po. You also have to worry about them setting up cameras, or being greeted by Chris Hanson on “To Catch A Child Abuser”. We now have to worry if our kids, like Hillary Adams, will strike back an enact their vengeance by uploading an ass-whoopin’ to YouTube, seven years after the fact. It’s hardly not likely, but I think it’s a damn shame that I will be forced to beat my kids in the bathroom in my own house; hopefully, this is still the only room I am afforded privacy, and that is off-limits to cameras. I know, it’s pretty sad when you have to think like a criminal and not a judge when it comes to beating your kids. Now that I think of it, maybe me being put in time out as a kid would have been better. Yeah, dodging the belt buckle sucked.

It’s just too bad there were no caneras and the internet during slavery

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