Way to go Mom! Baltimore Mom sees son on TV and ......

[stamina]

Hang on, single mom with SIX children?

Where are all her baby daddies?

Not mother of the year.

Maybe she's a widow.

 

[Miss*Bijou]

the daddies(who knows how many?)won't stick around.they'll move on to the next girl and repeat the process.

And you're racist too. Wow what a shock.

The hideous white hypocrisy behind the Baltimore “Hero Mom” hype:

How clueless media applause excuses police brutality


And the woman lionized nationwide for beating her 16-year-old son on camera, and dragging him away from Monday night’s riots, doesn’t feel at all like a hero.

“I don’t. I don’t,” Graham told CBS “This Morning” on Wednesday. “My intention was just to get my son and have him be safe.” Later in the interview, Graham confesses, “I just lost it.” (Watch the whole thing at the end of this post.)

Her moment of losing it made her a hero to much of white America – and not just to the right. Coast to coast, the media is hyping Graham as “Hero Mom” and her on-camera beating as “Tough Love.” It’s not just Fox News or the “New York Post,” whose tabloid “Send in the Moms” front page this time reflects rather than rebukes the mainstream media. And that’s heartbreaking.

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 shit out of them.

I’m aware that a lot of African Americans are lauding Graham, too. This piece isn’t directed at them. Whether they applaud or critique Graham’s corporal punishment, most black people debating the issue acknowledge that the desperate public beating came from centuries of black parents knowing they have to discipline their children harshly, or else white society will do it for them – and they may not survive it.

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. Witness the media horror at Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson beating his young son. If Graham beat her child like that in the aisles of CVS, you can be sure somebody would call CPS

“What’s remarkable for me,” says the clueless Charlie Rose, speaking for white America, “is he clearly had the respect — and fear — of you.” Why is that remarkable, that this young black man respects his mother? Rose then chuckles at “that right hook you have.”

For the most part, the CBS team ignored the big social issues behind Graham’s confrontation with her son. Graham didn’t. Like other Baltimore teens, Graham told the table, “he doesn’t have the perfect relationship with the police officers in Baltimore city…But two wrongs don’t make a right.” Nobody followed up on the young man’s “relationship” with police.

Graham also shared that she recently lost her job. Nobody asked about that. When the church-going single mother of six confessed that the first thing she thought, when she saw herself on television, was “Oh my God, my pastor is gonna have a fit,” Norah O’Donnell reassured her: “The police commissioner of Baltimore said “We need more moms like you.”

In the interview’s closing moments, Gayle King (who is African American) did bring the conversation around to the “relationship between the community and the police,” and the killing of Freddie Gray. Graham was eloquent.

We haven’t received any information about what happened to this young guy. It seemed like he was harmed…We can’t talk to the police. The news keeps showing how he was dragged to the paddywagon…as a mother, that was just devastating to see.

It sure was.

I don’t fault CBS for interviewing Graham. She’s a “newsmaker,” and I’d talk to her in a heartbeat. But the way the network hyped its “get” falls into the category of white media applauding a black woman for beating up her son. As though that’s the only way to discipline a black child.

These weren’t segments exploring the heartbreaking desperation of black inner city mothers, faced with an eternal “Sophie’s Choice” when it comes to their kids. They weren’t looking at the lack of options for teens in Sandtown-Winchester, or the history of Baltimore cops acting “in loco parentis” and beating the shit out of young black men, sometimes just for sport.

Not a word of this is intended to criticize Toya Graham. I cannot say to her, “Ma’am, I have a better way to keep your son safe.” But when I watch that video, I don’t merely see a loving mother disciplining her son. I see a desperate mother being forced to wield the club of white violence, “in loco” white cops. As a mother, the footage of cops dragging an agonized Freddie Gray into custody was indeed “devastating to see.” So was the footage of Graham beating her son, with the approving gaze of white media.

For the original and the video:

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/29/the...less_media_applause_excuses_police_brutality/

Jon Stewart nails it - as usual:

http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/video/player?vid=598672



And this one is a couple of years old but still on topic:

 

[grusse]

not racist,miss bj.....simply stating the truth


hmm, why am I thinking of a line from a Jack Nicholson movie??


btw, shouldn't you be out saving a crow?

 

[westwoody]

And you're racist too

LOL you of all people accusing someone else of being judgemental.

Hilarious!!!

Someday you will come in contact with the unwashed peasantry, it will be a rude awakening.

 

[Miss*Bijou]

LOL you of all people accusing someone else of being judgemental.

Hilarious!!!

Someday you will come in contact with the unwashed peasantry, it will be a rude awakening.

Yah, because racism is about being merely 'judgemental'. Sure.

Why are you even getting aggro? Obviously you both know you're posting vile racist shit, you're not being subtle or anything. So it's just saying that what you've posted is vile racist shit that actually bothers you? Why? It was probably very obvious to anyone who read it and me saying it isn't some big revelation.

I can't imagine you'd be arguing that it's not racist. Are you? Well that's what grusse seems to be doing so I guess maybe you are too.

You do realize I'm usually pissing people like you off because I side with the more marginalized or oppressed group while you or others just perpetuate the stereotypes and advocate your perceived right to keep bullying and keep your place at the top and your superiority unchallenged. So please explain WTH your peasantry nonsense has to do with any of what I'm saying. It's actually completely irrelevant and makes NO sense. Nice try though.

As if the opinion two unapologetic racists have of me is something I care about anyway. Sorry, try again.

not racist,miss bj.....simply stating the truth

Right. The "truth" according to a racist.

btw, shouldn't you be out saving a crow?

Wow aren't you just so clever.


(honestly, though.. You really have the lamest 'comebacks/joke/whatever it's supposed to be. It's like, I can't quite tell if you're trying to insult, if you're trying to be funny, or what you're going for with these lame comments)

 

[grusse]

and your debating rebuttals are the equivalent of "oh yeah?"

re deadbeat dads, they come in all forms, miss b, white people, colored people,even French-Cdn people at times.

the mom in the video happens to be a colored woman,there are no doubt single white moms in Baltimore as well,tho' their offspring weren't as readily apparent
in the rioting.

actually,I applaud the mom who smacked her wayward wannabe looter/rioter, more parents should take similar responsibility.

re the crow thread...if you read it, I was actually on your side of the argument,when I posted about my experiences with magpies in Australia.(magpies are of the same avian family as crows)
which is as close as I'll ever get to agreeing with you on something,lol.

 

[Lo-ki]

OK YOU TWO....get a room....

 

[Miss*Bijou]

and your debating rebuttals are the equivalent of "oh yeah?"

re deadbeat dads, they come in all forms, miss b, white people, colored people,even French-Cdn people at times.

the mom in the video happens to be a colored woman,there are no doubt single white moms in Baltimore as well,tho' their offspring weren't as readily apparent
in the rioting.

actually,I applaud the mom who smacked her wayward wannabe looter/rioter, more parents should take similar responsibility.
.

Good job. Lol

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/30999175/warning-why-using-the-term-coloured-is-offensive

Of course deadbeat dad's come in all forms but it's unlikely you would have automatically assumed or said what you did if the mother had not been black and presumably poor. The fact that you know very well it's a racist stereotype means you understand perfectly well how it would be offensive to say it. Don't backpedal because your comments could not have been more openly, unambiguously and obviously racist.


More parents should beat their kids?
Taking responsibility for your kids = beating them?
Interesting..

 

[badbadboy]

Good job. Lol

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/30999175/warning-why-using-the-term-coloured-is-offensive

Tell me how it is we WASP's must adhere to PC doctrine on whatever flavour of the day definitions of origins and skin colour yet the people in question refer to themselves by the N word in music and everyday communications?

Regardless of your views, I applaud the mother for applying some tough love to her son.

 

[grusse]

Good job. Lol

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/30999175/warning-why-using-the-term-coloured-is-offensive

miss bijou, there are people south of the 49th parallel who need your help!these unfortunate people have been insulting themselves for years, 106 years to be precise.

they are the NAACP,founded in Feb/1909.

NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancedment of Colored People.

how they have managed all these years while insulting themselves is truly a mystery.
but,it's not too late!you can educate them on the usage of non-PC terminology,which they will no doubt appreciate.

the latest weather report indicates clear visibility and light winds so hop on your broom and head south.