Posted on 04/30/2015 4:51:52 PM PDT by Starman417
Who knew?
It's is the darndest thing. I've just learned that I am a victim of white supremacy.
The country has warmly embraced the actions of Toya Graham, who upon seeing her son participating in the Baltimore riots, let him know in no uncertain terms that he did the wrong thing.
BALTIMORE — A mother who was caught on video smacking her 16-year-old son around after he threw objects at police said when they made eye contact, he knew he was in trouble."I'm a no-tolerant mother. Everybody that knows me, know I don't play that," Toya Graham, a single mother of six, told CBS News. "He said, when 'I seen you,' he said, 'ma, my instinct was to run.'"
Graham received wide praise from people on social media and even the Baltimore police commissioner, who said more parents should have taken charge of their children like Graham after the riots started.
Graham said she saw her only son wearing a hoodie and mask amid the protesters demonstrating just hours after a funeral for Freddie Gray, a black man who died after suffering an unexplained spinal injury in police custody.
"At that point, I just lost it," she said. "I was shocked, I was angry, because you never want to see your child out there doing that."
She's gained the admiration of the mentally sound part of the country. Of course, liberals don't see things the same way. "Why is America celebrating the beating of a black child?" ask Stacey Patton.
It’s not surprising that a black mother in Baltimore who chased down, cursed and beat her 16-year-old son in the middle of a riot has been called a hero. In this country, when black mothers fulfill stereotypes of mammies, angry and thwarting resistance to a system designed to kill their children, they get praised.I learned from Ms. Patton that I too am a victim of white supremacy.“He gave me eye contact,” Toya Graham told CBS News. “And at that point, you know, not even thinking about cameras or anything like that — that’s my only son and at the end of the day, I don’t want him to be a Freddie Gray. Is he the perfect boy? No he’s not, but he’s mine.”
In other words, Graham’s message to America is: I will teach my black son not to resist white supremacy so he can live.
The kind of violent discipline Graham unleashed on her son did not originate with her, or with my adoptive mother who publicly beat me when I was a child, or with the legions of black parents who equate pain with protection and love. The beatings originated with white supremacy, a history of cultural and physical violence that devalues black life at every turn.Damn. I too am a victim of white supremacy.
I used to get beatings from my dad and I probably deserved much of it. The "physical violence" employed by Toya Graham is absolutely nothing compared to what I got. Nothing. To call what happened to Michael Singleton a "beating" is beyond stupid. More than anything, Michael was embarrassed and that really was the point of it. And you know what? If my 16 year old kid participated in those riots, he would have been the victim of white supremacy too when I caught him.
Stacey Patton is an idiot. A blithering idiot.
And she has company. The Huffington Post also wants a dip into the idiot pool.
"Dear White America: Toya Graham Is Not Your Hero" writes Julia Craven.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Toya better move out of the city soon,before her son gets himself shot.You can bet that the son’s friends are a bunch of ghetto rats,and no good can come from that.
Easier said than done. Single mother, no resources, no education etc. Hard to move with zip, zilch, nada. Too bad she is locked into the liberal plantation.
It has nothing to do with white supremacy, either. It’s the corrupt plutocracy trying to distract from its own wrongs.
Apparently I’m a victim of white supremacy as well since I too will get arrested if I break the law. I might get a few knocks if I resist arrest. Maybe I’m not the right kind of white.
Her son? I thought she identified one of the fathers.
If she has friends or relatives in another location, she can move.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
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