POSITION STATEMENT: Corporal punishment in the black community

Corporal punishment is a separate topic from the black community's existence in the United States. More and more black parents, and parents of every color, creed, and religion, are choosing not to spank or punish their children. Race doesn't matter.

I hate a black parent for whupping their child not because they are black, but because they feel entitled to make that choice to physically batter their child as a parent. Not all black parents do, and we have strong voices such as Asadah Kirkland and Stacey Patton who are anti-spanking and all for gentle, attached parenting, and I respect them for their parenting views. I have stayed out of this fight, as the roots of all this is something only a fellow African-American citizen of this country can impart as a reason not to whup their children.

Whupping is a Southern thing, as in the South, whites do it too, but it was transplanted to Northern blacks during the Great Migration. We don't want anyone punishing a child, regardless of color, creed, or other divisive characteristic. All adults are to blame, for all that I care, but especially parents, since they have that glorified title handy. The A-word can be a glorified title as well, and we sure aren't talking about a donkey in passing.

I only bring this up because it was brought up as a harassing taunt and a form of reverse racism by my local district justice. We will not tolerate racism here from either direction, and if I appear racist by me saying this, I apologize, as that is not my intent at all. The first person that brings up race in an argument is the racist, until proven otherwise, meaning race should not even be relevant on my page, and I have banned the topic, but take liberty as an admin of my page to post this post that violates the rules of my page.