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Stop Telling Black Kids to Move Out the Way

By Dr. Stacey Patton
Creator of Spare The Kids
Unfortunately, the following scenario is an all-too familiar scene that gets played out daily in public spaces.

A good friend of mine was walking along a subway platform the other day when she saw a young black woman dragging her child by one arm.  The child, who had to take three or four steps in proportion to one of his mother’s, had his head turned in the opposite direction.  Not paying attention, he nearly bumped into my friend who had flattened herself against the wall to avoid a crash.

No Race Bias in Child Abuse Reporting

By Stacey Patton
Do African Americans really abuse their children more than whites and other groups?  Or is there a thread of racial bias from the largely white social services workforce that reports abuse?  Are white social workers more likely to suspect maltreatment among blacks?

Spread The Word

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From the Mouths of Babes

By Stacey Patton
Creator of SpareTheKids.com
“I think we can all agree that the worst kind of whoopin’, is the kind when we don’t know what we did,” says Zaire, an 8th grader at The Stadium School in East Baltimore, Maryland.  It’s a Friday afternoon and she and about a dozen of her classmates are participating in a roundtable discussion on corporal punishment being held inside principal Ron Shelley’s office.

Crying Like A Baby

I will never forget the time I saw a woman beating her son in public. I had just finished grocery shopping. My son was about 10 at the time. As we were walking to the car we heard what sounded like a man crying. This woman had taken off her shoe and was beating her teenage son with it. It was quite a scene. He was much taller than her and crying like a baby. He kept trying to block the blows while his mother wailed on him with that shoe and cursed him out in front of everybody. There were other people in the parking lot watching and laughing. My son was horrified and frightened. I grabbed him and told him that he doesn’t ever have to worry about being degraded like that. Some times I think about that young teen and wonder how he turned out. I wonder if he hates women.

Cecily J.
Franklin, VA

I’ll Give You Something To Cry About

I don’t understand why my mama expects me to stop crying right after a beating. It hurts. Why does she always tell me to stop? She always tells me to shut up or she will give me something to cry about?

Barron W.
Philadelphia, PA

A Bad Dream

The worst kind of whuppin is the kind when they wake you up in the middle of the night because you forgot to do something they told you to do. They pull back them sheets and wear you out. You don’t even have a chance to say nothing. You don’t have time to defend yourself. You can’t run. You feel like you are having a bad dream.

Shontelle
Detroit, MI

Picking Up the Pieces

My mother used to make me go pick a switch off a tree. It had to be a big one too. She would whip me so bad that it would break up into little pieces. When she was done I had to pick up the leaves and the broken pieces. I couldn’t cry or she would do it again.

Andy M.
Norfolk, VA

“Picking Up the Pieces”

My mother used to make me go pick a switch off a tree.  It had to be a big one too.  She would whip me so bad that it would break up into little pieces.  When she was done I had to pick up the leaves and the broken pieces.  I couldn’t cry or she would do it again.

Andy M.

Norfolk, VA

“Picking Up the Pieces”

 

 

 

My mother used to make me go pick a switch off a tree. It had to be a big one too. She would whip me so bad that it would break up into little pieces. When she was done I had to pick up the leaves and the broken pieces. I couldn’t cry or she would do it again.

 

 

 

Andy M.

 

Norfolk, VA

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