(ThyBlackMan.com) This Adrian Peterson situation has really got me pissed for many reasons. Many of you who know me personally know that I am a single father of two kids and my father raised me after my mom passed from age 2 til now. So a “good ass whoop in’“, I know bout’ that life. Some of y’all reading will recall, L’Enfant plaza movie theater David,Tamil, Terrence and some more friends went to the movies. As we walked home we decided to go the 7-11, which was down the street from my Grandmothers house where i lived.
My father would come after work to see while my grandmother watched me during the week. So it wasn’t a surprise to see him when we were going to the store but it was a surprise when he grabbed me and snatched me in the house. Because despite me being happy about seeing No Holds Barred it didn’t help not letting my father know where I was and it definitely didn’t help I didn’t have on a belt (one of my dads pet peeves). After a stern tongue lashing and an embarrassment like that, I understood that my father cared about me and be wanted me to be presentable.
Needless to say from that day forward I made sure to inform my father where I was going until I got of age, and of course I never forget my belt and my son can tell you I’m just as much a stickler as my dad was. Now in the age of skinny jeans and bamas wearing pants beneath their ball sack and ass crack, I call my dad and tell him thank you. See that ass whippin
kept me from being a hot Bama and doing 10 year old stuff at age 37. Other memorable whippings that I got that I will not reveal what I did to deserve them also kept me out of the penitentiary and sometimes the cemetery.
Like me many of you have these same stories and like me you live to tell about it, no more worse for the wear and in many cases you come out with a better perspective and a better understanding that later in life you end up using. But it seemed bad right then.
Adrian Peterson I fear will become the new face for child abuse if we are not careful just as Joe Jackson was in the 90s. Despite leading his kids to fortune, guiding his son to be the Greatest Entertainer and Music Icon ever,guiding his daughter to be one of the most successful female artists ever and obviously giving them major business savy, Joe Jackson is still portrayed as an Emotionless Monster, who cares more about his childrens success then their well being.
Which in turn becomes a new brush used to paint an even more distorted picture of Black men as fathers. And further the narrative of the violent black who beats his wife, beats his kids and commit crimes. Although most parents in the black community don’t spank their kids. In my experience they barely talk to them and when they do its some sugar coated lecture that leaves the child a way to continue foolish behavior and you frustrated.
How come no one addresses the kids who steal,kill and rob and ask if they were “abused” a majority will say no and in fact discipline was never a premium. Now all infractions are not spankable ones so please do not increase your spank output (Pause) in hopes of making the next Jackson 5 because I know it won’t work and its a bunch of garbage, if he was spending that much time beating his kids how did they learn all of those songs and dance moves. Chris Carter sat on TV and said his mom raised him and he is thankful but he knows now that she was wrong for spanking him!
??????Huh!!!!!!??????
This woman raised him and his brother,his older brother played in the NBA, and he is a NFL Hall of famer. I’m about to go to his house and get a spanking right now the Chiefs could use me. It is funny how when the media puts a spotlight on a black man for something they perceive as a crime, how many black people are quick to jump on the coon train and take a ride.
Black People do not ridicule your family for raising you and making you the person that you are. And pops thanks for whooping my ass, if I was doing something that bad to make somebody who love me as much as you do want to give me a good slap, I’d rather you do it, then Darren Wilson or George Zimmerman.
Staff Writer; LeVar Smith
