Charles Barkely says we shouldn't be telling people how to parent and that Peterson

[cali]

was disciplining his child in the tradition of Southern African Americans and that his granny switched him, leaving welts on his legs. Maybe Peterson went a bit too far, but.... nothing to see here.

I watched it. The transcript is here:

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/charles-barkley-adrian-peterson-video-ray-rice-cbs-nfl-today

[Anansi1171]

1. Sir Charles beat Karl Malone to the punch!

My wife's family is Southern Baptist and was raised by the switch.

Myself, having endured US Army S.E.R.E school and being raised by parents who tried to parent differently in the 70s, know exactly what this crap is and will most definitely be sparing the rod, and the Southern Baptist will have to keep their comments to themselves.

Maybe southern blacks have been influenced by Puritanism and further by antebellum sensibilities about black children.

Maybe how we, as African Americans, raise our children with respect to corporal punishment has impacts on violence and mental health in our community.

I mean, if I tell a child to go pick out the switch I will use to strike them when they do wrong the next time, I am guilty of psychological torture and nothing less.

It's a shame what people do to their children.

[jwirr]

2. Poligamy was in the tradition of the Mormons to. It is (at least yet) illegal. The law can and does

make boundaries on how we can act.

As to culture. I went to college at a German Lutheran college and in a class we were discussing child abuse. Our professor told us that the hardest people to get to stop child abuse was our church because of the Bible passage regarding "Spare the rod, spoil the child".

People here are saying this is a result of AA culture. IMO it is not about race. It crosses the lines of culture, race and wealth.

[cali]

3. I'm not saying it's about race, but Charles Barkely sure did.

[jwirr]

4. I was not accusing you of this. Sorry if I offended you. And yes Barkely did.