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Jenoch

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8. I don't think corporal pu ishment of children

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Sep 15, 2014, 10:03 PM

Sep 2014

really started to become 'wrong' until the 1980s. It was common before then. I'm not speaking for what happens in the south or elsewhere, just my own observations.

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NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley: If whipping's illegal, "every black parent in the south [View all] pnwmom Sep 2014 OP

Well, that just shows how black Americans can be fucked up, just like whites and Latinos and ... Bigmack Sep 2014 #1

That's quite the sweeping generalization, Mr. Barkley. HuckleB Sep 2014 #2

I just posted a thread that kinda shows this JonLP24 Sep 2014 #3

Oh, then I guess that makes it OK tularetom Sep 2014 #4

1StrongBlackMan has an interesting thread about this. ZombieHorde Sep 2014 #5

It is interesting JonLP24 Sep 2014 #6

Thanks for the link, ZombieHorde. n/t pnwmom Sep 2014 #7

I don't think corporal pu ishment of children Jenoch Sep 2014 #8

It was pretty common in my neck of the woods in the '60s and '70s Art_from_Ark Sep 2014 #10

"Every black parent" beats their kids? Democat Sep 2014 #9