Warrant issued for arrest of Vikings' Peterson (Trigger Warning: Graphic description of child abuse)

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5. There was a time when this wasnt called abuse, it was called a whooping

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For someone who may have just gotten spanked at the most this looks like the worse kind of abuse but this is commonly practiced in the black community especially in the South. If a kid did something bad the parents (usually the mother) would go to the nearest bush, snap off a long twig (commonly called "the switch&quot , get a knife to shave the prongs off then go back in the house and "tan that hide".

The common striking places are the back, the hands, legs and buttocks.

If you were caught stealing, they'd tell you to put your hands out and beat it a few times and if you hid it, they would "tan that hide" and the welts that would take about a month to heal were treated as "reminders".

Southern black people didn't play around when it came to disciplining and I feel this is where that came from. I don't think he was doing it for a sick thrill, he did it because that's how some communities discipline their kids (Not that I agree with it).

Some people use belts, some use paddles, others use rulers and some use switches.