To condemn Adrian Peterson without considering racial context ...

[DonCoquixote]

47. As someone with family members also have had problems with cops

I would ask you this. No, Puerto Ricans have not had the tradition of being beaten since the 1600's, but we get shot by cops, profiled by cops, at a rate that also alarming. I am not saying Puerto Ricans have it as bad as Afro Americans, but cops like to shoot us as well, and much of the reason my relatives acted the way they did was for the same reason, i.e. if you talk that way to white people, they will kick your (expletive deleted.)

That being said, I do not want ANYONE, bet they African, be they Latino, be they whatever, to feel they have to beat their children to PLEASE WHITE PEOPLE, many of whom will gladly beat the kids anyway!

Take a look at Obama. Yes, there are legitimate critiques of him, but how many times have you seen people rip on him and attack him because they know he is easier to attack, why, because as Don King put it, he does not have "the complexion nor connection." Even so called "LIBERALS" here, know they can take a swing at Obama, one that they would not DARE take at a Liz Warren, much less a Hillary Clinton! And yet, Obama has bent over backwards to accommodate the majority, by letting Van Jones and Shirley Brown get attacked, while keeping Rahm Emmanuel and Hillary Clinton in his cabinet. God bless him, but even Joe Biden let out the gaffe about who Obama was "so clean cut..."

And yet, has it stopped anyone from beating Obama up? NO. That is why beating our kids so that they will be able to either avoid the majority or take the invertible blows from the majority is no longer good, because now, the Majority feels that they can get away with anything, and they have Fox news tot ell them they are right, as well as those in the "left" that are all about equal rights, as long as they get theirs before those uppity brown people do. Truth is not needed anymore. We do not need to abuse our kids to please the majority, the majority no longer cares, and it no longed needs excuses, and the NRA had made damned sure to encourage that majority to shoot any of us in the name of "standing their ground."

PS: this goes out to SOME, note I say, SOME Hillary Supporters. I know many of you voted for Hillary because you sincerely thought she was going to do more liberal things; you can ignore this part. But to those that gladly cheered when Bill said "we got mugged", or who cheered Mark Penn as he said Obama was not as much of an American, we are watching. Yes, we know that whoever the GOP puts up will be terrible, but if you think flirting with the racists will not cost you, think again. You know that in order for Hillary to win, a lot of us will have to pinch our nose, because we KNOW she will go to war, and cut our benefits, and make nice with the very same people that calls people like me and Strong racial slurs behind closed doors, where they will not try not to get taped like Mitt "47 percent" Romney was. If it was not for the disaster of 2000, where compassionate conservative W. used a Trojan horse strategy to sneak Dick Cheney into power, many of us would say "fuck it" especially people who have seen how you treated Obama, that poor man who tried so hard not to offend any of you.