To condemn Adrian Peterson without considering racial context ...

[1StrongBlackMan]

88. Yes ...

When you say, "the cross lit up," do you mean that white people actually came to your family's home that evening because of the ice-cream store incident and burned a cross, and that the elders had the children hide under the porch because they feared there would be violence?

While I, to this day, do not know that it was solely BECAUSE OF the ice cream parlor; but I don't think my 5 year old mouth, helped matters, Yes ... a cross was burned in front of the house and us kids hid under the kitchen table (I learned later, BTW, we hid there, because it was one of the few rooms in the house with more than one exit path).

Now, wouldn't that under-score the importance of young'ins being "mindful"? ... When an adult told a child to do something, whether or not in a voice of urgency, the child was to obey, immediately and without question; failure to do so, was grounds for a whooping, NOT reasoning (with the child) ... Not a "time-out". History taught that obedience was a matter of life or death.