What you are missing is not that it is bad parenting - it is. The problem is white parents do stupid stuff, also, and they aren't held as accountable - it is a racist double standard similar to school discipline insofar as black children receive three times as many suspensions as white kids. This video was posted by racist cops to perpetuate negative stereotyping of black people. It should have been quietly handled and not promoted by the police. That being said, the child has been removed from that horrible home by the government you conservatives always vilify, so her life is not ruined yet.
Originally Posted by Bert Jones
Clarification - I saw another video by the 16 year old mother and she referred to "my son". So, maybe the child is a boy.
Can you provide ANY proof at all that white parents aren't held as accountable? Or did you just make that shit up? Can you link to any videos of white parents engaged in child abuse where the white parents were not similarly punished?
Also, perhaps black students receive three times as many suspensions as white students because they do three times as many bad things. Bad acts are punished, not skin color. So, if you cause three times as much trouble, you get three times as many suspensions.
Would you like to bet that even in schools where the teachers and administrators are themselves majority black that black students are still punished more often than white students? Does that mean that the black teachers and principals are anti-black racists, too?
Your argument suffers from the fallacy that all groups act the same. They don't. There is a much higher level of dysfunction in black families than in white and Asian families. So, the children from those same dysfunctional families cause more trouble.
Breakdown in social norms explains these problems, not racism.
I point out again that the mother is 16 years old. The child appears to be about 2. That means she gave birth at about 14-15 years of age. And almost certainly got pregnant at 14. THAT is the problem. Here is a video new article:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/vi...-out.ketv.html
And here is an article:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/10/us/neb...html?hpt=hp_t2
Apparently, the cops have visited her house before. Gang-related violence and shots fired into the house.