Video: Mom Forcefully Stops Son From Rioting In Baltimore #baltimore

[Xavier]

What do you think of this mother? Is this abuse or disciple? I know a good "beaten" did not kill me back in the day.

[Tropicana]

Well there was no need to hit him or use profanity but she was right to march him home. I would have done the same thing. Good for her.

[Tuff Gong]

She must have some Jamaican blood in her?

[Wahalla]

I thought the mother has no respect for her child nor for his manhood.. Had he boxed her down she would have deserved it.

[Blackstar*]

If he was doing wrong, the mother should have disciplined her son at home.

[Wahalla]

She has gone onto TV and she has publicly identified him as taking part in a action against the police....

I was thinking on this for a moment and there is a possibility....

The justice system can prosecute him and she will have to be the main witness against him... They will be able to back track him and see if he threw one stone... and then it is a slam dunk procecution....It can be a charge of riot.... not a disturbance and i expect the justice system to do that!

That is definition of stupidity!

First do no harm, she has potentially done him as much harm as the jusctive system can do to him....

http://cbsn.ws/1zo2ope

[Tuff Gong]

I thought the mother has no respect for her child nor for his manhood.. Had he boxed her down she would have deserved it.

Are you serious?
She already tried to speak to him at home and he did not listen.
She did what she had to do.
She spoke forcefully to his manhood in a language that he understood.

[Tuff Gong]

She has gone onto TV and she has publicly identified him as taking part in a action against the police....

I was thinking on this for a moment and there is a possibility....

He was about to engage in an act of violent protest, she prevented him from further harm.

[Tuff Gong]

If he was doing wrong, the mother should have disciplined her son at home.

She had tried to dissuade him.
She took action in the streets to stop him from ending up dead on the streets.

[Blackstar*]

I didn't follow this story at all, but I don't like to see black youth humiliated on telly. White people are just using the clip for their entertainment and as fodder for their tropes about black parenting.

[Xavier]

I had an interesting conversation today with some friends about the clip. I had mentioned that she was doing anything necessary to protect him. One friend who is an expert on juvenile issues said this a cycle she has seen before. She mentioned that the lack of respect shown by mothers to juvenile sons may eventually result in them not respecting women as an adult male. Another mentioned this type of display is why black men are not respects. A very spirited discussion and varied view point.

[Blackstar*]

I had an interesting conversation today with some friends about the clip. I had mentioned that she was doing anything necessary to protect him. One friend who is an expert on juvenile issues said this a cycle she has seen before. She mentioned that the lack of respect shown by mothers to juvenile sons may eventually result in them not respecting women as an adult male. Another mentioned this type of display is why black men are not respects. A very spirited discussion and varied view point.

I agree with this (and low-key suspect it leads to many black men dating and marrying non-black women). "Our" style of child-rearing with liberal doses of corporal punishment is too focused on punishing bad behaviour and not enough on rewarding good behaviour.

[evanovitch]

i applaud the mother....parents need to step up n show their children just how involved they r in their lives....that is a mother...she saw thru his masked face, the hoodie drawn down, the all neutral black garb BUT SHE KNEW HER CHILD...and she went for him....as to humiliating him in public, armed as he was with a rock he was already humiliating himself....after all they were burning their own ,sub-standard n sub-serviced neightbouthood...so what was that achieving...marching in protest is one thing, arming urself with a rock is a whole other , not to mention the measures he went to to disguise himself...if u that invested u don't have to disguise..u willing fi go jail if it is deemed an illegal demonstration..but wat was going on n what she saw had more to do with dangerous activity n she went for her child....BRAVO..she didn't call him up and tell him to mek sure him get a big screen as i know some parents do, she went for HER CHILD N TOLD HIM IN STRONG TERMS he was not doing right by HIMSELF....B R A V O....

[Tuff Gong]

i applaud the mother....parents need to step up n show their children just how involved they r in their lives....that is a mother...she saw thru his masked face, the hoodie drawn down, the all neutral black garb BUT SHE KNEW HER CHILD...and she went for him....as to humiliating him in public, armed as he was with a rock he was already humiliating himself....after all they were burning their own ,sub-standard n sub-serviced neightbouthood...so what was that achieving...marching in protest is one thing, arming urself with a rock is a whole other , not to mention the measures he went to to disguise himself...if u that invested u don't have to disguise..u willing fi go jail if it is deemed an illegal demonstration..but wat was going on n what she saw had more to do with dangerous activity n she went for her child....BRAVO..she didn't call him up and tell him to mek sure him get a big screen as i know some parents do, she went for HER CHILD N TOLD HIM IN STRONG TERMS he was not doing right by HIMSELF....B R A V O....

I see it that way too!

[CeaBee]

I had an interesting conversation today with some friends about the clip. I had mentioned that she was doing anything necessary to protect him. One friend who is an expert on juvenile issues said this a cycle she has seen before. She mentioned that the lack of respect shown by mothers to juvenile sons may eventually result in them not respecting women as an adult male. Another mentioned this type of display is why black men are not respects. A very spirited discussion and varied view point.

some of these teenage boys not easy. If there was a dad in the household, my guess is that if he caught his son throwing rocks at the police, he wouldn't stop to ask the boy about his feelings, but would react the same way if not more forcefully. Mom stepping up because there's nobody else to do it. Mothers would much prefer to be the soft, nurturing presence in their children's lives, but sometimes you gotta do what u gotta do.

*look fi slippas*