Colin Flaherty: GRAPHIC VIDEO: Teen Babysitters Taunt Toddler with Taser

GRAPHIC VIDEO: Teen Babysitters Taunt Toddler with Taser - Colin Flaherty reviews and gives commentary on news with headlines "OPINION: Stop Beating Black Children" and "Child Abuse and Accidents in Black Families: A Controlled Comparative Study" and "GRAPHIC: Teen babysitters taunt toddler with Taser" and "Victim blaming and abuse in the black community: How did women become the villains?" and "Beating our black children furthers the legacy of slavery"

By Stacey Patton March 10, 2017
When the beating was over, we stood within reach of each other, out of breath, our hair a mess. Her first words were always the same: “Stop that crying, or I’ll give you something to cry about.”

Amer. J. Orthopsychiat., 53(4), October 1983, 645-653.
Child Abuse and Accidents in Black Families: A Controlled Comparative Study
Jessica H. Daniel, Ph.D., Robert L. Hampton, Ph.D., Eli H. Newberger, M.D.

Families of child abuse and accident victims were evaluated in a study of 402 families with children up to four years of age. Children were matched on a one-to-one basis with a control according to race, socioeconomic status, and age. Socioeconomic factors that plays significant role in imposing undue stress upon many families are identified, and implications for prevention and for practice are offered.

Published: Thursday, July 12th 2018, 5:48 am CDT
Updated: Thursday, July 12th 2018, 5:48 am CDT
CONWAY, AR (KARK/CNN) – An Arkansas mother is distraught after the teenagers babysitting her 1-year-old daughter allegedly slapped and tormented the girl with a Taser

Police in Conway, AR, arrested three female teenagers after a Snapchat video surfaced Monday that appears to show one of them pretending to poke her 1-year-old babysitting charge with a Taser.

The child can be seen screaming and stretching her arms out for help.

In another video, a teenager can be seen doing the toddler’s hair then slapping her in the back of the head.

Both videos are followed by laughter and covered with laughing emoji.

By Kirsten West-Savali - June 13, 2012
There is an epidemic in the African-American community that extends into our homes, relationships and throughout our religious institutions. That illness is the apathy towards abuse against our women and children by grown men who assert their physical power to physically and psychologically assault them.

What we’re tackling here is kyriarchy. In a country that has historically emasculated black men in the collective sense, through disproportionate sentencing, profiling, and lack of education and occupational opportunities, some black men feel the need to assert their authority against the only people that they feel they can – their women and children.

It’s their way of asking, “Ain’t I a man?” “Do I have the right to control anything or anyone?” “In this nation of white privilege, if my woman or child ‘disrespects’ me, don’t I have permission to physically show them who’s the boss?”

Study upon study upon study has shown that women of color are disproportionately affected by abuse; yet some women still automatically deflect blame away from the male abuser directly to the female victim. Why? Because it empowers them to blame the victim and they have accepted that abusive men – and the system that allows them to flourish — will never change.