Blacks With Power| Make America Great Through Black Power

Parenting Black kids is quite the challenge. With police and thieves in the street, rampant disparity along racial lines, a school to prison pipeline that preys on Black boys & girls, and etc., there are many things to frighten Black parents. And that's in addition to the normal fears of parenting... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr_72Rt38Ng It's funny tho: if you're like most Black people, you came from a home where corporal punishment was part of your reality. We pride ourselves in sharing stories of the crazy things our parents may have said or did as part of raising us. And though we may shed some things, many times we employ similar strategies in parenting Black kids when we have our own. I, myself, have talked about the irony that White society will criticize how we (culturally) are parenting Black kids. During slavery, we raised their kids! But how much of our parenting style is born from our experience of slavery? How much of parenting Black kids is a product of the brutality of the experienc