Goose wrote:

That's your right, my friend.

Get that Mom of the year trophy ready.

I may miss the ceremony

I always tell my daughter than my number 1 job as a parent is to protect her. So if I was in that mom's situation, I think it's more than just my right, but my duty.
 

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Goose wrote:

TheLagerLad wrote:

Goose wrote:

That's your right, my friend.

Get that Mom of the year trophy ready.

I may miss the ceremony

I always tell my daughter than my number 1 job as a parent is to protect her. So if I was in that mom's situation, I think it's more than just my right, but my duty.
 

I've raised four kids.
Never had to strike any of them.
That's just my life experience.

Just watched an interview on CNN with the mom. She said her first thought was to make sure her 16 year old son didn't become another Freddie Gray. 

She said she knows she'll won't be able to do that forever, and that her son is "into the streets" but at that time and at that moment she was going to do what she had to do to get her child home.

Bless her.

If I may offer another opinion:

It seems the O'Reilly's, etc. are praising this lady and setting her up as "Mom of the Year", too.  I became a bit suspicious because I was thinking of the subtle message the right-wingers might be sending ...........

"See, the problem is young black kids and we need more mom's like this to put them in their place."

While I understand the mom's concern for her kid, and perhaps I would have done the same thing, I don't know, but the enthusiasm and eagerness to make her out to be a 'mom of the year' by the O'Reillys of the world makes me wonder if there isn't another subliminal message they want you to tap into.

Even if you want to give her an award and make a hero out of her, that's fine, but maybe consider there could be another motive for praising her in doing what she did.  I think it's worth considering anyway, especially if this story gets repeated over and over again on certain media outlets during the next few days.

Just Fred wrote:

If I may offer another opinion:

It seems the O'Reilly's, etc. are praising this lady and setting her up as "Mom of the Year", too.  I became a bit suspicious because I was thinking of the subtle message the right-wingers might be sending ...........

"See, the problem is young black kids and we need more mom's like this to put them in their place."

While I understand the mom's concern for her kid, and perhaps I would have done the same thing, I don't know, but the enthusiasm and eagerness to make her out to be a 'mom of the year' by the O'Reillys of the world makes me wonder if there isn't another subliminal message they want you to tap into.

Even if you want to give her an award and make a hero out of her, that's fine, but maybe consider there could be another motive for praising her in doing what she did.  I think it's worth considering anyway, especially if this story gets repeated over and over again on certain media outlets during the next few days.

That got me thinking.
Thanks, Fred.

Goose wrote:

Looks like Republican Presidential canddate ben Carson is picking up the narrative that the problem in Baltimore is that not more parents are controlling their kids.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/28/politics/baltimore-2016-presidential-candidates/index.html


Looks like some would like you to believe that the riots were caused by anything but the actions of police.

 
The riots weren't caused by police.  I didn't see one police officer rioting.  Did you?