Perhaps he was drinking or doing drugs. Perhaps he’s not a citizen. Perhaps he’s gay or bi or trans. Perhaps he knows his attackers. Perhaps he thinks that pressing charges will only make him a target of more hate and violence.

“Out of fear of reprisal” is the unfortunate truth. That fear isn’t ungrounded.

It’s Arizona. Your thought is correct, but it would require the state itself to not be racist and actually care about this kid.

No. Wrong. All corporal punishment teaches kids is that the bigger stronger person gets their way.

Yes, this!!!!

You know what works on immature minds that have picked up the wrong idea? Discussion.

Don’t. Hit. Kids.

I erred. I should have said, “not bigots.” Because there isn’t a white person in this country who doesn’t benefit, directly or indirectly, from racism.

Major hint.

Nah. I raised 5 white kids without corporal punishment and not a one of them is racist. 

“No matter what the current philosophy is sometimes you have to use physical discipline with children.”

White people, we’ve got to raise our kids better. Just not using racial slurs or spreading around stereotypes is not enough. Our culture has that shit in it’s DNA so you’ve got to vaccinate ahead of time.

I live in Michigan in one of the many tourist destinations, and not far from the main roads, the rebel flag can be found everywhere.

One of the biggest Dixie flags I’ve ever seen flying from a house near Lexington about 20 min north of Marysville.

“Dammit Mom! Can’t you leave that to your private get togethers!”

I grew up in Michigan, 70 some miles northwest of Marysville, in a village with such a similar name I had to do a double take to make sure it wasn’t one of my relatives spewing this horse crap.

It’s too much to expect the very people who profess to believe this stuff to have the reading comprehension to understand their own holy text

lol, yeah, being the same race didn’t work out so well for them, huh? Also, I don’t recall the Bible giving a ton of details about Adam and Eve’s races....

I’m not sure how that advice is even supposed to work from a Christian perspective. “We need to be more like those people who defied God, listened to satan, committed the original sin, and led to humanity being cast out of paradise.”

Any argument grounded in “just look at Adam and Eve” is trash and should be thrown in the garbage.