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[terrier3]

I guess they need their star player...

What do YOU think???

[Lila Belle]

[SydneyH]

Without a conviction, I suspect the team may be concerned about a lawsuit. I'm hearing Ray is filing a grievance case against the NFL and his team. It's about to get really ugly now.

[Surfnturf]

I don't think it's a racial matter either, just a deplorable one. Many of us were punished in similar ways back in the fifties. No one thought a thing about it, and there was no one to complain to.

Since seeing the pictures of that poor child's injuries, just seing AP's name in print fills me with revulsion.

[SydneyH]

May be it was fine in the early 1900's, I'd like to think parenting has evolved since then......

[Surfnturf]

On 9/15/2014 SydneyH said:

May be it was fine in the early 1900's, I'd like to think parenting has evolved since then......

I think we've come a long way since I was a child. I didn't spank my child, and feel parents who did and still do, lack good parenting skills.

[chrystaltree]

On 9/15/2014 Ford1224 said:

Charles Barkley was on CNN this morning and said that this kind of physical punishment was the "culture" in the south where he grew up. He does not look at it as domestic abuse. He did admit that Peterson got carried away, but still had no problem with it. By the way, this is not a racial matter, but a regional one.

A huge man weighing a quarter of a ton, standing 6'2" tall pulls down his four-year-old son's pants and whips him until he bleeds, and this is acceptable "culture?"

I guess what goes on in Africa's "culture" is also acceptable then?

Huh? What is "Africa's" culture and how does that come into play here???? The issue is child abuse, it's pretty much a no brainer that if your "whipping" bruises a child or makes him bleed there's nothing "cultural" about it. It's child abuse. I'm not African American, I'm not southern but I am 54 and when I grew up spankings and whippings were acceptable and common. But a couple of whacks with the bare hand on a childs rear was no big deal but even then belts, boards, sticks crossed the line. Barkley knows that. He's just trying to help a friend out.

[brii]

It was wrong then and it's wrong now.

No child should ever be beaten like that.

[Krimpette]

I just don't get how Peterson's infraction can rank any less serious than the Ravens guy. It's sickening to think about either one of them. That poor defenseless child.

[SydneyH]

On 9/15/2014 brii said:

It was wrong then and it's wrong now.

No child should ever be beaten like that.

I too consider that a beating, nothing close to what is considered acceptable discipline. I don't care what culture one was immersed in quite frankly.