Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, some people are now accusing the hero Baltimore mom who slapped her 16-year-old son right out of the rioting of — wait for it — child abuse.
That’s right, that viral video of Toya Graham keeping her kid from harming himself and/or others “symbolizes what incessant brutality, violence, desperation” looks like, says CNN’s Michaela Angela Davis.
If hauling your son out of a violent confrontation with police is abuse, we need more abusive parents.
In days of yore, everyone would’ve seen Graham’s actions as what they were: old-fashioned discipline.
Not today. Nope: Salon’s Joan Walsh insists that “anyone white who’s applauding Graham’s moment of desperation, along with the white media figures who are hyping her ‘heroism,’ is essentially justifying police brutality, and saying the only way to control black kids is to beat the s - - t out of them.”
This is where we ask Walsh to check her privilege, right?
Over at Mic.com, Marcie Bianco posits that “America wants a strong, ‘angry black woman’ keeping her ‘thug’ son in check.”
Er, no, wrong. America wants parents pulling their kids back from lunatic violence. It wants parents who love their children enough to deliver a slap to cut the crap.
Even Michael Singleton, Graham’s son, gets it. “I understand how much my mother really cares about me,” he told ABC’s World News Tonight, “so I’m just gonna try and do better.”
Say what you want, liberal-land, but (as the saying goes): Mama always wins.