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THE indictment last week of the N.F.L. player Adrian Peterson<\/a> by a Texas grand jury for reckless or negligent injury to a child has set into relief the harmful disciplinary practices of some black families. Mr. Peterson used a \u201cswitch,\u201d a slim, leafless tree branch, to beat his 4-year-old son, raising welts on the youngster\u2019s legs, buttocks and scrotum. This is child abuse dressed up as acceptable punishment.<\/span><\/p>\n

While 70 percent of Americans approve of corporal punishment, black Americans have a distinct history with the subject. Beating children has been a depressingly familiar habit in black families since our arrival in the New World. As the black psychiatrists William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs wrote in \u201cBlack Rage,\u201d their 1968 examination of psychological black life: \u201cBeating in child-rearing actually has its psychological roots in slavery and even yet black parents will feel that, just as they have suffered beatings as children, so it is right that their children be so treated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lash of the plantation overseer fell heavily on children to whip them into fear of white authority. Terror in the field often gave way to parents beating black children in the shack, or at times in the presence of the slave owner in forced cooperation to break a rebellious child\u2019s spirit. Black parents beat their children to keep them from misbehaving in the eyes of whites who had the power to send black youth to their deaths for the slightest offense. Today, many black parents fear that a loose tongue or flash of temper could get their child killed by a trigger-happy cop. They would rather beat their offspring than bury them.<\/p>\n


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