In this video, Dr. Boyce Watkins speaks with Professor Christopher Emdin from Columbia University. Dr. Watkins and Dr. Emdin respond to the recent report that one child per day is arrested in New York City public schools and 93% of those kids are black or brown. The conversation (the audio is a bit choppy, but we’re working on that) focuses on black kids in the school system and why they are more likely to be punished by teachers.
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Kamis, 01 Desember 2011
Selasa, 30 November 2010
Encouraging Black Adoption
Blacks are less likely to adopt than whites.
Why Black Couples Should Think Twice About Adoption
by Mark Anthony Neal | TheLoop21
The Thanksgiving holiday weekend always holds a special place for me. Eight years ago, on the Friday after Thanksgiving my wife and I got word that we would be adopting our second child. The anniversary of my youngest daughter’s adoption coincides with National Adoption Month, a month set aside to raise awareness about the status of children in the Foster Care system.
According to statistics provided by the Administration for Children and Families, there are nearly a half-million children currently in Foster Care. Thirty-one percent of those children within Foster Care are Black, representing a percentage that twice that of the Black population in the United States.
The reasons why Black kids populate the Foster Care at such a high percentage are varied, including the fact child welfare offices often disproportionately direct Black children in Foster Care, instead of showing more patience in dealing with the struggles of Black families. As NPR’s Michel Martin noted in his story about Foster Care last year, very often child welfare workers bring negative opinions about Black families into their sense of what would be in the in best interests of Black children.
But the issues that send Black children into Foster Care is just one part of the narrative. Black children are also disproportionately represented in Foster Care because Black adults do not adopt children at nearly the same rates as their White peers. As recently as two years ago, the federal government embarked on an ad campaign to encourage Black adults to adopt Black children.
Read the Full Essay @ theLoop21
Why Black Couples Should Think Twice About Adoption
by Mark Anthony Neal | TheLoop21
The Thanksgiving holiday weekend always holds a special place for me. Eight years ago, on the Friday after Thanksgiving my wife and I got word that we would be adopting our second child. The anniversary of my youngest daughter’s adoption coincides with National Adoption Month, a month set aside to raise awareness about the status of children in the Foster Care system.
According to statistics provided by the Administration for Children and Families, there are nearly a half-million children currently in Foster Care. Thirty-one percent of those children within Foster Care are Black, representing a percentage that twice that of the Black population in the United States.
The reasons why Black kids populate the Foster Care at such a high percentage are varied, including the fact child welfare offices often disproportionately direct Black children in Foster Care, instead of showing more patience in dealing with the struggles of Black families. As NPR’s Michel Martin noted in his story about Foster Care last year, very often child welfare workers bring negative opinions about Black families into their sense of what would be in the in best interests of Black children.
But the issues that send Black children into Foster Care is just one part of the narrative. Black children are also disproportionately represented in Foster Care because Black adults do not adopt children at nearly the same rates as their White peers. As recently as two years ago, the federal government embarked on an ad campaign to encourage Black adults to adopt Black children.
Read the Full Essay @ theLoop21
Jumat, 01 Oktober 2010
To Spank or Not to Spank? A Black Parents' Dilemma
Should spanking be a last resort or first line of defense?
Whup that Ass? To Spank or Not to Spank
by Mark Anthony Neal | TheLoop21
Recently, journalist Roland Martin and writer and critic Toure engaged in a spirited exchange on Twitter about spanking. It was pleasing to see two Black man talking publicly about the travails of parenting. Spanking though, is a subject that often transcends simple discussions about parenting, leading into the realm of physical abuse. I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t regularly conflicted about when to spank or not, or whether spanking is appropriate at all.
Cards on the table, my mother used to whup my ass. My mother was the proverbial yeller and beater and I can’t say that my mother’s disciplinary skills ever served as a deterrent to my behavior, which was more along the lines of “stupid shit” rather than innate evil. My father on the other hand only spanked me once to my recollection.
The most memorable occasions associated with my parents’ discipline were times when they didn’t spank, like when my father purposely slapped a wall about 6 inches from my head as a teen-ager or when my mother showed up at a touch football game when I was ten, belt in hand, looking for me. Knowing that I should have been the house before dark, I took an alternative route back to the apartment. The subsequent embarrassment I experienced at the constant retelling by my peers of the incident was enough of a future deterrent.
Black parents have long been conflicted about spanking, if only because of the violence that was so often directed at Black bodies during slavery and after. During the era of legal segregation, Black parents often had to aggressively discipline their children so that their children would never fail to remember the unspoken rules of survival in a racist society, particularly in the South. In other words, Black parents had to lovingly “beat that ass” to make sure their sons, for example, didn’t engage in dangerous acts, such as reckless eyeballing (looking at White folk directly in their eyes), that could get them killed. As such, spanking has become part of the fabric of some Black communities.
Read the Full Essay @ theLoop21
Whup that Ass? To Spank or Not to Spank
by Mark Anthony Neal | TheLoop21
Recently, journalist Roland Martin and writer and critic Toure engaged in a spirited exchange on Twitter about spanking. It was pleasing to see two Black man talking publicly about the travails of parenting. Spanking though, is a subject that often transcends simple discussions about parenting, leading into the realm of physical abuse. I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t regularly conflicted about when to spank or not, or whether spanking is appropriate at all.
Cards on the table, my mother used to whup my ass. My mother was the proverbial yeller and beater and I can’t say that my mother’s disciplinary skills ever served as a deterrent to my behavior, which was more along the lines of “stupid shit” rather than innate evil. My father on the other hand only spanked me once to my recollection.
The most memorable occasions associated with my parents’ discipline were times when they didn’t spank, like when my father purposely slapped a wall about 6 inches from my head as a teen-ager or when my mother showed up at a touch football game when I was ten, belt in hand, looking for me. Knowing that I should have been the house before dark, I took an alternative route back to the apartment. The subsequent embarrassment I experienced at the constant retelling by my peers of the incident was enough of a future deterrent.
Black parents have long been conflicted about spanking, if only because of the violence that was so often directed at Black bodies during slavery and after. During the era of legal segregation, Black parents often had to aggressively discipline their children so that their children would never fail to remember the unspoken rules of survival in a racist society, particularly in the South. In other words, Black parents had to lovingly “beat that ass” to make sure their sons, for example, didn’t engage in dangerous acts, such as reckless eyeballing (looking at White folk directly in their eyes), that could get them killed. As such, spanking has become part of the fabric of some Black communities.
Read the Full Essay @ theLoop21
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