A Message To Black American Men From Black Women and Children

We Need YOU to Take a Stand For Protecting our Black American School Children From Abuse.

20 U S states and its territories allow educators and administrators to primarily target our Black boys and girls for beatings using wooden boards, leather straps, and in some cases, “switches” from trees.  Also known as corporal punishment, this practice is a leftover slave tactic that is yet to be laid to rest beside the old slave plantation whipping posts.
Frequently, principals who administer this brutal treatment to our black children do not even know their names or infractions (ACLU Aug 2008 report).
In Pulaski, TN, birthplace of the KKK, parents report that in their schools, “…black boys are beaten just for the fun of it.”

Other primary targets are Latinos, Native Americans, and children having special needs. Teachers who beat our children are sadistic, racist, and mentally unstable; in some cases, they are entrenched in old-school thinking that ignores scientific evidence of its harm.

Our children face these brutal authority figures every school day.
Most go home to face more of the same.
Our children are the most “profiled” youths by police and mainstream America.  They are the most “well loved group” to hate and to regard as unworthy.  If that weren’t enough, our nation’s Black leaders are cheering for more brutal discipline for our children, from our *President, to Black organizations, to members of our Black communities.

Our girls are being postured over black and white male teachers’ and principals’ desks like little prostitutes, and spanked in the same manner that our great grandmothers were, even well into their years.  These educators say to them, “Spread your legs. Wider; look at the picture on the wall.”  Some girls are held down on either side by two other male teachers while their buttocks are fully exposed and attacked in “gang-rape” style.

Teachers have “immunity of the law,” so like slave massa’, these educators “get away with” beating our black girls, rendering them worthless and leaving them to contend with mending their own wounds; the internalized wounds are permanent.

Brothers, rise up!  Help our little sisters and brothers.  If it were left up to YOU, would our children ever be free?

Contact The Hitting Stops Here! and let us, together, begin the process of calling our government to uphold the 14th amendment of the U S Constitution that offers “Equal Protection” to ALL U S citizens.  Our little black brothers and sisters are U S citizens too.
During that dark era of U S history, when tens of thousands of our beautiful Black Men were being hung on American trees, left unprotected by the government, it was this very same amendment, the 14th, that Congressmen of that day deliberately failed to uphold, leaving our brothers to the whims of “out of control” racist and sadistic “good ole boys.” 

Will we let our government treat our little black and brown children in like manner, even under the leadership of a Black President?  

The silence of our Black men in leadership roles and in our communities regarding this “Black American issue” is unacceptable in 21st century America.

*"And by the way, it means we need to be there for our neighbor's sons and daughters. (Applause.) We need to go back to the time, back to the day when we parents saw somebody, saw some kid fooling around and -- it wasn't your child, but they'll whup you anyway. (Laughter and applause.) Or at least they'll tell your parents -- the parents will. You know. (Laughter.) That's the meaning of community. That's how we can reclaim the strength and the determination and the hopefulness that helped us come so far; helped us make a way out of no way."  -President Obama July 16, 2009

Please go to THSH Twitter page to learn more about what they are doing to our beautiful black princesses in American schools. Read: "When black girls are spanked." Begins at 9:47 a.m. August 5, 2009

Our children are waiting for you to rescue them.

Sincerely,
Paula Flowe
Executive Director, The Hitting Stops Here!

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