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In reply to the discussion: Sorry, but if you did your job as a parent, your kid would NOT be rioting in the streets!!! [View all]Yavin4
(35,421 posts)46. And you have no counter to my argument
Other than a b.s. dismissal.
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Sorry, but if you did your job as a parent, your kid would NOT be rioting in the streets!!! [View all]
Yavin4
Apr 2015
OP
Kids, students, youth when they see injustice all around that never is rectified.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Apr 2015
#52
Not outright, but by implication. Did you even follow the thread before you came to my post? eom
BlueCaliDem
Apr 2015
#149
If you understand the frustration, anger, etc. it should be easy to understand the destruction.
Gormy Cuss
Apr 2015
#171
I don't know jack about you and assumed you were an adult. Apparently I was wrong.
bravenak
Apr 2015
#122
Believe it or not. It is also frustrating to be a white person who strongly
JDPriestly
Apr 2015
#140
Agree, Bullshit. Most of these kids were there because the police had locked down their school
libdem4life
Apr 2015
#145
I just explained it. If you want to ignore the racism, the lack of opportunity, education, jobs, the
sabrina 1
Apr 2015
#57
Apparently some seem to have forgotten about those white people riots after the sports games.
L0oniX
Apr 2015
#114
No judgment from me. What I saw though was a Mother who was maybe afraid for her Son's safety.
cherokeeprogressive
Apr 2015
#6
you said parents give birth. he says only half. meaning the women. not the men.
seabeyond
Apr 2015
#31
i know you did not mean that. i was just telling you what jeff meant by half. half of the parents
seabeyond
Apr 2015
#60
Dads don't give birth. Yet, shocking as it may sound, they are parents. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Apr 2015
#124
How many kids do you have? How many who always do EVERYTHING exactly as you taught them?
WillowTree
Apr 2015
#12
Right? Because teenage kids always use great judgement and never, ever do stupid things
underahedgerow
Apr 2015
#47
Sorry, but if America did its job as a society people wouldn't be rioting in the streets!
Spider Jerusalem
Apr 2015
#13
I'm not celebrating anyone. Who is we? I'm saying you seem to have a skewed view
TheKentuckian
Apr 2015
#65
how very naive. ya. easy for my kids. dont i get to pat me on the back. whole stories you missed
seabeyond
Apr 2015
#25
she has 6 kids, who knows their circumstance and lives. we get 1 minute of their lives.
seabeyond
Apr 2015
#132
ya. i pretty much figured you were being sarcastic, though not way sure. i was more using your post
seabeyond
Apr 2015
#134
That mother saved her son from getting wacked upside the head with a billy club.
PADemD
Apr 2015
#117
Pretty judgemental. And, what are your credentials to declare who is or who isn't a good parent?
Lil Missy
Apr 2015
#35
If you did your job as a parent, your cop kid would NOT be breaking spines and shooting unarmed
Arugula Latte
Apr 2015
#64
To imagine: children have a mind and will of their own, and do things you don't like...
killbotfactory
Apr 2015
#69
Disagree. Parents can completely devote themselves to achieving an outcome and still fail
LittleBlue
Apr 2015
#76
If there is that amount of injustice going on, your kids SHOULD be in the streets
hobbit709
Apr 2015
#91
I would hope my kids were at the protest and I would hope the would avoid the riot
dembotoz
Apr 2015
#97
Was there actually any video that showed that her son was 'rioting'?
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Apr 2015
#107
Los Angeles and Dallas have had riots after the Lakers and Cowboys won their championships
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Apr 2015
#172
You don't know anything about that mother or the circumstances in which she finds herself.
liberal_at_heart
Apr 2015
#121
It's pretty hard to stay in the house when the buses set to take you there are blocked by the cops.
Gormy Cuss
Apr 2015
#152
I can just see the rw saying that to the parents of all the protesters in the 60s.
jwirr
Apr 2015
#157
The kids were trapped. They were pulled off their buses and had no way to leave.
libdem4life
Apr 2015
#160
I don't understand why she wouldn't just grab his arm and walk briskly away from the trouble
Doctor_J
Apr 2015
#181