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Please take care of yourself. So now let's get into the early life of Duane Lee Harris. What do you got Beth?

Well, Duane Lee Harris was born in 1963 in St. Louis, Missouri.

According to Duane, he was raised in Boston,

Massachusetts, then moved to Washington State.

He said he grew up in a strict family

and his mother would beat him when he got into trouble.

And I just, I'm thinking of the new listeners.

So if you're new here, just a quick culture corner.

It is not, especially at that time, this is the early 60s when he was born.

So he would have been a child in the late 60s and a preteen in the early 70s.

And it was not unusual for black parents to engage in corporal punishment,

spanking, beating, to correct their children.

Because the price of a black child doing something wrong in public could mean their life and

it's still true to this day. But I was listening to a podcast today about child abuse and it was two black pontificators and the woman

who studies child abuse said that the widest thing you could do is beat your child

because that was that was what they did in Europe back in the day and they brought all those traditions

over and not slave masters.

Hostage takers and human traffickers,

aka slave owners, implemented that kind of discipline

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