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To verify see EE.cote.ukes-Wooping our children has always been assumed to be part of black

culture. We do it because we love them, so we can assure they learn to act right.

But what if whoopings actually teach our children something completely different?

This is two-minute black history.

What You Didn't Learn in School.

Many of us remember our parents giving us something to cry about.

Whoopings help children behave and is part of black culture, right?

But what if what we think we know about whoopings is actually a lie?

Whooping doesn't actually start with us.

It was white Europeans who punished their children with severe beatings and lashings.

The more severe, the better.

So how did we discipline children in our culture?

Before enslavement, our children were never beaten. According to the American

Psychological Association, historians have found no evidence that physical discipline of children

existed in pre-colonial West African societies prior to the Atlantic slave trade. Children in many West African cultures

were considered to be connected with the afterlife, and whooping children was thought to scare

off the soul. So why did we start whipping our children? For centuries, black children were in danger. One wrong

step and a white person could attack, enslave, or kill them at will. Whipping children into

obedience was a form of protection. We still carry much of that generational trauma today.

The act of whipping our children is rooted in white supremacy.

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