Not gonna say that I know how to educate black kids, but just about all the black people I've known have had much the same Irish Catholic attitude about discipline that my family does: spare the rod spoil the child. Physical violence against kids is something to tell stories about and laugh, not call child services about. So I can definitely see OccultHawk's point.
Whether or not it's the best possible method of disciplining children in a vacuum it's a method that many cultures are used to and acculturated to, so it's actually meaningful to them. Hard to argue with something some people see as integral to molding the minds and values of their children.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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