Recently many of us read or heard the
shocking story of televangelist Creflo Dollar being arrest over a domestic violence allegation by his 15 year old daughter. According to the story Dollar and his daughter got into an argument over her going to a party. It seems that Mr. Dollar did not want her going and according to his story the young girl raised her hand at him resulting in him choking, punching, throwing the girl down on the floor, and hitting her with a shoe. Many in the African American community heard the story and said,
"What's the big deal?"
All those years of my mom hitting me were domestic violence?
I wish I would have call the police on my mom when she raised a hand at me. I'd be dead.
Kids nowadays have the pleasure of calling the police up anytime their parents do something they don't like."
Now my parents come from the "old school" where their parents would give them what we call "beatings" in today's society. I can recall a few stories of my Dad's childhood that included not so pleasant forms of discipline. Once he went outside without shoes on and stepped on a glass bottle. The glass got all in his feet and he was bleeding of course. He said when he came inside his mom started whipping him while he was already in pain and after she finished she sat down and cleaned up his cuts. The other story is when he did something and thought his mom had forgot about what he did. He said he went and took a bath and upon emerging from the bathroom a belt came flying into his body. Stories like this would classify as child abuse in today's society. This leads to Creflo's incident.
