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“On top of our cultural attachment to hitting our children, America’s complicated history has conditioned us to accept that pain is a necessary part of learning and growing up black. Too many people across the color line believe that black children are inherently problematic and disrespectful thugs, the root of society’s problems, and are in need of punitive forms of control.”