hit their kids.

I'm going to start by jumping off of the SWPD post that made me finally get around to making this blog - a guest post that had an interesting comments section.  The general consensus of that comments section is that black people are more likely to give their children "a whoopin" while white people are more likely to use non-corporal forms of discipline.

Beyond that though, there were commenters that actually lamented the fact that it is no longer acceptable to hit your kid in public.  Lamenting that now they will have to use a form of discipline that doesn't give them immediate stress relief from their frustrations.

Black people also tend to treat their children as inferiors, banished away when "grown people are talking." Their children know they can be hit for showing too much childlike curiosity.

It was posited on that thread that the tendency to keep using corporal discipline is a link back to the days of slavery, which is an interesting thought but not one I'm sure I agree with.

Regardless of my feelings on corporal punishment for children, I find it interesting that it tends to be split by race - black people are more likely to use it, while white people tend to use other forms of discipline, or even talk to their child like a mini-adult.