"So the dumb ass wants to become a wrter"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvfJNrV3erk
They called him "Dumbo."
A child who had big ears, who was shamed and repressed by schoolmates and teachers – nded up in a Florida reform school and became one of the "White House Boys." The "white house" was a building where boys were taken for the worst kind of abuses.
They have found 82 graves of boys who did not survive the beatings.
If this had been Russia, we'd be proudly buffing our nails on our chests that WE did not do such things as "those heathen Russians" did.
No darlings. This happened in America. And the authoritarian attitude that children were raised by – before people woke up to the horrific and repressive nature of physical beatings – we children of the mid 20th century – occurred to many of us, but the attitude was far magnified in America's institutions for both children and grown adults.
It was Authoritarianism, pure and simple.
You did not question ANYONE who was in charge. You did not question or speak back in any disrespectful way to ANYONE in authority. You did not call attention to yourself in any way. Things were not explained to your stupid child self – you were told what to
do and you were to be SEEN AND NOT HEARD. And DO NOT COMPLAIN.
It was commonplace for teachers to keep a "paddle" of some sort nearby for troublemakers. In first grade, I remember that my teacher had a rubber strap from an old tire that truly terrorized me. You would be taken into another classroom, and given a "lick" or two with it. In high school, one teacher had a wooden paddle, and loved to hit boys with it. One boy told the story of how she "just happened" to turn that paddle sideways so that it hit his ass with the edge rather than the flat side.
And when you got home – you got it again - with a belt or back of a hair brush. Obedience was the rule. As a child, you did not rate an explanation of anything. You did not rate an excuse for yourself. Rules were not discussed. Rules were just obeyed.
And so now – looking back – with more mature and understanding minds – having worked out our own understanding of RULES and HOW THE WORLD WORKS – we tend to be rather HORRIFIED at what we had to endure by "those who knew better" – who did such things "for our own good."
Violence and cruelty are no answer to anything, and especially not to misbehavior.
Violence is itself a "misbehavior" and is used in lieu of a rational and mature response.
And so, today I'm mourning for those children who were killed in the name of that horrid AUTHORITARIANISM – whose graves were discovered in Florida.
We are all survivors – some just had it much much worse.
We need to learn from their stories – men who weep as they remember.
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https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/12/workers-find-27-unmarked-graves-florida-school/
As many as 27 potential “clandestine” graves were discovered on the campus of a now-vacant reform school for boys in Marianna, Florida.