{"id":12569,"date":"2014-01-10T12:31:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T12:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12569"},"modified":"2014-01-10T12:31:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T12:31:39","slug":"racist-storm-errupts-over-cursing-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12569","title":{"rendered":"‘Racist’ storm errupts over cursing toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"toddler\"<\/a>After the Omaha Police Officers\u2019 Association highlighted a shock video<\/a> of a black toddler being encouraged by his family to spout obscenities as a warning against the \u201ccycle of violence and thuggery,\u201d subsequent outrage was not directed against the family but against the police association for being racist.<\/p>\n

The clip shows a black toddler in a nappy being encouraged by his foul-mouthed relatives to curse after knocking over a chair.<\/p>\n

After the adults reference a local street gang and call the toddler a \u201cbitch nigger,\u201d an \u201casshole\u201d while repeatedly stating, \u201cfuck you,\u201d and urging him to say \u201csuck my dick,\u201d the toddler responds with a gang sign before remarking, \u201cYou a ho, bitch,\u201d \u201cShut up, bitch,\u201d along with several other abusive insults.<\/p>\n

\u201cSay I need some pussy today, I\u2019m throwing a fit right now,\u201d the toddler\u2019s uncle encourages him to say. The clip ends with the toddler uttering more foul-mouthed abuse as the adults laugh.<\/p>\n

After the boy\u2019s uncle uploaded the clip to Facebook because he found it \u201cfunny\u201d, the Omaha Police Officers\u2019 Association posted it on their own website as a public service to the community to, \u201ceducate the law abiding public about the terrible cycle of violence and thuggery that some young innocent children find themselves helplessly trapped in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly after the issue began to attract wider attention, the ACLU, a community activist group, as well as pundits on CNN all insinuated that the police union was racist simply for drawing attention to the video.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor them to take a video out of context \u2014 a 2-year-old who doesn\u2019t have the brain capacity to know what\u2019s going on \u2014 and to say that this child, because two adults acted inappropriately, is going to end up in a life of crime is totally inappropriate,\u201d said Willie Hamilton, president of the community activist group Black Men United, adding that the police association had \u201ccrossed a line.\u201d<\/p>\n

ACLU of Nebraska Executive Director Becki Brenner said the union\u2019s use of \u201cracially charged language\u201d was \u201cvery disconcerting,\u201d adding that posting the video would erode trust amongst Omaha\u2019s ethnic minorities, which make up around a quarter of the population.<\/p>\n

However, the union didn\u2019t use any racially charged language whatsoever, unlike the obscene family members in the video.<\/p>\n

Media talking heads soon jumped on the controversy, with political commentator Marc Lamont Hill telling CNN that the clip, \u201csends the wrong message about young black boys.\u201d – prisonplanet.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the Omaha Police Officers\u2019 Association highlighted a shock video of a black toddler being encouraged by his family to spout obscenities as a warning against the \u201ccycle of violence and thuggery,\u201d subsequent outrage was not directed against the family but against the police association for being racist. The clip shows a black toddler in … Continue reading “‘Racist’ storm errupts over cursing toddler”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[7980,7979,157],"class_list":["post-12569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-black-toddler","tag-omaha-police-officers-association","tag-racism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/toddler.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12571,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12569\/revisions\/12571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}