Last Tuesday morning, at 7:10 a.m., two middle class, suburban, black women—both regular, early morning customers, which means they are employed, dressed as they are in office attire—were stopping into shop the yogurt section I stock for Mister John, when they inquired of each other as to the well being of their young daughters, both apparently in kindergarten. These ladies, both about 30, again marking them as more evolved then the ghetto girls who have five-year-old children at 20, then had a candid discussion as to how they guided their daughters along their own high-minded path to transcendent wisdom. My mind reeled as they openly discussed how they were "not like no City girl—nah ah, girlfriend," and that they used a "moderate" amount of force to instill the legacy of the matriarchal ages into their eldest daughters.

The system of matriarchal indoctrination begins as soon as the girl can "walk a little bit," or toddle. Before the child is old enough to live free of the stroller, crib and highchair, it is smacked—no civilized woman using a closed fist on an infant. Smacked "like a boy" means to also scold the infant, "cause them boys is all hard-headed like they daddy!"

The concern seems to be to cultivate a respect for her mother on the part of the girl, rather than terrorizing them like a boy, as it is generally understood that the girl will inherit the matriarchal bitch-hand somewhere in her 30s, as Mamma slows down.

1. "Slap"

2. "Slap and scold" [Just scolding does not seem to be part of the progression, with bitch-hand acting as something of a teleprompter.]

3. "Pop," to "thump" with a short punch, beginning at about age 2

4. "Beating"

5. "Beating that ass" [a decisive, disabling beating]

6. "Beating them all the time" ["like they do in the City"], which is considered poor parenting, resulting from not properly timing beatings and the occasional beating that ass

7. "Beating them like a boy," reserved for teenage girls

8. "Whooping that ass," reserved for boys, men and adult female spawn

This seems brutal. However, consider that daily beatings—even of dinner guests, by one's coachman—was a common practice in English society during those 16th, 17th and 18th centuries when American plantations were colonized by Puritan and Anglican [1]masters, all of whom believed in whipping as a mild corrective for their white and black servants and children and routinely employed lethal and crippling beatings with weapons to stiffen discipline. Increase Mather, Puritan Scholar, even denigrated the Native Americans for cherishing their children, which he cited as a racial weakness.

Like future president Andrew Johnson, droves of white servants fled this brutal treatment or worked their way out from under it. As more and more white servants were armed to fight Indians, the French and the British and would no longer be held in bondage, these were replaced by blacks who had fewer flight options and did not have the chance to work their way free. Hence, even as working whites have continued to flee the urban centers for hundreds of years, and gradually veered away from using force against their children, blacks have kept alive the English "cat-o-nine-tails" and "paddle" [often used to kill male slaves] in the form "Daddy's belt" and "Mamma's shoe."

Another example of How The Blacks Saved English.

1. To what extent Quakers used corporal punishment I have not yet determined. However, they did design the Pennsylvania State Prison System, and when I moved to Pennsylvania in 1976 I was horrified to discover that ritual beatings with ornate paddles were publicly administered to students by teachers, in a cruelly inequitable system. For instance, dangerously large boys [psychopaths like me], football players [whose coach wielded the paddle] and boys from shop class [who designed the paddles for maximum "cracking" effect] were immune from beatings. Since public schools and penitentiaries are two clear evolutions of the Plantation System, and the Quakers refused to arm their servants against rampaging Indians until swayed by an eloquent Indian Chief, I am suspecting the Quakers of systemic brutality—if by proxy—until the records are revealed.