The Passing Down of Pain

http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/04/23/debate-stirs-viral-video-trinidadian-mother-disciplining-daughter/

There has been a viral video going around of a Trinidadian mother punishing her daughter for posting an inappropriate photo on a social network. I've found in my personal life that the pain that black mothers experience often gets passed down to their daughters in one way or another. In Beloved, Sethe feels her mother's pain, and Sethe's children feel hers. I feel like the mother in the video was acting out some previous pain she had experienced by choosing to discipline her daughter in this way.