Black women are not being taught "how to be ladies," which can lead to confrontations like the one in which football player Ray Rice cold-cocked his wife-to-be in an elevator, according to radio host and bestselling author Kevin Jackson.
"It's … a bad statement about how young black women are not being taught how to be ladies," Jackson said Tuesday on "the Steve Malzberg Show" on
Newsmax TV.
"And women in general are not being taught how to be ladies because there are many ways to defuse situations like that and not have it escalate."
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Rice, the former star running back of the Baltimore Ravens, was cut from the team and suspended indefinitely by the NFL after TMZ Sports released a video showing him punching out Janay Palmer.
"I'm not saying she was to blame. What I'm saying is if you look at the entire video, she had done something to him like pushed him or something getting into the elevator," he said.
"Does that lead to her getting hit? The answer is no. He shouldn't hit her."
Jackson — author of
"The BIG Black Lie: How I Learned the Truth about the Democrat Party," published by The Black Sphere LLC — added:
"The fact of the matter is we've got a situation now with women who will do whatever they can to antagonize a man in order to be hit and nobody wants to talk about that.
"A lady would say to herself, this situation is escalating, I'm not going to add to it, and that would be the end of it."
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