That is the number one reason I will not pay to see any black comedian. I can't laugh at child abuse, and it's a mainstay of so many routines. I refuse to continue to support normalizing the **** we do to our children in the name of 'love'.
The one that sticks out the most to me was Eddie Griffith.
I felt so bad for him and his sister. I think he was using his comedy routine as a way to release all that anger and hurt. His mother hit him with brooms, spoons, pots, whatever she could get her hands on. She was sitting in the audience laughing, but she had to feel embarrassed as he was discussing it.
For the record, he WASN'T smiling. From the way he was talking it was an everyday occurrence that seemed to go on all the time.
What's happening with this little girl doesn't make any kind of sense at all to me.