 Hi, this is Mitch Mitchell and I'm gonna touch upon some kind of controversial subjects here But I'm gonna begin with my own little story. You know, I was a kid who didn't have tons of fights I didn't have a lot of fights. I had some but I didn't have a lot of fights I was pretty lucky in the fact that if there was someone who possibly could beat me up And I was a small kid until I was probably 13 and a half I always had someone who would step in front and Dare someone to start something with me. I you know, I used to know how to make friends I don't know how to do it now, but I used to know how to make friends And so I had that and then when I got bigger because I actually grew 10 inches in one year when I was 13 years old I was the guy who protected other people. I would stand in front and make sure, you know that someone was not going to Have to deal with someone who was bigger than them And if they were still bigger than me, my dad the master sergeant always said, you know what if someone is bigger than you You hit them where it hurts the most and you pick up a stick or you pick up a rock And you just do whatever you have to to hurt these people now This was what my dad said luckily it never came to that, but I always had, you know My way of fighting which was when I never threw a punch first in my entire life I've never thrown a first punch at anyone I would egg someone on and when they threw the first punch they always threw at the head They always missed because you telegraph it so much. I always hit people in the stomach They would double over I would smack them on the back of the head They would fall down and then I would walk away They sometimes they didn't like that they would run after you would hear them and you could see them out of the corner Your eye you'd sidestep they'd do whatever you'd knock them down again And you keep walking and then it didn't matter what they said because you've already won That's just how I fought so I never really had to get into a whole lot of these things Second part is that growing up as a kid. I was never hit by my parents never I said in a different video that maybe when I was you know one or two years old I might have got the smack on the hand, but I don't remember it so in my memorable life I've never been hit by my parents. So where am I going with this? Well, we've had some things that have happened in sports over the last few weeks or months if you will and It's bringing some things to light in my mind And it shows how things have changed in a way and haven't changed in a way And I'm in this weird conflict because on some levels I'm not sure how I would react to things or would have reacted to things and I know how things used to be reacted to in the past and how they're you know perceived now and I now understand what older people used to say when I was in my teens and 20s about how the world is changing and It's sometimes hard to keep up with because I'm in that spot right now and I'm sharing this For instance, we had the thing with Adrian Peterson who plays for the Minnesota Vikings Who I hate just because they're the Vikings But he basically disciplined his four-year-old by going outside and grabbing a switch and Smacking his child in the legs now the thing is this is old behavior Even though my parents never hit me I knew tons of kids whose parents used to hit them most of the time with things much worse than that Sometimes it was about sometimes as a hanger There's a lot of people who talked about being hit with extension cords now that stuff is horrible That they mean just just no real excuse for that type of thing, but it's spanking really so bad You know what? I don't know because I never experienced it But there's a lot of people who are adults now whose parents did spank them or whip them it did whatever and The overwhelming majority of them said you know what I deserved it. There are kids today who get these Punishments where you know their parents upload the videos to YouTube and the first thing the child says is Which my parents had just whit me and gotten over it. You know, it would have been over and done with In the old days one of the things that a father would do is he would give his child his son a bad haircut I don't think they ever did that to the girls But they would give sons bad haircuts and make them go to school for a while with a bad haircut It kind of an embarrassment kind of thing now that's frowned upon and that's considered child abuse also You know We're in this world now where people look at these things as child abuse and you shouldn't shame your child And you shouldn't hit your child And most people aren't even disciplining their children And so we get these kids who think they can get away with anything and most of them do until they run into the wrong person I'm sorry. Who came up with afluenza? It wasn't any of us. It was some rich kid who got it and then his father did something later on Probably thinking he could get away with it right now. I don't know if he has or not Then we have this thing with this guy ray rice who I mentioned in my previous video With him and his wife and I haven't seen the video but my goodness. I mean you can't go almost anywhere without reading about what happened Here's the thing Did he overreact? I'll say yes An only reason I hesitate a little bit is because in my 20s and 30s Although like I said, it was nothing that ever came up in my life I used to think one of the worst things in the world was getting spit on by anybody I could have cared less and I've never I used to say I said I never had all that many fights But I've never hit a woman never okay. I can replace that not intentionally Uh, because I've mentioned that I had sleep apnea and I used to have problems sleep I actually still have problems sleeping every once in a while While sleeping I would thrash whatever and I used to hit my wife And and we found a way to resolve that but I didn't know I was doing it so that doesn't count But you know You sit there and you say well, okay So if you're much bigger than your wife or you're much stronger than your wife or any woman in general and she starts hitting you Well hitting her or punching her. No, you you just can't do it. You can grab Can you push? I think you can push you can walk away You know, there are those times where that's just a smarter thing to do Even if they start throwing things at you now if they got a knife or a gun All bets are off. But you know some of these other things But what if you have a wife who's your size or even bigger and she starts hitting you Well, you know, everyone will simply just walk away. Sometimes you just can't walk away Especially if they just keep hitting and hitting and hitting you just might not have a choice Now are you okay to hit someone in that regard? Well, I'm of the opinion. Yes But will society agree with that? I just don't know in this particular instance They were arguing before they got the elevators Supposedly she spit on him and he lost his mind And I sat there thinking well, you know what in my 20s Probably maybe not my 30s, but in my 20s definitely in my teens I might have gone off because to me that was just the nastiest thing I have this thing sometimes where I don't want people touching me and I get this Think about germs. I want to go wash whatever So you start thinking about stuff like that and I'm thinking it's a reaction thing Now what also was in some of these news stories is that she'd been hitting him Now she's smaller than this guy, you know, she's a football player. He's obviously muscular I mean, I never really paid any real attention to how Muscular these guys were until a few years ago when terrell owens who was basically castigated Out of sports at that time was out there trying to work out and the guy headed shirt off I'm like my god. These guys really are built You know, who never ever knew that I certainly didn't But you know, you you see these guys and you realize these are primo athletes But you also have to sometimes realize these are these are kids. What's he 23 24 years old What he did was horrible But it makes me wonder 30 years ago if that had happened to me What I've done the same thing Now, truthfully if there had been an argument earlier, I would have just gone So it would have never escalated at that point But what if it was just something that came up really quick and someone did that What if you're walking down the street and a stranger spit on you? What would you do? Would you just stand there and say oh goodness someone spit on me or would you Maybe think to smack him. You never know until you're in that situation So I you know, I've got trouble by this Now the thing is of course, he then lied about different stuff from what I understand Then he had to come clean and then there's the video that came out that I haven't seen But you know, it's it's troublesome because it really Puts me in a spot being older where I'm sitting there saying, you know I always said that if some woman smacked you in the face, you should have the right to hit her back And now I can't necessarily say that society certainly doesn't agree with that But can we really be pacifists? I I just don't know. I'm kind of struck by this. Look at this group Isis Now, I mean these guys are way over the top, but there are still people in this country who say well We shouldn't bomb them. We should be trying to talk to them. Yeah. How how well is that working? How well did it work to talk to al qaeda or the Taliban? Yeah talking didn't work sometimes, you know what sometimes the fight is necessary Sometimes it's necessary to defend yourself physically. That's just how it is Someone breaks in your house and they've got a gun or they got a knife or they've got a metal pipe You better defend yourself in some fashion. Otherwise you could get maimed pretty badly or you could get killed So, you know, but they call that self-defense But if someone breaks in your house and you beat them and it turns out they don't have a gun or a knife or a pipe You go to jail I I don't know. This is so contradictory unless you live in florida or texas You know, just got to tell it like it is but We're in a strange area right now and i'm conflicted and i'm not really sure how to say this So that it doesn't sound bad But I am going to say this hitting Probably anyone Without real provocation Is a bad thing Now what real provocation is differs from person to person, but you know There does have to be restraint sometimes um, it's kind of like I talk about trolls all the time and I say, you know, there's no need to say some of the things that these people say well, you know what those folks need some verbal restraint and If you egg someone on, you know, steven a smith got in the trouble because he said, you know Women shouldn't be egging people on, you know, they should do anything they can not to provoke the situation He said it wrong But he was right Because that should apply to anybody, you know when I was a kid egging someone on so they would throw the first punch So then I could do what I needed to do I that was intentional, but it was also planned. I knew what I was doing But it was it was the wrong thing to do nowadays you start to think As you have so many more anonymous people or you have people who know how to track people down and find their address and they put it all on the internet and all this other kind of stuff And these are people who think they're well hidden. No one's well hidden online But you know, you see all this stuff all the time And then people show up at their houses and do all these things and people go into hiding and seclusion or whatever Um, you know, we're in this trigger happy world. It's easy to get a gun I'm gonna not I'm not gonna say I could get a gun anywhere easily, but I will say that Probably in my 30s, it wouldn't have been hard. I knew a lot of people who knew people who knew people These days, I don't know anybody probably harder, but you know There's this thing where we need restraint But there are these things where we also have to recognize that every once in a while someone's borders are crossed and how they react in those moments Don't necessarily indicate who they are We have people who have this road rage When sometimes they just had this really bad day at work and they just can't control themselves and they do something stupid And you know what you're gonna go to jail for that and you think about these kinds of things And you say, you know what they needed to show a little bit more restraint They needed to calm themselves before they did that you need to calm yourself You know before you you decided to get in your car and do that or before you decided to drink yourself into oblivion Or you decided to shoot yourself up with something, you know We need more of that And I acknowledge that sometimes it may be hard not to react to things But you know, it's something we all have to do But I can't be the only one conflicted by this. So that's why I'm doing this video. I'm putting it out here I'm asking y'all. How do you react to things like this? What do you think about people who do react to things like this in the heat of the moment? Do you think that's really indicative of who they are all the time? Or is it sometimes just one of those types of things that happens? And how forgiving should we be at times? You know, this guy here Like I said, I didn't see the video. I don't know what the punch looked like But the thing is he obviously knocked her out Totally in the wrong didn't have to do it That's my thought but at his age What I have done that I don't know I really don't and I'm kind of ashamed to say that but I really don't My mentality was different than that it is now. So I'm putting it out there Anyway, I'm Mitch Mitchell y'all take care. Let me know what you think