but i definitely understand. >> do you think there's more acceptance -- by the way, we lost congressman bobby rush. i just don't want folks to think i'm being disrespectful by not including him. do you think there's a racial divide on this issue? when i take telephone callers to my program i sense that there's more acceptance in the african-american community of corporal punishment than there is say, among suburban whites. i saw this from the adrian peterson case when he famously said that he utzed a switch on his son. >> i don't think there's a racial divide. statistics show 90% of americans, you know, agree with some form of corporal punishment or they've used it. i think there is a racially inflected tone to how we talk about it. it seems that african-americans are sort of prompted up as the emblems of people who are you know, brutalizing their children. here's where there is also a racial divide, in terms of, you know the disproportionate prosecutions for child abuse. african-americans are much more likely to be arrested, charged,