Actually it's not. Ms McBride has stated that the story about this being about her niece is not true. How it got started is anybody's guess. And the stone in the video is a prop.
@Mark L Martina says the song is a true story; it's about her niece, who was abused by her mother (Martina's sister) after her mother and father split. Then one day, Martina's niece was killed.
@@winykittygirl Martina has never said this. It is 100% NOT about her niece. How this BS is still being perpetuated , let alone got started is beyond me.
Martina sang this song in remembrance of her Niece that was beaten to death by Martina's own sister 2002. The name on the tombstone is her niece's name.
Oh such a tearful heartbreaking video. In the end, are those all other concrete angels coming together and play as well? I didn't realize that part the first few times I seen this video. Country music, seems to be the best platform to bring on these issues.
Fantastic reaction! Your reaction was raw and real and for it to relate to you is even more personal! Most people don’t know this, but that boy on there his name is Luke Benward. He is a actor and singer!
The really sad part is it’s a true song! Martina’s sister killed her 7 year old daughter! PEOPLE if you EVER fill like you are out of control, there are PLENTY of people that want to adopt !!! Great reaction🎉
I’m 99% sure my high school girlfriend was abused by her father. I don’t know for sure, but if 15 year old me thought it and 37 year old me can think back at it and get the same conclusion… probably. If I could travel back in time I’d take a bat to his head, but then I didn’t know what to say or do. Don’t mess with kids.
My first time seeing this video and reaction. This kills me, I was a teacher for 10 years, and I did report to our counselors a time when I feared this very thing, seeing marks on a student. Now in defense of those that have to make that call, things are going to happen, much past that sighting in the classroom. In my case it turned out not to be abuse, but my heart rings for those that have to not only make that call, but yet see it.
I just want to ay that If I was ever walking past someone’s house and witnessed them being abused by their parents through their window or something I would kick their front door in and lay their abuser out on the ground and put my foot through their face
I know we all hate misinformation and perpetuating gossip but .....its sonebodys nuece- somebodys neighbor - sombodys student. Who cares about the trivia in this particular context? Is anyone actually listening? I was 9 years old when i buried my 12 year old brother! He was not abused, he had a terminal heart condition but you dont forget the sight of a child in a coffin. Maybe that should be the focus rather than about the ego boost of whose right.
When this video came out, most US states didn't have "mandated reporter" laws in effect yet. Now I think it's been enacted all over the US. Every school employee including kitchen staff & janitors, all daycare workers, ALL medical personnel regardless of field (even volunteer paramedics/firemen sign a statement acknowledging the mandated reporter requirements & procedures) & government workers of almost every category are supposed to contact local CPS & report suspected abuse. It's not complicated & you don't have to be sure/have proof, CPS will contact police & do an investigation. You just file a report of suspected neglect or abuse of any kind, include a statement of what's causing your concern & then they take over.
As a survivor, thank you. When people react to this song it brings it back to people's minds that this does happen. And that we need to help those that needs us. Everytime I hear this it brings it all back to light, but it also helps to tell my story.
This song is one of, if not the most emotionally powerful song of all time. Regardless of if it is a child, friend, or family member being abused. it needs to be erased from our world, and the scumbags who commit such atrocities should receive the same punishment as murderers and serial killers in my opinion.
@@radicalreactions1633 so it proves to you there’s no god because he gives up free will? You think a god would make us act like robots… of course he doesn’t like it and she will answer to god himself for her sins just like the rest of us…
I just found you.. THANK YOU FOR your HEART felt 😥sorry for my loss of words.. Such a Beautiful Song butt every time I hear it, I can't help but CRY.. Never apologize for being an AMAZING MAN with heart and feelings.. God Bless 🙏🙏💗Glad I found you. Stay Safe 🤗
This song hits me deep I have tears in my eyes right now. When I was younger I was a victim of child abuse. At a foster home. So this song hits me very hard. I had some deep dark brushes on my legs. A student that did ñot know me very long some how knew something was wrong. And he would not give up until I told him. And I thank God for him because I was taken out of their after that. I love this song but I cry every time.
This song has always made me cry. I've never experienced abuse, and not known anyone personally that has, but it's heartbreaking. Ty for your reaction.
Don’t feel bad about getting emotional. I worked with kids at a mental healthcare facility for years and some of the absolute horror stories some of those kids went through… I can’t hear this song without bawling any more myself.
This one always makes me cry for two reasons The first being this little girl was me at one point, I was abused in every sense of the word, my mom SOLD me because she was broke... And I feel like remaining silent in the face of this makes you just as guilty... So the teacher saw the bruises and should have said something and because she didn't the outcome is partly her doing!! Silence makes you a guilty party too, people saw me being abused and turned the other cheek... So regardless of whether it's my child or not I refuse to remain silent 👌 I've gone to jail for protecting a little girl from her mother!!
Thank God my grandma gave my mom only 2 choices when she found out what my bio father was doing. Leave him or she would do everything she could to take custody of me.
My best friend's nephew was murdered by his father, Noah Godleski, look it up if you wish but they played this song at his memorial service and it definitely hits home 😔
I wish all reactors set up their video request like you do. I'd rather request once and pay and be guaranteed a video request then pay every month and never get anything back for a monthly payment
As a former foster parent, you are right, the system is NOT set up for the children. Kids going back to homes that are NOT ready to keep them safe. Kids getting retraumatized over and over. I hope someone with some power can get the cahnge started.
I get you, worked with kids myself. Problem is, excuses or non action, help a little girl get to heaven way too early with her imaginary friend. We all are responsible :( When will we as a community rise above? 😢 Phew, tough reaction... I thank you for sharing. God bless!
At 24 I had 25 addresses. My mom tried her best, but it wasn't easy. Please protect those who need protection I started working out, got my masters and it never filled the void.
My mother abused me. When I turned 18 I joined the Army. After 8 years of service I had my own child and I swore nobody would ever hurt her, and I've kept that promise. I went to work for DHS and worked for the state for just over 6 years. It gave me a nervous breakdown. I went back to college and became a nurse. This song makes me bawl everytime. The ending, all of them are little angels 😇 in the video and they all look so happy. I'm not sure many people understand that. The little boy in the video was her little angel friend.
Ok.. could you PLEASE not pause the videos??🤷♀️🤷♀️ you aren't getting the full affect of the video nor the song when you keep stopping it!!🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I worked in a BD classroom and experienced the same. The kids are medicated and in a Special Ed classroom because of the fucked up parents. Turning in abyse to DCFS did not help.
I didn’t turn out the lights. I got 2 babies away from their egg/sperm donors. Their abusers favorite weapon of choice? A doubled up extension cord. I will always stand in whatever kids corner
Angela Carter was Martina's niece, who died at Martina' sister's hands, after her nasty divorce. She was 7 years old. Here's another one by Martina called Independence Day. Tidbit of info: When Martina sings near the burning house, she knew that they only had one chance to get that shot, so she continued singing, even though her back got scorched from the heat. They only found out, when Martina finished that shot and told them. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4VPpAZ9_qAw.html You should listen to Alyssa Lies by Jason Michael Carroll. Another true story. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nLh5vbBLpxI.html
the power of music is in its ability to make you feel emotion. Love, angst, joy, sorrow, anger music can bring all of this to the surface. Never apologize for feeling something from the music that's probably what music is supposed to do to you.
If I think this one is bad, check out “the Little girl” by John Michael Montgomery or “Alyssa Lies” by Jason Michael Carroll but fair warning…..get ur Kleenex
I used to always think this was about little Judith Barsi, a little girl who appeared in dozens of commercials and tv shows for a few years in the 80's, best known for voicing main characters in "Land Before Time" and "All Dogs Go to Heaven." Behind the scenes she suffered horribly and was let down by CPS and many others who knew about what was going on. Ultimately, her dad killed her and her mother (after threatening to do so for years, yes many people knew about the threats.) He shot himself a day or so later, before anyone found out what he did, after setting their bodies and the house on fire. She was 10. Her gravestone actually says "our Concrete Angel.: but I found out her and her mom's graves were unmarked for over a decade, and the gravestones were put up by fans much much later, after this song came out
My mother was so abusive to me that my Father had to take me to work with him after picking me up from school. She beat me so badly I had blood welts across my back. School called the police when the gym teacher saw them. They tried to take me from them but I ran to my Dad and held on tight so they couldnt take me from him. Her abuse was worth it to be with him. I was only around 10 at the time. I just cant figure out even after all this time why she hated me so much. I'm quite old now but it still haunts me deeply. So much so I dont go around my sister or nephew because it innevitably comes round to us talking about our childhoods. Theirs was far removed from mine.having not been raised by my parents. Forive me for going on so.
I'm 66 years old and when I was very young I saw that a girl was being abused at home I told my teacher and she was save because her father was hitting her because he was drunk every night and he thought it was fun to hit her , now that girl is married with a loving husband and 3 kids❤❤
There was a family that lived next door to us when I was a kid. This was back in the 1960s and 70s. The father was an abusive, hard drinking, illiterate, brick layer. His wife would be his main target, and his oldest son got the next ration. The three youngest girls also got their share. That all ended when he dropped dead of a heart attack when I was away at Boot Camp in 1976. At that time, just as it seems to be now, you didn't say anything about that stuff. You had to "get along with the neighbors", so you didn't want to rock the boat. And, you never knew what that guy might do if he found out you had turned him in....even though that's what he needed. I have to live with that for the rest of my life.
McBride’s sister was going through a divorce and killed her child at the young age of 7. The tombstone is her real name. God bless the children 🙏 So meny failed her Teachers & neighbors
It was great for you to share your work experience. I worked in the school system with social workers and psychologists for 17 years. I saw cases that haunt me. You are absolutely right that it is very complicated to help these kids and many times you just don't know what to do.
People in the school district should be able to help. They are the front line of these things. If they can't help, who can? We in America are truly fucked up!
I use to drive a school bus and i had a brother and sister that rode my bus. They both were great kids and all of a sudden the boy started acting up on the bus. Cussing everyone and wanting to fight others on the bus. I had to talk with him a few times. And they had to come out and talk to me about him. Then one morning his mom met me at his stop to ask why was i writing him up at school. I told her cause i cany deal with him and the way he was acting. Mom then tells me daddy was home now, he had been in prison for the last 10 years. The following year their grandmother got custody of them and the boy went back to being that good kid he use to be.
You are right about the system. I reported a former neighbor twice and another neighbor reported them three times. Nothing changed. The child is still in a home that is a nightmare. A home so bad that when someone called about them abusing their dogs, the dogs were removed, and the home called almost unlivable. We no longer live near them, but I dread the day I hear the news that something has happened.
Saddest part is she sang this song for her very on niece. It is her name on the gravestone. Sadder yet is this crap happens every single day to precious children of pos parents while there are loving couples longing for children who are unable to have them. Life just sometimes.......
I haven't seen child abuse but I lived beside someone that were bad parents. The kids would cry and I'd just hear the dad yell oh your fine. He would just sit on his playstation instead of caring for the kids. One day as I was babysitting a caseworker came in and saw how I was with the children and she said you take better care of the children then their own parents. I had taken the babysitter trainers course at the American Red Cross
I am so angry at the teacher in this story. Aren't they mandated reporters? And why wouldn't she say anything just because she's a HUMAN? I mean, that teacher needs to change careers.
