Duke lacrosse team rape scandal?

I'm not sure if this topic has come up here yet, but what do you all think?

I think it was made into a race issue much too quickly, and is proving to be an embarrassment for black folk. Before we start protesting and such like the people at N.C. Central U., we should be clear who we're getting behind... This reminds me of tawana brawley and the mike tyson rape case in one. Sorta brings to mind the Kobe thing too.

I expressed this opinion to a friend, and the comeback was -- "what if it was your daughter?" My answer was my daughter wouldn't be running out to pop her ass for LACROSSE TEAM of white guys for a few bucks.

The protesters should've just quietly let the wheels of justice turn, rather than helping the pigfolk in the media turn this into an embarassment for black people, which will hurt the credibility of people who are genuinely victimized by rape and racism.

That being said, it sure as hell is possible that those guys raped and abused that girl -- but -- again, let's not help the pigfolk with premature reactions or overreactions.

That's my $.02. What about you?

 

"where ya goin' hon?"

"I'm going over to dance for the duke lacrosse team."

"What's a lacrosse team?"

"I dunno -- but they pay 200 bucks!!"
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(Yeah, go ahead & hate. But we gotta do better than this!)

 

Can't rule out the possibly of a rape in this, but if make your own bed, you lie in it.

 

This is where I agree with you the most. A similar thing happened here in my town last week with a black chick who was turning tricks at a college frat party.

 

I think she slipped one of them a note asking him to put on some rap music, and he misread it...

 

Very funny...

but, seriously, it's not that I think she or any of these women deserved to be raped, I just think that they brought it on themselves, and they KNEW the risk they were running when they decided to whore themselves out to a group of random strangers...

but, with some people, you have to let them run the risks of sabotaging themselves in order for them to wake up and see the blinding light already in their faces.

 

I think the reaction from the black community is mild compared to what would be going on if it were a white stripper and an all black sports team.

I also noticed how quickly and easily people show their prejudices in a case like this. Lots of politicians, radio personalities, and other minor celebrities have called her names. It started immediately and even before most of the stuff we know today came out. All they knew was it was a black stripper and a room full of white guys.

I just find it unnerving how quick and easy it is for people to call names when the person is black. It is like it gives them the opportunity to say some bad stuff about a black person without having to worry about looking prejudice. Call we all know, they aint worried about BEING prejudice, just looking it.

 

You speak plenty of truth, lil' lady.

 

Turning trick for bucks from the lacrosse team to pay for education, that really Rich!!

whats the point of education if not to lift one out of the myre of incivility and barbarian, neanderthal behavior such as stripping and turning tricks.

she walked right into it knowing what goes down.

 

Yes you'd be wrong, since it's not very likely I'll be having more kids. And if I did, no matter who's the mother, my daughter wouldn't be half-anything. She'd be whole... If anything you could say I'm half of her. :mrgreen: If anything.

And no, it wouldn't be any better if she were out popping her ass for a lacrosse team of black guys. It would be even more bizarre & whorish, since I don't think there is such a thing as a lacrosse team of black guys. I think individual black lacrosse players would have to come together from the four corners of the earth to form a team just for this special ass-popping event...

Anyway, if you're gonna be a ho, at least keep it local is all I'm sayin. And if you don't, I'm not about to turn a lowlife scene that started with a misspelling into a racial issue.

Hope I've cleared up the contradictarosity.

 

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these boyz are going to get off? was it true?

 

interesting, do you think its because they are white or wealthy?

 

as a southerner, i think if those boyz were redneck and poor they would not have the same support. It is still ok to call poor white people, white trash and rednecks in public while saying derrogatory things towards black is frowned upon.

I believe it was because they were from wealthy families with great well paid lawyers that they are getting the treatment they are getting. and I am not even sure they are guilty but I do believe they are getting the media support based on their money. If it were in a trailer park, no way.

 

no, thats your perspective and how you may see it, i dont mean say differently.

my experience over my 40 years has been different having grown up in the south, lived all over the states. I just see poor whites being treated just as bad.

 

i lived in South Carolina, north florida, mississippi, Texas. went to college at an HBCU in Mississippi. learned a great deal there

 

For one thing, if the La Crosse team were considered 'poor white trash', then the general public would just look the incident as a 'poor black stripper girl being molested by trailor trash' and so on...

BUT, just imagine the news headlines, if the men were middle to upper class:



"African-American stripper allegedly claims rape incident"

"Black prostitute files rape charge for servicing white males"

" Minority woman gets vengeful on La Crosse Team for private dealing gone wrong"



Well, you get the drift.

 

they are not stingy, they dont have the same endowments as most white schools. Whites give back to their schools while most black alumni dont give back.

spelman is awesome and the women, oh wow. and good bm at clark, AU and Morehouse.

 

did you look at Howard or Hampton? I loved my HBCU, my family has gone there since right after slavery in 1867, continously for 139 years.

 

Howard is awesome, i have cousins who have gone there and taught there. dont believe what others say. Howard is less aparty school than most of the white ones.

i love and support the HBCUs