| The real reason Crystal isn't prosecuted; (the same reason Victoria Price wasn't) | |
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| Quasimodo | Oct 17 2010, 09:53 AM Post #1 |
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(a reposted Joan Foster essay, which tells the story as it is ) :
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| Quasimodo | Oct 17 2010, 10:01 AM Post #2 |
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And in the 1930s in Alabama, the same could be repeated, with only slight variations as to color. Victoria Price was a prostitute but was portrayed as the epitome of southern womanhood; and to the end of her days she was never prosecuted. (She even sued NBC when it ran a movie about Scottsboro in the 1970s which said she was a prostitute--something for which she was never convicted. And, except for a technicality, she might have won her case.) And of course to be born black was to be born morally crippled. Which shows that humans are all alike under the skin. Which is why Durham is just a twin of Scottsboro. And why the two need to be linked in studies about these events (which are not at bottom about race relations, or about how whites/blacks discriminated against one another), but about how humans react to one another under certain circumstances. Otherwise, we shall never be able to understand these kinds of reactions and avoid and overcome them in the future. (The warning signs on the road are posted there for all human beings, not just those of one race or another.) |
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| Payback | Oct 17 2010, 11:11 AM Post #3 |
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Joan Foster.
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| MikeZPU | Oct 17 2010, 12:25 PM Post #4 |
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Joan is absolutely right -- it's the honest truth. (Quasi: thanks for reposting!) It was grossly illustrated by Duke's handling of the "other rape case" (i.e., the REAL rape case) where a black male (Michael Burch) raped a white female Duke student (he eventually pleaded guilty!) VP Larry Moneta essentially blamed it on the victim, and if that was not amazing enough, what was more sickening was that there was no outcry after Larry Moneta made his statement, no one seemed to be aghast at what he said. From http://araceagainsttime.blogspot.com/2009/04/ten-most-outrageous-moments-in-duke_11.html : 8. The 2nd Duke Rape Case On February 11, 2007, another woman alleged she was raped in the bathroom at an off-campus party at Duke. Despite the many similarities between this rape allegation and the one made against the Duke lacrosse team a year earlier, the reactions by the media and by Duke University were very different. Initially, the cable news networks showed a great deal of interest in this second rape allegation. However, this interest waned when it was revealed the party had been hosted by Phi Beta Sigma, a black fraternity. By the time it was confirmed that the rapist was black and the victim was white, the story had been relegated to conservative and legal blogs. Only the Duke campus newspaper reported the victim's race. While the suspect was still on the loose, the local daily newspaper, which had shamelessly highlighted the racial angle of the Duke lacrosse rape case, refused to mention the suspect was black. None of this is surprising. As Lawrence Auster has noted, no explicit reference is ever made to the racial aspect of black on white rapes in the media. The response by Duke University was also very different this time around. There were no prayers, marches, or candlelight vigils for Katie Rouse. Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta even seemed to blame the white victim, when he dismissed her rape as "part of the reality of collegiate life and of experimentation and some of the consequences of students not always being in the right place at the right time." In March 2009, Michael Jermaine Burch was sentenced to 48-67 months in prison for the rape. Actually, the sentence was for two rapes - the one at Duke and a second one committed after the defendant was set free on bail. If Burch's bail had been set at $400,00, as it had been for the Duke 3, this second rape (race of victim unknown) could have been prevented. Edited by MikeZPU, Oct 17 2010, 02:09 PM.
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| cks | Oct 17 2010, 02:32 PM Post #5 |
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There is this belief that if one who is white is the victim of false accusations (like RCD) or of a brutal crime (Eve Carson or Ms. Christain and Mr. Newsome {sp?} in Tennessee) that they are somehow culpable in what happened to them because IN THE PAST such things happened to Blacks. The media reporting of such crimes perpetuates this belief. By the way, while reading an AP article that states that a Duke prof refutes the so-called sex tape suggestions that Duke students are sex hounds, the writer refers to the lacrossse case in which she states that the reason the tape gained attention was because it was at Duke "where three lacrosse students were accused of raping a young woman". Once again, further reason why the suits NEED TO GO FORWARD. (Sorry for the caps - I am just really angered by the injustice that continues to occur). |
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