Reply #21: "Two, four, six, eight, ten, come on, Rakheem, put it in." Is What She Was Ordered to Scream

[NashVegas]

While the school has the legal right to boot her from the squad, morally, they fucked up. When a teenage girl tells you there's a kid on the court who raped her, you don't frigging order her to scream a cheer like that unless you are a complete asshole.

Ya know, I think the fact she is refusing to back down, just might indicate she's been truthful. That, and the several witnesses who tried to break into the room where she was being raped.

Her refusal to cheer for that one person wasn't going to turn the world upside down. The school had the choice to accommodate a reasonable compromise - she cheered for the team and the other individual team members, and stayed silent while others shouted out her rapist's name. It would have been a decent way to let the situation play out in school while it went through the courts.


Instead, papers all over the country are reporting this:

High school football star Rakheem Bolton and two others were indicted for sexual assault of a child–identified only as H.S.–at a post-game party in 2008. According to H.S.–a fellow student and cheerleader at Silsbee High–Bolton, football player Christian Rountree and another juvenile male forced her into a room, locked the door, held her down and sexually assaulted her. When other party-goers tried to get into the room, two of the men fled through an open window, including Bolton, who left clothing behind. Bolton allegedly threatened to shoot the occupants of the house when the homeowner refused to return his clothes.
http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/10/15/cheerleader-required-to-cheer-for-man-who-assaulted-her/


It was legal to refuse to serve black people at lunch counters until some people were willing to risk arrest to change things. I think this girl is fantastic and I commend her family for supporting her.