Upset By the Bullshit

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I think it is possible that some of what I going to say will upset many people, but I am upset about some of the bullshit that is being said about the Imus and Duke cases. First, can anyone tell me how a group of African-American girls who did nothing wrong is the same as a group of white guys who had to get investigated and charged in a rape trail after they were accused. Why should any black person have to apologize to the guys involved in the Duke rape case?

In the Rutgers case there was never any proof that any of the girls were hos or that they were thugs. I do not know of any cases in which the girls did not have to go to trial for beating up a gay person with the stipulation that they do not get in any more trouble. I do not know of any reports from the other students on the Rutgers campus stating that the girls had been know to have crazy parties were they got drunk and shouted racist remarks at white people. In addition, I have not heard reports of the girls having parties were they hired male strippers. Mainly in my opinion there was no reason for the comments made by Don Imus.

However, in the Duke case one of the former defendants wrote an email in which he claimed he wanted to rape a stripper, skin her, and then jack off. Another defendant had been accused of beating up a gay person, but since he was going to Duke University he was allowed to have the case set aside providing he did not get into any more trouble. In addition, the Duke Lacrosse team had a history of crazy parties in which they got drunk and then shouted out racist remarks. Please lets not make these guys out to be victims. They went through the legal process just like anybody else has to go through. At least at the beginning there was reason to believe the men may have done something wrong. There are many black men in jail today who were tried and convicted on less evidence than was given in the Duke Lacrosse case.

Yes, I am happy that Duke kicked out Reed Seligmen. I did not think Seligmen should be kicked out because he was accused of rape I thought he should be kicked out because of the email he wrote. I thought a school like Duke should not allow students who write such things to go to the school. In addition, I am happy they fired the coach of the Lacrosse team. Not because some of his players were accused of rape, but because he allowed his players to act like animals on many occasions. I think he could have done a better job.

Finally, the Rutgers girls will be okay, but so will the Duke guys. Seligmen has applied to Harvard and is being recruited by Brown. So it seems to me that he fell up since Harvard and Brown are both better schools than Duke. In addition, the other guy who had a Wall Street job lined up for him will probably get that job now. The one who was facing trial for beating the gay person will possibly have the case set aside again and will be accepted to another school if he does not decide to go back to Duke, which offered to accept each of the players who had not graduated.

I do not feel very bad for the Duke guys partly because I think some of their actions helped to allow this to happen. However, what did African-Americans do to the Duke guys? I do not know of any African-Americans who screamed out racist remarks toward the young men. As far as I know the only thing African-Americans asked for was a fair trial and to not have a group of white kids get away with rape(if they did it) just because they were white, had money, and went to a prestigious university. So what did African-American people do that requires an apology?