Posted on 04/20/2006 6:54:31 AM PDT by mlc9852
The victim, a single mom who turned to exotic dancing to support her two kids, attends North Carolina Central University, a mostly black college in Durham.
She plans to keep a low profile until the students go on trial to avoid inflaming tensions in the black community, where opinion is running heavily against the privileged students.
One of the most hurtful things for the woman about the media circus surrounding the case, the cousin said, is the tendency to assume the worst about her because she is a stripper.
"She's a victim and she's a human being," the cousin said. "Her occupation couldn't justify that a crime like this was committed."
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IMHO, Nifong and Chicken-Fitz must've got their law degrees from the same mail-order outfit.
LMBO! That's great!
You win the prize. It's like bringing a rattlesnake to a party and wondering why people got bit. It may be legal but it is stupid. Strip clubs alays have the biggest bouncers for a reason.
What she was doing was not exotic in any way. She is a:
Stripper
Nude Dancer
Topless Dancer
Amusement Park Ride
Ain't it the truth.
Amusement park ride - ROFL!
If you read that the right way, it's kinda funny...
If it turns out this woman is lying, for whatever reason, the vultures have already descended...Jesse and gang. They smell big money...lawsuits against the alleged rapists/kidnappers, against Duke. Meanwhile where do the accused go to get back their reputation (such as it is when you're 20 and a college kid)? And the damage done to race relations in NC is tragic, no matter what.
LOL - took me a second
"There are no good guys or gals in this story."
The only reason this is even a story is that its at Duke which has a reputation for good morals. I keep mentioning Brown university where the school sponsors an annual orgy.
You can't paint the entire school or sports team as bad for having a stripper. Evidently there were a at least a couple people willing to pay though.
Just wondering how a person can be arrested if he has such a solid alibi?
When I was in college, my fratnerity hired a stripper to come to our house for a bachelor party. When the stripper showed up, she came with two bouncers. I guess I always thought that was the norm, since it was my only experience with a "house call".
You have a point. (I was thinking about the White House travel office and Hillary.)
I would have done it for my children if there was no other work that paid a living wage for a single mom. And I hate stripping and clubs.
But by the grace of God or just luck, I didn't have to do it. It would be awful. I think if you have a lot of faith, no matter what era, you can find a way around it, but I'm not sure. That Jewish woman slept with that creepy Nazi to try to save another Jew. She is counted among the righteous.
I met a German woman in a little grocery store who told how she had to prostitute herself during the war to get food for the rest of her family. She still felt bad about it, like it dogged her the rest of her life. I felt compassion for her.
I don't think much of the rest of it. Some women seem to like the thrill of it and the attention. Some even find husbands to raise their children that way. My ex-husband married one.
What a crazy f'in world. More crazy stuff has been happening in my life lately. My granddaughter had to wait on her grandfather, his daughter and her two boys at the mall the other day. She asked him if he knew her. He looked and said, something like yeah, you're pretty.
Now she's furious because she didn't know her mom went out there, and their daughter went ballistic on her for not helping her dad. The first thing she (my gdaughter) said was what did he ever do to help her?
I met up with him out shooting a race and didn't recognize him. Deja vu.
Concise and correct. "Lap dances" (an ugly term if ever there was one) aren't cool. Strip clubs aren't cool. Only a debased culture would think they are.
AV
For some reason I caught it as I was scrolling by...and LOL. And, the Amusement Park Ride was a term we used back in the day, or the phrase "She got passed around more than a basketball at a Lakers game."
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