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Stripping not proper job
James Coleman, professor of law at Duke University, calls it racial insensitivity to call the alleged victim in the lacrosse indictments a "black girl near the bottom of society." This is blunt, but what is more incredulous than the press calling a murderer a gentleman or a woman who strips for a living a lady? Professor Coleman himself panders to a segment of so-called sexually liberated women in echoing the oft-heard distinctions differentiating the alleged victim from others as "apparently a talented student and mother" who (has no other choice), but "dances to support herself and her child." I believe a large majority of women of all races still think this is not a proper job for any woman, and especially a mother. The alleged victim was either never told, or did not take seriously, the age-old warning that if a woman puts herself in an atmosphere inviting sex, it will almost certainly guarantee advances, unwanted or otherwise. I think we can call that a fact.
KRIS CHRISTENSEN
Durham
October 25, 2006