Posted on 05/24/2006 1:14:22 PM PDT by RecallMoran
She was black, they were white, and race and sex were in the air.
But whatever actually happened that March 13 night at Duke University -- both the reported rape and its surrounding details are hotly disputed -- it appears at least that the disturbing historic script of the sexual abuse of black women was playing out inside that lacrosse party.
Two black women performed an exotic dance. The white men in their audience shouted racial epithets, one of the women has said. Things got rough. Someone in the crowd held a broomstick aloft and shouted "I'm gonna shove this up you," the other woman told police when she reported being raped. As the women fled the house, a neighbor reportedly heard one of the men shout: "Hey bitch, thank your grandpa for my nice cotton shirt."
The mainstream media have largely tiptoed around the brutal truth that has been discussed among black women in private conversations, in the blogosphere and on college campuses. It is that the Duke case is in some ways reminiscent of a black woman's vulnerability to a white man during the days of slavery, reconstruction and Jim Crow, when sex was used as a tool of racial domination.
It was the kind of predatory behavior that found its way into modern culture in the old Rolling Stones song, "Brown Sugar." And the stereotype of black women as highly sexed, like the lascivious Jezebel from slavery days. "I think there's a tendency to downgrade black women and to discount the fact that, no matter what they are there to do, they are not just animals to be used," says Dorothy Height, 94, president emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women.
"Whatever she did, she was not there as a prostitute," Height says in her defense.
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I wonder if that is true? If so, it is deplorable.
Gosh, that's almost as bad as a false rape accusation!
Also, no matter what happened that night, I hope everyone involved learned a valuable lesson. You should not be doing things that are morally wrong, they have a way of coming back to bite you.
That sort of sneering taunt is really out of place at this point, IMO.
What's active--I've been housewifing all day!
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Bring a barf-bag. There's a poster that has a major issue with women.
"Sold into slavery down in New Orleans".....
Who compared the two? Please let me know.
That sort of sneering taunt is really out of place at this point, IMO.
I will note that that is your opinion, not mine.
ROTFLO!!!!!
Spit my iced-tea right out. HeHeHe...
You know, the race baiters in this country have done more to damage race relations than anything I can think of. I know that's not their intent, but I see it happening a little bit more every day.
What those boys are going through, along with their families, almost makes me break into a cold sweat.
Yeah, let's reserve judgment when every fact so far backs up the Duke Lacrosse players, whose story has remained consistent since day 1. And let's not judge the truth of these two criminals, who have told multiple versions of the truth.
Hopefully we will hear more about the neighbor and what he/she heard or saw.
Considering the circumstances, I really don't care what the Duke Lacrosse players said to those whores.
that would be "black to Hispanic"
None of it passes the smell test. I can't think of one bit of information that has come out that bolsters Nifong's case.
She's a hooker. Plain and simple. And a lying, race baiting hooker at that.
The last time she pulled this stunt, she pulled it on 3 black guys.
In 1996 she walked into the police department to say she'd been raped in 1993. You read that right. 1993.
Her story was so unbelievable that cops didn't even interview the 3 guys she accused. FNC interviewed one of them a few weeks ago and he was 13 at the time and never knew he was under suspicion.
WOW! Well, I think your hatred may run deeper than I care to go. Good day.
"she is a liberal writer "
Well bless her and her little fingers... bearing all the guilt that others should be feeling /s
I believe your lack of knowledge about this case is showing. These "young women", as you call them were prostitutes, with criminal records. There is not one fact that points to the Duke boys as having raped her, or assaulted her in any way. (other than verbal)....
Have a good afternoon.
Are you saying that they did assault the women verbally? I was just told not to put too much stock in that being true?
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