Was Chuck Berry “absurd” to think that he had to protect himself from the “consensual until caught” scenario?
How specifically would reading TKaMB make a woman think it might be safe to jog in Central Park? Nothing in TKaMB had anything to do with the scenario you are suggesting, rape by a stranger of a different race.
The TKaMB scenario was more like a Kobe Bryant situation. He says they had sex, she says she was raped. Was it absurd to consider that Kobe might have been innocent, or based upon the accusation of any white woman and based upon racial crime statistics, it would be “absurd” to consider Kobe innocent until proven guilty by actual evidence?
How specifically would reading TKaMB make a woman think it might be safe to jog in Central Park? Nothing in TKaMB had anything to do with the scenario you are suggesting, rape by a stranger of a different race.
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Its absurd of course to think that a woman could be raped and murdered just for running in Central Park or that a woman would be so stupid as to put herself at so great a risk for nothing.
Unless of course she had learned from her father that blacks are unfairly accused of all manner of crimes including rape and murder and that blacks as a rule can be relied upon for protection.
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The TKaMB scenario was more like a Kobe Bryant situation.
Nah, the Kobe thing just showed how much things had changed from the world ostensible portrayed by the 1960’s movie. With the whole world watching the small town woman never had a chance. After 15 minutes of testimony nobody believed her. Where did she get the absurd idea she would be believed? Kobe’s big city lawyers made short work of her. All she did was embarrass herself and her community. Nor did anyone care much about the way Kobe embarrassed his wife. What was he thinking? Oh yeah, he’d probably seen the chuck berry pictures too.