Players' rape arrests split football town

Dallas Morning News ^ | 9/20/2002 | Arnold Hamilton

[cynicom]

I doubt very much if those five rapists know what not having "opportunities" really involves. Moral character has nothing to do with having "things" like whitey. Bill Clinton is the perfect example. If you have no moral compass and vilolate the law with such behavior, you must be punished. White, black or blue, makes no difference.

[ladtx]

Sounds like racial profiling to me too. The rapists decided that if they raped an indian girl there wouldn't be as much of a stink raised than if they raped a white girl.

[southern rock]

I can point to more than one example of where they absolutely did not--including a group of WHITE football players across the river in New Jersey, who are still in prison for gang-raping a retarded girl with various objects.

Yep, I was thinking about the Glen Ridge case as I read this also. They were all white, I believe, except for the kid (also a football player) who turned in his fellow teammates after he heard them bragging about it. He was black, if I remember correctly.

[southern rock]

Yeah, that's really the worst part of this whole thing. Forget the fact that a 14-year-old girl was RAPED -- that's beside the point, the real tragedy is its effect on "race relations." (/sarcasm)

Well, if you remember, back when the Susan Smith case broke, according to some people (black activists), her real crime was not drowning her two sons while strapped into the backseat of a car, but rather her false accusation of an anonomyus black man. To some, that was considered the "real tragedy".

[hellinahandcart]

I doubt very much if those five rapists know what not having "opportunities" really involves.

It would be the first time in the history of the country that five star athletes in high school did not have sufficient "social and recreational" opportunities.

My high school had a long tradition of basketball championships, and the guys on the team were treated like GODS. Not just at the school, where they were not only given passing grades they didn't earn but also places in groups like the National Honor Society, but all through the town, where they were given no-show jobs and free meals and you name it.

[blam]

"He noted that black youths – many of them poor – do not enjoy the same recreational and social opportunities as whites."

So....that makes it okay to 'recreate' on a poor helpless Indian girl? Hang the bastards!

[hellinahandcart]

But when we are talking about gang rape, trying to say that it woulda-coulda-shoulda been handled quietly is just plain disturbing.

Yup. There's only three ways I can think of to "handle it quietly"--

Pay the girl off, allowing the five rapists to escape punishment and do the same thing to someone else.

Intimidate and threaten the girl into silence, allowing the five rapists to escape punishment and do the same thing to someone else.

Kill the girl to keep her from talking, allowing the five rapists to escape punishment and do the same thing to someone else.

I can't imagine why Taylor thinks any of these are good options. Maybe he likes to rape women too.

[KellyAdmirer]

overlooking the transgressions of well-to-do whites

Did somebody say OJ?

[07055]

A lot of this seems to go back to the slavery reparations debate:

Looking the other way when a girl is raped is another form of reparations for something that might have happened to the great, great, great grandparents of these perps. But, be sure you also give these boys "their money."

[isthisnickcool]

For example, Mr. Taylor said that he believes his hometown bears responsibility for helping create a climate in which such an incident could occur. He noted that black youths – many of them poor – do not enjoy the same recreational and social opportunities as whites.

How unfair. I suppose they could have justified killing this little girl if their lot in life was worse than it is?

[al_c]

Mr. Taylor said that he believes his hometown bears responsibility for helping create a climate in which such an incident could occur. He noted that black youths – many of them poor – do not enjoy the same recreational and social opportunities as whites.

So ... this makes it okay to go and out and rape somebody? What a moron!

[Steely Tom]

The leaders of the side making that claim would do well to consider the fact that all they are doing is waking people up to the vacuousness of that emotional appeal to people's disdain for bias. And displaying their own moral vaccuum.

I doubt they give this angle a second thought. They are looking for a personal benefit, short-term. Nothing more.

This fact (if true) has interesting implications, don't you think?

(steely)

[N. Theknow]

The best recreational facilities tend to be miles from the southeast part of town, where most black residents live, he said.

So gang-rape is a recreational activity in their community? A team-sport?

Does this air-head have an email address?

[Steely Tom]

including a group of WHITE football players across the river in New Jersey, who are still in prison for gang-raping a retarded girl with various objects.

And weren't they pretty well off? As I recall, they were from one of those wealthy towns in north Jersey, East Orange or South Orange or Maplewood.

(steely)

[07055]

The best recreational facilities tend to be miles from the southeast part of town, where most black residents live, he said.

I have been to Duncan many times. Its a small town, for gosh sakes. You could probably walk whereever you want to go. Its not like getting from Oak Cliff to Plano.

What a pathetic excuse for gang rape.

[shiva]

If they don't like racial profiling.....then they should rape thier own black girls!

[hellinahandcart]

It was Glen Ridge, and yes they were all pretty well off.

And I think they were all charged as adults too, unlike these five who are going into the juvenile system and could possibly be released at age 18, 19, or 20. But I'm not going to quibble about "special treatment" in the Texas case, because it is a different state. And because it's just impossible to accuse Texas of being soft on crime :D.

[E.G.C.]

That's my region of the country. I'm a life long resident of Southwest Oklahoma.

Duncan really isn't that big of a town. I've been there and it don't take too long to get from one end to the other.

I agree with a lot of the posts here. This race-baiting nonsense is old and worn out and has a tendency to destroy of credibility of those resorting to such nonsense.

There is absolutely no justfication whatsoever for this kind of nonsense.
Regards.

[07055]

I agree with you about Texas, but these perps are in southern Oklahoma.