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Kobe's "Idol" Girl
New York Post ^
| July 10, 2003
| DOUGLAS MONTERO and WILLIAM J. GORTA
Posted on 07/10/2003 1:10:37 PM PDT by Recourse
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:15:05 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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July 10, 2003 -- Kobe Bryant's alleged sex-assault victim is an aspiring chanteuse who drove a thousand miles for a shot at stardom on Fox's blockbuster "American Idol," a friend told The Post yesterday.
Despite being cut from the hit reality show, the alleged victim's a talented pianist and songwriter who hopes to become a music teacher when she graduates college, friends said.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: blond; idol; kobe
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To: Skywalk
Evidence? Check out lots of threads about black athletes, Africa, etc. There's more than enough latent racism to go around on those threads, even if it's only a tiny minority. You said on the board right now! Please show evidence of that!
263
posted on
07/10/2003 9:25:05 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: cinFLA
Here's the problem. Your approach of "not slandering" would require me, if accused, to not point out how the charges might be motivated by something other than the truth.
Me or my friends would be prohibited from pointing out that "girls make up rape claims all the time, and this is supported by the DoJ/FBI statistics." They'd also be prohibited, by you, from pointing out that the girl is unstable, or that she wasn't acting like a victim after the alleged event, that she was drinking and making out with me at a party, etc Whatever the particular circumstance in a case, I'd be forbidden(socially) from pointing this out, even if I'm innocent, just because.
Why is that? If I'm guilty of nothing, or of poor but NON-CRIMINAL judgment, why can I not turn the focus back on the accuser? These crimes are different than murder, robbery, etc. one reason is evidence and motive necessary for a good case in the others, and the social cost to the accused is completely different. If you're acquitted of burglary, most will assume you are indeed not guilty. If you're acquitted of child molestation or rape, you're still guilty in the eyes of many out there.
264
posted on
07/10/2003 9:25:08 PM PDT
by
Skywalk
To: cinFLA
I thought FR was the board, and individual threads are threads.
But if you want a name, how about Palladin who essentially made up evidence?
265
posted on
07/10/2003 9:26:13 PM PDT
by
Skywalk
To: Skywalk
Evidence? Check out lots of threads about black athletes, Africa, etc. There's more than enough latent racism to go around on those threads, even if it's only a tiny minority. If it is latent, how do you know it is there?
266
posted on
07/10/2003 9:26:41 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: Skywalk
even if it's only a tiny minorityWhich is it? 'plenty' or 'tiny minority'?
267
posted on
07/10/2003 9:28:00 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: cinFLA
How many people are on this board that post?
Hundreds?
10 would be a tiny minority to me, but would be plenty also because they can be a larger presence than they actually are.
268
posted on
07/10/2003 9:29:41 PM PDT
by
Skywalk
To: cinFLA
Because there's a difference between someone who HATES a race and someone who is a good person but has a tendency towards prejudice in certain circumstances.
Surely, this is no shock to you?
269
posted on
07/10/2003 9:30:31 PM PDT
by
Skywalk
To: Hatteras
This is the first I heard she was white. It happened in Colorado. What did you expect?
270
posted on
07/10/2003 9:32:21 PM PDT
by
Henk
To: colorado tanker
A defendant under arrest has no choice about giving samples, no matter how good his lawyer is. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
He wasn't arrested until after he went to the hospital with the police.
To: smiley
Unfortunately for her, the Kobe defence team will portrary her as a tramp after a successful black man.
272
posted on
07/10/2003 9:35:30 PM PDT
by
baltoga
To: BunnySlippers
I have a feeling there is a long, long, long list of jobs you don't think women should have.
If we are to assume that women and men are functionally interchangeable, then by definition women should be afforded no special treatment, as was the case in the Dark Ages. Please explain why, in a country where a citizen is presumed innocent until proven guilty, Kobe Bryant is not afforded the same anonymity as his anonymous accuser?
To: cinFLA
How about this gem:
"He should also be good for eight to ten in maximum security. There are exceptions (notably, David Robinson) but as a class, NBA players are only a single step up in respectability from convicted felons and Democratic Presidential candidates."
To: BunnySlippers
Not only that. But when the tribe finds the man and the woman together the woman gets beaten, punished or killed for being a whore. Nothing happens to the guyProviding the man did not force the woman to be there (or the woman force the man, as some here would say equally likely), punishment of the woman and not the man may in fact be justified.
There should be a double standard. It has to do with a woman's always knowing the child she carries has her genes, while a man can never (historically) be sure that his woman is in fact bearing his child.
And because a woman, no matter how many men she might mate with, cannot increase the number of offspring she might have beyond one every year or so, she has less biological reason to be promiscuous.
But the genetic blueprint of men, who can never be sure a woman they have been mating with is carrying their child, has found it advantageous to influence men to have sex with as many women as possible, in the hope that the odds will be that at least some of the women will become pregnant with HIS baby.
Of course, not all men cheat on their wives and not all wives are faithful.
Human behavior, like human physical traits, exist in a range between extremes.
The big question now is how much of the double standard is genetically determined and how much of it is cultural--both culture and human biology pass through survival of the fittest.
If it is genetics that has programmed human behavior such that men and women are compelled to behave differently, to pursue different reproductive strategies, tnen those inborn behavioral proclivities might be supressed for a while, but ultimately they will free themselves and the truth will out.
275
posted on
07/10/2003 10:00:01 PM PDT
by
Age of Reason
(Proud to Be Called an Immigration Hypocrite)
To: SoCal Pubbie
Ha Ha Ha. This guy was REPLYING to mineralmans slander post. PLEASE!
276
posted on
07/10/2003 10:22:58 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: cinFLA
So you are assuming she is NOT a proper woman.I am more interested in judging the rules she lives by than in judging her.
277
posted on
07/10/2003 10:26:32 PM PDT
by
Age of Reason
(Proud to Be Called an Immigration Hypocrite)
To: SoCal Pubbie
(if we replay the post, we will see that your 'gem' is actually a takeoff on mineralmans slander of the young lady)
To: MineralMan
What should she do...what should she do? Take the food...take the food. Now, a few bruises and scratches and a delay in coming back down to the lobby area. Work up a good histerical fit.
Yeah...that oughta do it. Should be good for a quarter million or so. He's good for it.
He should also be good for eight to ten in maximum security. There are exceptions (notably, David Robinson) but as a class, NBA players are only a single step up in respectability from convicted felons and Democratic Presidential candidates.
217 posted on 07/10/2003 7:39 PM PDT by 537 Votes [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
278
posted on
07/10/2003 10:29:26 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: Age of Reason
she has less biological reason to be promiscuous. Unless she is trapped with a total toad like you under your prescribed rules for marriage and can't leave but desires to improve the genes of the offspring beyound that which her dolt of a male cannot provide.
279
posted on
07/10/2003 10:32:36 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: 666beast
I don't know, you could be completely right.
280
posted on
07/10/2003 10:57:49 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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