[tracer]

If there is any ironic humor to be found in this sad situation, it surely is the justified and near-total abandonment of Kobe by other African-Americans famous and "ordinary" -- due largely to fact that he dared to boink, consensually or otherwise, a white chick. Even Mike Tyson was smart enough to avoid that complication...

[jimbo123]

It went beyond boinking into something quite unsanitary.

[dwd1]

I don't think the black community abandoned him...It is just that we know that if accusations or allegations are made against him, he has a problem in that he broke what is in many people's minds an unwritten rule. Because of the location of the alleged offense, the word out here very simply is that Kobe showed extremely poor judgement on several occasions. The other mistake that he made was cheating on a Latina. I have been told on several occasions that the diamond ring is just the downpayment for that debt...

[wardaddy]

You need to go to the FreeKobe websites that have multiplied like rabbits.

"Ordinary" black folks have hardly abandoned him. Many who purport to be black have written some the vilest things about the accused and her particular race that I have ever seen on the net anywhere anytime.

Likewise, Kobe has not been abandoned here by a number of posters who claim to be black.

Kobe had already crossed that "line" by marrying a Latina. Nothing new here in that regard.

I am curious though, does anyone think this was his first time to cheat?