“This is a tragedy,” Paterno said in a statement. “It is one of the great sorrows of my life....”
Too bad this forked-tongue POS let football interfer with the action that was his moral responsibility to take. He diserves all of the negative fall-out from this that comes his way, and more. May he rot in the hell that he has created by doing nothing.
That's why, in the late sixties, I identified strongly with black kids. It was a time when hatred against blacks was coming out in the open because of the civil right s movement. But it was also a time when black people were asserting and demanding their right to full citizenship and full humanity. I often said to friends at that time time that I wished I were black. Maybe some people thought I was some kind of overdramatic or sentimental bleeding heart. What they didn't get about me was that I always feel my best and highest when I have a cause, when I have have something to fight for, when I'm behind in the score and there's barely enough time to pull off a win. Being black and insisting on being fully a person was a cause.
SO...by wanting to be be BLACK...he adopted the NO SNITCH rule...
POS...
As a Penn State alum, I hate to say this, but I agree with you 100%. What part of “Coach, I caught Sandusky raping a ten year old boy in the shower, what should I do?” is hard to answer? A good response might have been “And you didn’t beat the crap out of him or try to stop it?” or maybe :”1st, let’s get four or five linemen, find Sandusky, tie him up, identify the boy and leave Sandusky along with the boy’s father, Loraina Bobbit and a Louisville slugger. 2nd, call medical examiner to identify the remains.” Also, interesting how the grad assistant McQueary, gets a full time coaching position. He should rot in the cell next to Sandusky. Everyone associates with this should be fired immediately. Paterno should be in jail with Curley. Maybe Paterno didn’t know “the details”, but’s that’s only because he didn’t want to know. He had a duty to find out. Sad to see so many student’s supporting him. How many kids were raped because of his willful blindness? Also, Happy Valley is a very small tight knit community: If the janitors knew, the DA knew, the police knew and the administration knew, lots and lots of people must have known. They all have those children’s lost innocence on their hands.