Lancey is a Penn State grad who I've appreciated his sense of objectivity this week on various threads.
Lancey, you wrote a vanity Friday entitled If Jerry Sandusky had raped little GIRLS...
Lancey wrote: Had the 1998 witness seen Sandusky fondling or raping a 10-year-old girl rather than a little boy, and had the burly 28-year-old former PSU quarterback Mike McQueary witnessed Sandusky raping a 10-year-old girl, there would have been no running to Daddy or waiting until the next day to tell somebody about it. There would have been no hesitation about what to do. There would have been no reluctance to point the finger and condemn Sandusky as a pedophile. At the very core of Penn State's ruinous scandal, homosexuality is the elephant in the room - - homosexuality and the political correctness that comes with it. Regular old pedophilia is easy to get publicly outraged about. Even the suspicion of regular old pedophilia elicits menacing sneers at the accused. But little boys? Well, that's different. That's a homosexual thing...
I think Lancey that what Treeless Branch has shared offers yet another angle to what you wrote.
For example, what if simply shifted your comments above based upon the race of most of these victims and wrote?
Had the 1998 witness seen Sandusky fondling or raping a 10-year-old white girl or boy rather than a little black boy, and had the burly 28-year-old former PSU quarterback Mike McQueary witnessed Sandusky raping a 10-year-old girl, there would have been no running to Daddy or waiting until the next day to tell somebody about it. There would have been no hesitation about what to do. There would have been no reluctance to point the finger and condemn Sandusky as a pedophile. At the very core of Penn State's ruinous scandal, perhaps racism and possibly to some degree homosexuality is the elephant in the room - - racism, homosexuality and the political correctness that comes with it. Regular old pedophilia is easy to get publicly outraged about. Even the suspicion of regular old pedophilia elicits menacing sneers at the accused. But little black boys? Well, that's different. That's a racist and homosexual thing...
Oh, how I wish the focus was not becoming this clear...because what I am sensing here is that these white admins & white coaches may have "put up" with not intervening on behalf of the victims because the victims they knew of were black. They were deemed "expendable" -- especially in light of the alternative...
...Scandalizing the glory of the Penn State football team.
How can pedophilia get even worse?
#1 When its practice becomes institutionalized
#2 When child-victims of their rapists are ignored because their race deems them even more expendable than say, white victims.
Wow! Heart-breaking!!!! this week in which you mentioned
Heartbreaking indeed. How this story cannot bring strong feelings of rage and disgust and sadness is beyond me. And I think u are right that the underlying culture that places no value on young boys played at least some role in McQueery walking away from the rape where, as he describes it, HE LOOKED INTO THE EYES of both the victim and Sandusky as it was happening.
If anything this story should give us all pause to be vigilant for spotting evil and then doing something to stop it.
Kudos to Lancey for his post, and thanks for repeating it for those of us who missed it.
Oh, how I wish the focus was not becoming this clear...because what I am sensing here is that these white admins & white coaches may have “put up” with not intervening on behalf of the victims because the victims they knew of were black. They were deemed “expendable” — especially in light of the alternative...