There is an opinion piece in the Washington Post about the Duke athletes and the escapades there. It's funny how the shit that went on there has been going on for a long time, but because this time it was a black woman that was allegedly assaulted, the media is all over it, and everyone has an opinion. Most of those opinions bring up the racial differences of those involved, and this particular commentator puts it this way...

That's the basic scenario, and it's impossible to avoid thinking of all the black women who were violated by drunken white men in the American South over the centuries. The master-slave relationship, the tradition of droit du seigneur , the use of sexual possession as an instrument of domination -- all this ugliness floods the mind, unbidden, and refuses to leave.

I want to know why it comes unbidden to this guy's mind. He can't stop himself from thinking about all those black women of long ago getting fucked simply because nobody could do anything about it. The white slaveholders were relentless in their sexual encounters with these women, and I want to know why this guy can't stop thinking about it. Has he not the intellect to put it in its place, back in history, and ponder it with a detached mind?

In my opinion, the very thing that drove these athletes to dabble in some 'forbidden' games is the exact same thing that keeps the thoughts of black women being relentlessly fucked in this commentators mind. The difference? He is much older and wiser than these kids that think they can do no wrong, but put in a similar situation, one in which he thought he was safe to let his inhibitions loose without fear of accountability, he would have the same urges these athletes had, to wander to forbidden places.

The context? A bunch of jocks at an elite university in the once-segregated South -- privileged white kids who play lacrosse... ...decide to have a party, so they call an escort service and hire a couple of strippers. The hired help arrives: two black women, one of them a 27-year-old single mother who is working her way through North Carolina Central University...

He goes on to say...

For that matter, what's the deal with a college student, whatever financial pressure she might be under, thinking that working at night as an outcall stripper is a perfectly acceptable -- and safe -- way to support herself? It's not blaming the victim to ask if she couldn't have made better choices.

Aside from the fact that where this happened, the 'once segregated shouth' has nothing to do with the sitution, I don't think the race of these people had anything to do with the outcome, as this guy would have us believe. I believe that if it had anything at all to do with what happened, its the possibility that the reason the stripper was black instead of white was due to the preferences of the athletes who hired her, they simply prefer looking at darker skinned women naked. Other than that, it has nothing to do with the 'hired help' being black, but simply guys, too young with too much money to spend, that were able to throw enough of this money at a woman that needed it enough to get naked so they could ogle her. That's supply and demand, not racism.

Then he asks what the deal is with a woman working her way through school by getting naked for money. Where has this guy been living lately? This shit happens all the time, and both white and black women enhance their financial standing this way. What's to blame? There is nothing illegal about what happened before the alleged incident. She made a choice, who the fuck is he to tell her what choices are good or bad? He would not have made the choice, but she is free to do so if she chooses. Isn't that an indication of the freedoms women and blacks have rightfully won, the freedom to make such choices? In my opinion, this commentator is no better than the slaveholder that forced himself on the female slaves, both attempt to force a belief onto a person of the opposite sex, and it is a testament to just how great this nation is when the woman today can tell the man to fuck off and that it is perfectly within her right to do such things as long as nobody is harmed.

Hmmm, that's not where I was going with this.....