Back in the recent past when we were dealing with the recession..there was the select group that didn't know we were in it..or didn't see it. I'm talking about the upper class..the wealthy. With those people..I think they live in a "dream land"..and think their suburbs should have their own rules and ways. And race is always a major player in those rules..
You want Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and The Race Card to go away. You love it when their white-wing soul mates, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, pretend the solution to America’s race problem is for black people to quit talking about race.
OK, read this..
A prosecutor in Carmel, Ind., hid behind the grand-jury process so that misdemeanor charges would be filed against a group of senior Carmel High School basketball players who “hazed” a group of freshmen players by allegedly pulling their pants down and violating them with some type of “anal penetration,” according to a lawyer for one of the alleged victims.
Carmel is a suburb of Indianapolis. It’s a wealthy suburb that in the last decade has received its first real taste of racial diversity.
The Carmel school system, the prosecutor and the parents of the alleged perpetrators have “managed” the investigation of this crime since day one. If they had had their way, the “hazing” would’ve been ignored or handled by school administrators. In 1998, when the Carmel swim team was engulfed in a similar hazing incident, the prosecutor hid behind a grand jury and declined to seek any criminal charges against the swimmers.
This time the prosecutor has been dragged to court by an avalanche of evidence and because of the race of the victims.
The group of seniors consisted of three white players and one black. The group of alleged victims consisted of two black players and one white. The black victims and their parents, according to reporters covering the case, have cooperated with the police. The white victim’s family has denied to reporters that their son is involved.
There is videotape evidence of what transpired at the back of the freshman bus on Jan. 22, when one of the alleged victims was violated. Under the myth of protecting the victim, the prosecutor won’t make the tape available to the media.
What’s missing is a credible, objective media arbitrator applying genuine pressure on the prosecutor and the school to do the right thing. There’s no meaningful outrage.
The prosecutor didn’t need a grand jury to bring felony charges against the players for deviant sexual conduct. Sonia Leerkamp, the prosecutor, went the grand-jury route because the proceedings are secret, and she knew a grand jury would be reluctant to damage rich kids with bright futures.
“The only people she could be trying to protect through a grand jury are the suspects,” a retired Indiana law professor told the Indianapolis Star. “It’s a coverup, pure and simple. It’s obscene.”No one thinks the Carmel kids should be locked away for years. But a few no-harm-no-foul misdemeanors for allegedly jamming things down a kid’s butt on the back of a bus?
Reverse the races and move the case to the inner city. You think misdemeanors and a giggly field trip to jail would be on the table?
I’m not a Sharpton or Jackson cheerleader. But I understand what motivates them, what gives them credibility.
Those of us who claim to be free of biases, those of us who claim we want everyone treated fairly, too often lose the courage to support our stated convictions. The people manipulating the criminal justice system in this case should be shamed into doing the right thing by the people who actually live in Carmel.
Again..TWO AMERICAS is still alive and kicking..and will always be here. Somebody in politics needs to take up that mantle. That is one of our fundamental problems...that there are two Americas.
This past recession has been so uneven. In that top half, that one-half of America...ask the question...why does it not look like there is a recession at the height of it, when we were hearing such horrible numbers. Because the places they drive through, there isn't one. But in this other America, it's like a depression. And with recession and depression comes actions that the upper half normally don't experience...or have control of.
So what's the answer?? Tell me..
Peace out my HALEYUNNS!
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