In recognition of Blog Against Racism Week, here’s a story that might give you pause.
In late 2004, my son was the victim of a violent, unprovoked assault by several members of the Grossmont Community College football team. Someone at the party took a digital movie of the crime as it unfolded, which eventually helped convict the thugs.
About a week after the crime occurred, detectives showed that video to Head Football Coach Dave Jordan. Court records indicate that his response was that the “spoiled white boys [victims] probably deserved a beating.”
Maybe you were shocked and perhaps offended by the coach’s remark. But did you also wonder about the coach’s ethnic origins? And how about those violent athletes: How did you picture them in your mind?
PS Richard Nelson, the fourth assailant, finally turned himself in at the end of last week.
“Maybe if it was my star quarterback, I would have paid more attention,”
Oh, don’t you love it how some people just don’t know when to shut up?
Oh, I know. I was astonished by what he said — and his subsequent denials.
Yeah, that comment stuck out at me too
Outrageous, isn’t it? No apparent accountability or even consciousness of his responsibility to the public. More reason that the legislation needs to be passed.
I just cant even imagine anyone saying anything so bold and thoughtless…thinking they’d get away with it?! I guess he learned a hard lesson. Let’s hope, anyway. Old dogs — new tricks — can be impossible.
I couldn’t either. I was slack-jawed, then tight-lipped about what he said. And his subsequent denial just made it worse.
I’m not sure he learned a lesson; that’s between him and his maker. But the lessons *I* learned from the experience led me to suggest, then sponsor AB 2165.
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