Race Baiting or Blaming the Victim? White Females Say They Were Raped by Black Athletes

by Dr. Boyce Watkins

On the Today Show, two students from Indiana University and Wake Forest came forth to claim that they were raped by two athletes after a long night of drinking.  As a college professor, I can testify to the high number of sexual assaults that occur as a result of excessive alcohol consumption on college campuses, which is one of the reasons why I regularly campaign against it.  As they mention on the Today Show, one-in-five women on campus is sexually assaulted, and I consistently tell my girls to be mindful of this issue when they make personal choices.  Personally, I never drank in college (or after), for I had no interest in continuing the legacy of alcoholism that runs in my genes.  There’s nothing nerdy about being sober.

Consuming alcohol doesn’t give anyone an excuse to commit the act of rape.   At the same time, it’s hard for the rest of us to distinguish between consensual sex with a woman who likes to hang out with athletes (i.e. groupies) and inexcusable behavior on the part of men who presume too much.  Additionally, the video conjures up disturbing imagery of the white female damsel in distress being attacked by the big, brutish black man.  Perhaps the Today Show could have shown more balance by presenting a black female victim or a white perpetrator, instead of presenting the story as if it were a product of the Willie Horton School of Media Management.  As the experience of President Obama shows us, millions of white Americans still fear black men, and there is a reason that the OJ trial meant so much to America.

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  • Altha Cutright

    Why can’t Trailer Trash stay in their own World?

  • Altha Cutright

    Why can’t Trailer Trash stay in their own World?

  • es

    Hey! watch out for the set up.  Why in the H was this young white girl so ancious to go to a party upstairs in a hotel room with these black players.  The girl does not sound stupid.  A moron would know that atheletes white or black, after a high tension game that leaves  them euphoric and emotionally up or down.  Sex is as much of a psychological high as acohol and drugs.  This young woman have waited months and years to bring this matter up.  So what’s up. 

    what come next is the civil suit.  Black player about to get a contract and a paycheck.  It will be at risk.  The statute has not  ran out for the civil suite.  The measure is not criminal nor is the standard beyound a reasonable doubt.  It is circumstantual.  Can a black athelete with a million dollar contract win a circumstantial case against a white female who claim rape or any abuse in America today?  If you answer in the afirmative, which pot-pipe are you smoking.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shakka-Zulu/1379420279 Shakka Zulu

      The black athlete is the the way to drain wealth from black communities, and put into the hands of whites..These athletes have white coaches, sports agents, and white girls hanging around these athletes as their meal tickets to fame and fortunes..These girls only goes to college to get a husband, period..These athletes, medical students, political science/pre-law students are seen as the creme de la creme for these hoochies to engage in all sorts of wild, adventerous sex with these dudes, leaving them thinking they are in love rather than in lust with these ho’s… 

      Any woman who goes into a man’s room after drinking, are drunk and high, knows nothing good will come from these encounters..These women did not get the perceived marriage contract or money they thought would come from it, so why not scream rape? Black men have swung at the ends of ropes all because white women have accussed them of touching, rape, eyeballing, or sassing them, why the hell would you get yourselves into a compromising position with these she devils? Still chasing the white flesh instead of looking for women that looks like your mothers, sisters, etc..

      Tiger Woods has allowed a babysitter from Sweden who never worked a day in her life, except on her back, has two children by him, but will end up in a better financial position in years to come, than Tiger who worked for that money..Marrying white is another transferance of wealth into the hands of white people..The sports plantation pimp game being played on these athletes…

      • Tootsy222

        Thanks for telling the truth Shakka Zulu!!!

  • WizardG

    This is not good. African-American men in college are not stupid or by
    this time they shouldn’t be. Something stinks in these stories, and the
    colleges (big or small) don’t hide serious sex charges to make money.

    There seems to always be more to the story than meets the eye. There was a
    time when a black man could be shot, mutilated, burned, or hung for
    whistling at a white girl. There are still those out there who would do
    something similar. I can only warn these young men to be very careful and
    to realize that alcohol is not healthy, and is part of the
    ‘Americanized’ conditioning we are all subjected to. The best thing to
    do would be to stop that kind of bodily destruction right now.
    Try to control yourselves. There are people out there who would love to ruin your futures.  

    • Anonymous

      I agree with all you say and you give good advice.  If I were a young black sportsman in today’s America, I would definitely think twice before engaging in anything sexual with a white woman – especially if she were drunk!  Not to say there are none that might be genuine and loving but take care and remember, there are those who will jump at any chance to bring you down.  Since the election of President Obama, the haters have swarmed out of the woodwork and with their tiny supremacist worlds turned upside down, they are out for revenge and any black man could be a victim as far as they’re concerned.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NX5IGHMKOTCEIXSMMEWGDWAWFM ELLA

     These lil nasty white tramps love being groupies to black athletes!! I seriously doubt if they were forced to do ANYTHING! They are sluts and whores…gimme a break, and they will fuck and suck for little or nothing. The athletes need to learn some self control and stop being stupid as hell fallin for the okie doke…white girls love to set brothas up, especially when they dont get their way or the amount of money they want.

  • Anonymous

    Hmmmm….no reports of white women being raped by white athletes that they got drunk with??

    • Udosed

       Hmmmm….no reports of black women being raped by ANY athlete that they got drunk with??

      • Udosed

         Hmmmm….do I understand that only drunk white women are the only ones being raped by black athletes that they got drunk with??

    • Brook

       You got a good point there.  The Today show seemed like they wanted people to notice the racial side of all this.  It’s crazy. 

    • Aaron the Hebrew

      There are numerous reports of white males “Gang-Banging” white females in college settings including Ivy League but it’s “white-washed” due to parental influence of political and wealth. White females always seek the “jocks” white or black and in nearly every incidence they were high from marijuana or alcohol, most times consensual until they sober up and their girlfriend left with someone other than those in the original group. I’m a witness to girls seeking Hebrews with money, hoping to get pregnant and blame the weakest in the group. They all lie, drink and sleep around than cry to the parents when it’s obvious their “little girl” is no longer a virgin.
      These little H- -’s sit around comparing manhood sizes by ethnicity and inevitably place bets as to whom will try a “black guy” first!

  • MM

    I find it really disturbing that people are using the same language slave owners and racists once used to excuse their rape of black women, in responding to this story. As Boyce Watkins points out, the problem is how The Today Show structured the story. Black women are just as vulnerable to sexual violence as white women, and are assaulted by white and black athletes.  That should have been added to round out the story.  But when we start dismissing the rape of women because the accused rapists is a black athlete and the woman non-black (and I would point out that the guy at Indiana University was not an athlete, seemed to brag about raping women on his FB page, and the women is not white), we are only a stone’s throw away from dismissing as “sluts” and “whores” the black women these athletes rape, or the more scarily, the children that they rape and brutalize, like what happened in Cleveland, TX.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shakka-Zulu/1379420279 Shakka Zulu

      Being the owner of a plantation with a captive audience who cannot refuse your advances, is totally different that someone willingly getting drunk, and going to a man’s room after hours..Any woman who goes to a man’s room who’s not her brother, father, or related to her after 12 midnight, is only there for one thing period..Keep your dignity, behave like ladies, and you’ll be treated as such.. 

  • Udosed

    I am not opposed to interracial dating or marriage, to each his/her own, however I would think that any AfriAmerian male that is aware of the high instance of Caucasian women blaming them for sexual assault, would steer clear of them, except for in public places where there are plenty of witnesses.  AfriAmerican men should ask themselves if they make good rational decisions when alone in the presence of a Caucasian woman.  Too bad it’s got to be that way.   Since Adam and Eve, people have had to choose who to believe. Satan convinced them that disobeying God would gain them everything. Instead it robbed them of all they had, and for the rest of their lives they experienced only a fraction of the blessing God intended..Safer just to stick with the sista and leave the “forbidden fruit” alone.    Just because it is 2011 and not 1911 doesn’t mean….

  • http://twitter.com/BlkSultry007 VANESSA ROBISON

    umm can we say Rothenberg, Shkawife, and he was supposedly sober

    • Guest

      No one ever knew Peyton Manning was accused of sexual assault did they?  That incident was hushed up so quick and the girl verbally attacked.  But because Peyton’s father knew his son had a future he didn’t allow anything negative to attach itself to him.  These young Black men apparently don’t have anyone in their corner – their father’s, if in their lives, are probably giving them high fives for even getting White coochie.  Sorry folks but that’s the way it appears. 

  • HERBCAROLL

    STOP STALKING BLACK ATHLETES. GUYS ,,,WAKE UP , THEY THINK THAT U WILL MAKE IT TO THE PROS AND THEY WILL HAVE A FREE RIDE TO PUBLIC NOTARIETY. MOST OF ALL ”SHOPPING FRENZIES AND BOTOX PARTIES AS WE ALL KNOW , ALCOHOL AND NIGHT LIFE SHOWS ON THEIR FACE MUCH EARLIER THAN THE LESS FORTUNATE AND SO CALLED LESS ATTRACTIVE BLACK WOMEN. 

  • Knowledge Bone

    I won’t entertain any of the negative racial comments here, but I will say that I think you are both wrong and right on this point of view.  Could they have shown different stories, of course, and probably should have.  But let’s not forget, a woman was (presumably) sexually assaulted, and if these men didn’t want to be portrayed in this way, they should have kept it in their pants.  It is also difficult to complain about or point out race in this situation when we have the case of the Duke lacrosse team still floating about (have you heard about the accuser’s current status? okay).  All that being said, maybe someone needs to point out to these young men just how repulsive their behavior has become.  I played D1 (old term) college sports and was simply disappointed and appalled by some of the behavior I saw from some of the young black men on the team.  I expected more from people who had been given the chance of a lifetime.  Notice I said some, not all.  I was also fortunate enough to be around some young black men who were shining examples of professionalism and great representatives of their culture.  Unfortunately, the wonderful examples to the community are often overshadowed by today’s over-hyped ”me” mentality of major sports.   And as long as we keep pressuring to university officials with racial profiling, these young men will continue to give us reasons to view stories such as this.  Let’s face it, they make their teams alot of money, why even walk that path when they will a) lose money, and b) have to listen to our community make up excuses for our own failures?

  • Brook

     When white men do the same thing, they don’t have their stuff put on the Today Show. 

  • Anthony II

    The race card is being played because the issue of race in America is still at the core of it’s history.  Black president notwithstanding, it’s an issue requiring serious dialogue vs. the continued attempts to whistle past the graveyard pretending there are no bodies buried there. 

  • tee hee

    LoL at “The Willie Horton School of Media Management” 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Olin-Ross/546574576 Olin Ross

    Two wrongs don’t make it right…..But what about all those Black slaves  women who was sexually abuse by the slave masters….

  • Sharrieff Muhammad

    This is a touchy situation, and one that is on many levels.
    To begin with, whenever you want to implement an agenda against somebody the first rule of mind control is 1. DISTRACTION: distract the person(s) from the real issue.  2. REPETITION: repeat it over and over again by putting a face to it, which in this case it is black. See mind control in the United States by Steven Jacobson.  The long standing thought of this goes way back. It was repeatedly taught that the black men were sexual savages and wanted to rape white women, justifying killing black males.  In this case they are not killing them they are assassinating there character and perpetuating what they (whites) were taught years ago.  The problem really now is not whether it is race baiting, it is what it is; the media is doing exactly what they are trained to do.  The real problem is why do we keep repeating these cycles.  1. I believe that a lot of black males have bought into what was projected to them through history and 2. The elders have not taught the children the history of these things that took place back then.  Not all of them because there are a lot of the elders that teach our true history and the history of slavery, but it is stifled by various means of programmed behaviors in this society which is a long subject for another time.  We are a people who finance our own destruction which goes into another form of study termed the theory of “COGNITIVE DISSONANCE.”  This was documented and tested by Leon Festinger, if anyone cares to look it up.  We have not learned critical thinking, how to critically dissect the cause and effect of things. In the movie the Matrix when Morpheus. Was explaining to Neo the red pill and the blue pill.  If he takes the blue pill he will go back into the matrix and forget everything or take the red pill and see how far the rabbit hole goes.  We must ask the same question, because this rabbit hole is deeper than you think.  So back to my comment, we must stop playing the blame game.  These black males and black females are a product of the thinking of black society on one hand and the product of society as a whole.  They are let out into society with no training of critical thinking, the ability to critically look at a situation and see the potential out come of it before they act.  So this is the result of our inactivity to teach them the art of critical thinking.  They run loose to Obey their thirst as the programming phrase was coined, their feelings, cravings, spontaneous moment of moment thoughts that gets them into situation as this one.  So the stage has been set once again, the same old agenda, smear, incarcerate, kill, and paint the picture in the eyes of the world there justification for these types of agenda. 

  • Qboro

    These brothers should steer clear of these tramps. This has been going on for a while. When the white athletes  commit rape, it is swept under the rug. Same in the pros.

  • Dtondelayo

    I watched the segment on the Today Show. I agree with you that it was not a balanced presentation. The segment inferred that white women are victimized solely by black men. That is a gross misrepresentation of the facts and statistical data. The network should be taken to the woodshed on their deliberate  attempt to distort the fact that in most campus rapes, the perpetrators are WHITE. Further, what about Black women who have been victims of campus rapes ? Do we not count? Is our exclusion a continuation of slavery where it was an acceptable practice and custom to violate Black women ?  Just wondering.

  • Margaux Janda

    1. My rapist (Dwayne Fry) wasn’t a college athlete.
    2. I wasn’t a “groupie” nor did I hang out with athletes.
    3. I wasn’t out getting drunk with him that night, or any other night.
    4. I’m not white.

    I know when women do awful things to perpetuate negative stereotypes it makes me hate THEM for doing so. (namely the women who cry rape when they in fact weren’t raped) I don’t hate on the people who undoubtedly react to it. Stupid people will always be stupid, women don’t need to give any more reasons to be called and treated like whores and black men don’t need to give anymore reasons to be disrespected and sanctioned. Furthermore @yahoo-NX5IGHMKOTCEIXSMMEWGDWAWFM:disqus- its people like you who make comments such as yours that allow the racists to stay racist, the sexist to stay sexist and the rapists to stay rapists.

    Instead of jumping into victim blaming at the defense of rapists just because you share the same race maybe you should take some lessons from @833cb2181e2c5bb70735d937c9d9f90d:disqus. What would the world be like if every Muslim defended every terrorist? If every Catholic defended every crusader? If every Latin-American defended every dictator? If every German defended every Nazi? If we all blindly jumped to the defense of those who share our color, religion or creed; I ask you, what would the world be like then?

    -Margaux

  • Margaux

    1. My rapist (Dwayne Fry) wasn’t a college athlete.
    2. I wasn’t a “groupie” nor did I hang out with athletes.
    3. I wasn’t out getting drunk with him that night, or any other night.
    4. I’m not white.

    I
    know when women do awful things to perpetuate negative stereotypes it
    makes me hate THEM for doing so. (namely the women who cry rape when
    they in fact weren’t raped) I don’t hate on the people who undoubtedly
    react to it. Stupid people will always be stupid, women don’t need to
    give any more reasons to be called and treated like whores and black men
    don’t need to give anymore reasons to be disrespected and sanctioned.
    Furthermore @undefined:disqus-
    its people like you who make comments such as yours that allow the
    racists to stay racist, the sexist to stay sexist and the rapists to
    stay rapists.

    Instead of jumping into victim blaming at the
    defense of rapists just because you share the same race maybe you should
    take some lessons from @undefined:disqus.
    What would the world be like if every Muslim defended every terrorist?
    If every Catholic defended every crusader? If every Latin-American
    defended every dictator? If every German defended every Nazi? If we all
    blindly jumped to the defense of those who share our color, religion or
    creed; I ask you, what would the world be like then?

    -Margaux 

  • http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ John Prewett

    For some CONTEXT:

    Following not limited to McCall’s
    gang, nor to McCall’s city,  nor to the
    1970s.

    MAKES
    ME WANNA HOLLER  by  Nathan McCall [born 1955]by  Nathan McCall [born 1955]
    Following not limited to McCall’s
    gang, nor to McCall’s city,  nor to the
    1970s.

    MAKES
    ME WANNA HOLLER  by  Nathan McCall [born 1955]

    Prof Afro Am
    studies-Emory U.   Published 1994   page  
    44

     

    “Different groups of guys set up their own
    trains. Although everybody knew it could lead to trouble with the law, I think
    few guys thought of it as rape. It was viewed as a social thing among hanging
    partners, like passing a joint. The dude who set up the train got pats on the
    back. He was considered a real player whose rap game was strong.

     

    I think most girls gave in when trains were
    sprung on them because they went into shock. They were so utterly unprepared
    for anything that wild that it freaked them out. By the time they realized that
    they’d been set up, they were stripped naked, lying on a bed or in the backseat
    of a car, with a crowd of crazed‑looking dudes hovering overhead.

     

    I always wondered what went on inside
    girls’ heads when that was happening to them.  

     

     Afterward, most girls were too
    ashamed and freaked‑out to tell.  …
    continued

     

     They knew that if they snitched to the cops,
    the thing would become public news and their name would be mud.   But every now and then, some chick squealed,
    and somebody caught a charge. Then guys got their buddies to go to court and
    testify that the girl was a footloose ‘ho’ whom they each had boned.

     

     Most
    girls seemed to lose something vital inside after they’d been trained.  Their self‑esteem dropped and they didn’t
    care about themselves anymore. That happened to a girl named Shirley, who was
    once trained by Scobe and so many other guys that she was hospitalized.   After that, I guess she figured nobody
    wanted her as a straight‑up girl.   

     

    So Shirley let guys run trains on her all
    the time. ….  end quote

     

    http://www.amazon.com/Makes-Me-Wanna-Holler-America/dp/0679740708

    http://www.nathanmccall.net/

     

    Must read for anyone interested in how USA
    got into its present precarious race relations condition.