Comments on: Barry Saunders, annotated http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/02/27/barry-saunders-annotated/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 18 May 2012 23:26:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: robin http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/02/27/barry-saunders-annotated/#comment-36248 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:35:59 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/02/27/barry-saunders-annotated/#comment-36248 I don't know why no one has come out and said it but Saunders is a racist. Look at the comments he posted about Amanda Maynard's murder. Because the murder was black Saunders attacks the mother for not realizing her daughter came back home from the friends house. He doesn't blame the black murderer for stabbing Amanda. In the Duke non-rape case he doesn't come down on the black stripper for going to put on a show but the white guys for calling the strippers. He doesn't say to the black stripper if you had been home this would not have happened. But he practically says that to the white mother of the murdered Amanda Maynard. I don’t know why no one has come out and said it but Saunders is a racist. Look at the comments he posted about Amanda Maynard’s murder. Because the murder was black Saunders attacks the mother for not realizing her daughter came back home from the friends house. He doesn’t blame the black murderer for stabbing Amanda. In the Duke non-rape case he doesn’t come down on the black stripper for going to put on a show but the white guys for calling the strippers. He doesn’t say to the black stripper if you had been home this would not have happened. But he practically says that to the white mother of the murdered Amanda Maynard.

]]> by: John http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/02/27/barry-saunders-annotated/#comment-1435 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:35:27 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/02/27/barry-saunders-annotated/#comment-1435 I'm not a resident of Durham and I'm no more familiar with Duke than is any other casual observer of a nationally renowned institution. I have no ties to the town or the school - emotional, familial or otherwise. But since this whole Duke Lacrosse Case transpired, I've found myself intrigued by both. I guess "The Duke Lacrosse Case" has become the defacto name for this ugly affair. It coulda been "Making It Rain: The Case of the Unbalanced Stripper " or "The Case of the Abusive Prosecutor" - nah, those sound too much like PERRY MASON episodes. But hell, lets face it; it's all about Duke here. So, The Duke Lacrosse Case it is. This thing strikes a nerve on so many different levels that it seems to render the best among us no more than shrill partisans. I guess that's because Duke ain't real popular outside of it's circle of alums and the extended Blue Devil family. How do the residents of Durham feel about this bastion of elitism planted in their midst? And I guess that's because a stripper (the notorious evening's hired help and a member of a racial minority) decided to make scurrilous and false accusations in retaliation to offenses (real or imagined) perpetrated by some members of the Duke Lacrosse team. And, I guess, there's a subset of Dukies (i.e. namely the Duke Lacrosse team) who may not be real popular with the school's administration and a significant number of their fellow students. They're all just jealous no doubt. Anyway, the point of this awkward post is to offically declare my mild objection to you Dan Gearino, equating the scorn of teachers and classmates to wrongful incarceration. I'm sorry sir, it ain't the same thing. Dude, I guess one hazard of being in your profession is that pipsqueaks like me pour over your prose until they find a sentence fragment they can take exception to (OK, OK, - to whcih they can take exception). I’m not a resident of Durham and I’m no more familiar with Duke than is any other casual observer of a nationally renowned institution. I have no ties to the town or the school - emotional, familial or otherwise. But since this whole Duke Lacrosse Case transpired, I’ve found myself intrigued by both.

I guess “The Duke Lacrosse Case” has become the defacto name for this ugly affair. It coulda been “Making It Rain: The Case of the Unbalanced Stripper ” or “The Case of the Abusive Prosecutor” - nah, those sound too much like PERRY MASON episodes. But hell, lets face it; it’s all about Duke here. So, The Duke Lacrosse Case it is.

This thing strikes a nerve on so many different levels that it seems to render the best among us no more than shrill partisans.

I guess that’s because Duke ain’t real popular outside of it’s circle of alums and the extended Blue Devil family. How do the residents of Durham feel about this bastion of elitism planted in their midst?

And I guess that’s because a stripper (the notorious evening’s hired help and a member of a racial minority) decided to make scurrilous and false accusations in retaliation to offenses (real or imagined) perpetrated by some members of the Duke Lacrosse team.

And, I guess, there’s a subset of Dukies (i.e. namely the Duke Lacrosse team) who may not be real popular with the school’s administration and a significant number of their fellow students. They’re all just jealous no doubt.

Anyway, the point of this awkward post is to offically declare my mild objection to you Dan Gearino, equating the scorn of teachers and classmates to wrongful incarceration. I’m sorry sir, it ain’t the same thing.

Dude, I guess one hazard of being in your profession is that pipsqueaks like me pour over your prose until they find a sentence fragment they can take exception to (OK, OK, - to whcih they can take exception).

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