The Oregonian on OSU’s football program should have zero tolerance for racially motivated thuggery at a Corvallis cafe
Harassing and then assaulting an interracial couple out dancing would be criminal enough, but then you get to the more pathetic particulars of what happened early last Friday morning in Corvallis.
Oregon National Guard Staff Sgt. Gabriel Sapp was dancing with his wife at the Headline Cafe to mark his last night before heading to Iraq. Then defensive end Joseph Rudulph and three others identified as Oregon State University football players allegedly gave him their own special send-off. They reportedly directed comments at Sapp’s wife and then attacked Sapp. Rudulph is accused of punching Sapp in the face, causing him to hit the floor and fall unconscious.
Most Americans would have bought the soldier a drink if they had known he was heading off to Iraq the next day. This bunch, by contrast, had a problem with Sapp because he is white and his wife is African American.
This is completely disgraceful. I hope the individuals responsible find themselves facing a little jail time. Not a fine. Not a little community service. Real, behind the bars, no freedom, jail time. Their defense attorney may want to introduce them to this document in the meantime.
Link courtesy of George Jenkins. This entry also posted at Taking The Gloves Off.
CTJ:
Yes…
Stupid assholes are just that!
Now let those who have dared to impose the ‘politics of blackness’ on the rest of us explain why those fools didn’t at least give their sista her props!!
Who ARE raising TODAY’S black kids anyway?!?
Some do seem and sound to be just raising themselves!
And what about OUR standards, posters?
It’s like that crap which BOTH teams and the FANS plagued one local sports event with, i. e., which kinda sorta leads one to believe that ALL sides merely felt/thought they’d get away with it all by the way of OUR silence ad naseum!
Y’see, I’m getting real sick and tired of rhetoric from the white majority, aka about their ‘community standards’, as if people of color never had any?
Bullshit!
My and the point:
We need not either be in reaction to what others choose to believe or us be judged guilty until proven innocent by the ‘court’ of public ‘opinion’ (read those also being manipulated by a self serving/double dealing/hypocritical white capitalist run/owned mass media machine)…
So while some hype ‘keeping it real’:
I say we must keep our comments et al candid/fair/honest/objective
and VOCAL!
We must be those proverbial friends of the family…
For the sake of the children (and the generations to come)?
Ditto for the sake of our own sanity and safety…
Later…
Peace…
Fri 11/26/2004 8:36 AM
Sandie Fujita
Sat 11/27/2004 6:23 PM
What about the cross burning in New York! last week. 2 multi-racial marriages… I’m afraid with this newly elected Congress, they might go back to the anti-miscegenation laws. Yike!
I too am in an interracial relatationship and my husband is white and I African American. I hope the individuals get punished for their racism.