A tip ‘o the hate to reader-researcher Jerry.
When reading the following alleged news article, ask yourself what Jameis Winston does for a living.
The article doesn’t say. He has something to do with Florida State University.
Tony Dorsett said, “That man has probably learned one of the most valuable lessons you can learn by now. And that’s to be very careful. You can’t trust anybody. You have to have your guard up. You don’t always want to be that way, but sometimes that’s the way you gotta be.”
Actually, Jameis Winston is 19 years old. I’d hardly refer to a 19-year-old as a “man,” even if he was 6’4,” and weighed 227 pounds. And as for keeping his guard up, Dorsett is speaking as if Winston were a crime victim or something. Does Dorsett know that for a fact? Actually, he knows no more than I do, in this particular case. But Dorsett does know a great deal about top-drawer, black college athletes, and that, as Jerry points out below, is that they are rarely victimized by white females. Note that the woman in question did not just come out of the "woodwork," once Winston was a Heisman Trophy contender. She accused him one year ago, before he had ever played a down of college football.
I could see Dorsett telling Winston to strive to be a gentleman around women, but there’s nothing about that.
Dorsett believes that what Winston has gone through this year won’t hurt his reputation in the future.Now, I remember! Jameis Winston is allegedly a college student. I used to be a college student. And yes, I did go out at times, but the main thing I did at night was study. In my sophomore year, I took Intro to Sociology, and got so excited over Max Weber that I would sometimes sit at the bar at Bum & Kel’s saloon in Loch Sheldrake, New York, and read aloud to my friend, Linda Librizzi.
“This is a forgiving public that we live in,” he said. “Since his slate was wiped clean, I don’t see any problems with it, but this was a valuable learning experience for him. And it shouldn’t just be a learning experience for him, but for all athletes. They should understand they have to be careful with what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with.
[N.S.: In other words, a black athlete leads a life of such privilege that a white female can accuse him of rape, and the public will ignore her. Conversely, a black prostitute can accuse completely innocent white athletes of a rape that never occurred, and everyone will take her side against them.]
“Everybody’s [white girls?] going to want to be around this guy, and the other five Heisman finalists, too. But you gotta learn how to say no, and you gotta understand that you have to say no and mean it.”
Dorsett said that when he talks to the FSU quarterback one-on-one, he will explain that sometimes he’ll want to go out with his friends or teammates, but sometimes he should hold back and make smarter decisions.
If Winston were a real college student, Dorsett would have said something about hitting the books at night, instead of the booty. But Winston clearly is not a college student, and based on what Dorsett said, and more importantly, what he didn’t say, I doubt that he was ever a college student, either.
I wonder who’s doing Jameis Winston’s school work for him?
Jerry explains what’s going on here:
I've seen this before. Young black athlete, high school or college commits a crime, especially rape, which they do quite often (usually against white girls). Older black "mentor" former athlete takes a paternal interest and "advises" poor, young, innocent, railroaded black athlete on how to navigate through the trauma of his difficult life.
Reminds me of an old SNL skit back in the Belushi days. The skit was about a men's group that offered support to rapists. They set up a call-in line for rapists to talk about how humiliated they must feel after committing rape, and offer emotional support. It was satire, though. Whenever I see these older black athletes offering support for young black rapists to guide them through their "humiliation," it's clear there's no satire. They're dead serious.
It's clear the real purpose is to help them get something over on whitey.
Regarding Tony Dorsett, I recall reading that he accumulated hundreds of parking tickets when he was a "student" at the University of Pittsburgh.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who has ever parked a car on a college campus knows there are No Parking Without a Sticker signs everywhere. Dorsett just parked where he felt like and got away with it. He finally had to go before a judge (after his football eligibility was up), who called him a "scofflaw," an old-fashioned term.
Still, although Dorsett was sometimes a disciplinary problem early in his pro career with the Cowboys, he was never involved in a violent crime as far as I know. I seem to recall Dorsett had a fist fight in a bar, but nothing worse.
I'm afraid one of these days a character like Winston will start with rape and proceed to murder. I hope this doesn't happen but it could.
David In TN
It occurs to me some people may read what I wrote and suggest there is some hypocrisy because young white athletes who have gotten in trouble may have also gotten "mentoring" advice from older white athletes. I have seen that, in fact, recently I remember Drew Brees making similar comments in regards to Johnny Manziel and his "autographs for money scandal".
ReplyDeleteI would like to point out there is a world of difference between taking money for autographs and sexual assault. I get that kids in college can make mistakes. A kid might have a drink or two and get behind the wheel or like Manziel give in to the temptation to make a little cash off is celebrity. However, there are many things someone can do that are mistakes, not evil acts, questionable judgment maybe but not necessarily "evil", I put sexual assault in the category of evil.
So don't try to make some moral equivalence in taking money for autographs and violent sexual assault. If a white athlete committed that crime I would have no excuse for him, problem is, I can't think of any college white athletes that have (likely have been but it's clear it is fairly rare compared with black athletes).
Also I doubt older white athletes would offer pitying advice to white rapists trying to make them seem like victims. I believe most would have the sense to realize that is not the kind of behavior that merits "fatherly" advice. Jerry
So no, there is no contradiction or double standard at work here.