In a “Valentine’s Day altercation,” some football player I’ve never heard of was arrested for beating his wife, the mother of his children. Ho-hum. In other news…
Why is it always (Alert: The use of always here is called hyperbole.) black athletes who beat their wives? Does racism drive some of them to knock their women around? Or are the cops just racists?
Do we hear about only black male women-beaters because they’re black? Is there one set of laws for blacks and another for whites? Before you black men jump all over me, if you don’t beat your woman, then I’m not talking about you, so there’s no need to say, “Not all black men beat their wives, La Shawn.”
That is obvious. I want to hear something that’s not.
Update: Before this discussion ventures into silliness, let me say this. I know that white women beat women, too. In fact, at some point or another, men beat women, women beat men, women beat women, men beat men, etc. The point I’m making is that we hear about black men beating women, and men in general beating women more often than the other combinations (except for men beating men). I can’t believe I actually had to say that, but there it is.
Back to my point.
Another Update: Embarrassing.
