Lacrosse ugliness at U.Va.

I didn't say it wasn't a story. Nor sad.
But, yeah it is a run of the mill murder. And it has more legs because the victim is a pretty white girl.

To clarify, I'm not talking about the play around here... Half the people here will spend 67 pages breaking down the most minute of topics...
I'm referring to the play on CNN and FOX.

I've argued this over and over ... Pretty white victims get way, way, WAY more airtime and ink than their black counterparts... Rattle off some high profile murder female murders or missing kids? How many are black?
Fact is there are a lot of missing and murdered blacks, but they don't get the publicity.


When you take this murder case to the basics - you'll prolly find a man murdered his ex-girlfriend. And that happens a dozen times a day in this country.

 

Fair enough. But if the victim was a pretty, black UVA lacrosse player this story would still get mounds of attention. Part of what makes this interesting is the "privileged grounds" where the crime occurred. And the question of "how the fuck could a smart person about to graduate from UVA take another life and completely destroy his own?" That doesn't happen every day.

 

We're going to have to agree to disagree on that point.

 

Landon graduate from Chevy Chase kills his ex-girlfriend at UVA a month before graduation. wtf?

 

I hate to say this, but I am starting to look at people more in social classes. The class of people that are students to UVA (or any college) do not (or are not expected) to kill each other. It is not expected for them to behave this way.

Does this get the same ink if they were both white trailer park residents? I don't think so.

Does it get the same ink if they were gothic kids who dressed like vampires who attend UVA? I do not think so.

 

You just sobered up and found out you killed your girlfriend and now charged with murder, in jail and your life is over. Yeah, I'm gonna look pretty fucked up, too.

 

His attorney's statement hints at rough, consensual sex defense. Good luck with that.

 

And who's at fault for this? Contrary to conventional wisdom, the public doesn't call the editors of CNN, Fox or MSNBC and say, WE WANT WHITE ON WHITE MURDER CASES WITH HOT CHICKS. These are the man bites dog cases.

personally, I can never get enough black on black crime stories. But they seem to get spiked all the time

 

With the right jury pool that will probably work.

 

I believe I called this, essentially, a couple of pages back.

 

This paragraph is so garbled and ill-conceived, it's impossible to tell what you're even trying to imply here. "What I thought it meant?" Actually, what I thought was "Everyone thinks first-degree murder is always premeditated, usually from watching episodes of Law and Order, but that's not always the case. Let me look up the Virginia law and see if it's one of those states. Hey, it is."

And then a person who cannot resist offering his crack legal expertise on every thread even tangentially related to the law told me "I suppose you could be right, although I admit I don't know what the hell I'm talking about because I haven't bothered to look, but based on my budding knowledge of ALL law, it can be both."

Of course it can be both. Christ. I didn't overlook any goddamn "OR." Everyone knows it's the damn first one. It can also be the second. Which you concede now having actually looked it up as opposed to pulling it out of your rear end. But it burned your ass that someone else beat you to a lawyer question, didn't it? Sorry teach didn't call on this time, counselor.

It has to be exhausting trying to come off as the smartest guy in the room at all times, even when it's not the case.

Back to our regularly scheduled sulking about how unfair and personal people are.

 

Actually they do. But the "call" is referred to as a Nielsen Rating.