Letters to the Editor
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The point that needed to be made
I was glad to see the Rutgers women's team's press conference today, which highlighted the real injury done to these young women. At a time when they should be enjoying the tail end of a spring semester, congratulating themselves on a great basketball season and a near-perfect tournament run, they're having to talk about how they feel about being called "nappy-headed hos."
As Coach Stringer asked, where were the national media three weeks ago, when they should have been asking these young women how it felt to be winners, how it felt to be world-class athletes on a roll? Nobody cared. No one was interested.
Now, everyone wants to ask them how it feels to be a victim.
This is the wrong message. This is the wrong lesson. And this is brought to us by Don Imus, and THAT is the damage he's done.