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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is everyone forgetting that he was accused if rape?[/quote]

Oh please, nobody’s forgetting it.  It’s unforgettable.  His rape case in Colorado was one of the biggest news stories in recent years and it never fully faded from folks memory.  What is forgotten, however, is his apology.

Go back and read it.

Neil Irvin, director of the organization Men Can Stop Rape, said this about Bryant’s apology in 2016 when the Lakers star retired...

[color=blue][i]”Kobe is the only accused individual who I’ve ever seen provide an apology in writing in my 16 years of doing rape prevention work. I read it and it fits with what I know about rape: survivors don’t lie. I know we’ve been taught to believe they do but that’s a story which only serves to empower rapists. Kobe’s apology actually serves to push against the idea that survivors lie. He’s saying the opposite.”[/i][/color]

Ben Roethlisberger, Patrick Kane, Jameison Winston, and numerous other sports icons have been accused of sexual assault and they all took the same stance when charged...the victim is lying.  Even beloved player and now Nationwide pitchman Peyton Manning, whom a female trainer at the University of Tennessee once charged with shoving his naked ass in her face, took the all too familiar route of deny, deny, deny.

Go read Kobe’s apology, which if the case had gone to trial most certainly would have been used by prosecutors against him because it’s essentially an admission.  You know his attorney’s advised their client against it but he did it anyway.  Why?  Why risk losing the livelihood and lifelong dream of being a professional athlete, why risk going to prison?  Why not just take the routine stance of denial and calling the victim a liar?

Go read his apology and ask yourself is that typical of the one-dimensional monster you so adamantly insist he is.[/quote]

So if you apologize for raping someone then it's all good?

This is such bullshit.

He's a rapist.[/quote]

The way I read his apology was that there was enough there that a guilty verdict in court was possible. And he didn’t want to go to court anyway.  His apology was part of the settlement. Not a legal expert but I felt like he was forced to say that. [/quote]

I think you need to do more reading. The forensic evidence strongly suggests that he forcibly raped her. He himself later came as close as possible to admitting that while still maintaining his essential innocence which is bullshit by the way (I'm sorry you're offended. I'm sorry you feel that I raped you).

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kobe-bryants-disturbing-rape-case-the-dna-evidence-the-accusers-story-and-the-half-confession

He raped her and the system let him get away with it but because he's a black super star athlete who later had a bunch of daughters and did some nice things for women's basketball, we're racist if we bring that up.[/quote]

Umm...not exactly. She dropped the case and settled. She also partied and bragged about having sex with him. [b]She even continued to have sex with numerous male partners.[/b] And yet, she only claimed rape from him. [/quote]

Maybe, because only Kobe raped her?  I am glad she chose to reclaim her life and move on and enjoy sex. It seems Kobe's wife did the same and continued to make babies with her husband.[/quote]

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