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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only entitled white feminists are dragging Kobe's name through the mud right now. Could not even let the flames cool off before going straight into the agenda. What a vile bunch.[/quote]

I don’t know...I wouldn’t start guessing on who is besmirching him. I’m white female feminist (not angry!) and I’ve been defending his legacy against criticism. [/quote]

I am not white, but am a feminist and am defending his legacy too.[/quote]

For feminists of color, particularly black feminists, it is more complicated because they grasp how important of a figure Kobe was and what he meant for communities of color and their sons, fathers, boyfriends, brothers etc. It is devastating for them.[/quote]

I don’t understand why people keep bringing race into this. I could understand why he should be given the benefit of the doubt if the evidence against him was less credible. However, the forensic evidence is against him and he himself even admitted in his apology statement that although he believed at the time it was consensual, he now understands why she doesn’t see it that way. He did it, he raped her.

Most thinking people do not disagree on that. But because he was black, we shouldn’t bring that up?[/quote]

See the post above you. It was the immediacy with which they sought to diminish him and the singularity of their focus. When there is a history in this country of diminishing, targeting and even assassinating prominent people of color, they approach these issues with a little more hesitancy.  When there is a rampant problem of black masculinity and a startling dearth of black male figures in homes and for children, they are a little less inclined to tear down a strong, black, accomplished male icon that served as an inspiration to so many in the absence of their fathers and older brothers. When you are living that on a day to day basis, you need your heroes and your myths to keep you going. To keep that glimmer of hope. To see that one of you made it. Much of this is lost on some white feminists that want to clout chase and score metoo points.

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