This thing at Duke isn't going to wake up anything. You'd like to think that it would. You'd like to think this is one of those things that you talk to your kids about at home, that it's a teaching moment. But here's what people want to know about it - that it didn't happen, or that it didn't happen as it was first reported. And that's the unfortunate part - because something wrong happened there.
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This was a simple matter. A guy goes out on a field with a glove to play some ball - and the whole world went nuts.Earl Smith
We do not assume the men at Duke lacrosse are guilty. Yet we are not surprised they find themselves in this predicament.
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I think it is high time that a statement is made. The assault on our children must stop, something must be done, and we are calling on the powers that be to do something about it.
Earl Smith
We have waited and waited. It's time to accept the will of the people.
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The question is, 'what do we do' as there is a view which says that anything artistic should not be censored because it is a creative expression, etc. But if it is having that kind of negative impact on our young people, that is something that we are fighting against, the violence and the aggression, then we have to do something about it. And my view is that these things should be censored, banned from the airwaves and the electronic media. I have no qualms about it.
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The fact is that sports is not this big melting pot of upward mobility and opportunity and meritocracy. That's a false dictum. It never has been.
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