Yet, Desmine Wells isn’t mentioned; Yancy Gates, who hit an Xavier with closed fist, is. A lot. And because a camera caught him in the act of throwing the punch. That’s sad. And it’s awful that this conversation is becoming one about young Black men.
The fact is that if this was a fight between white players, no one would be talking about the ‘problem with white young men.’ Yet, that’s the national conversation now. It’s weird. When white students get involved in protesting Occupy Oakland, and throw bottles at cops, no one states that there’s a problem with white youth. In the Cincinnati Xavie case, an Xavier claimed that what was done was what people from his neighborhood do. I’m sure there are people from his ‘hood who would take offense to that.
The bottom line is these young men were wrong. Period.
Stay tuned.
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