Dude, I get it, you're pissed, BUT THAT IS NO EXCUSE TO DISRESPECT THE VICTIM OF THE ABUSE SIMPLY TO SATISFY YOUR OWN SENSE OF PRIDE OR SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS. Yes, of course I will talk to my students about this, BUT, I agree with Chris Canty, this is utterly disrespectful to Janay Rice to keep airing that video like it was a highlight reel. Indeed, shit, this morning on the AM news the anchor was reading Janay's tweet about how the media is ruining their lives by continually airing this video and what was that a segway into? AIRING THE FUCKING VIDEO.
I am not trying to hide what Ray Rice did, neither apologize for it, and he reaps whatever he sows, BUT when a person is the victim of a crime, airing the video over and over and over and over again isn't exactly helpful to that victim... In fact, in MOST CIRCUMSTANCES ITS AGAINST THE LAW AND HONESTLY I HOPE SHE SUES EVERYBODY.
I'm also sick of all these "why she stayed" so-called "think pieces" which go on and on about domestic violence victims as if Janay was a battered housewife who is beaten into submission weekly.. By every account this is a first-time incident, and while I don't condone or exonerate the crime itself, I completely understand why she stayed. One article I read said its to prove how tough she is or how loyal she is to Ray. Another insinuated she is brainwashed, a third suggested some kind of post-traumatic stress triggered by systemic abuse (to which there is of course ZERO evidence)..
The reality is quite simple and its a shame that it hasn't been mentioned even ONCE. Ray and Janay have a daughter together, an
d Janay clearly wanted to give her family one more chance, especially considering that Ray is going through court-appointed classes and therapy for the next year. People are even insinuating that Ray Rice's people forced her to marry him so she couldn't testify against him which is total horseshit. Ravens' Nation have known they were planning on getting married this year all along, and she stuck through with it rather than cancel their wedding which would have looked just as bad to her own family and friends.
Fuck the media about this. The only upside is that it significantly elevates this issue, so hopefully while everybody is having fun throwing stones at the Rice family maybe they'll be more cognizant of the incidents in THEIR OWN FAMILIES and why they want to be a bunch of tough guys about Ray maybe they will finally step up to the plate and confront the abuses in their own social circles
