RSSThe Formerly Great State of Texas, Part One
Gene Lalor | November 27, 2010
I used to respect, deeply respect and admire, the Lone Star State. Now I’m beginning to wonder if that respect and admiration are still warranted.
Two stories out of Texas give pause and cause wonder as to what in the name of Sam Houston is going on down there!
Pretty, white, 16 year old Texan high school student and cheer leader Hillaire made the news not for being a a pretty, white high school cheer leader but for refusing to cheer for fellow student, black basketball player, Rakheem Jamal Bolton, who had raped her.
Hillaire didn’t rant and rave against Rakheem, 
as she should have. Her father made no effort to render Rakheem a eunuch and then drag him a bit behind the family pick-up, as he should have. Her East Texas town and Silsbee High School failed to support her, as they should have.
With few others in her corner, except for the 16,270 who signed an online petition on her behalf, Hillaire simply sat down and refused to feign enthusiasm for the sick bastard who had raped her even after Silsbee officials demanded she cheer for Rakheem. After all, Rakheem had been temporarilly cleared of the rape charge and, after all, he was a top defensive player.
For that sit-down, for her intransigence, Hillaire was permanently kicked off the Silsbee High cheerleading team.
Just in case anyone missed the of intricacies of all that, a white Texan teenage girl was raped, her rapist, Rakheem Jamal Bolton, a black basketball player, was permitted to play ball for the school team and the rape victim was ordered to, in effect, pretend it never happened and to cheer her heart out for her rapist.
Of course, there was an extenuating circumstance: Hillaire got drunk at a party. That’s the only extenuation. During the party, shortly after entering a room with two boys, Rakheem, 18, and his good bro, Christian Paul Rountree, 19, she was heard crying, “Stop! Seriously, stop it. No!”
In Texas nowadays it seems white girls can’t just say, “No!” especially when they are being sexually assaulted by a black basketball player. After the locked door was broken down, the boys, including Rakheem, fled, leaving behind a half-clothed Hillaire and some of their own clothing.
For his part, Rakheem, evidently a prince among black boys, as well as a top defensive player, said after emerging from the woods, “I didn’t rape no white girl. I wouldn’t use anyone else’s (d—) to (f—) her. I don’t know if she has AIDS. I don’t even know that girl.”
When the party host refused to return his clothes, he screamed, ”All you (m—–f——) better be locked and loaded. None of you better sleep tonight.:” http://tiny.cc/6jo9g
Keep in mind, now: This is Obama-time or, as some blacks call it, payback time.
It’s well known that Texas takes its high school basketball games and its high school basketball players almost as seriously as it does its football games and players. However, its cheerleaders aren’t held in quite the same esteem and are expected to cheer, cheer, cheer for the home team even when one member of that team, that top defensive player, had raped her and was back on the field.
As one observer explained, Hillaire’s assailant “ended up getting off without serving any jail time by pleading guilty to a lesser assault charge, spending two years on probation, doing community service, paying a fine, and attending anger management courses. . . What really gets the blood boiling is how the student’s high school treated the victim. . . they couldn’t risk losing by barring him from playing for a silly thing like a rape charge. That could impact their chances at winning. Who cares about the traumatic impact it would have on a cheerleader who needed to vocally support a team including her rapist?” (http://tiny.cc/ppoz1)
Something is very awry, something is very amuck in the formerly great state of Texas.
Postscript: Acting on its usual presumption that black boys can do no evil, the Jasper branch of the NAACP initially protested the indictments of Rakheem and Rountree based on Rakheem’s and Rountree’s invocation of the Butterfly McQueen defense, that they they didn’t know nothin’ about raping no white girl: http://tiny.cc/4ddq0
Next: Reinforcing the view that Texas may not so great anymore is the story of some student twits at the state-supported University of Texas in San Antonio.
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