It's an attitude in the entire community that it reflects. This is the town, where they execute everyone in Texas. They have a very low value on human life, from what I read in their papers, with things like hazing, and lack of convictions on rape. They go hand in hand. The prison system is their main source of income, and then there is the school-which a lot of their relatives work at, also. A socialogist could explain it better than I can, but when you live with incarceration and death as your main income, it permeates every corner of the community-inevitably. A student who had raped three girls-also students at SHSU was found not guilty, even with very strong evidence. So, my feelings are that they will never get a conviction, after a rape kit and all was presented. I don't advise any parent of a girl to let her daughter attend school at SHSU, due to that kind of community attitude that will put them at tremendous risk. I intend to do more writings on this for the Houston papers and in Huntsville, very soon.
|