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As a current "Man of Morehouse", I don't think we should be so quick to call any crime against a gay person a hate crime just like every crime against a black person by a white person is not racially motivated. Their are many factors that have not been reported and only the two people involved know the true story.
The story that I heard from the RAs at Brazeal is that the attacker(Price) was showering when the other guy(Love) looked into his stall. Price basically cussed him out and in a nutshell told him to mind his f*cking business. Love said he thought that Price was his roommate and apologized;b ut he didn't close the curtain and kept looking in. Price left the bathroom and went to his room. He came back with a bat, supposedly to threaten Love(mind you that Love is around 6'2" and Price is about 5'4"). When he came in the bathroom with the bat, Love rushed at him and Price hit him with the bat multiple times.
That is the basic story that I got from most of the RAs and residents over there. So basically there are two sides to everything.
Personally, I would have been very upset(read: pissed) if old boy pulled that mess with ME when I was in the shower; but I don't condone hitting anyone with a bat.
I do think that homophobia is a major issue on campus that many students and, to an extent, the administration don't want to deal with. In fact, The SGA tried to hold a discussion about it yesterday and the school cancelled the event and cut the SGA from having ANY events. The administration took away the voice of the students because they did not want homophobia and violence discussed on campus. Anyone else see a problem with that?
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