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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
(Taken from an article written by Ron Borges of NBC Sports)
"We pay more attention to the case of a baby-faced black basketball star with a pristine reputation and a 19-year-old blonde, white cheerleader-turned-hotel concierge who alleges she was sexually assaulted after delivering a very late dinner to Bryant's room than we do to whether or not our President juiced the info he used to start a war."
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We pay more attention because as a society, we're fixated on sex, particularly interracial sex. Back in the 1950s, magazines that featured Sammy Davis Jr. allegedly dropping hammer on Ava Gardner and the like were hot sellers.