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Ray Rice. Ive not said anything here, because so many others have, and Ive commented there. Im only posting Keith Olbermanns comments from last night. Because for the past *6 months,* ever since Rice punched his fiancee (twice) unconscious, Keith has been talking about it, outraged, night after night. He has been outraged because all the people mentioned here knew exactly what happened in that elevator (whether they saw the video or not - and most *had* to have seen it because its police/prosecutorial standard operating procedure to get security tapes investigating a crime). And yet they did, literally, nothing. Two game suspension? A standing ovation by the home crowd when Rice returned to the field? Are you kidding? Do you know that the *leading cause of death* for pregnant women in the US is homicide? Domestic violence has never been considered the anathema it actually is in American culture, and for a number of reasons - one of which is that men who do not see it as the horrific, lethal crime it is have typically been in charge of responding to, investigating, prosecuting and judging the offenders.Even with more women involved in these professions today, it still has not been, in too many cases, handled like the hateful, gruesome crime it is. IMO, domestic violence is a hate crime. Whether perpetrated by men or women - and while the number of women offenders (15%) is miniscule compared to those of men (85%), IMO they should be included. And until we get a handle on the hate, it will continue to be the #1 killer of pregnant women, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence facts: -One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. -An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year. -Historically, females have been most often victimized by someone they knew. -Females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk of nonfatal intimate partner violence. -*Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police.* Heres Keith:
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:40:45 +0000

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