Big Sexy talks about hometown scandals
What’s missing is a credible, objective media arbitrator applying genuine pressure on the prosecutor and the school to do the right thing. There’s no meaningful outrage.
The prosecutor didn’t need a grand jury to bring felony charges against the players for deviant sexual conduct. Sonia Leerkamp, the prosecutor, went the grand-jury route because the proceedings are secret, and she knew a grand jury would be reluctant to damage rich kids with bright futures.
“The only people she could be trying to protect through a grand jury are the suspects,” a retired Indiana law professor told the Indianapolis Star. “It’s a coverup, pure and simple. It’s obscene.”
It’s the kind of obscenity that attracts the attention of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
They specialize in the kind of outrage that provokes action. They spotlight the race and privilege inequities the mainstream media often ignore out of fear of losing access.
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