Rape or F**ker's Remorse

From time to time I think about Kobe Bryant and Mike Tyson's rape accusation and conviction and wonder how many people truly believe the two women were actually raped. I know that's like taboo to say but both men and women know that the possibility exist that a woman who accuses someone of rape wasn't actually raped. I never believed Kobe nor M.T. raped anyone. When a woman voluntarily sneaks up to a man's hotel room using all her knowledge of stealthy maneuvering, does the do, text messages someone to tell them about it-and then shows up at the hospital after the report of rape with 3 different men's semen in her undies (none of which belonged to Mr. Bryant), I'd say she was experiencing Fucker's Remorse. Fucker's Remorse is a little like buyers remorse whereby someone purchases a product, takes it home but begins to feel guilty, and returns the item. No harm, no foul when it comes to retail. But when it comes to sex, you better make damn sure the person ordering from the menu really is interested in the item they are ordering.

I know people think Mike Tyson raped that woman, but there were a comedy of errors in that trial. First of all, Mike was represented by Don King's tax attorney. A FUCKING TAX ATTORNEY!! This man had never tried a court case in his life, much less a criminal case. Who allowed this young man to be railroaded like this and why? I believe I have the answer-Mike Tyson was no longer a marketable commodity in the U.S. In fact, when he was defeated on February 11th, 1990 by James Buster Douglas, he was supposed to embark on a world tour-Japan was the first, and ultimately the last, leg of the tour. The plan was to have Mike defeat a series of tomato cans in a city near you-but Buster Douglas had something else in mind. After the historical upset, Tyson had lost all marketability. So what do you do with a commodity that is no longer marketable? You park it somewhere it can't do damage to itself and reintroduce it 3 years later. In my most humble opinion, I believe this is what Mike's handlers did to him. After 3 years in prison, the entire world was waiting with baited breath for Mike to return to his previous days of glory and continue destroying all who stepped in his path.

What am I saying? I'm saying that Mike, like any other commodity, was used to enrich the coffers of his owners. The rape was a setup. The woman came to his room, excused herself and went into the restroom, removed both her panties and her feminine hygiene product, (I'm not sure whether it was a sanitary napkin or a tampon-and yes I'm a man that knows the difference), had sex with the ex-heavyweight champion, and 3 days later accused him of rape. Kept from testimony was the fact that Ms. Desiree Washington had leveled the exact same accusation at a former boyfriend who kept her out past her curfew. The boyfriend volunteered to testify on behalf of the defense but the tax attorney couldn't figure out a way to get the testimony admitted. Mike was on the Pacific railroad with a one-way ticket to prison. If you don't believe that greed will drive a person to manipulate the machinations of the law in order to achieve great finanancial gain, lean closer to the screen so that I may feel your forehead-you just might have a fever.

In the aforementioned cases, I don't think it was rape at all. In fact, I don't think it was even Fucker's Remorse. I believe someone saw dollar signs oozing from the same place Mike and Kobe entered the dragon. Why is it so hard to believe a woman will use her womb as a cash cow? No one questions it when a woman becomes a surrogate mother for pay. It's pretty much the same thing-renting out your womb for financial gain. So how is it such a stretch that a woman would fuck a celebrity for the same reason. There's no reason Mike should have spent one day in jail for what he was accused and convicted of. Now that isn't to say that Mike wasn't a savage beast about things because he was completely out of control. And I firmly believe had he not been convicted of this charge, there would have been another that would have stuck. That still gives no one the right to manipulate a situation to the degree that someone loses their freedom.

In Kobe's case, I think most of us thinking folk know that it was simply a case of exploitation. That woman wanted money-and the idea of crying rape was probably suggested to her by the person she text messaged after Kobe consummated their meeting. Yet most white people who respond to articles on the Internet about Kobe continue to call him a rapist. When Dr. Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, was arrested and convicted for DUI, the responses to the article were more about Kobe, who was not convicted of anything, than of Dr. Buss' DUI conviction.

It always fascinates me how people choose to ignore certain vital criteria when evaluating situations. The fact that Kobe Bryant and Mike Tyson were celebrities whose multi-million dollar incomes were publicly known seem not to matter to people evaluating the accusations. Honestly, because Desiree Washington was black, I was baffled that the courts would even care. This in and of itself leads me to believe that the rape conviction of Mike Tyson was the result of someones nefarious monetary motivations. When a white woman in this country is missing for 15 minutes, her picture is broadcast on networks nationwide. A black man or woman could be missing for a decade and police will more than likely take a report, but no one's going to look for either of them.

Rape is a serious crime, make no mistake about it. It is just a serious today as it was some 150 years ago when slave masters forced themselves upon powerless and helpless slaves. In fact it was worse then-especially for slaves because there was no protection under the law. You were the property of the master and he could do with you what he wanted. Notice I didn't specify the gender of the raped slave. It's my belief that slave masters not only raped the females, but they raped the males as well. Were it not for the mulatto children with facial features similar to the slave masters running around the plantation, they would have denied they raped the women. In fact, Harriet Washington, author of the novel Medical Apartheid, states that the white aristocracy during the era of slavery, vehemently denied sexual relations between slaves and their masters took place. They claimed that the mulatto children were a result of civilizing the slaves and that this process was causing them to lose their uncivilized negroid features. Yes people, this idiocy came from people whose descendants are running the country today! It's funny what you can convince yourself of in a vacuum.

This entry started out sort of as simple light banter and their was supposed to be a comedic slant to it, but obviously it has taken on a life of it's own. Either way, I hope that it was informative and inspired readers to think. So many of us just take what we hear from a 10 second sound byte and swear we know the facts, but such is not always the case. Furthermore, we find it difficult to overcome our prejudices. 25 years ago if you told me that a woman would sleep with you and then accuse you of a rape that didn't take place, I wouldn't have believed it and that is a perfect example of my prejudices working against me. I wasn't raised around women that behaved that way and I made the mistake of judging the world based upon my sheltered upbringing. HUGE MISTAKE! But I'm enlightened now. And the next time I decide to have sex with a stranger, I will do everything in my power to ensure that the night doesn't end up with her having Fucker's Remorse.