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In reply to the discussion: White Male Privilege Is Why We Laugh At Lochte And Vilify Douglas [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)(UMASS/Amherst) with 25,000 students and only 400 blacks. I have seen what it gets like when there are drunken parties - and no, it's not just "frat parties". And the fact that early on in the "story", it was mentioned that they had been out partying, yet that still raised few red flags, and one might ask "why"? Yet let young black adults "party" and the accusations of "wilding" would have started immediately.
There have been quadrennial stories about the "parties" in and outside of the Olympic Village. But it seems this incident fed into the hyper-negative reporting about the city in general, which was suddenly transformed from the exotic "Girl from Ipanema" and bawdy "Carnivale" personas, to a somewhat distorted cesspool of crime "reality". Nothing has really changed about the city or that country except when this particular interaction occurred during a major international event, yet it will apparently become an excuse for all sorts of things apparently.