More on Penn State and Jerry Sandusky
I think Jon Ritchie really helps, again, with the question of "Why?" Most interesting is toward end, where Ritchie--contra all the "If I hadda had my gun" braggadocio--explains why he might not have been able to intervene. It's interesting seeing this, as I was just telling Kenyatta, this morning, that I can't even say what I would have done, in that moment.
None of the alleviates responsibility. The attempt to understand why is not the same as the attempt to excuse. McQueary had a moral responsibility to protect that kid. He did not. Taking that as given, I am still interested in the "Why?"
It's also interesting to see Skip Bayless actually play journalist, if only for a second, instead of the character he's become.
: Little more from Ritchie who says the game shouldn't even been played tomorrow--"I don't think football matters anymore when you have victims of rape....We don't even know what happened to that ten-year old victim. Where is he??"
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction.