Genarlow Wilson: The Most Ungrateful and Entitled Child Rapist to Ever Graduate from Morehouse
Monday, May 20, 2013 at 7:00AM The Blogmother UPDATE: WELCOME new readers sent here by Genarlow Wilson's unhinged delusional supporters ( they are a none too bright bunch.) I welcome your inquiries regarding the real FACTS in the Genarlow Wilson case. You knowing more about his case is a great thing! I'm providing this post from 2010 that I think encapsulates why no fair minded person would celebrate Mr. Wilson and deny compassion to his TWO victims. Please read: Your Genarlow Wilson Refresher Course: You're Not Entitled to Your Own Facts. Here's a description of what Mr. Wilson did to his forgotten victim, the 17 year old girl Genarlow Wilson's supporters need you to forget about. This is an acocunt from someone in the courtroom who view the video Mr. Wilson made of his activities that fateful night.
No matter how much (two glasses of Cognac) the 17-year-old may have had to drink, no matter how much she may have flirted with those boys, she did not consent to having sex with all of them, one right after the other. Yet it never occurred to the "smart" and "spiritual" Genarlow to say, "Stop it. We should not be doing this." No. Genarlow watched, waited and gladly took his turn. When they were through raping her, Genarlow helped his friends drag the comatose victim to the bathroom. They opened the door, pushed her in, watched as she fell to the floor and closed the door. I guess she wasn't much fun anymore.
Genarlow Wilson's supporters ( primarily Black women journalists and rape-culture supporters) took a victory lap around the bodies of his bruised and battered victims this weekend when he finally managed to make time to go to class so he could graduate from Morehouse College. A feat he could not have accomplished if the Black Elite Establishment had not literally dragged him across the finish line.
One might think that someone who avoided a decade in prison, through no effort of his own- Had a four year college education handed to him- through no effort of his own. Managed to get a job working in LAW ENFORCEMENT despite being a convicted child rapist- through no effort of his own would be as happy as a clam. But no, in keeping with the entitlement mentality that lead Mr. Wilson to believe that he was entitled to have sexual intercourse with an unconscious 17 year-old girl and pass around a young girl as a party favor, Mr. Wilson is whining about all of the people who want to see him fail and don't want him to get a second chance?
Who are these people? Show me the receipts? What I want is for Black women like those who run Ebony magazine to stop lying and saying you're not a rapist, when you are.
What I want is for the Associated Press to stop lying saying your child rape conviction was overturned
Georgia changed its teen sex laws and the state Supreme Court overturned Wilson's conviction in 2007, calling it "cruel and unusual." Associated Press
It was not- the sentence was reversed, the conviction stands- There is a difference. The question you need to ask is why Mr Wilson's supporters continue to lie about his conviction being reversed.
Congrats to Genarlow Wilson, from being accused of rape & servng jail time. Exonerated & Now Graduating Morehouse college w/ honors!
— Gladiator Oshay(@HerFitz_HisLiv) May 19, 2013
No boo boo, he was not exonerated- he was and is a convicted child rapist- but don't let the fact get in the way of your throwing confetti on Twitter.
Here is some language from the Supreme Court of Georgia. Try to follow along to the end where they reverse his sentence, but not his conviction-Mr. Wilson was is and shall forever be a convicted felon.
In Weems,65 after concluding that the minimum sentence of twelve years in chains at hard labor constituted cruel and unusual punishment, the Court ruled that, because the minimum punishment was unconstitutional and because there was no other law under which Weems could be sentenced, Weems’s “judgment [had to] be reversed, with directions to dismiss the proceedings.”66 Similarly, in the present case, Wilson stands convicted of aggravated child molestation, and, as in Weems, we have determined that, under the statute then in effect, the minimum punishment authorized by the legislature for that crime is unconstitutional. Because Weems was decided on direct appeal, and the present case stems from Wilson’s habeas petition, we cannot direct the trial court to set aside the judgment and to dismiss the proceedings against Wilson. Instead, the corresponding and appropriate habeas relief would be for the habeas court to set aside Wilson’s sentence and to discharge Wilson from custody.
So no as much as you need him to not be a convicted child rapist... he is. His sentence was set aside- his conviction remains.
Congrats @genarlow_wilson you took lemons and made sweet, southern Lemonade! Blessings
— Miss Sheila (@Tpa_ismyhome) May 19, 2013
-- Because apparently nothing is "sweeter" than raping two Black girls and getting a free college education out of it.
So yeah, big shout out to Genarlow Wilson, & everyone else who's going to or ever has graduated against the odds
— Kyle Posey (@The_KP_Show) May 19, 2013
What odds? Having a college education dropped at his feet? Getting a book deal as a reward for raping two girls? Getting a job in law enforcement despite being a child rapist? Having a State senator and multimillionaire radio show host as his primary benefactors? What odds? Genarlow Wilson was going to graduate from Morehouse if Tom Joyner himself had to come take his final exams for him.
That's right: Genarlow Wilson is graduating from Morehouse today. If you remember his story, you know this is a major accomplishment!
— dstarwriter59 (@dstarwriter59) May 19, 2013
Millions of Black men who do not gang rape uncoinsious teenage girls manage to graduate from college all of the time, what's major about it?
Special congrats to @genarlow_wilson on graduating ...known him since elem. school&he's such a great dude. God has a plan 4 u, G!
— Jay K Gee (@MizBettyCrocker) May 19, 2013
Absolutely, God plans for ME to use Genarlow Wilson as an example of the Black community's immoral indifference to the suffering of Black girls who are the victims of violent crime.#LookAtGod!
@genarlow_wilson congrats to you on your graduation 2da from #MorehouseCollege You're a big inspiration to more people than u realize! #God
— joan bell carroll (@BrowzMakeupBar) May 20, 2013
Yes, I'm sure he's quite inspiring to teen age boys who gang rape teenage girls- look at what it can get them-- FAME, ACCLAIM and a four year scholarship. #Satan
What I want Mr. Wilson is for your ignorant supporters to stop proclaiming that it's okay to rape unconscious girls.
I want them to stop saying children can "consent" to being raped.
But most of all, I want you to head to a dark hole of obscurity because you've done nothing to merit any notoriety other than being a vile predator.
Generally speaking Mr. Wilson:
- Child rapists don't get free college educations.
- Most college students don't get the University president as their academic advisor.
- The average Black male college graduates who didn't rape children didn't get interviewed by all of the local news outlets.
- Most child rapists don't have supporters who expect the President of the United States to give them a shout out in a commencement address.
I wonder if not acknowledging Genarlow Wilson during the Morehouse speech was a conscious decision?
— RiPPa (@RippDemUp) May 19, 2013 - Your victims are not going to get the book deals you apparently are seeking.
- Your victims have to watch you repeatedly take a victory lap as if you've done something special.
You lucked out in that you raped two Black girls and became a celebrity and a symbol of the oppression of the criminal justice system. So people have glossed over the fact that you are a sexual predator and an unapologetic one at that.
It was not a "situation" you gang raped a 17 year old girl.
I love the way all of the reporters keep referring to gang raping a teenage Black girl as "bad decisions." Jay walking is a bad decision. Mr Wilson's actions were evil and predatory.
So what if you got Ebony.com to pull it's Genarlow Wilson article. Obama is addressing his class. #Morehouse #win
— RiPPa (@RippDemUp) May 19, 2013
Yep. Wilson's supporters are a classy crew. Cheering on the rape and sodomy of Black girls as if they are at some type of sporting event.
@rippdemup Yes indeed, Congrats to my Morehouse bro #GenarlowWilson and his family on this successful journey. What a future, what a movie
— Dayo & Company (@TENblocks) May 20, 2013
I couldn't agree more- the collusion and delusion of the Black community to prop up this sexual predator would make a very compelling movie which is why this blog is producing one :)
Genarlow Wilson, Morehouse
Reader Comments (31)
Gina you are leaving out important parts of the Georgia Supreme Court's ruling where it states that his conviction was reversed.
Blogmother Comment sorry boo boos the conviction was not reversed. I provided a link to the court decision and anyone who wants to can go read the ENTIRE DECISION don't just stop reading when you get to the part you like. Read it all the way to the end. The supreme court REMANDED the issue of the conviction back down to the trial court. I don't have to lie about that, it's in the decision for anyone who wants to read it for comprehension. If you don't believe me, go read the Atlanta Journal Constitution- they clearly state he remains a convicted felon. Georgia did not make having sex with underage girls legal, they just changed the sentencing laws. But even if his conviction WAS reversed- he's still a predator. I realize that Genarlow Wilson's supporters have to engage in mental acrobatics so they won't feel guilty of their support of a rapist, but he did what he did. Show me a trial court order reversing his CONVICTION and I'll gladly say I was wrong. I'm not. If you look at his type of appeal, it was not a direct appeal of his conviction- it was a writ of habeas corpus. Google it! And then ask yourself why you have to LIE about an easily verifiable legal fact. If Mr. Wilson is as pure as the driven snow, you would not have to repeatedly lie about the facts in his case.
"...we cannot direct the trial court to set aside the judgment and to dismiss the proceedings against Wilson. Instead, the corresponding and appropriate habeas relief would be for the habeas court to set aside Wilson’s sentence and to discharge Wilson from custody."
I don't get WTF is so hard for these rape culture enablers to understand about the case. Either read a damn book or have a lawyer explain the case to you on a primary school child's level.
Ugh. I'm so over educating sheep. You're a good one, Gina. Keep up the good work.
You should know that Rippa and Jay K Gee claim to know all of the facts of the case and are unmoved in their support of the sociopathic TRASH that is Genarlow Wilson.At least one of the people claimed not to know all of the details of the case.That's Gladiator Oshay.She aplogized and said she wasn't aware of all the details.We know this is due to them misleading people.The others haven't tweeted me back.I suspect that they may remain unmoved in their support of Genarlow.My purpose for contacting them on twitter was to make sure they were aware of the entire case and if not to make them aware so that they would re-think the issue and maybe discuss it with others.
Some of this goes to show that the state of American journalism is in the toilet.You got people that don't have ANY of their facts straight and people that are biased reporting the news.It's sad.
I have absolutely NO respect at all for RippDemup or Jay K Gee.I advise anyone with children to think twice before having your kids around them.
I also advise everyone to take special precaution to not go outside and get robbed at gunpoint ,and pistol whipped afterwards in front of an atm machine.You may not remember much of anything after being hit in the head and the atm camera won't help you get any justice either.
It is so repulsive that these ignorant people continue to support and defend this malignant predatory jack@#$. I try so hard to be objective when it comes to seeing other points of view. But there is absolutely nothing close to redeemable about folks that don't give a damn about what happens to black women and girls! #CESSPOOL_FOLKS
The most shocking thing about this post is that Genarlow is working in law enforcement. I recall that a Black man with a felony could not get into the HBCU I was attending back in the late 1990s, despite much support by students who believed he had been wrongly convicted. How things have changed -- for the worst.
This is disgusting. I always think of his victims and send them light and love whenever I hear or read about this criminal. This happened to them! So is anyone telling them that they are victors for overcoming? Have they even overcome? Is anyone encouraging or helping those girls?
If I had known any of those people tweeting those messages they'd instantly become cutoff, no warning or explanation necessary.
How the hell did this animal get a job in law enforcement???!?!?
Twilight Zone.
I turned the channel when I saw Javita Moore interviewing this slime on last week. Yet, to my horror they did a story on him on CNN. This is so disgusting. What's more disturbing is he didn't have the common sense not to become another unwed father. Some sad young woman actually has a baby girl by him. So, instead of focusing on his free education he decides to bring a child in this world while leaving on handouts of rape supporters.
Why is a man that is a rapist and pedophile allowed to become a cop? That is absolutely horrifying. I feel sorry for any children he has. I wonder what state he's going to be policing, so I can avoid that state. The only solace black girls and women have is that one day he and other black men and their supporters will have to answer to God one day for raping semi conscious underage girls.
Faith in the black community and humanity has been lost FOREVER. It's never coming back EVER!
Blogmother, I have a question, did the victims of this punk foul crime received any compensation. Is a civil suit pending?
It's really sad, but not unexpected that the black community still sees Wilson and every other black male rapist as some sort of martyr. It's repugnant that the majority of black people would support a criminal while simultaneously erasing the rape and molestation of 2 black girls, but not surprising. What IS surprising is that this rapist and molester, like all black rapists and molesters enjoys unfettered support from black women. Lady A., when you mentioned the loss of respect for the black community, I honestly don't think that the black majority cares about its penchant for supporting rape culture. In fact, the black community's treatment of black women and girls is informed by rape culture.
Hi Blogmother. I don't normally post, but I had to mention an article by Tom Joyner condemning the recent gang rape at Morehouse. Besides giving ridiculous rape prevention advice, the article was laughable in it's hypocrisy. The rape apologist who rewarded a gang rapist with a full scholarship is shocked and concerned. If anyone is interested on commenting, the article is at blackamericaweb.com/120934/reading-writing-and-rape-sexual-assaults-on-campuses-must-end/
If this blog is supposed to be so "for" black women, how dare you mention an innocent baby girl. Despite your thoughts about how she was conceived, she is indeed someone's daughter. What about her? The fact that you think it is fine to publicly discuss her. To even mention the mother of his daughter, who had NOTHING to do with his case, but you think it's fair to even mention her or her daughter, because she does not share the same views as you. Hypocritical if you ask me. So, when you mention daughters don't forget to add "some" to that because you are clearly not for ALL.
Blogmother comment- I'm sorry, can someone with reading comprehension locate the portion of the post where I mention Mr. Wilson's daughter? Also, Jane if you don't want people to talk about Mr. Wilson's daughter, you need to probably send him a note telling him to stop using her as a prop in all of his local television appearances and photo shoots. By the way, for those who don't know, Mr. Wilson has a Public Relations firm working on his behalf. Mr. Wilson WANTS people to discuss his daughter. I just didn't in this post. And did y'all notice Jane's lack of concern for the two girls Mr. Wilson assaulted?
If I read my post correctly I did not address any part of the case, your thoughts about the case, or my own. I simply addressed the fact that you approved of posts concerning an innocent baby who is in no way linked to the legal case you are discussing.
Blogmother comment and again, I'll take your criticism seriously when you don't also criticize MR WILSON for discussing and displaying his daughter in other MUSCH LARGER media outlets. Mr Wilson does not have a problem with his daughter being a part of the conversation--- that's his choice.
This post is clearly one sided and it seems as if you have some type of personal vendetta against Genarlow Wilson. I remember following this case years ago. There is no grey area on this subject, the choice was yes or no. Everyone chose yes. Both parties willingly participated in whatever acts were performed. The "victims" recanted their statements and said so themselves, remember? but because of their age they couldn't consent "legally". So you may as well not ask your 15 year old kid what they'd like for dinner bc "legally" they can't consent to that either if the law didn't permit. So, Instead of bashing Genarlow Wilson's character has anyone stopped to question the character of the alleged victims? Has anyone questioned why 15&17 year old girls were at a hotel on New Years anyway? Oh let me guess, thats Mr. Wilsons fault too? 10 years later his "victims" will tell you that it was all consensual so is he still a rapist, child molestor and everything else you've called him?
Blogmother comment Thanks for proving our point that Genarlow Wilson's supporters are Pro-rape culture, delusional and unhinged. You probably don't even know why what your victim blaming is so vile and repugnant. I absolutely take the praise and rapist of a rapist seriously. Every human being with a sense of compassion should take this issue personally. ANyone who thinks a an unconscious person can say "yes" to a gang rape is beyond reason. Even Mr. Wilson probably disagrees with your pro-rape propaganda. Thanks for exposing the nature of Mr. Wilson's supporters. NOtice how Tracy "followed" the case but doesn't want to mention the 17 year old girl who always maintained she was raped.
Since you opened the door Jane, I thought I would respond. While the post doesn't mention Wilson's daughter or child's mother, it is worth mentioning when a public figure with a criminal history of misogyny has a female spouse and/or female child. Not in the sense that we should discuss personal details about them, but in the sense that it's a tragedy when women align themselves with a person who doesn't value women and procreate with him. if a black person married a member of the KKK, it would be a point of notice. I personally would feel pity for his child and disturbed by the lack of self-esteem displayed by the mother. I (and most people with a healthy psyche) would feel sickened to be in an intimate relationship with him and his rape reel would play in my head every time he tried to touch me. That said, the imaginary condemnation that you see reveals your personal blindness more than anything else.
First, thanks for posting about this story because it does provide a good opportunity to dialogue about rape and rape culture in our society.
I should say at the outset that I am an attorney who has followed this case since 2007 so I am aware of the legalities surrounding it. As much as we despise rape and anybody who commits such an unjustifiable act, it's also important that we get our facts straight. Genarlow Wilson was not convicted of rape. Although it is true that he was charged with raping a 17 year-old girl while he, himself, was also 17, a jury who carefully heard all of the evidence and watched the video in question found Wilson innocent on that charge.
Wilson was actually charged with "aggravated child molestation" ("ACM") which is a very different charge than "rape". Rape is sexual intercourse with another person without their consent. ACM under Georgia law does not require sexual intercourse - it is simply any "immoral or indecent act" done in the presence of a child. A "child" under Georgia law is anybody under 16. It's notable to observe that at the time in question, Wilson was 17 and the two girls in question were 17 and 15. So even though they were all teenagers (one girl the same age and one girl only 2 years apart in age) the law on the books at the time in Georgia (which has since been removed as a result of this case) did not make any exceptions for teenagers who perform consensual oral sex on other teenagers.
Wilson was convicted of ACM for oral sex with the 15 year-old girl in question because this particular Georgia law did not consider consent for oral sex, even though Georgia law did, at that time, consider consent for sexual intercourse. In other words, if Genarlow Wilson and the same 15 year old girl had engaged in sexual intercourse -- and not oral sex -- then he would not have been charged with ACM.
All of that to say, I agree with the folks who have commented here who find what happened here disgusting. I certainly would not want my 15-year old sister to be associated with the type of guys who have group sex and put it on video (what's with this younger generation feeling the need to constantly put everything on video anyway?). But that's a significantly different discussion than whether or not Genarlow Wilson was guilty of rape. Again, he was found guilty of ACM but he was found innocent of rape.
Just because I'm personally offended (and to be clear, I am offended) at what Wilson did does not make him a rapist. Raping somebody makes you a rapist. Having oral sex on video at the age of 17 with another teenage girl just means you have extremely poor judgment, a lack of respect for yourself and for women, and no home training. But let's be clear, it doesn't make that individual a rapist. That's a bridge too far.
Rape is a serious matter. Therefore, we should not toss around the label of "rapist" lightly before gathering all of the facts. We may not like it when a group of young women and young men get together in a room and decide to disrespect themselves by engaging in group sex acts. And we should counsel our young men and women on the consequences that such actions will have on their respective futures. But let's not confuse that with rape. Forcing somebody to have sex without their consent or taking advantage of somebody when they can't consent is rape. It's a question of consent. You either have it or you don't. Nobody should be forced to do something that they did not consent to. Period. But let's not forget, the jury in Genarlow Wilson's case did not find a lack of consent between Wilson and the two young ladies in question.
If I can change gears for a moment, as a black attorney, what originally drew me to this case was the abuse of prosecutorial discretion used by the white southern prosecutors who decided to go after Wilson for 10 years on the charge of ACM when they knew full well that the ACM statute was not intended to apply to a case like this. Even the Georgia legislator who wrote the ACM law in 1995, Matt Towery, said that it was not intended to apply to cases like the Genarlow Wilson case. The law was intended to stop adults from performing inappropriate sexual acts around children. It was not intended to send a 17 year old boy (who is himself a child) to jail for 10 years for engaging in oral sex with a 15 year old girl. The prosecutors knew that, but they went after him anyway. Fortunately, because their abuse of discretion resulted in national media attention, this law has been removed from the Georgia books so that this type of case cannot happen again.
Blogmother comment - We are no longer in a court of law. Genarlow Wilson has hired a PR firm and is attempting to remold himself into a public speaker and cash in on his disgusting behavior. Whether you like it or not. A large portion of the population views a man who has sexual intercourse with an unconscious girl along with 5 of his friends and then dumps her unconscious body on the bathroom floor to be a rapist. There no abuse of discretion. A 17 year old Black girl said that he raped her. I believe her. That's what initiated the prosecution and thank goodness there was a district attorney willing to attempt to seek justice for a violated Black girl. Genarlow is out of jail he's doing well. He is not entitled to fame and fortune he seeks without comment. And you wouldn't DARE go write what you wrote about this Black girl in a forum addressing the Steubenville rape case which is basically identical because White women would not tolerate it.
You know what I find to be terrible, Tracy, is that, whether you find Genarlow Wilson to be a repulsive rapist as I do, or if you simply consider him - and all involved in this incident, including the young women - to simply be cases of teenaged irresponsibility, you choose to only glorify Wilson, to excuse his irresponsibility, but are willing to besmirch the reputation of the young ladies. You're supporting Wilson without question and willing to speak of him in positive terms, while eager to point out the flaws in the young ladies involved.
Even if this was a case of teenagers messing around and messing up, where is your support for sending the young ladies to college on scholarship? Where are all the organization's willing to support them? Where is that idiot Tom Joyner and crew in their efforts to have us understand youthful irresponsibility when it comes to the girls? Where is your support for the girls to help them have a better life? The answer is NOWHERE.
Because women like you have allowed Black males to be deemed more important and fragile than Black females, deemed them more deserving of consideration, more deserving of forgiveness, more deserving of second chances.
You see, it was the young ladies, afterall, who did not consent to have their bodies broadcast on a videotape, unconscious and being violated. Wilson made that choice, not the young ladies. Somewhere, somehow you will eventually see that your support for Wilson is further victimizing the young women in this case.
And yes, the same people supporting Genarlow Wilson are quick to point out rape in the Steubenville case. No talk of consensual sex there. I once read a comment by a person who claimed to be Black man that said he respected all women, but respected white women more than any other group simply because they were considered "at the top of the food chain" , socially, in American society. This is pathetic and makes my blood boil, but truly exemplifies the Wilson case compared to the Steubenville case.
How many "attorneys" have commented on this thread, but FAILED to actually read the court proceeding UPHOLDING THE CONVICTION, but overturning the sentence? I mean, I can allow bloggers, niggalosophers, and rape apologists to be stupid as hell, but as an attorney, how can ANYONE still IGNORE the facts in this case? Don't you learn how to do that kind of reading in 1L? tHERE ARE NO ARGUMENTS TO BE MADE... THEY WERE... AND A COURT, Two in fact, made it clear that Wilson was culpable for committing a criminal act. He IS a felon. He IS a felon. He IS a felon.
Tracy, I sincerely hope that you are never raped or accosted by anyone. I think you are a disgusting, vile, human being, but I STILL wouldn't want you to be raped by anyone... EVER.
THIS TRASHING OF MR. WILSON IS HORRIBLE. THE GIRL HAD CONSENTUAL SEX WITH HIM, THOUGH
NOT WITHIN GEORGIA LAWS OF CONSENT. IT WAS NOT RAPE. WITH INTENT. GOODNESS, GRACIOUS,
WHAT PLANET ARE YOU ON. THE MAJORITY OF TEENAGERS HAVE HAD SEX IN NORTH AMERICA. WHAT
ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON, THOMAS JEFFERSON? THESE EUROPEANS WERE RAPISTS. YOU DON"T SAY NOTHING ABOUT THEM. BUT THEN AGAIN, THIS IS PROBABLY A CIA FUNDED WEBSITE WITH
THE INTENT TO DESTROY BLACK PEOPLE.
Blogmother comment- I normally don't let the all CAPS loons through the comments que, but this once again is a textbook Genarlow Wilson supporter. They deny what he did to the 17 year old girl and then say that anyone who does not support a Black man who has sex with unconscious teenage girl is being disloyal to the Black community. Genarlow Wilson must be incredibly proud of his supporters?
I'm sitting reading the posts from Wilson's supporters and I just can't believe it. SMDH. They, including the lawyer who wrote darn novel, do not see Black girls as being worthy of anything unless they are perfect. If anyone has trouble understanding why Black America is in the shape it is in, all they need to do is meet these folks.
I'm not shocked that these people think it's ok to engage in such an immoral fashion, I'm not even shocked that this last poster thinks it's an attempt to destroy black people. If pointing out this hypocrisy makes me disloyal to the black community, then I'm disloyal. I don't care, you aren't allowed to rape, beat, maim and kill me just because we share the same skin tone. If I found out my sons had done such a thing, I would wonder where I went wrong in teaching them to do the right thing. I don't even know where they get the drive and emotion to defend such a monster. I can only hope that such dysfunctional and delusional people always make their presence known to me in such an obvious fashion so I can stay the hell away from them. Does these people have daughters, mothers, nieces etc? How would they feel if someone ran a train on their unconscious body and tossed them in the bathroom like used a sock because they weren't fun anymore?
I believe the girl in the Steubenville case is Black, but I could be wrong.
I am shocked at all the Genarlow supporters running around the comments section. What is there to support? Why should he get adoration that law abiding young Black men who are struggling to get into institutions of higher learning deserve?
His conviction was never overturned and for the rest of his life he'll have to live with that and the infamy of his crime. Too bad. He made a bad choice and he should pay for it. No sympathy necessary.
And I don't care if the 15-year old said the sex was "consensual". She couldn't consent. End of story.
Teens have been having sex since day 1... If the "girl"..or "girls" in this case didn't come to court to protests and claim he forcibly gang rapped them...who am I to make their sex acts into something as vicious as that...Teens have sex...Why did the teen girls go with the boys to drink /smoke or whatever...If they say it was consensual teen sex...who am I to MAKE them say OTHERWISE... Not blaming ANY of THEM girls or the boys...they are from a "different" teen world...more sophisticated and accepting and WILLING to do SEX ACTS to each other as TEENS....I am also very PROUD of the teen girl for not falling to any pressure to go LIE and say it was RAPE ...she denied it was...
I CONGRATULATE THIS YOUNG MAN...AND AM PROUD OF HIM FOR OVERCOMING THAT CASE...100% Support
Blogmother comment- this reader's email address indicates that they are a woman. Which is a dobule tragedy. Once again Genarlow Wilson's supporters are lying. The 17 year old girl testified in court. I'm not going to address the rest of your pro-rapist victim blaming because the rest of my readers can clearly identify that in your comment. Again I think Wilson's supporters for memorializing their support of rape and sexual assault of children because people wouldn't believe this level of ignorance existed if you did go out of your way to prove it.
Quite an interesting blog going here for quite the interesting case. If I may weigh in. I am a convicted sex offender. Call me all the names you want; I am pretty much indifferent to it now. I would however like to point out a few things.
My story is different but similar. Yes, I had consensual sex with a young girl. No, there was no alcohol involved. Yes, I am black. No, she was white. Yes, I did ask her. On two occasions she called me. No, it was not legal. Period. Your opinion is your opinion, but the law is the law. Regardless of how we felt about each other, I made the incorrect decision to break the law. When you break the law anywhere on the planet, you are typically punished for it. There are no ifs ands or buts to it.
What I got was four years in prison, and a 15 year tail that I will lose in a year. I know that I would have gotten less if my victim (and she is my victim) was black, simply because there is no respect for a black woman's life in this country. Whine and cry about it all you want, but it's true. And there never will be until people stand up and place a value on it. Slapping a guy on the back and telling him he "overcame" committing a crime is the same as telling him that he can do it again. You overcome by admitting the truth and taking the consequences. That's what "man up" means.
I am in school, but I will not be graduating from a big time school. Obama won't be speaking. I will be paying back student loans until I die because I may never be able to get a decent enough job to ever feel like I'm back on my feet again. But as my counselor in sex offender treatment has said, "You've got to own it; all of it." And he's dead right. I made that decision, and I have to accept everything that comes with it. And more important than anything else. YOU DON'T BLAME THE VICTIM! Am I making myself clear enough? I've had people try that mess with me, and I stop them cold. You do not blame the victim. It was a yes or no situation. The man in question chose yes. Then we don't blame the victim. We don't blame the victim when we break the law. Is there anyone that disagrees with that? If you do, I propose this. We shall meet at a 4 way stop sign. You will stop, and then go. I will run the stop sign, hitting you broadside, killing your child in the process and then blame your child for being in the car. Some idiots will pay my way through college and help me put my life straight and ignore the heck out of your loss. Then we can talk. Otherwise, do not blame the victim.
Men are supposed to be the stronger sex right? Aren't we supposed to know when a situation is not correct and make the appropriate choice? Even if we are black? While I know that the owner of this blog may despise my crime and me as a result, I applaud and back her wholeheartedly for speaking out. There is no winner in this case. The subject of this post did not learn anything about taking responsibility for his own actions. His victims have been victimized again. We are sitting around calling each other names. If I ever cross his beat, I will most likely kill him because I know that he made a mistake and did not learn anything from. That makes him a threat to me. No winners.
As for those who might call me a rape apologist or whatever that is supposed to be. I am not apologetic to anyone outside my victim, her family, my family, and the kids of the earth. I only have to answer to God, and I will accept whatever the punishment is because I'm a man. I'm a man because I accept responsibility for my actions, no matter how ugly they are. Somebody up there mentioned something about the victims recanting? They do that all the time when they see everyone turned against them. How awful it must feel to be ostracized in such a situation. Statistics show that a few of those of us posting will find that out at some point.
This was not some kid running around with a sack of weed. Prison is full of those guys, and they have a lot to "overcome." The only thing you have to "overcome" after committing a sex crime, is proving that you'll never let it happen again. That takes time, and I suspect a la Terrence Johnson, we will see this man's name on the blotter again. Why? Because he didn't learn anything. Why not? Because we blamed the victim. We would have believed her if she was white and every single one of you out there knows that. Little white girls don't lie. That's all that little black girls do isn't it? If you disagree, don't type it; prove it!
Am I envious because he got over? A little. But I'm sad more than anything. I feel for the next person that crosses him while he's drinking.
That's my book and I'm sticking to it.
@ ConvictCat:
I really appreciate your honesty as well as your own realization as a convicted sex offender that you were the cause of your crime.
I do get upset that in this particular case people ignore the girls' original claims of rape. As though no one who has ever sought justice recanted their statements while under pressure or at fear of being further ostracized and hated. Tons of rape victims don't even go to the police. So imagine it took these girls some courage that after the incident they went forward. And it was the 17 year old who got the ball rolling in the first place. It seems as though from the beginning everyone was defending Genarlow. He wasn't some underdog. There's no mistaking why he has a PR team. It's to cover up real facts. He does not need a PR team unless he did something wrong.
Based on the description of the tape which most of us will not view, and personally I don't view sexually exploitative content esp of children, he and his friends raped the 17 year old and the exhibited coercive behavior. Coercion is rape. Even if a court does not convict a rapist that does not mean that a man did not rape someone. This happens all the time. Guys getting off Scott free. Or even accusations not carrying enough weight for a court conviction.
And even if someone is not proven to be a rapist in a court of law, that does not mean that person isn't a rapist. Statistically speaking if you're a rapist you're one of the least likely persons to go to prison or even see a day in court.
People think the only reason the 15 year old garnered so much attention in this story is b/c she could have been white. Aint that a bitch? They think b/c some jury seems to care about a girl she must automatically be white.
Thank you ConvictCat. I'm printing this out and saving it for my sons.
Notice how much compassion and empathy he had for the young girl he raped. His heartfelt remorse for what he did to her and how he asked his benefactors to help her recover and get on with her life too? Yeah......neither did I.....oh yes, another BM who has a child out of marriage and is "engaged." Right. :(
It was reading the next to last tweet -something along the lines of a black man goes from recieving a 10 year sentence to gettng a degree - to really bring home the fact that the support and praise, accolades are not about Genarlow Wilson. He is stand in for everyone all the other black men who were truly innocent who nonetheless received unjust sentences. (I'm going there) This is like OJ. There I said it. Once something/someone gains symbolic of a deeper purpose/meaning "facts" often don't matter. People are emotionally invested in the symbol of a Black man who "triumphs" over the system. Because of the wider culture still embraces rape culture to such a huge extent, I doubt it will be years or maybe never before Wilson questions or even condemns his own actions that night when he gang raped a girl. But I do wander when Wilson will start to grasp how insignificant he was personally to the support and movement that sprung up around him?
I did "not" keep up with the details of this case over the years, but if I ever defended him in the past based on faulty evidence/misinformation/hearsay I RECANT. I- R-E-C-A-N-T. I REALLY DO. From what I know, my take is that he met up with some teenage girls he saw get drunk, slept with them without their consent, passed the girls around to his friends, and then threw her on the bathroom floor-i.e.raped them/her-and made a tape about it. Consensual or not, which I do doubt, that tape don't help matters either way. On top of that, either way, dude is not a saint, a role model, or a darn martyr that he is entitled to media coverage, speaking tours, uncritical sympathy or anything else in my book either. If I am right, whatever hardships he had were not hardships that were beyond his control. They were hardships he brought upon himself. This is "not" a homeless struggling black teen person that worked her/his way to a "darn" scholarship to Harvard through getting her/his lesson, this negro participated in a gang rape: and, got a scholarship despite showing his foolishness on tape. I don't get it! Why? I don't get it when there are plenty of law-abiding students/athletes who have not got scholarships/press coverage despite hard work and no criminal record. Forgive me for being harsh, his age was "not" an excuse(to me personally either) because he knew his decision was not a good one. Unless a gun was put to his head, he did not have this to do. Osceola McCarthy/Clara Hale are saints, Fannie Lou Hamer/Harriet Tubman are role models, and Medgar Evers/Malcolm X are martyrs. Anybody young/old who stand and fight for their convictions with similar results apply to whatever three terms given them(saints/role models/martyrs). Countless victims of police brutality and actual political prisoners-male or female, young or old- that we know a lot or a little/nothing about like say Sherman Austin and the Assange guy(forgot his first name folks) are real/true martyrs for injustice/censorship This negro, like R. Kelly is guilty as sin- and unrepentant at that. Criminal/ex-criminal/potential repeat offender yeah-saint/role model/martyr.Just no. Speaking of R. Kelly, yeah, dude can sing, but I didn't understand the NAACP Image Award either. Really! All these singers we got, and all the folks could come up with "FOR AN IMAGE AWARD" is a middle age guy that pissed on a (barely out of preteen years)fourteen year-old teenager as opposed to other potentially blameless "pedo-free" talented singers?At the very least singers at least savvy enough to not put their "stuff/dirt" on tape? I do understand leaks happen. I am not talking about amateur porn by consenting adults or single people either. One dude put what could pass as a gang rape on tape and the other dude put pedophilia. Practices not only condemned and morally frowned upon by the Bible, but crimes condemned by the court system. If this was an extreme conservative legalist fundamentalist country, especially if it leaned toward dictatorship, heads could roll! What's sad about him is that he did not learn from the mistake with Aaliyah. May she rest in piece but this was kind of flawed. Still, no Aaliyah don't come off free of scrutiny either much as I like her- no her doo doo ain't smell free but R. Kelly was grown behind 24 year man infatuated with her at 15. For any pro-Kelly stans offended, Y'all stans for this guy see nothing sketchy about this? Y'all don't catch a whiff of a pattern? If your average joe relative was the target/perpetrator of this, would you let this pass without at least a giving of the side eye?
As for the apologists of either Wilson or Kelly, I don't aim to offend you, appease you or change your mind, but I will say this. The constructiveness of rooting for these guys who don't have the strongest argument/case(especially when THEY PUT IT ON TAPE) for innocence has gone over my head. In fact, I think your championing in this regard for these two men is not only both annoying and counterproductive-IMHO-my very humble opinion-it actually does do a disservice. Why? Your indiscriminate championing of leniency for actual guilty folks- callous enough to put their crap on camera at that, do make it harder for people to be receptive to real victims of injustice. I will admit. It don't take much for a lot of non-blacks or certain over accommodating black people to not be receptive to the things protested just for the sake of it, some of them question everything, but what could be of concern is other black people annoyed by this crap who do get the validity of some valid causes protested whether they protest or not. Even they sometimes get annoyed at this indiscriminate protesting so much that they may occasionally overlook issues that warrant protest from being tired out at earlier flawed folks used as symbols of protest. I admit, I respect protesters, but I question the utility of some of these "victims of the system"myself. Oh , and I am all for second chances after said guilty parties pay their dues and show genuine remorse, but it would be great if "some" black people pick their martyrs/symbols of protest carefully. "Some of us" really could stand to do better with this mess. Sorry for posting this six month after the fact. I posted because it is refreshing to know that I am not the only one that questions this fatal flaw of "some black folks" both well/ill-meaning!