"black voices"
A taped interview with two women regarding the ray rice incident. Quoted segments are actual statements. I will leave their comments to stand alone.
Inteviewer: "what do you think about the Ray Rice incident?"
“it was like a personal thing and she was asking the public to respect that” “sometimes I think the NFL..... if it doesn’t happen on the court, the NFL should not get involved”
“if you make all that money and put yourself in the public eye, why would you do something that stupid”
“we don’t know what she did”
“camera in the elevator, they should not have be able to use that to lose his job”
“some of us (as we are black) women sometimes be overbearing, and men, that is sometimes all they know to do, punching” but “damn, how did the nfl get involved in this”
“camera’s on the elevator, damn”
“they are supposed to change their rules on domestic violence” (using RR as an example)
“sometimes we (black women) be looking at the dollar signs and will go through a lot of stuff”
“if he would have gotten in a fight on nfl property, I could see that, but in an elevator?”
“blown out of proportion”
“liquior and black folks, anything can happen”
Interviewer: "What do you think about him punching her?"
“a man has his limits and even the best of guys can be pushed over the limit”
“the guys usually hollering about not punching a woman, are the one’s usually doing it” “men been hitting women for years, and not likely to stop” “he probably has hit her before, some men when they hit their peak that’s all they know to start punching”
“maybe she has been doing this all along (working him over), but he couldn’t walk away (in the elevator), add alcohol and her arguing”
“some people are jealous, and just want to bring a man down, it's like a lynch mob”
“with the alcohol thing……….. her being intoxicated, anything can happen”
“everybody has a breaking point”
Interviewer: "Should he lose his job?"
“he should not lose his job”
“she don’t want no big ta-doo out of it”
“that’s between a husband and a wife”
“camera in elevator, hell you’re going to be scared to go in the bathroom and take a hike”
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