Are we really putting this on the person filming, and not the person making the comments?
I have known Hanna almost all of her life. Her dad and I are close friends and went to high school together. That family, including Hanna, are the least racist people in the world. In the town that Hanna grew up in, there is maybe one black family. She never used words like that. She learned them hanging with her teammates and her friends on the football team. Her boyfriend is a black football player that we all know. Many of her teammates and friends are gay. I don't think we would want someone with a camera filming us for one minute a day. Hanna said the wrong things. It was bad. But much worse is the reaction she has recieved from the adults at Syracuse University. Her coaches at Syracuse didn't return her phone calls. This is a girl that gave her heart and soul to that program. Not even a response. The new chancy calling it hate speech. How political correct. It was a college kid that had too much to drink. I don't think anyone of us would have wanted cameras on us at our worst when we were college students.
That's all fine - I respect your loyalty to her and her family, I really do, and I believe you when you say that's the way she's always actually been.
I know you are too close to the situation to be totally objective and I am sure Hanna is a nice girl. However only a very small % of the population would react in a manner she did (drunk or not drunk-does it matter?). Unfortunately in her case it was on camera. Like they say timing is everything. However maybe we all agree getting removed from the team was a small price to pay for her behavior especially if she learns from it.
He also didn't force her to say those things. This seems like a prime example of "don't blame the messenger."
who is going to hire her upon her graduation this year?
I am close to the situation. But the point is, these are the words that she hears everyday from our football players. I guess we are lucky that there aren't camera's around them. And if there was, there would be a different punishment. You can bet on that. Just remember how Edelin was defended on our boards. And that was a lot worse than words.
I don't feel sorry for her at all and she's not the first person who has faced adversity in life. The successful ones are able to learn from their mistakes and be a better person for it. If she can do it then someone will hire her.
I'm just a little taken aback by people putting blame on everyone BUT her in this situation.
Well there is a new chancellor so maybe some of the things that got swept under the rug won't anymore.
Interesting. You don't feel sorry at all for a person that made one mistake, a mistake that didn't hurt anyone, and with that mistake, loses her ability to play college sports, which she loves. A mistake that for the foreseeable future hurts her career. I didn't know that about you. I'm glad I found out.
Like I said you are too close to the situation. You act like she was some goddess. That was her true personality caught on tape. A snapshot of her life. It has nothing to do with me. But like someone else said, everyone is at fault and not the girl.
Sometimes more than one person can be to blame for a situation. Hanna made a mistake. If you didn't read it, she issued a public apology. But a person taping a private person while they are drunk, and than editing it and putting it on line, well, In my opinion, that person's motives deserves to be questioned. Hanna wasn't running for office. She was a colege kid out for the night. Happens every weekend on M street.
What a foolish statement. That is her true personality? How would you know this? From a 10 second clip on the internet. Christ what a stupid statement.
