A soft-spoken Michael James Griffin…

Soft-spoken? That’s the first thing Abby has to say about him?

Look, I’m a well-educated GWM, politically middle-of-the-road and certainly NOT one to jump on any kind of bandwagon. I’m not much of an activist…but I think it is vitally important there is justice for Don Belton. This case is just so incredibly outrageous. I took a break from media/internet in the past week or so and I’m getting caught up with the story. To find out they (Griffin & wife) knew Don months literally made my heart sink. The angle the press – and not only the local press given ABC’s shameful segment – is taking paints Don in almost the worst light possible, given the facts.
I remember being an impressionable 18 year old freshman, and having a gay professor flirt very aggressively with me. I admit I was somewhat non-plussed and perhaps a bit scared, but I certainly managed to reject his advances because I wasn’t interested in having a relationship or encounter of any kind with him. And we are to believe a 53 year old professor assaulted a 25 yr. old 6′ 220 pound ex-marine!? When they had invited him to their home for Christmas?! I can hardly think of anything more outlandish. It reads like an Onion headline.
And, finally, sometimes when the race card is played, I think it’s really stupid. That hot-headed Cambridge cop would probably have loved to arrest any Harvard professor, white, black, male, female or indifferent. I spent enough time in Boston to know the roots of that resentment are deeply ingrained. But in this case I have no doubt attitudes would be different if the skin colors were reversed!