
Georgia is fucked up for a lot of reasons... Attorney General Thubert Baker has shown another reason yesterday. Most sane people agree that getting brain from a 15 year old is not that big a deal when you are 17. Certainly, angry fathers should have some recourse besides a shotgun - but no one thinks 10 years is appropriate anymore. Of course, when the 17 year old boy, Genarlow Wilson, is black, and the fifteen year old girl is white - the tempature down here changes. Maybe that is why the General Assembly elected not to make its new law decriminalizing (rather the oral sex is now a misdeamenor vs. a felony) this act retroactive.
Thankfully, a Superior Court judge came to his senses and allowed Wilson to appeal and reduced his sentence to timed served, with no requirement to join the sex offenders list. Two years for a hummer is bad enough (he was acquited on the drunken sex with another girl), although Baker disagrees. Even though Baker is black, the racial issue still looms. Why try to keep this kid in jail? It was all consensual, and the legislature agreed that the law he was tried under was wrong.
I can't help but identify with him. I'm black, and I remember the cute girl who used to give handjobs in the stacks at the High School library back home. The difference is that my parents and my uncles would have murdered me if I ever got caught messing around with her. Hell, my mom would have been able to tell by looking if I had just a little too much fun at school that day. There was no "boys will be boys" attitude in my home.
Attorney General Baker, Wilson may have been wrong, but two years hard time is more than enough compensation for his indiscretions.
Labels: Atlanta, Genarlow_Wilson, Idiots, Politics