“You want to know what I really felt? It was disgusting. What does he think?” Stringer said. “This was a woman first. He has no right to put her down, and then think it’s ok for me to put her down but it’s not alright for a white man to put her down. What are you talking about? She is a human being and as a female, and in particular as a black female, I took tremendous offense to that”.
Those are words of Rutgers women’s basketball head coach C. Vivian Stringer who weighed in on the Isaiah Thomas sexual harassment trial. Thomas and his employer, MSG, were found to have created a hostile work environment and had a large financial judgement handed down against them with MSG having to pay the entire amount of damages.
While I totally agree that sexual harassment has no business in the work place since when is C. Vivian Stringer the moral compass for America? Because her Rutgers team was called a “bunch of nappy headed ho’s” by former WFAN morning man Don Imus every time something like this happens and gains notoriety the media, local and/or national is going to run to Stringer for comment?
Do us all a favor and leave Stringer and Rutgers women out of it. They’ve dealt with enough they don’t need to be America’s expert witnesses too. On the other side, Stringer should have said, “”I have no comment it doesn’t concern me or my team”. But for some reason she feels the need for the limelight. Maybe it comes from being in the shadows of UConn’s Geno Auriemma and Tennessee’s Pat Summitt and she feels she’ll take any publicity she can get. You know they say “any publicity is good publicity” but the athletic director or the president at Rutgers need to grow some stones and tell her enough is enough. You had your say when it concerned your team and our university but now is the time to keep quiet and coach basketball.
The entire interview conducted by Doris Burke can be seen next week on ESPN’s E:60.
