Lincoln University president expresses great concern for the futures of accused rapists

Lincoln University president expresses great concern for the futures of accused rapists (but, notably, NO concern for the victims)



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Jennings is the president of Lincoln University, the 160-year-old HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) located in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Lincoln University boasts some legendary alumni, including Langston Hughes, Thurgood Marshall, Cab Calloway, Kwame Nkrumah, and Gil Scott-Heron. Now, it’s home of a victim-blaming president.
During his speech at the university’s All Women’s Convocation hosted in September of this year, Jennings took on the issue of sexual assault and rape. Did he provide empathy for those who had been assaulted? Did he say that rape and sexual assault would not be tolerated on campus? Did he sure the crowd of black women who chose to attend this university that he, as president, would do everything in his power to ensure that they graduated unmolested? Not exactly.

…we have had on this campus, three cases of young women, who after having done whatever they did with the young men, and then it didn’t turn out the way they wanted it to turn out, guess what they did? They then went to Public Safety and said, ‘He raped me.’ So then we have to do an investigation. We have to start pulling back all the layers and asking all kinds of questions. And when we start trying to collect the data and ask the questions…and why do we do that? Because we know that possibly somebody’s life is getting ready to change for the rest of their life. Because there’s no more serious accusation. And within the last 30 days, the United States federal government has now issued a new set of regulations that deal with sexual misconduct on colleges and university campuses. And the penalty is jail time.

What happens when you allege that somebody did something of that nature to you? You go to jail (overlooking the fact that few rapists actually go to jail) I don’t care how close they are to finishing their degree. Their whole life changes over night. Because they’re gonna get a record and that record is then gonna follow them for the rest of their life. They’re going to be expelled from the university. It’s gonna be very difficult for them to get into anyone else’s university because they have to explain at the receiving institution why they were expelled from the institution that they were expelled from.

And we have to send the transcript, we have to note on there the reason for him being expelled. And so when they see that, then they don’t want to take a chance on letting them into their university because they don’t know what they are getting ready to get themselves in for.

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