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So where does a man go to his life, his reputation, and/or his years of potential lost earnings back? You can't very well drop someone back in the world with an "OOPS!! OUR BAD!!" pseudo-apologia and expect everyone to go away happy. Our justice system has never been perfect, but its clear and obvious racial bias is sickening. And I have a feeling that Sebold's silence is due to the fact that she knows she'll be eviscerated (deservedly so) no matter what she does. It doesn't take much to wonder how she can live with the guilt of knowing what she's done and the racial overtones of it.

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Sebold's silence is deafening and confounding. I won't say infuriating yet, because at this point we don't know why she's not come forward. She was legitimately violated only not by who she fingered. What I hope is not happening is a very personal version of White guilt, where she's not stepping up to apologize because she feels guilty about her role in this injustice. Questions about what she may owe Broadwater financially not withstanding, whatever the reason for her blankness, or the risk of acknowledging her error, for sake of simple decency she needs to apologize.

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Nov 30, 2021Liked by Stacey Eskelin

Ew, recently read about this elsewhere and was supremely disgusted......with the entire perverted account of injustice...... LUCKILY set right due to the keen eye and mind of Mr. Mucciante. Frightening. And, yes, remuneration is in order on her part. Still, Sebold had better speak up soon, and intelligently, before her life goes on an even worse bad turn. Or maybe she'll just write a book about it.............(◔_◔)

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