Get a blowjob, go to prison

This espn.com story about 20-year-old Georgia inmate Genarlow Wilson, whose promising future as an collegiate athlete ended after he received consensual oral sex from a schoolmate, is very long but is worth a read.

All I can say is that it is unbelieveable that bullshit like this still happens in our country in this day and age. I was especially blown away by this tidbit:

At the same time this trial was under way, a local high school teacher, a white female, was found guilty of having a sexual relationship with a student -- a true case of child molestation. The teacher received 90 days. Wilson received 3,650 days.

Ten years. For a hummer. Wow.

Certainly, he and his friends used poor judgement. Teenagers will be teenagers. But the punishment this young man is receiving is draconian. His life is being ruined, and nobody seems to care.

One wonders what his sentence might have been if he were white instead of black.

Absolutely disgusting. The people who put this young man behind bars should be ashamed of themselves.