I definitely think you raise a great point and I think you’re right in many cases. I can bet many of Lochte’s initial supporters were mainly blinded with national superiority. I also think Drew is correct in many of the other cases.

I know some people (sadly family) who supported Lochte, but I know if someone like Carmelo Anthony was the one in Lochte’s place they would post something along the lines of “Getting drunk while hanging with Rio’s “gangsta’s” is no surprise you’d end up in a robbery at the least! Bad drug deal is more like it! It’s not his fault cause once a thug, always a thug.”

I can only imagine the responses about Carmelo if they would have found out the whole thing was a lie to cover up his drunken stupidity. They would go to town proving “thuggish behavior” is destroying America single-handedly.

As for Lochte they said a simple post similar to “Lochte, such wasted talent and such disgrace to team USA. We all have stupid drunken mistakes, we’re only human, but not at the Olympics.”

Whether they are conscious to their post’s racial inequalities is something I do not know. They use every defense possible to deny being racist, but can’t comprehend the problem with the vast difference in those two postings.