The Racist Rants of Dr. Leslie Seppini & Nancy Grace

Those who watched Dr. LESLIE SEPPINI on the Nancy Grace show on Monday, May/21 (after the Dharun Ravi sentencing) were filled with dismay as she spewed one lie after another.  The Nancy Grace show is on HLN, a subsidiary of CNN.  Dr. Seppini also spoke extensively during the Casey Anthony trial and even wrote a book about it afterwards.  Judging by her behavior and her commentary on Monday, I am inclined to think that her entire work and her books must be full of lies as well.  Either she is too dumb to do proper research or purposefully lying in order to keep up a media persona of the kind that Nancy Grace expects of guests on her show.  Dr. Seppini claims that Dharun is in this country as a student on a student visa!  In fact, Dharun is a Permanent Resident, aka a Green Card holder.  The only thing that is true is that even Green Card holders can be deported.  There is no protection against deportation unless you are a United States Citizen.  However, when one does become a US Citizen, like Raj RajRathnam, bigots like Nancy Grace and Leslie Seppini will claim that they are a "flight risk" because they have a country to go back to and so should be imprisoned!  You see, with such bigots, you cannot win either way.

Judge for yourself - take a look at the transcript from the show at this link: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/21/ng.01.html.  

The PDF can be downloaded from this link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/94917226/Transcript-of-the-Nancy-Grace-Show-May-21-2012.

Here is the letter that I wrote to her today and hopefully she or her staff will research the Dharun Ravi situation further and come to their own conclusions that everything that she said on the Nancy Grace show on Monday, May/21/2012 was a LIE!

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Dr. Seppini,

I watched with considerable dismay about your portrayal of Dharun Ravi when you on the Nancy Grace show on HLN.  Specifically, let me tell you this – Dharun is NOT an illegal immigrant because you came very close to saying that.  Neither was a visiting Foreign Student.  He is  a Permanent Resident of the United States, commonly known as the Green Card.  He came to the USA when he was 5 years old with his parents who came here on “Highly Skilled Immigrant” Visas.  Dharun and his parents were eligible to become American Citizens several years ago but chose NOT TO and that is their right.  Your portrayal of Dharun Ravi as some kind of immigrant leech is way beyond reprehensible.

If you would like my viewpoints on the Dharun Ravi case, please visit http://www.thelaymanspeaks.com.  I think your rabid commentary coupled with Nancy Grace’s bigoted opinions colored by racial hatred towards Indians (she kept saying, “India Born Dharun Ravi,” several times during her show).  You offer up factually incorrect, outright lies about the Dharun Ravi case and that makes me wonder – how much truth do you really have to say about Casey Anthony?  As the child of an African American father, I wish you were more balanced and open minded.  Instead, sadly, I see that through straight faced commentary, you are painting Dharun Ravi and by implication Immigrants just like him, with a broad brush that makes us we are not welcome here. 

One act cannot forever tarnish the character and reputation of an individual and one act cannot reflect on the entire Immigrant student community as you portray it.  Yes, an Immigrant who comes into this country for studies or anything else must strive to lead a law abiding existence just like any American is expected to. However, man is by definition, imperfect and you of all people (with your Psychology degree) would be expected to know that!

Regards,

Ramesh Malayappan