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Mr. and Mrs. McDaniel with four of their 20 adopted children ©Washington Post/Getty Images I'm going to mention a violent rape. I will try to be as brief as possible but please don't read on if this topic will upset you.  I learned today that I can be disgusted, angry, and horrified all at once. The victim, 18, psychiatric disability community member, one of 20 adoptees to the McDaniel family whose parents are white and live in an area with a predominantly white school, was abused by his own football teammates over a period of months and no one in the school administration or coaching staff acted to stop it. the victim was eventually lured into a locker room by three assailants where his teammates beat him and raped him violently with a coat hanger.  The McDaniels have an additional five children born to them. I'm not certain how they are able to manage the safety of disabled children of color in a family of 25 children. But there is something more urgent here and that i...