Knocking out the secrecy surrounding domestic abuse

All week I have been trying to find something good to come out of the ugliness surrounding the Ray Rice affair.

I found it on today's editorial page.

With a single punch, Rice shattered the veil of silence that too often accompanies domestic violence.

Usually whispered, it's now being shouted from every mountaintop.

You can't watch the now infamous videotape of Rice slugging his then-girlfriend - now wife - and not be revulsed.

Ray Rice thus becomes the face of an issue that feeds on its shame and anonymity. Victims are afraid to come forward. Families don't want to air dirty laundry.

That should be easier to do now that the country has spent the bulk of the week discussing a subject once thought too prickly for public consumption.

In the meantime, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell continues to bob and weave in the rough surf roiled by the bumbling way he has handled this affair.

But at least one voice thinks it might be time to stop piling on the king of the NFL, and instead focus on Rice.

Make sure you read columnist Jack McCaffery's version of the Goodell Chronicles here.

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