You probably haven't heard anything about it, but there was another allegation of interracial rape at Duke University recently. That it's the racial mirror image of the ridiculous lacross rape is probably the reason why.
Mary Katharine Ham has the details:
There's another accusation of rape floating around Durham this week. The accuser was allegedly attacked at a house party this Saturday.
The accuser is white. The suspect is black.
Heard anything about that? Yeah, I didn't think so.
The mainstream media has bent over backward to keep race out of this. Even those who first gave a description of the alleged rapist as a “black man” later redacted that from their reports. The News & Observer never printed it at all. And none has pointed out, as the Duke Chronicle has done, that the alleged victim was white, making this a mirror image of the Duke lacrosse case.
Some maintained all along last spring that their protests were not about race but about men’s violence against women. Still others tried to fan racial and class tensions by saying that if these were black men accused of raping a white woman, the man would be in jail. Well, now we know two things: it was always about race for the pot bangers and the Group of 88 professors at Duke, and it is demonstrably true, after Sunday’s incident, that a black man can be accused of raping a white woman and still be on the street.
It was never about protecting women. I know that because I live in a neighborhood that has the dubious honor of being the namesake of at least one serial rapist. There were few candlelight vigils; there was no national media attention; there were no pot-bangers when the women of my neighborhood couldn't take their dogs for walks at dusk. And, those black-on-white rapes just didn't bring the activist out in people the way the Duke non-rape did.
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wow.... I am sorry but I beli
February 15, 2007 - 23:14 ET bywow.... I am sorry but I believe that some people should be sent off to live in an island away from the rest of society.
And it is sickening how some people matter to the main-stream-media and some clearly don't. How do they justify such behavior?
Debra..In answer to your ques
February 15, 2007 - 23:19 ET by bigtimerDebra..
In answer to your question...one word...
Agenda...
It's all in the agenda...
With results for that agenda.
Which is power.
I see what you are saying, bi
February 15, 2007 - 23:39 ET byI see what you are saying, bigtimer.
star athletes with scholars
February 16, 2007 - 07:46 ET by Jack Bauerstar athletes with scholarships, many of whom were implicated in the assault.
Lacrosse = Star? Err, don't think so.
As for the so-called "implicated" charge on your part. Implicated by who exactly?
A witness and accuser now known to be utterly unreliable?
A prosecutor removed from the case and now facing ethical charges; and who may well face obstruction of justice charges too.
Also there's no-such thing as "reverse-prejudice" in the sense I guess you mean it.
Unless, of course you mean what the the reverse of prejudice is: and that would be acceptance.
"Our readers don't give a rat's ass about what you think. They want facts."
Ooooo. Sure. Grow up. &quo
February 16, 2007 - 09:59 ET by Jack BauerOoooo. Sure. Grow up.
Equality
February 16, 2007 - 11:20 ET by iveseenitall"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." A liberal law.
NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal
Here in Portland there was
February 16, 2007 - 00:34 ET by Wonder95Here in Portland there was a case a few weeks ago where four black girls attacked and robbed a white girl just because she was white. One news station reported it, but how much attention do you think it got from the local Dead Fish Wrapper? A small blurb buried a few pages back. That was it. If it had been the other way around, it would have been huuuuuuuuge news, but because it was a white girl being attacked by black girls, all the moonbat lefties didn't say a word.
Wonder- That sounds like the
February 16, 2007 - 01:20 ET by mastersofdeceitWonder- That sounds like the Halloween night black crowd assault on the three white girls in Long Beach. Very little press coverage, except the Long Beach Press Telegram and some local talk radio here. Were talking felony assault charges w/ skateboards etc used as weapons. I think all got probation, house arrest, anger management and community service. That's it. One of the perps is currently on the Cal State LB track team (as far as I know)
There was soooo little press coverage that even the far left LA Weekly noticed it and published a column about. Read it it's quite interesting.
Long Beach Hate-Crime Verdict
(Side trivia-The Jordan High mentioned in the article is the same where Snoop Dogg was a student of a friend of mine. Everytime it came to a written report, he wanted to know if he could rap it!)
mastersofdeceit
February 16, 2007 - 01:29 ET by Carl KolchakAs usual, you have a very good link. Very interesting read.
BTW did you catch Paul Weller when he was in LA earlier this month?
"Some people might say my life is in a rut, but I'm quite happy with what I got" 'Going Underground'
Carl-Nah I skipped him this t
February 16, 2007 - 01:55 ET by mastersofdeceitCarl-Nah I skipped him this time. I've seen him a couple times. Always great. He usually makes a stop in LA. I skipped his "acoustic" tour a few years ago also. I'm waiting for the Jam reunion! Sad as I was to see Bruce Foxton leave Stiff Little Fingers, it gave me hope something might be in the works. We'll see.(But it was cool to see SLFs original bassist Ali McMordie back in the line up last tour) I don't usually do big arena shows, but I just might, might catch the Police reunion.
And here's the LA Weekly recent interview with Weller. Enjoy.
You are one cool dude!
February 16, 2007 - 02:03 ET by Carl KolchakYou are extremly cool! Anyone who likes The Jam is cool. I saw him in Denver a couple of years ago. The Style Council was cool too.
"I lost some hours thinking of it. I need the strength to go and get what I want. I lost some hours thinking of it, and lost an era daydreaming like I do" 'Absolute Beginners'
Carl- I have friends that saw
February 16, 2007 - 03:46 ET by mastersofdeceitCarl- I have friends that saw the Jam every time in LA. From their Starwood show to UCLA when the crowd ripped the seats out. Yeah they don't make em like they used to. The Jam actually got me interested in reading Keats, Yates, Shelley etc.
But I got into punk in 1980 at the tender age of 13. And growing up so close to LA it's been great. Oh the stories I could tell. And yet listening to songs like "Reagan Der Fuhrer" by DI, " Class War " by The Dils, "Abolish Government ", "Property is Theft " by TSOL etc. I managed to turn out not to be a raving moonbat. I just came away with the impression " yeah government sucks". Remember there was no internet back then and no one that I know was picking up newspapers. I had no idea about left/right, liberal/conservative. So I like to call myself a "Johnny Ramone Conservative" Socially liberal, yet believe in a strong defense, military and that America is still the greatest country on earth.
Hey master -- I saw the Pol
February 16, 2007 - 05:28 ET by Jack BauerHey master -- I saw the Police when they were fronted by Cherry Vanilla. And pogoed to the SPs of course.
That's the Sex Pistols not the Secular Progressives.
It is fun to see how many of those original "anarchist" punks have turned out to be quite, uh, "conservative" today.
Like me!!
Sometimes television shows wi
February 16, 2007 - 01:33 ET byWonder95,
Sometimes television shows will anger kids. Then the kids act out in schools. When I was a kid, the movie "Roots" was the trigger for a lot of anger towards whites in our school.
It was very sad because there had been no problem before the movie. None of the kids had treated anyone differently due to race before it, and things were never quite the same afterwards.
Parents need to keep some movies from being viewed by their kids, unless they view the movies with their kids and talk with them about what they are seeing. (This goes for all races.)
So...don't see Roots?
February 16, 2007 - 13:05 ET by balboaSo...don't see Roots?
Balboa,No. As I said, parents
February 16, 2007 - 14:57 ET byBalboa,
No. As I said, parents should view such shows with their children and talk to them about what they are seeing.
Let's see that bag of filth t
February 15, 2007 - 23:31 ET by NL207Let's see that bag of filth that masquerades as a prosecutor in that county prosecute this case with the zeal he has shown in the Duke Lacrosse case. And if he doesn't, which is just about a sure thing, then let's see that steaming pile we call the MSM report this with the same zeal they reported his bogus prosecution of the Duke Rape defendants.
In your dreams, NL.There's no
February 15, 2007 - 23:33 ET by BlondeIn your dreams, NL.
There's nothing to be gained by the parties you mention.
Oh, except justice.
My point exactly. Justice i
February 16, 2007 - 00:00 ET by NL207My point exactly. Justice is a political commodity to liberals. The 'privileged' deserve less of it thatthe 'downtrodden'. In so doing, liberals convert he machinery of justice into the machinery of tyranny and themselves to tyrants.
Sic semper tyrannis.
Nifong, the prosecuter you ar
February 16, 2007 - 09:54 ET by moderate to profaneNifong, the prosecuter you are talking about, has been removed from prosecuting cases, period. He is a peice of crap. He pushed this and pushed it as a way to push resentment against the Dukies. This current case has two elements the prior one did not. One is the victim is a Duke student and the second is that the prosecuter is different. Also, there is a bias against Duke in the Durham area. The first case was a classic case of the rich taking advatage of the poor black girl/mother/newly appointed saint. It was like a media dream. All they needed was the victim to be the daughter of minister. Of course strippers are often hookers and this one was a real piece of work. That did not stop the cameras and the typewriters.
Fortunately for the victim in this current case the media is keeping its nose out of it. I do hope the alledged perpatrators go to jail for a long, long time if convicted in a court of law and not the court of public opinion.
Now the first Duke case is an affront to all invovled. It was a bullshit case with a scumbag prosecutor who pushed to the media and played all of the race cards he could.
Yeah, Moderate, I agree with your point here.
February 16, 2007 - 10:03 ET by acaiguanaYeah, Moderate, I agree with your point here.
I'm not sure the cure to the Duke Rape case insanity is to drag some poor white/other rape victim through the mud just to prove the LaCrosse case was right or wrong. I think the evidence clearly shows the problems with the original MSM screwup. To commit another in the name of 'fairness' would be folly.
To bring attention to the alleged rape currently being investigated is probably fair to point out once again the MSM bias. But to go any further would be insanity.
I will accord the accused in the new case the same fair assessment I gave the team players. Innocent until proven guilty.
One would have to admit that historically, Black men accused of White girl rape in the South haven't done too well. But then they didn't do that well in the North either. As a Southern boy, I'm not too happy with the stereotype of the South, but the reality is there is more than just a grain of truth in the historical record.
I am glad to hear Nifong isn't practicing prosecution at this time.
ACA
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Hillary Clinton says: "I want to take those profits."
I think the added element tha
February 15, 2007 - 23:33 ET by balboaI think the added element that made the Duke case a big story -- besides race -- was that it was a university athletic team involved. Duke, that shining pillar of Coach K-osity, involved in rape?! GASP!
Surely that's part of it, b
February 16, 2007 - 04:24 ET by sarcasmoSurely that's part of it, but just as surely race is part of both that case and of this one. Do you agree that if race is part of a story, it's dishonest not to report that fact? Do you agree that journalists should treat all races the same in their reporting, and that not doing so is -- racism issues aside -- media bias in this case? Because if so, NB once-again has busted some bias...
JMR
Coach K coaches basketball. I
February 16, 2007 - 14:59 ET by florida_chadCoach K coaches basketball. It was about race.
The other Duke rape case
February 16, 2007 - 07:34 ET by Dave RIf this sad story does not clearly demonstrate the blatant double-standard that exists within the liberal MSM, and liberals ingeneral when it comes to all matters of race, crime, class and gender, I would like to know what does.
I guess this is what passes for liberals as equall justice.
I hate newspapermen.....I regard them as spies.....If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast. -Gen. William T. Sherman
Law
February 16, 2007 - 11:13 ET by iveseenitallCall in the law firm of Obama, Sharpton, Winfrey, and Jackson. They'll protect the white girl--- Riiight.
NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal
Wait a minute here.Black folk
February 16, 2007 - 12:46 ET by Roger the ShrubberWait a minute here.
Black folk go to Duke?
You sure it was a student, and not one of the janitors or gardeners or kitchen staff?