Wednesday, April 11, 2007: To all you Googlers landing here on searches about Don Imus’s dumb remarks, focus on more important things like the ending of the farcical Duke “rape” case.
Monday, April 24: Comments closed on this post. A defense lawyer wants to see the evidence. Read and discuss the latest news.
Friday, April 21: Comments closed. Read and discuss the latest news on the case.
Thursday, April 20: Looking for pictures of duke stripper?
Tuesday, April 18: This post is closed to comments. Read the latest news about the arrest of two lacrosse players.
Friday, April 14: Read the latest, The “Black” Helen of Troy?
Tuesday, April 11: This post is closed to comments. See the update, with predictions, titled Fake Rape at Duke: Next Steps.
Update IV (4/11): More fake-hating.
By the way, I think Howard Kurtz’s recent column is funny. He’s all over the place: nuclear bombs and leaks, Rep. Katherine Harris’s campaign, and the Page Six gossip column scandal. In the middle of all that, he mentions this post. It seems oddly out of place, but I’m not complaining…
Update III (7:30 p.m.): Tomorrow, after the nausea subsides, I’ll tell you exactly what will happen next. (Hint: Don’t expect so-called black leaders, loud and wrong as usual, to apologize for accusations of racism or to even make a statement on the matter.) Buenas noches.
Update II (6:04 p.m.).: The Associated Press is reporting that no DNA matches have been found. If the stripper had sex that night, it wasn’t with any white Duke lacrosse player. (The black member wasn’t tested.) The gutless, faithless coach quit for nothing, and the team’s season was canceled because of a lie. This double standard BS sickens me.
Also, effete “law enforcement officials” in NYC will not charge black thugs in Harlem with a hate crime for running down a white man because he was white. The ACLU cries foul. Since thought crime laws aren’t being applied across the board, get rid of the infernal things. 
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The “Duke Rape” case has been salaciously splashed all over the news. Although black-on-white rape is much more common than white-on-black rape, there’s something about the idea of a white man raping a black woman that brings out the retro speeches about slavery, white privilege, patriarchy, and the usual revisionist tirades.
If this woman (who is no lady, as someone referred to her) was actually raped, I hope the perpetrators are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But I was suspicious when I first heard about the incident. Knowing that blacks would believe the woman’s story before the relevant facts emerged, I avoided blogging about it until now.
(Pet peeve: A lady is a certain kind of woman; a gentleman is a certain kind of man.)
Let’s travel back in time. You may recall that in 1987, a 15-year-old black girl named Tawana Brawley claimed that six white men, three of them police officers, abducted her, raped her, covered her with feces, and wrote racial epithets on her body. People were righteously horrified and made their views known. This was the case that made Al Sharpton infamous, as he and others rallied to the poor child’s defense. The whole thing became a media sensation. Black celebrities joined the crusade, and any white person who didn’t buy the girl’s shaky and unlikely story was immediately branded a racist.
The truth has a way of floating to the surface. The grand jury determined that Brawley’s story wasn’t credible. The rape kit indicated no rape had occurred, her story was inconsistent, witnesses contradicted her version, etc. The grand jury threw out the case in 1988. It was later revealed that Brawley made up the whole thing to cover up skipping school and visiting a former boyfriend in jail.
Ten years later, Steve Pagones, the prosecutor who Sharpton accused of being a racist, sued for defamation and won. Brawley was young and dumb, but she maintains that she was raped by the men. No lessons learned.
Let’s return to the present day. Last month two black strippers worked a party given by members of Duke University’s lacrosse team. One claims to have been gang-raped and beaten by several white members. As expected, the alleged incident has sparked ill-informed and premature outcries of racism and irrelevant rants about historic victimization by the white power structure, or something like that.
In my deeply-held opinion, much of the outrage is based not on what may have happened to the stripper but on class envy and covetousness. A predominantly heavily black city (Don’t rely on news stories! Considering that blacks are only 13 percent of the pop., Durham is considered “heavily” black.) resents the heck out of the predominantly white private university in its midst, and a rape allegation provides an excuse to throw accusations of racism. Some of Duke’s black students, many of whom were probably admitted on a separate admissions track euphemistically known as “affirmative action,” have joined the madding crowd. No one, of course, wants to wait for the evidence except the prosecutor, who hasn’t charged anyone.
But is it true, or is this just another Tawana Brawley-type hoax? I won’t rehash the story. You can follow it from the beginning at Google News and in the archives at WRAL.com.
Only some of the lacrosse team members attended the party, but 46 had to submit to DNA tests. And the idiot coach quit. Why, for Pete’s sake? Anyway, there are some discrepancies about who called 911 and whether the stripper arrived at the party already injured. And drunk. One of the strippers called 911, claiming to be a passerby, but defense attorneys say they can prove she was inside the house. I’m not quite sure what this means, though.
Right or wrong, an alleged rape victim’s character is always at issue. I’m not so quick to believe a woman (regardless of color) who takes off her clothes in front of strangers for a living. No one deserves to be violated, of course, but if you’re taking off your clothes and gyrating in front of a group of drunk men (regardless of color)…
Now, let’s talk about racial double standards. I laughed out loud when I read that Duke’s president met with “black leaders.” A rape accusation has been leveled. Does it really matter what color the people are? Apparently so. Black people can be such babies, can’t we? We need to be placated and coddled like whiny toddlers. If the evidence reveals there was no rape and the stripper made up the whole story, will “black leaders” make a public statement about it? What about a private apology-chat with Duke’s president? Care to wager?
As I mentioned before, black men raping white women is much more common than the other way around, but when was the last time a football team canceled its season? Other college rapes, that is, black-on-white rapes, don’t get a fraction of coverage, such as this one or this one. Remember thuggish Lawrence Phillips, a black football player who had a penchant for beating up white women? The media barely reported those stories.
And what about “hate crimes?” Although whites are the most likely hate crime victims, the only so-called hate crimes that get blanket coverage involve black victims and white perpetrators. By the way, this is what I think of “hate crimes.”
(Examples of fake-hating: Alicia Hardin, black couple blames KKK for fire they set, black students distribute “racist” stuff and blame white supremacists, black firefighters plant nooses and blame whites, two black students plant “racist” flyers…)
Most recently, a white man in NYC was run down by a group of young black thugs because he was white, and I’m willing to bet you haven’t read many stories about it. But if that had been a car full of white boys chasing a black guy…Oh Boy!
I’ll wrap this up. Let’s recap: if the lacrosse players, regardless of their color, raped the stripper, get ‘em. If not, get her for making a false report and for defamation.
We’ll just have to wait and see what the evidence reveals.
[That e-mail! - Yes, it is awful and vulgar. The whole thing is awful. The e-mail and the emerging photos are evidence. ]
Addendum: This post seems to be enraging the type of readers who can’t seem to present an argument free of ad hominem. Why such people continue to read my blog, I don’t know. It’s a compulsion, I suppose. I may moderate comments on and off today, so don’t submit twice.
Update: Around the ‘sphere: Talk Left:
Bottom line in my opinion: The accuser got to the party at 11:30 pm. The evidence of sexual activity which the rape exam nurse found to be merely “consistent with” forcible sex, likely happened before she arrived, as did her physical injuries. There was a dispute (and possibly) a scuffle over the money – the players felt ripped off that the girls stopped dancing after just a few minutes and that one of them (the accuser) was too drunk to dance.
Riehl World View, News & Observer Editor’s Blog…
The Independent Conservative writes:
I must say, that I’m really starting to get ticked. Black people have been able to effectively build up a store of “trust†in terms of crying “racismâ€. When the claim is used in conjunction with a crime it brings a stir of protesters, news cameras and other attention. It’s like the “chicken little†response. Blacks have been able to use the claim of “racism†to win plenty of attention. When the claim is legitimate, it helps to ensure that a racist is exposed. It actually has helped Black on White crime to get less attention than White on Black crime, although the former is more prevalent. It has also caused the massive amount of Black on Black crime to go virtually ignored. So like the “chicken little†story, enough false claims will only ensure that future legitimate claims go ignored.
Tuesday, April 11: This post is closed to comments. See the update, with predictions, titled Fake Rape at Duke: Next Steps.
