http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/04/11/fake-rape-duke/

The deception is ever spreading.

Too many people of one color allegedly did something to someone of another color. Easy news and easy ratings, so it gets played up.

What about:
Underage drinking
Drunkeness
a woman working as a stripper
men hiring a stripper.

These things used to be illegal in NC.

Yet, everyone is fighting because this black woman apparently isnt getting justice fast enough, if anything actually did happen.

Once again, the media misses the point.

I think I am fine with the season being cancelled an the university (maybe) not renewing the players’s scholarships next year. To have an extremely hardcore party, in Duke housing, with strippers, is inappropriate. I do not think some sort of internal discipline is unwarranted.

Presumably no charges will be filed against the players. Based on what is in evidence as of right now, that sounds about right. But since the DA overreached with his earlier statements, nobody is going to be happy. The race-baiters and those who believe the woman will not be content with anything less than charges filed, especially since the DA starting talking about it from the beginning. The anti-race-baiters and those who believe the players will be unhappy that their coach was forced out and their season cancelled because of unsubstantiated allegations.

Great.

You know, reading this sentence brought another thought to mind… have you seen the photos of the house? Did you look at it and say “palacial”? Now…picture 3-5 guys plus one woman in the type of bathroom you’d expect to find in that house.
Sexual activities can be conducted in cramped situations, but including force in this situation, I’m not sure it’s physically possible…

It wasn’t just ‘one’ attorney … via Washington Post

After reviewing the results of the court-ordered tests for nearly an hour, the attorneys assembled on the steps of the Durham County Courthouse to announce that the evidence exonerated their clients; to call on the Durham County prosecutor, Mike Nifong, to drop the matter; and to express hope that the community could begin to heal from the three-week-old controversy that has exacerbated the city’s longstanding racial, socioeconomic and cultural divides.

Nifong is neither disputing the tests nor saying at this time he’s going drop the investigation (after all, he IS up for re-election ::ahem::).

It is entirely possible this woman is NOT lying, but given that from all reports she was drunk and alcohol/drugs can make recollection highly unreliable.

Of course, this won’t fit the narrative of those that believe the Duke ‘privileged white boys’ are just part and parcel of America’s racist, patriarchal culture of rape. Visiting a few of the left-of-center blogs is to witness an amazing display of spin and/or conspiracy theories.

I covered one particularly ironic post (equating Duke white lacrosse team with white racists who lynched blacks) here.

Now, I wouldn’t call these young males “innocent”…they were stupid, crass, indecent and, in the case of the emailer who “joked” about “skinning”, a creep of the first order.

But rapists they are not.

Fox News will be interviewing the “Rev” Jesse Jackson about this sometime in the next 30 minutes (we knew it was coming).

Where was he yesterday when his bud Teddy Kennedy was making a mockery of Jesse’s beloved Civil Rights movement with the moochers??

just a thought

The New York Post follows up on black gangs preying on innocent people in the city. *** Previous: They screamed: “Get Whitey” Related: La Shawn Barber on the Duke lacrosse case and racial double standards….

I’m sorry to see the DA apparently digging in his heels and saying the case isn’t over, unless he has some blockbuster evedence that no one has heard about I don’t see what kind of case he has.

Assuming the photos do show the woman had her injuries when she arrived then he’s got no proof of sex with the players and no proof of any injury that could have come from the players, how is he going to prosecute? Who is he going to prosecute?

This reminds me of how as kids we would get into arguments and talk about each other’s mothers. Our mothers were not involved in our dispute, so realistically they didn’t deserve our insults. When someone makes a statement about “black people” they are talking about me, my parents, my wife, my children, my friends, etc. etc.

As far as problems in the black community, I see those as problems to be addressed for the purpose of solving them and not thrown in our faces to show us how dysfunctional we are. Constructive criticism is fine and needed, but a lot of what I read over the net I don’t personally see as constructive. Hopefully no one views this as an attack because that is not my intention. I just want to give another point of view.