Monday, May 29: According to a liberal journalist, Duke’s women’s lacrosse team was “ignorant and insensitive” for supporting the lacrosse men. This post is closed, so feel free to comment here.
Thursday, May 25: Tom Bevan responds to this article (which conveniently fails to mention black men’s complicity in perpetuating negative stereotypes about black women. Take the plank out of your own eye…):
“Facts can be inconvenient things, and based on the data available the facts are that the vast majority of rapes and/or sexual assaults are not interracial. According to statistics from the Department of Justice [PDF], the estimated number of rape and sexual assault cases in 2003 involving a white offender and a black victim was 0.0%. Over the course of the last eight years [PDF] white-on-black rape/sexual assault cases averaged 6.9%, while black-on-white rape/sexual assault cases over the same period were slightly higher at 10.8%.
“Clearly, this doesn’t rule out the possibility that three white college students gang raped an African-American woman back in March, as alleged. But it does add some perspective to Lynne Duke’s article in the Post. The particulars of this case are bad enough without dredging up and promoting ancient, racially divisive ghosts – especially if it turns out the rape charge is a lie.”
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Shameless self-promotion: I found links in my referrers log to a BBC blog post called Blogs We’re Reading: “And for the conservative cause in the US, La Shawn Barber is more original than most, and prolific.”
Hey, I try.
Note: I’ve done a lot of blogging about this case. See the Duke Rape Case category (ten posts spanning two pages). If you don’t see the NEXT PAGE link at the bottom of the page, follow this link to page 2. It would be helpful for you and less irritating for me if first-time visitors read some of those previous entries.
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As expected, the defense is releasing information contained in Mike Nifong’s document dump last week. Click over to the FOX News story.
I’m just going to say this straight with no equivocation: The stripper who claimed she was raped by three white Duke lacrosse players lied. She had sex that day alright, but not with the three indicted white Duke lacrosse players. How do I know? Call it a hunch…based on mounting and overwhelming evidence that pokes humvee-size holes in her story and contradicts her claim to a stupefyingly obvious degree. No toxicology report yet, but if one exists, I bet I could guess the contents with amazing accuracy.
Perhaps I shouldn’t blog such things since we “haven’t heard all the evidence,” you say? 
But that’s it, people. According to FOX, Nifong says he’s turned over everything he has.
I’m working on something and will have more to say about this in the next couple of days. Stay tuned. In the meantime, this nugget from “defense sources” is very…how shall I put it…interesting:
Defense sources also say the accuser admitted to having had sexual intercourse with at least three men around the time of the alleged attack. According to those sources, when investigators questioned her after DNA tests on the semen found inside her body did not match any of the Duke players, the accuser gave police the name of her boyfriend and two men who drove her to her dancing engagements.
No comment. Yet.
Addendum: Blow ‘em away, Stuart! (Via The Johnsville News)
Jonna Spilbor is worth reading, too. Betsy and I are on the same page. Other bloggers: JustOneMinute…
Update (5/24): Mary Katharine Ham:
I have heard it said that what America needs to win the war on Islamofascism is moral clarity—a strong belief that our ideology and theirs are not comparable; that there is a good and an evil and we are on the good side; that Western civilization, for all its faults, is a damn sight better than that which seeks to destroy it.
Taheri-azar and the Duke lacrosse players were all technically innocent until proven guilty. In one case, public officials, the press, and the local community did their best to deny the accused that particular courtesy of American justice. Tellingly, it was not the case of the murderous thug who confessed to attempting to kill his classmates, in a fashion reminiscent of Mohammad Atta, just for being non-Muslims—and then detailed his plans and motivations in letters to a local paper.
Moral clarity is what we need. It was in short supply in a pair of college towns this spring.
(Emphasis added)
Our college liaison Allison Kasic complains about the Mainstream Media blackout on the news bombshell released yesterday indicating that the stripper/alleged victim in the Duke lacrosse rape case told police investigators that she’d had three sexual partners on the night of the alleged assault–and they weren’t Duke lacrosse players…
Also: “The Duke Law of Inverse Prosecution Proportion”
What do these broad social essays [on negative stereotypes about black women] have to do with the particulars of the Duke lacrosse scandal?
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Using this bogus Duke lacrosse case to make broad social commentary is like wetting your pants in public to show your support for the incontinent. It might feel good to do it, but you are still standing in a puddle of urine.
Funnies from Joe’s Dartblog:
Defense’s discovery request has been answered with an amazing 1,300 pages of documents. (No doubt including such things as Duke’s soda machine instruction manuals and the mayor’s recipe for chicken con queso.)
In other words, everything but that which would support his case…
Duke lacrosse women show their support.
Update II: Get this. This is the first paragraph of an e-mail sent by someone claiming to be a Ph.D. and Duke graduate who clicked over from this article:
I had the misfortune of reading your blog regarding the rape investigation at Duke. I have included my name because I feel so strongly about this and don’t want to lumped in with someone who speaks their mind in anonymity. As a black woman, I am embarrassed by you and your obvious pandering for approval to whatever right-wing crowd from which you require admiration. I am a graduate of Duke (’98) and a proud moderate democrat, so we can get my political stance out of the way. I am also a scientist and so I believe it is of the utmost importance to focus on facts and not opinions or personal agendas when addressing matters such as this.
Suprisingly, the rest of the e-mail wasn’t too bad, although it contained a straw man or two. The “moderate democrat” couldn’t resist the personal jabs. I’m dying to respond in depth, but I sent a test reply just to determine if the e-mail address was valid. It was fake. Based on where she claimed to work, I found a real e-mail address.
I’m waiting for verification before I respond or reveal her name. As a preliminary matter, however, let me just note the irony of this “scientist” calling me a right-wing panderer but purports to focus on “facts” and not “personal agendas” and is embarrassed by a black woman who has an opinion different from the mainstream.
Later…The person verified her identity, but I won’t reveal her name or where she works, as I was inclined to do a few minutes ago. Suffice it to say she’s a professor at a southern university whose e-mail reads similar to ones I’ve received from other disgruntled black liberals. Original ideas are rare; attempts to refute my arguments or make persuasive ones of their own are rarer still. Whether the senders are high school drop outs, plumbers, mechanics, engineers, lawyers or doctors, the e-mails are all the same.
