Duke Lacrosse - All charges dropped

Isn't that bigoted?

 

I doubt it.
They've had the support of the NYT and of NBC for a while now. Nifong's going to get a very public hiding from the state bar, and probably from the AG as well. I think the notion you propose went out the window as a majority opinion when the AG took over the case down there. Not saying some people won't feel that way, buit the great bulk of public opinion is behind these guys now.

 

Um..this is a thread about the Duke Lacrosse guys. Maybe that's why we're talking about them instead of the guys in Dallas. This is also a sports journalism board, so we are contributors to and consumers of the sports media that put such a spotlight on this case.

But, by all means, just label us as racists incapable of caring about minorities rather than applying rational thought.

I think there it is more likely members of this board were predisposed to think the worst of these players than any minority. They were painted as spoiled, rich white kids with an overblown sense of entitlement.

Was what happened in the cases in Dallas worse? Of course. But that doesn't mean the treatment of these athletes was right.

But you just keep on taking shots.

 

He's not.
He's just pointing out that this kind of cowboy prosecution goes on everywhere, usually to overwhelming public approval.

 

It's amazing how your perspective changes when the alleged criminals are paler than their accusers.

 

That's terrible what Mike Nifong did to them. :'(

 

Seriously, what are the odds Lance Ito would have been their judge?

 

Intentional or not, accusing posters on this board of lacking sympathy for anybody who is a minority is a shot, and an undeserved one.

 

isn't it though....

They'll be fine, they're white....and they'll be "celebrated as vindicated victims". I do think the only way there lives are "ruined" is if they let it happen...which has nothing to do with their pigmentation, but their character.

 

Interesting the juxtaposition of white-black news within days: Imus getting grilled for his nappy-haired (hos, hoze, hohs, hose) remark and the Duke laxers being declared innocent from charges of a ho-stripper.

 

On the AP budget today...

DUKE-LEGAL

RALEIGH, N.C. _ The now-cleared Duke lacrosse players aren't ruling out the possibility of suing the district attorney who brought the rape charges. Normally, prosecutors have legal immunity from such lawsuits but experts say that may not protect Mike Nifong for some of the things he did in this case. By Steve Hartsoe.

AP Photo of Apr. 11: NY120. AP Video.

With:

_ DUKE-DOUBLE STANDARD, from NEW YORK _ For nearly a year, the three Duke athletes charged with sexual assault were publicly identified, while their accuser _ whose claims are now discredited _ was shielded by anonymity. That is the way of American journalism, and it is unlikely to change any time soon. By National Writer David Crary. AP Photo of Apr. 11: NCCB307.

 

This is horseshit and both of you know it. This was a prosecutor gone wild, which is exactly what happens every day in 1000 other places. Most of the victims of these kind of cases are black and obscure. These victims were white and had thr wherewithal to fight. The guys in Dallas weren't, and nobody was there for them and, truth be told, if I'd have thrown up a link to it at the time, I'd have heard an awful lot from the law 'n order brigade here about how we have to accept some "good faith" excesses from cops and DA's.