Sunday, February 16, 2014

Revisiting the Duke lacrosse rape hoax

In 2006 the Duke rape hoax produced a massive outpouring of academic sanctioned prejudice, prosecutorial misconduct, and disgusting media bias based on both the gender and the race of the accused. While the prosecutor deservedly lost his license to practice law he was the only to pay a price. Nancy Grace, the vigilante of cable news kept her job, the 88 faculty members who signed a guilt-presuming public statement two weeks into the lacrosse case refused to apologize when the case fell apart preferring to issue a "clarification statement" remain tenured vigilantes. This was a modern day Scottsboro Boys event with the race but not the genders reversed. This is one of the most compelling videos in YouTube's 200 million video library.

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