It's ironic that the local newspaper appears to be the only print publication running a story. The locals are known for hating the archetypal wealthy white Duke kid, and yet they are the ones who seem to have taken away the most from the whole escapade.
Five years and the whole truth of how a university and a town worked to create their own 'Scottsboro II' (with just the colors reversed) has not yet come out.
It took 75 years before Scottsboro would erect a plaque to that case; I suppose it will take Durham as long (or longer) to acknowledge its own role in a similar false rape case.
Where are the "Duke 88 deviants club" now?? If the lacrosse boys would have been killed while these "88 Deviants" were inflaming the mob with their Inflammatory rhetoric, then these "Deviant Duke 88" would have had the blood of the innocent all over their piggish little paws.
"Duke 88" named themselves that, because they wanted the fame of being heroes. The "deviant duke 88" will be remembered not as heroes, but as the epitome, the zenith, of the American gender-Raunch powergrab. Theres an old saying that is as true now as it was 2000 years ago.. "pride always comes before the fall", and theirs alot of pride talk around the gender-raunch community these days.
- Mangum's lies were exposed well before the jury went to deliberate.
- The lacrosse players weren't subjected to the indignity of multiple trials with multiple rigged 'guilty' verdicts. In fact, they didn't even have to sit through a whole trial before their innocence was known throughout the land.
- None of the players were convicted, much less killed.
- Not a single one of the players grew up in a place where he was legally and socially inferior to most of the country, including his accuser
I could go on and on but that ought to do it. This situation is rightly denounced as a "scandal" but it can hardly be mentioned in the same breath as the Scottsboro travesty.
The sad part is that race still plays a role in false rape claims. We've noted here time and time again that black and Hispanic youths typically are arrested faster and held on higher bail for rape charges than their white counterparts.
This is not to say that white men and boys are treated fairly when it comes to rape, because they aren't.
Every civilized society must strive to (1) eradicate heinous crimes by punishing the offenders, and (2) insure that the innocent aren't punished along with the offenders. Too often, the second half of that balance is omitted from the public discourse. Accusations of serious criminality, especially murder and sexual wrongdoing, too often are their own convictions in the high court of public opinion because the stigma is so severe. It is our mission to raise awareness about the injustices suffered by persons wrongly accused of serious criminality. Protecting the innocent from unjust harm as a result of a wrongful accusation is a hallmark of a civilized society.
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Five years later, and no one has ever even attempted to hold mangum and nifong criminally accountable.
The scum slid off unscathed.
It's ironic that the local newspaper appears to be the only print publication running a story. The locals are known for hating the archetypal wealthy white Duke kid, and yet they are the ones who seem to have taken away the most from the whole escapade.
Five years and the whole truth of how a university and a town worked to create their own 'Scottsboro II' (with just the colors reversed) has not yet come out.
It took 75 years before Scottsboro would erect a plaque to that case; I suppose it will take Durham as long (or longer) to acknowledge its own role in a similar
false rape case.
Where are the "Duke 88 deviants club" now?? If the lacrosse boys would have been killed while these "88 Deviants" were inflaming the mob with their Inflammatory rhetoric, then these "Deviant Duke 88" would have had the blood of the innocent all over their piggish little paws.
"Duke 88" named themselves that, because they wanted the fame of being heroes.
The "deviant duke 88" will be remembered not as heroes, but as the epitome, the zenith, of the American gender-Raunch powergrab.
Theres an old saying that is as true now as it was 2000 years ago.. "pride always comes before the fall", and theirs alot of pride talk around the gender-raunch community these days.
Durham was hardly like Scottsboro:
- Mangum's lies were exposed well before the jury went to deliberate.
- The lacrosse players weren't subjected to the indignity of multiple trials with multiple rigged 'guilty' verdicts. In fact, they didn't even have to sit through a whole trial before their innocence was known throughout the land.
- None of the players were convicted, much less killed.
- Not a single one of the players grew up in a place where he was legally and socially inferior to most of the country, including his accuser
I could go on and on but that ought to do it. This situation is rightly denounced as a "scandal" but it can hardly be mentioned in the same breath as the Scottsboro travesty.
Duluth, too. And many others.
The sad part is that race still plays a role in false rape claims. We've noted here time and time again that black and Hispanic youths typically are arrested faster and held on higher bail for rape charges than their white counterparts.
This is not to say that white men and boys are treated fairly when it comes to rape, because they aren't.
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