Duke Univ. Lacrosse Case: Black Stripper Lied
by Jeff Davis
The liberal media practically fell all over themselves in a rush to judgment against three Duke University lacrosse players who were accused of raping a stripper. The implication was that White college students were no better than the Black or Brown criminals, who are convicted of committing the vast majority of rapes in the US. The stripper accusing the students of rape was Black further enticing the liberal media to portray this as some sort of hate crime.
A liberal Democrat district attorney in Durham, North Carolina named Mike Nifong was facing a stiff re-election challenge in his primary in May. He decided that he needed to kiss some Black butt, and so he seems to have more or less fabricated this case out of thin air. Nifong won his primary, riding in on the coattails of a liberal media feeding frenzy about “privileged” White college boys allegedly raping a poor defenseless woman of color.
Apparently it never dawned on the liberal media that a stripper might lie. One news article reports “Jim Kouri of the Post Chronicle has an outstanding breakdown of the demise of the Duke rape case. Mr Kouri points out that in the early days of the Duke University rape case, District Attorney Mike Nifong practically called the case a ’slam dunk’. According to court papers filed yesterday, a second stripper told police early in their investigation that the accuser was out of her sight for only five minutes that night and that her allegations were a ‘crock’. The statement was made by Kim Roberts, who accompanied the alleged rape victim to the lacrosse team party last March, was cited in a filing by lawyers for Reade Seligmann, 20, one of three team members charged in the case. According to the Associated Press, a March 20 statement written by a Durham police investigator, Roberts ’stated that she heard that (the accuser) was sexually assaulted, which she stated is a ‘crock’ and she stated that she was with her the whole time until she left.’ ” (more…)