04-18-2006, 04:48 PM
I agree that if the races were reversed things would have been handled differently. I don't know that a white man would not rape a black woman. It has happend before.
Here's another point I'd like to make though. If the email about wanting to *blank* up the black strippers that was supposedly uncovered by the Duke email server guy is true and leads to any kind of discipline, there could be a lawsuit against the university. I'm not sure what their privacy policy is but I am almost certain since it's a private school that their communcations are not a matter of public record and unless the emails were requested by the court for the purpose of evidence (which they weren't as the indictments werent'e even handed down at the time of the email's surfacing), the young man in question had his privacy invaded.
Another thing that I found interesting was that when they took DNA from the team they took it from the 42 or 43 white guys and left the lone black player alone.
It seems that the major issue here is Race and not Rape.
Here's another point I'd like to make though. If the email about wanting to *blank* up the black strippers that was supposedly uncovered by the Duke email server guy is true and leads to any kind of discipline, there could be a lawsuit against the university. I'm not sure what their privacy policy is but I am almost certain since it's a private school that their communcations are not a matter of public record and unless the emails were requested by the court for the purpose of evidence (which they weren't as the indictments werent'e even handed down at the time of the email's surfacing), the young man in question had his privacy invaded.
Another thing that I found interesting was that when they took DNA from the team they took it from the 42 or 43 white guys and left the lone black player alone.
It seems that the major issue here is Race and not Rape.
I hold the dubious honor of being the only person never modded who has also never been to a party who in the past had a shared account with a vegetable reference that has had consensual sex with a woman who wasn't from the board that also knows what >) means and remembers the end of the golden age.