I’m wondering when Ruth Sheehan of The News & Observer is going to write a column about the alleged rape in Durham last Sunday morning in which she says of the 50 or so partygoers, “You know. We know you know.” That was in her column of March 27, 2006, the one in which she assumed a gang rape had taken place at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. in Durham. She added the weasel phrase “if what the strippers say is true” in one paragraph, but the column taken as a whole was an indictment. She just KNEW these players were guilty. Was her judgment colored by her experience as a rape victim, something she has written about several times? She’s obviously passionate about the issue and immediately supportive of alleged victims in such cases.
That being said, where is her indictment of the black fraternity members who were present in that house on Gattis Street last Saturday and early Sunday? Where is her support for the alleged victim in that case? For that matter, where is the raging stew of lefties, race baiters, radical feminists and other Trinity Park leftover hippies in this case? Just asking. Some might say the protestors, the media, the Durham Police and the district attorney’s office have learned a lesson in how poorly they all performed last spring. I don’t buy that. I think these people just find it easier to pull the demagogic trigger on white guys they view as privileged.
UPDATE: KC Johnson, the encyclopedic chronicler of the Duke lacrosse case, has an excellent analysis of the pot-banger phenomenon today.
