Another Rape at Duke?

You know, I said that too. I didn't hear anything about it.

The origianl rape case was all over the news. Within days it was common to hear about
this story several times a day on cnn, foxnews and many other networks.

Five days after this new case and you can bet not many people know about this case. To be fair there are a few stories here, here and here.

But if you notice, some of these stories don't mention a few key facts. The victim: white. The perp: black. It's strange, where are all the protestors? Where's Jesse Jackson? You're boy Al Sharpton? Nowhere to be found?

Mary Katharine Ham said it best

The mainstream media has bent over backward to keep race out of this. Even those who first gave a description of the alleged rapist as a “black man” later redacted that from their reports. The News & Observer never printed it at all. And none has pointed out, as the Duke Chronicle has done, that the alleged victim was white, making this a mirror image of the Duke lacrosse case.

Some maintained all along last spring that their protests were not about race but about men’s violence against women. Still others tried to fan racial and class tensions by saying that if these were black men accused of raping a white woman, the man would be in jail. Well, now we know two things: it was always about race for the pot bangers and the Group of 88 professors at Duke, and it is demonstrably true, after Sunday’s incident, that a black man can be accused of raping a white woman and still be on the street.

It was never about protecting women. I know that because I live in a neighborhood that has the dubious honor of being the namesake of at least one serial rapist. There were few candlelight vigils; there was no national media attention; there were no pot-bangers when the women of my neighborhood couldn't take their dogs for walks at dusk. And, those black-on-white rapes just didn't bring the activist out in people the way the Duke non-rape did.

When the Potbangers Were Riding High