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There's a specter looming behind the Duke lacrosse scandal. The notion of a 27-year-old black woman, who is a student at a historically black college and a single mother of two, being hired as an exotic dancer for - and then allegedly raped by - generally privileged, younger white men conjures up memories of that classic American sex story: the pretty female slave being summoned up to the big house to sexually satisfy the master...
...there?s any doubt, remember the eyewitness account of Jason Bissey who lives next door to the house where the Duke party occurred: "One guy yelled at her, ?... Thank your grandpa for my cotton shirt?" - a cleverly subtle racist jab from one of America?s best-educated college students...
...Racial overtones aside, sexual assault is a horrifyingly common crime in this country (about one in six American women is a victim of rape or attempted rape, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network). The town-gown relations between Duke and Durham have been historically uneasy. And one would expect better from students at one of the country's top-ranked universities. We definitely expect better than the vile e-mail written by one of the players, Ryan McFayden, in which he invited his friends to watch him kill more strippers and "cut their skin...
Much of what transpired on Monday, March 13, at 610 North Buchanan is still unknown or in dispute. What is not is that late that evening, between 30 and 40 members of the Duke lacrosse team gathered at the off-campus house shared by three of the co-captains. The featured entertainment: a pair of black strippers hired for $800 by one of the co-captains using a false name...
Many of the uncertainties in Nifong's case would be overcome if he had a single witness from the lacrosse squad to back the women's story. Police have pressed the Duke players to cooperate, and Nifong has said he is still hunting for the third man in the bathroom. "I would like to think," Nifong said last month, "that somebody has the human decency to call up and say, 'What am I doing covering up for a bunch of hooligans?'" There is evidence that some players conspired to hide their identities that night. Court papers state that the alleged...