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...about the players. Ultimately, this case is solely about an alleged rape. As in any crime, the defendants deserve a trial by a jury in which they are innocent until proven guilty. Instead of examining the most basic aspects of the case, the media has refocused the debate on racial issues, class issues, town-gown issues, and collegiate athletic issues. While all these factors may ultimately be important in this case, and are certainly pertinent to Raleigh-Durham and the nation, the manner in which the media has portrayed the case has allowed these secondary issues to overshadow the facts...
...North Carolina home to Duke, is a diverse town with significant levels of poverty, further reinforcing the divide between privileged students and regular townspeople. Wealthier Cambridge, diverse though it may be, is much more difficult for students to look down upon from a status perspective. The accuser reports having racial slurs yelled at her, and the rape of a black woman by three white players has drawn even more attention to this case. The profile of the alleged victim, a black single mother of two and a student at nearby North Carolina Central University, combines all these issues...
...alleged racial slurs have pitted Durham, a town that is 44% black, against Duke, where only 11% of the undergraduate students are black. A woman called 911 the night of the party and said a man called her a racial epithet as she passed by the house where the alleged rape took place...
...internal dialogue all the time; it?s practically unavoidable in our multi-ethnic, politically correct society, where stereotypes and reality collide more often than people would like to think, or admit. While I want to believe that my motivation is benevolent, I recognize the irony of trying to offset racial profiling by engaging in what amounts to just another form...
...This country has come a long way since the Civil Rights Act was passed, but most black men would surely tell you that racial profiling-in all its many, insidious forms-remains a frustrating, demoralizing and all-too-common experience. As Dave Chappelle noted to Oprah when explaining the racism he felt he encountered in show business, ?What is a black man without his paranoia intact?? Sadly, these days, still not much...