Given the 60 year record of bigotry in the MSM/DCN the answers are clera. Victim - white; rapist - black. When a criminal's race is not mentioned you knows the race is black.

I found a detail when I googled "Phi Beta Sigma Duke"
Phi Beta Sigmas at Duke

Not sure what it means or what bearing it has on the way the story was reported.

'Twas as everyone conceived.

http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2007/02/arrest-in-rape-case.html

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1208088/

I'm glad you posted this because I know so many "white boys" who have been falsely accused and/or been sent to court with questionable legal representation and a racist jury. I'm glad you're the champion of this glaring injustice. You should feel proud.

Yeah, thank god someone's standing up for the white boys... "confederate yankyee," indeed.

Yawn. Grown up.

Yeah, thank god someone's standing up for the white boys... "confederate yankee," indeed.

Yawn. Grown up.

The lack of details is pretty damn amusing BUT considering the 'outrage' over the MSM's rush to judgment, it would prudent for us in the 'sphere to always try to use the word 'accused'.

I remember some years back when the WaPo ran a piece asking for help in locating three suspects. The gave us readers all sorts of quasi-helpful descriptions and details, except of course the second most helpful of them all (outside of gender); race. I'm sure you can guess why that was.

"I'm glad you posted this because I know so many "white boys" who have been falsely accused and/or been sent to court with questionable legal representation and a racist jury. I'm glad you're the champion of this glaring injustice. You should feel proud."

"Yeah, thank god someone's standing up for the white boys... "confederate yankyee," indeed.

Yawn. Grown up."

Notice how when an example of obvious racial bias is produced, the supporters of this racial bias respond with... more stereotyping and racial bias! Thanks for continuing to demonstrate that present day racism come from the left.

How come no one has talked about the privledged black students. They go to Duke don't they? I would assume that their parents have money right?

With respect to the defense of not mention race in this case I think it all comes down to the fact that you cannot make up for past injustices by subjecting whites to those injustices and saying too bad.

If you defend a person's rights it shouldn't matter what race the victim or the accussed is.

Go to the website spacemonkey linked, go to gallery, some interesting names for the group pics.

Phi Beta Sigma - black fraternity but don't let that little secret out to the News & Observer...LOL!

Soviet citizens prided themselves on their ability to read between the lines in their own press in order to figure out what the journalists had left out. The two major newspapers "Pravda" (truth) and "Isvestija" (news) gave rise to the jest: "V izvestijakh n'et pravdy, v pravde n'et izvestij"--"In the news there is no truth, in the truth there is no news."

It's a pity free and sovereign Americans now must do the same--and our presses aren't even state owned.

That's the world the reality-based community has given us.

Go to the website spacemonkey linked, go to gallery, some interesting names for the group pics.

Not any more.

Meanwhile, if you want to help out those other three non-faceless and quite-raced defendants (who are still facing a 30-year sentence, and who are now being investigated by special prosecutors with a habit of putting the state's interest ahead of justice), you can put your mouse to good work :

Petition for Justice in the Duke Lacrosse Case

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/208340697

You can be part of that new "army of Davids" from the techno world which is giving corrupt bureaucrats and the biased media fits.

"I know so many 'white boys' who have been falsely accused"

It never fails to amaze me how instictive is it for some on the left to desire everyone to be equally subjected to injustice. There was no implication that anyone should have to suffer the prosecutorial injustices visited upon the Duke lacrosse players. Nor was there implication that any injustice was OK depending upon the accused's race. There was, however, a clearly demonstrated difference between the way the MSM handled one accusation (black accuser - white suspects) and another (white accuser - black suspect). I assume the blog proprietor would, like me, prefer that both cases had been handled with the discression, diligence and professionalism that both the accuser and accused deserve, especially in the case of charges that carry so high a social price even if later disproved. I agree that it is instructive that the MSM in one case recognizes the presumption of innocence while in the other reveling in conjecture, inuendo and border-line slander.

in the same spirit, I wonder if the recent events in Las Vegas had occurred during, say, a NASCAR all-start event rather than the NBA all-star event, how very different the reporting/editorializing would be. Of course NASCAR does routinely have 100,000+ people events without incident, whereas the NBA. . .

And likewise, a girl getting raped at a fraternity, is not really a 'story' - and a white girl getting raped at a black fraterning is story anti-matter, the story that dare not ever speak its name. but wealthy, good looking white athletes raping a black stripper, now that sounds like the kind of story a thousand pomo journo parasites can sink their fangs into.