Duke Lacrosse Rape Scandal Raising Racial Tensions

[KingFlorez]

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_088180711.html

Duke Lacrosse Rape Scandal Raising Racial Tensions
At Least A Dozen Of The Players Are From Long Island

Reid Lamberty



(CBS) DURHAM, N.C. They are considered one of the top lacrosse teams in the country, but competitive play, for now, is over at Duke University amidst charges of sexual assault.

On Wednesday, the school said the team would, however, maintain a normal practice schedule.

"Sports have their time and place," Duke University president Richard Broadhead said. "But when issues of this gravity are in question, it's not the time to be playing games."

Two weeks ago, members of the lacrosse team, more than a dozen of whom hail from Long Island, threw a house party at which two exotic dancers were invited. Then one of the dancers was allegedly raped and beaten by three men.

he three men accused are white. The alleged victim is black. She's a student at nearby North Carolina Central. This has ignited racial tensions in Durham, a town almost evenly divided between black and white.

Neighbors reportedly heard screams and racial slurs coming from the home on the night of the alleged incident. The district attorney said the rape was racially motivated, but university officials disagree.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. You know...

I see an awful lot of casual racism in the young white folks these days. Not all of them, mind you, but too many of them.

[Divernan]

2. Bumper sticker I once saw ,"LAX players eat their dead."

Lacrosse is a big sport in Maryland, and in Baltimore I saw the above quoted bumper sticker. Is it as macho & rough as rugby? I've never seen a game and it is not a sport in my school district.

[Catherine Vincent]

3. The wall of silence.

One of them's got to crack eventually.

[BlooInBloo]

4. Yah - like all those other whites-against-black crimes...

... where justice wins out in the end?

:sarcasm:

[tammywammy]

5. Well, they did get everyone (minus 1) team members DNA

so it'll tell who did what. The one member that didn't have to give up his DNA is black.

But it did take a court-order for them to do it, it wasn't a voluntary sample.