local news. . .
March 29, 2006Members of the Duke University Men’s Lacrosse team are in very hot water. Three members of the team allegedly raped, sodomized and assaulted an exotic dancer that they hired to dance at a party last week.
Noone on the team came forward to offer any details, so the police required the whole team to provide DNA samples to help identify which three were directly involved. The DNA results are pending and charges have not been filed, yet.
You better believe that it’s big deal around here.
I hesitate to get even get into the race aspect of this case, because this isn’t about racism in the south. It is about racism, and class and privilege. If you look at the roster of the team (before it was taken down off the site), most of the guys are from the northeastern part of the country. There were one or two guys who are from Virginia (and the DC area, at that), and that was it for the south. So, yeah, not about some longstanding entrenched southern racism.
What am I talking about? Well, the victim was African-American, a college student at another local university, working to pay the bills.
