I agree.
The only thing I can take some solace in is the fact that this was one of the lowest turnout in Durham's history.
All I can think of is the people there are apathetic about this case now, due to the media saturation.
Recommended reading :
White Guilt : How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era, by Shelby Steele
How 'white guilt' in turn forced blacks to accept the role of "angry victim"; and once those two roles ('guilty white' and 'angry vicitm') were frozen as defining the relationship between the races, further progress was rendered impossible.