Why the Duke Hoax Continues
Part II: Durham and the Politics of Entitlement [excerpt]
"Nifong is able to drive this case forward because the black voters (and some white liberals) – led by a number of black ministers and other educated black elites* – believe that they are entitled to seeing Finnerty, Seligmann, and Evans convicted of kidnapping and rape and thrown into prison and treated without mercy. Furthermore, I am firmly convinced that most of the people in this category do not care if an actual rape occurred or not; they want a conviction because they believe that the "system" owes a guilty verdict to the community, and they want Nifong and the judges involved in this case to grease the skids to where a conviction will be possible to obtain in what appears to be a court of law. Yes, Nifong has been "pandering," but he has been "pandering" to people who are demanding such conduct. Such is the ugliness of a political prosecution."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson149.html
* A small but controlling minority who specialize in shakedowns.