Commentary: Feeling Sorry for Those Poor, Falsely-Accused Duke Lacrosse Players? Cry Me a River

BlackAmericaWeb ^ | January 11, 2007 | Gregory Kane

[TBBBO]

See last sentence: Those who continue to defend them can holla at me after they’ve done 16 years on a jive humble charge.

[Wolfie]

Nifong's real mistake was picking on white boys of means.

[Dick Bachert]

Now THIS clown has a documented history of abusing women -- even KILLED one -- but remains in the United States Senate -- even cut a CD about it.

Tell me again how the law applies evenly to the high and the low of society?

[stylin19a]

So, Johnson wasted 16 years of his life in a Georgia prison until he hooked up with some folks from the Innocence Project.

The Innocence Project was started/run by 2 white guys....

[gate2wire]

Sorry Kane, completely irrelevant. Any injustice done to your guy doesn't justify what happened to the Dukies.

To use your own words, "cry me a river."

[cripplecreek]

The lacrosse players have had conservative media pundits rushing to their defense,

Virtually everyone to the right of Malik Shabazz is now defending them and that covers a lot of ideological ground.

[TommyDale]

So the author, Gregory Kane, thinks it is justifiable that innocent white men were being charged with rape, since it was a "payback" for someone else's false conviction? Gregory Kane is a racist, pure and simple.

[Red6]

This is a page long diatribe about why two wrongs do make a right.

One does not need to wonder what his opinion is on Rodney King and the money he got for being mishandeled by the Police. But those evil "white" kids, they deserve it. This guy is a black racist; nothing more, nothing less.

[elli1]

Gregory Kane is a racist, pure and simple.

He's an Idiot. The racism stuff is incidental to being stupid.

[TommyDale]

From that website forum:

"Nobody feels sorry for these rich white boys. Even if they didn't rape her, they need to be punished as payback for their ancestors raping black slave women hundreds of years ago. It's only fair."

[A_perfect_lady]

Man, this guy is really disappointed that the charges weren't true. He'd be happy to see a black woman raped by white guys if it furthered his grievance-driven agenda. What a prince.

[gruffwolf]

And, once again, I’m compelled to write about how I’m so not feeling any sympathy for these guys. I say again, they got off easy.

How did they "get off easy?"

They were falsely accused by a woman and their lives have been wrecked, all because a prosecuter wanted to get re-elected. I feel bad for Calvin Johnson but just because he was shafted doesn't mean these boys should pay for it.

The author of this article should have written about how both DA's abused their power to railroad innocent people, that's the real issue. The author should be happy that these three boys didn't suffer the same fate as Calvin Johnson... but he's not because race is coloring his judgement.

[weegee]

I thought this writer was going to bring up the earlier names of people this same stripper claimed raped her in previous years.

Instead he plays the race card and says "good" that some Americans had their civil rights violated and their lives trashed (it has set back their educational path).

He clearly does not like white people if he can say "good".

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Sure. Just like setting OJ free was "payback".

The answer is to fight injustice...not propagate it.

[Sue Perkick]

"a village is missing an idiot" ping

[geezerwheezer]

Kane is an insult to his race, and should be ashamed of himself and his blatant racism.

[Doohickey]

That's liberal logic for you. It happened to some black guy 23 years ago, so it's okay if it happens to whitey.

[Fierce Allegiance]

A blatantly racist website. Lovely.

[weegee]

Why stop there? Why shouldn't the author advocate lynching them? Tar and feathering in the media is enough?

Eye for an eye justice and all that. Sins of the forefathers...

[Fierce Allegiance]

Ping for your black conservative list, should you deem it worthy.