That you did... Justice should be blind, color blind in any instance. In spite of all the progress in civil rights over the past 40+ years, the race pimps continue to incite discontent and anger, and that hatred is backfiring, especially in a clear cut case like this seems to be. Yes the players may have acted in a rude and condescending way. And yes, they may have had alcohol and loud noise as young men are do. And yes they may have hire strippers for a party, also as college boys do (I attended one myself back 30+ years ago). But because of that indiscretion and those mistakes, they now have to pay for it in a way so outrageous as to make one question our justice system. So sad.
I referred in this thread to the story of the Scottsboro Boys. 9 Black Teens charged with gang-raping two white girls in the 1930s. They were all free-riding on a train.
Justice should indeed be blind. And I'm not so sure the boys were rude. It strikes me that the behavior would be fairly typical for viewers of a Burlesque act. And the dancers were indeed performing a Burlesque Act. They appear to have not been very good at what they were hired to do.
Now, anyone can pick a TV channel, a movie, and in some cases, TV show to witness Burlesquian Acts 24-7. This was not so 30 years ago. Ergo, the accuser and other dancer are in a tough field of competition, IME.