How do you square that with the fact that upwards of 95% of the votes in black precincts were for Mike Nifong?
From Durham Wonderland =>
African-American precincts featured a wholly racialized voting pattern, in which Nifong appears to have received upwards of 95 percent of the black vote.
In eight precincts, African-Americans are more than 90 percent of the electorate. Nifong carried all eight, receiving between 91.2 percent and 96.0 percent.
https://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/search?q=Black+precinct+vote
I attribute that to the same embracing of media narrative that has us all at each other’s throats. The media narrative was that privileged white lacrosse players (wherein lacrosse is sold as a whites only privileged sport, like Polo) sexually abused a poor young black woman and were going to get off because they are privileged by their skin color and ‘white privilege’.
When you tell people incessantly that they are put upon, and racially discriminated against (which is theme that our media, academics, and entertainment industry sell) they are likely to believe the narrative when they are told that a bunch of privileged white kids were going to get away with hurting a poor black woman. In reality, they should be outraged that people are trying to use them by pushing those false narratives.