I see the blame if we have a race riot as multi-level:
1. Duke for hiring and tenuring feminazis who are so stupid as to not understand that they and Duke are the establishment and are authority. They were the first group to stir up this.
2. Duke for throwing the team under the bus, ie caving to the feminazis. That made it look to the local community like Duke knew a rape had been committed. It would have been wrong anyway to punish 48 for the crime of 3, but it added fuel to this mess.
3. Nifong for using a case a a vehicle to try to win an election. And I agree with you singling him out. He is the worst and most at fault.
4. Ms. Mangum, she afterall is the one who made up this lie and started it all.
5. The race baiting groups who followed the lead of the feminazis at Duke.
Of course they're all to blame, but without Nifong's 70+ press statements, I doubt we would have heard much about it down here in Mississippi.
The Duke U president didn't need to fold like a cheap suit either.
You forgot NCCU.