The overwhelming majority of interracial rape cases involve a white victim. The real obscenity in the Duke rape story is the dichotomy between the way the system - the media, the government, academia - treats the racial rape of whites and the way they treated this case. It wasn't just these professors, this story was the second or third lead night after night on the NATIONAL news. It has become a cliche in this country that when you have a news report of a crime where there ought to be a description of the suspect but none is included, particularly in cases with a racial overtone that suspect is black or nonwhite. That is the source of the anger in this case.
Everyone in public life gets death threats, not very pleasant but complaining about them has become the rehab of the left.