Duke Lacrosse Scandall

For the most part I have kept my mouth shut during the entire proceedings, and at first I believed the girl’s story, but too much has come out for her story to be even remotely true. The way the media has covered this has been to blame the lacrosse team from day one, never relenting. The prosecutor made a statement on day one, has nothing to back it up, and is currently saying nothing because he knows he has nothing. But simply look at the facts of the situation, that girl is a flat out liar. That’s what she is. My thoughts regarding this whole situation have been growing into pure hatred of her. And you want to talk about racism. Fine, talk about the city of Durham jumping to the forefront of the blame. What did they know? Nothing. Why did they make all that noise? To blame white people and to try to show everyone how underprivileged they really were. Now what I write in this post is probably the most racist thoughts I have ever had in my life, but I truly do believe them.

For one, if you are underprivileged, work out of it. I’m not saying it’s easy, but it’s doable. It's due time for White America to stop feeling guilty for things that have happened in the past. No one from our generation black, white, orange whatever has faced discrimination, at least not any more than any other race receives on a daily basis. White America needs to stop putting up with this crap. Why are we constantly reminded that black people used to have it tough. I mean, Irish people used to have it tough, when's the last time anyone was on TV blaming their crime on the struggles of the Irish. It doesn't happen. Irish people picked them selves up by the bootstraps; they worked hard and made a better life for their families. Look at what the Asian's are doing now; all of their kids work their ass off in school. Most of these Asian families are poor as shit, but they don't complain, hell you barely ever even read about them in the papers. They work hard and are quickly moving up in society. Good for them. That is the American Dream. It seems the Africa American Dream is to get rich quick, or sit on your ass and blame whites when it does not happen. We are taught that diversity is great. But by diversity they mean not WHITE. They don't mean, Irish, German, Scandinavian, Russian, Italian, all cultures with a lot to offer, but none celebrated. At this point I don't even blame black people, I blame a culture that has allowed this to happen. I blame people for not taking pride in who they are. I blame people for being too quick to make excuses. White people are so afraid of being labeled racists that we've lost control over a culture for which we are the majority. It is very upsetting.

Now back to the Duke situation. It has been made very clear that the accuser was very drunk. How come when the medical examination was done on her, the doctor did not mention this? Isn’t that an important thing to know? Isn’t their job to give the facts of their examination, not just make something look more like a rape? That person should be fired and blackballed from working that job ever again. No one ever brings this up, but that is omitting important evidence. The second dancer who for a couple of weeks had been saying nothing happened then she suddenly changes her story and it comes out that she did so to get a favorable outcome in a different trial. How is that even legal? No one brings that up either. One of the two strippers that was there was persuaded (or made to lie) so she could benefit in another way. Isn’t that a crime in of itself?

Every one of the Duke players has been treated unfairly. Their coach resigned over this scandal, their season was cancelled, they have lost recruits who are getting out of their commitments. Rape sucks. It should never happen, but before it gets blown out of proportion, the claim needs to be validated. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? The Duke lacrosse players were not treated by our old age law.

Here is what I think happened and I think this is how it will come out in the end. The stripper got raped as a 14 year old, but was too afraid to say anything. She brought it up three years later, but at that time she had no proof of what happened. She has lived with that the rest of her life. When she was summoned to perform at the Duke party, she was very drunk. The players felt that they were not getting their money’s worth and refused to pay the agreed upon allotment. At that time someone said something (either party could have started this) and the N word started flying around. That’s when the dancers left the scene and the second dancer made the phone call regarding racial slurs. She got the first stripper to the car, then tried to take her home but could not because she did not know where she lived. At this point she tried to get rid of her and the cops were called by a security guard. The security guard later made a statement that there was no way the girl was raped. At that point the police took her in and when she came to, still very drunk and upset about the money situation, she retold the story of her rape ten years ago except said it had happened that night.

At this point how can the case still continue? The DNA evidence has come back with no evidence of involvement of the Duke players. The accuser pointed out two guys she said were 100% the ones that raped her, except that there is way more evidence then needed that one of the guys was not there. If that does not tell you she was lying, I do not know what else you need. She just picked random guys she knew were at the party, and it is now quite obvious that one of them was long gone.

In all actuality, if this were a fair world, the medical examiner would get fired, the district attorney would not be re-elected, the girl would get charged with filing a wrongful complaint (I don’t really know what this is called), she would be sued for libel with intent to hurt, and she should go to a mental institution. Is this too harsh on the girl? No, look at how much pain she has cause so many other people. That punishment would not be enough. Now, none of that will ever happen because of the way our society is and the Duke players will just be happy that they are no longer being accused of something they all now never occurred.