Double standards in Duke rape cases

Back on the 12th, I blogged about a rape that allegedly happened to a Duke student at an off campus frat party, and noted an obvious double standard the media was employing, namely that they weren’t so quick to release the race of the accused unlike they were in the Duke lacrosse rape case drama, where they mentioned the race and ‘privileged backgrounds’ of the three accused lacrosse players as often as they possibly could. In my post, I noted that the accused in the incident that allegedly happened on the 11th was described in most media reports as “wearing a black do-rag, sweatshirt, and blue jeans.”

KC Johnson, who has been a blogging machine on the Duke lacrosse case, has outlined in detail the many double standards between the two cases here.