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Remembering Jason Ray and a friend: Tomorrow, the sky really will be Carolina blue – and the flowers will all be Terrapin red

There’s an old saying here in North Carolina, especially amongst Tarheel fans, that God’s favorite college basketball team must be Carolina because He painted the sky “Carolina blue.” As a Duke Blue Devil fan – Carolina’s biggest rivals – I, and other Duke fans, usually laugh it off everytime I hear it......   [Read More]

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.”.....   [Read More]