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Originally Posted by Colin-D";p="
I don't necessarily think that it was about race, but that may have been why Jackson and Sharpton got involved. It's too bad that it did turn into a problem with racism even though race obviously had nothing to do with it. .
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Uh, you don't know what you're talking about.
Nifong was an appointed DA, and had to run against a black candidate, Keith Bishop. Nifong couldn't win without a good chunk of the black vote, so he sacrificed the Lacrosse players to his political ambitions. The Duke faculty wouldn't have screamed like stuck pigs if it had been an alleged white rape victim. The whole incident had
EVERYTHING to do with race.