I'm somewhat surprised that no one has commented on the rape allegations against Duke's white lacrosse players. Shockingly enough, the same jock-sniffing media that has failed to report critically on countless allegations like this against black football, basketball and baseball players over the years is giving this case an inordinate amount of attention. There is a very simple reason for this; all the alleged rapists are white and the alleged victim is black. Here we have the double standard that we all complain about constantly on this forum exposed about as blatantly as can be. The whole story sounds very similar to the long discredited Tawana Brawley tale, which thrust the odious Al Sharpton into the limelight. Probably the most absurd part of the whole allegation is the fact that the black stripper claims that the only player who she is sure didn't rape her was the one black on the team! Talk about going against stereotype! That's something that only a tried and tested Hollywood scriptwriter could come up with. Anyhow, it appears that the Duke administrators are already caving into pressure, and that pressure hasn't even been fully turned on yet. Funny, they don't seem to have that "innocent until proven guilty/we're standing behind Rashan-Jamal-Kelvin-Javon 100%" attitude that white authority figures normally have when these allegations are made by white girls against black athletes. Watching a few of the reports about this on television, I just shook my head in amazement at the hardball attitude the white journalists had towards these white players, something I'd never seen before on the parts of these jock-sniffers during the few quick reports they'd been forced to issue about some of the myriad of sexual crimes alleged to have been committed by a group of black athletes against a white victim. But then again, I'm not used to these allegations being reported at all when they involve black players. Edited by: bigunreal