The Larger Tragedy

By Thomas Sowell

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"It has now become more and more obvious, even to some people who initially believed the 'rape' charges against Duke University students, that there was never a speck of evidence to support the charges and a growing amount of evidence to the contrary.

The larger tragedy is what this case revealed about the degeneration of our times and the hollowness of so many people in 'responsible' positions in the media, in academia, and among those blacks so consumed by racial resentments and thirst for revenge that they are prepared to lash out at individuals who have done nothing to them and are guilty of no crime against anybody.

The haste and vehemence with which scores of Duke University professors publicly took sides against the students in this case is just one sign of how deep the moral dry rot goes, in even our most prestigious institutions.

We have become a society easily stampeded, even by the unsubstantiated, inconsistent and mutually contradictory statements of a woman with a criminal record.

All it takes is something that invokes the new holy trinity of the intelligentsia -- 'race, class and gender.' The story of a black woman gang-raped by white men fit the theme so compellingly that much of the media had no time to waste trying to find out if it was true before going ballistic." Full article.