The email continues to pour in on my Fox column from last April on the Duke lacrosse case. Below, a doozy.

Weird thing is, on some level I actually agree with this guy. If I were forced to guess Nifong’s motivation, I’d guess appeasing his majority-black, largely liberal constituency probably had a lot to do with it. Just like white prosecutors can sometimes be blinded by white mob justice, and white attitudes toward the perceived black “criminal element.” The problem, I think, is that we tend to measure a prosecutor’s job performance on the number of convictions he wins, not by his sense of fairness and justice.

Of course, the rest of what this guy has to say is rather unfortunate. Which is why I’m more than happy to include his name. Email after the break.

As a national writer, I believe you are being very “politically correct,” and not highlightling the most important reason for the misconduct by the prosecutor.

Appeasment of the local racist black population.

The prosecuter wanted the votes, and he knew he would get such by going after the white players, who had been accussed by the innocent black victim. Since blacks are “never biggoted,” of course their immediate backing on one of their own race was not bigotry, but just a cry for justice. Early media reports highlighted what was about to happen at the time the “alleged rape” initially occurred. The stories focused on how the rich white kids treated the surrounding poorer black population and this was just another example. They were guilty because they were not black.

On the other hand, how do you think the local bigotted community would have responded if teh alleged attackers were black. “Just another piece of trash trying to keep a brother down.”

People like you foster this by burying the lead or the motivation. This is because the media is such a chicken piece of .. . ., they don’t want to go after what has become very fashionable in the black community, bigotry,

Of course, if the players that had been accussed by the prosecutor, and supported by the local biggoted population, had been like my family (asian) or hispanic, they probably would still be in jail, forgotten completely by the media. That is because when blacks go after such groups, the media thinks of such people as gooks and spics (think Al Sharpton).

Another funny example of such, is the OJ Simpson trial, where early polls showed asians and hispanics opinion about guilt or innocence, in addition to blacks and whites. However, when their opinions mirrored whites, our gooky and spic opinion didn’t matter anymore (so was no longer discussed), because people might not believe there was an actual racial divide but black bigotry.

Hey, but keep writing, let’s never have good race relations, by not being honest about such situations.

You will probably be promoted.

Fuck you, you racist pig.

John Stevens

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