shinerbock:
Since you've come back into the conversation kinda late, why don't you take the time to actually
read the posts for comprehension before you reply to me? I can see that you didn't read the part about Sharpton saying on-air that the DA was completely inethical and the players had a good case against him. Well now I've restated it, so you don't have to search. You're welcome.
Contrary to your own beliefs, everything that I posted about why Sharpton went to Durham can be substantiated. He's been interviewed on TV and in print several times about it. Check the Fox News interview with Bill O'Reilly, for example. The racial tensions that I mentioned have been referred to ad nauseum by countless TV/print reports on this situation. You can actually Google the phrase 'racial tensions in Durham' and find some of the examples I'm talking about. Or you can look it up on the ever-popular Wiki. It goes back decades. These are not my interpretations, these are facts. You've already admitted that the controversey was there before Al was, so I won't bother to provide a source to back that fact up.
As I've already inferred, the reputation of the lacrosse team doesn't warrant those three guys going to jail for something they didn't do. But the strippers didn't make up that reputation, the players did with their bad behavior and foolish antics. The president of Duke even made references to their reputation himself. Maybe they will take this opportunity to learn how to treat people with decency and respect. Or maybe not.
I question the focus on Sharpton, because there is no thread on here about DA Nifong. Why is that? He's the one who actually behaved without any regard for ethics or the law. All this aggression should be directed at him.
That is my interpretation.