The race grievance industry strikes again
I'm a big fan of Robert Woodson, founder and president of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, about whom I wrote here. Today, Woodson turns his keen eye for misuse of the race issue to the case of the Duke lacrosse players accused of rape. He argues that the inordinate amount of attention placed on the race of the alleged victim and the alleged assailants results in harmful polarization, reduces the likelihood of determining the truth, and comes at the expense of focusing on the widespread mistreatment of African-American women and children by African-American males. Woodson concludes:
Reasonable people on both sides must speak out against the hatemongers who pretend to be champions of justice and see that truth prevails without regard to color. And they must speak out for all those -- abused women prisoners, prostituted children -- whose plight has gone unaddressed just because they lack the sensational factor of race.
