The Duke Lacrosse rape case is now over, except for the civil roghts violation investigations and civil lawsuits. On TV and in newspaper editorials, a lot of liberals are not giving up. They keep saying that "something bad happened." One woman said to an interviewer, "You weren't there so you don't know that nothing happened." It never seems to have occurred to her that she wasn't there either. Some black speakers said that the rich white boys deserved to be prosecuted because of centuries of abuse of blacks by whites. Terry Moran, for example, seemed to agree with that line of thought, and thought they deserved what has happened to them because they had at least shown bad judgment by hiring strippers. One problem that seems obvious is that the alleged victim appears to have selected the accused at random. One of the ones she selected had left the party. How was he guilty of anything? One thing that bothered me about this case from the beginning was that while there are several cases each year of athletes accused of gang rape at a party, it almost always black players, and usually there are no charges brought. Another is that in most rapes the attacker and victim are the same race. On top of that, contrary to what appears to be conventional wisdom in the black community, it is now extremely rare for white men to rape black women. In a study by Wilbanks in 1988 there were 9406 rapes of white women by black men but only 10 rapes of black women by white men. In 1989 Andrew Hacker's study indicated that blacks rape of whites were 30 times more likely than vice versa. Looking at the Duke case I still see it as I did at the beginning: a rogue prosecutor playing to the black population to win an election with support from liberals who wanted to "pay back whites" for past sins of the white race.