Wrongly imprisoned man freed after 38 years

Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2011-02-04 23:29

Video report here. There is no significant text associated with this story. I will mention that the reason (ostensibly) he remained in prison was not due to a false or wrong conviction but because paperwork was mislaid and he could not get a new trial. For this he was kept in jail for 38 years despite being acquitted. What had he been acquitted of? Rape. Did anyone care to get him a new trial or really try too hard to get him out of jail? Apparently not.

Personally, I think the real reason he was kept there was that he was a man charged with rape, and a black one to boot. That's about it.

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It's my observation that the old narrative of black men raping white women from the Jim Crow South is still alive and well--just not out there in the open. Feminism just updated that old narrative to include all men. At one time, newspapers would report on the race of a man. Today, they rarely do--for what is probably a good reason. What's missed from that is a lot of hidden racism.

I followed the rape scandals at both the AF Academy and the University of Colorado. What I discovered is that most of the accused men were black and most of the accusers were white. I have this suspicion a lot of white women think it's okay--in some sense of that word--to accuse black men, especially if the accusation is false. I believe one of the lawyers at the Innocence Project said the worst thing is to be a black man accused of raping a white woman. It's a troubling problem.

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Submitted by el cid on Sat, 2011-02-05 00:18