It is now apparent to the world that young men in Scottsboro, convicted in 1931 of rape, were guilty only of being black.

It is now clear the Duke Lacrosse players were deemed guilty of rape for being white.

John Steele Gordon writes:

The country has come a long, long way in regard to race relations since 1931. But…too many people are still being judged according to the color of their skin, not the content of their character, let alone the evidence.

Notorious for such prejudice are the Duke faculty “88,” who, as Gordon says, “have yet to apologize for a rush to judgment that was racist at its heart.”