From their investment in the innocence of the Duke Lacrosse players to thereinstatement of Don Imus, who maintained that he was a “good person”—despite his use of racist and misogynistic language—Big Media narratives thatassert, almost aggressively, the prevailing belief in white innocence suggestan anxiety that threatens to expose such constructions as false premise, as“fiction.” Indeed, such assertions seem riddled by the opposite: white guilt.However, the rhetoric of white innocence is a dishonest approach to theproblem of “white guilt.”