interesting study on false convictions and rape rapes of white women by black men account for well under percent of all rapes in the united states but half of all rape exonerations fall in that category this stark disparity suggests that prosecutions of interracial rapes with black defendants are particularly error prone perhaps because as many psychological studies show white americans are much more likely to mistake one african american stranger for another than to do so with members of their own race should this be included in the article the fact that even though interracial rapes represent only of all rapes they produce of all false convictions