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Durham hopes this fits to a !T
New effort seeks to lure residents

Eric Ferreri, Staff Writer

DURHAM - Bull City boosters who swear Durham gets a bad rap hope a new campaign will persuade more people to put down roots here when they move to the area for work.

The Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce's fledgling "Make !T Durham" initiative is a $105,000-a-year attempt to tell Durham's story in full. Too often, organizers say, the city's foibles make headlines while its many attributes go unnoticed, creating an unwarranted image problem. -cut--

http://www.newsobserver.com/145/story/479288.html

It's way too late for that-- However they are getting Priceless publicity.

All graduates of the Jesse Jackson School of Shakedown.

If you don't kiss their collective ass, they assume the right to destroy you.

The alledged rape and everything growing from that is an explosive story, no doubt.

But the bigger story is the corruption. Durham is corrupt to the core.

I'm at the point now where I think let the lawyers take care of the boys. They have good lawyers. The bigger battle is against the corruption.

Gottlieb tried to bring the Duke cops into the collective bargaining unit. Duke was not too crazy about that. Gottlieb lost that battle.

This is not the first Duke incident he has investigated.

He depises Duke. He does not care about AV's claim of rape. He does not care about Nifong's case. He does not give a flying f___ about the guilt or innocence of the lax players.

He wants to shove it up Duke's ass. In fact, Nifong might even been his dupe at first. Gottlieb might know where the bodies are buried (so to speak) and may have threatened to dig up a few graves.

And what is going on at NCCU? Brian Taylor, the pimp, driving Ms Medina. How is it that a known pimp is ignored by the local media?

The press, the cops, even the administration at NCCU have given him cover. Someone is protecting him and it is a group effort.

And while av's peers are pissing and moaning about the sexual degradation of one of their own by the rich white boys, the poor black boys are pimping their sustahs.

There has to be a common element in the DPD, city government and NCCU. They are all corrupt, but I want to know who the dirty one is.

That's the big story. The lax boys are in good hands. But unless the bigger story is exposed nothing in Durham will change.

It's about organized crime, drugs and prostitution. Someone is getting rich off of it.

A hoot is right! It's like a little third world dictatorship shithole right here in the good ol' USA.

I don't blame Target a bit for not answering the NAACP survey. No matter what they answer, they'll get sued. They're smart not to answer. The survey is a sucker-punch waiting to land on the jaws of Target shareholders.

If the NAACP in Durham wants to target Target with a boycott, then target can close its doors, open up somewhere else, leaving Durham without those jobs, one less good store for Durhamites, and taking the money they put back into the local community from every sale. Go ahead, Durham, shoot yourself in the foot again.