[Locomotive Breath]

Durham said "to hell with Duke" first and a long time ago. It makes a difference. Nothing makes your own failures more galling than someone else's success. Case in point is CGM who has made a lifelong series of bad decisions. Why is she "owed" something by the people who didn't make those bad decisions? There's only so far the successful group can go trying to accommodate the dysfunctional group's aggrieved racial identity before they come to realize that it's all never-ending manipulation of white guilt and say "to hell with you" back. Yale's been trying to appease New Haven for decades and has gotten nothing for its effort.

What's most appalling is Brodhead's gutlessness not defending his students and throwing them into the bottomless dungeon of Durham racial justice without a fight.

[Neverforget01]

I am not taking sides in the Duke/Durham debate--just noting the friction is obviously there, and I'm beginning to understand how this case got through a Grand Jury with so little evidence. Folks in Durham would hang a Duke kid for jaywalking.

[Jezebelle]

Agree 100%.

Take the Black Congressional Caucus, for starters. To listen to them, they're still in chains being whipped and starved in the fields and there was no civil rights movement, no Civil War, and no constitutional amendments.

To a lot of these people, it's still the year 1750 and they want to keep it that way.