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Ken Burns trivializes the victimization of the wrongly accused men from the Duke lacrosse case
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Posted on 12/11/2012 3:49:22 PM PST by InvisibleChurch

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2012

Ken Burns trivializes the victimization of the wrongly accused men from the Duke lacrosse case According to documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, the Duke University lacrosse players were "three rich white boys who were mildly inconvenienced by rape charges that proved to be false. In no time the prosecutor of that case was fired, disbarred, and put in jail, and the three ended up getting a huge settlement." See here.

"Mildly inconvenienced"? Sigh. My first reaction was that I hadn't read it right. Then I read it again, and then again. Although I am sure he's seen it, I have sent Prof. KC Johnson a note about this, and hope that he responds on his blog Durham in Wonderland.

I confess I am thoroughly perplexed about why Burns felt the need to trivialize the inestimable toll that the false accusations took on the Duke boys just to underscore the severity of the harm to the victims in the Central Park Five case. I suppose he couldn't resist the urge to disabuse middle America of what he sees as its racial bias.

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1 posted on 12/11/2012 3:49:28 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
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To: InvisibleChurch
I was looking forward to seeing this documentary. But, obviously, it's going to be 99% racial and have little to do with systematic prosecutorial misconduct that threatens all of us.
2 posted on 12/11/2012 3:53:43 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Ken Burns is a liberal idiot. I would love to see him falsely accused of rape and see how he likes it.


3 posted on 12/11/2012 3:54:53 PM PST by whitedog57
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To: Forgotten Amendments
I was looking forward to seeing this documentary
Burns makes every subject he touches depressing ... even baseball.
4 posted on 12/11/2012 3:57:59 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: InvisibleChurch

When is he going to make a documentary about the bullies that stole his lunch money?

5 posted on 12/11/2012 3:59:11 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: InvisibleChurch

in no time?

weren’t they out of school for a year?

it dragged on

they’re names were made mud by the MSM


6 posted on 12/11/2012 4:00:02 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: InvisibleChurch

in no time?

weren’t they out of school for a year?

it dragged on

they’re names were made mud by the MSM


7 posted on 12/11/2012 4:00:02 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Another 18½ hour documentary about the history of lacrosse?


8 posted on 12/11/2012 4:00:38 PM PST by x
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To: whitedog57
Ken Burns is a liberal idiot. I would love to see him falsely accused of rape and see how he likes it.

60 MINUTES did a great piece on Nifong's victims. Someone mentioned that, for the rest of their lives, no matter what they do, when you Google their names, the first thing that comes up will be "rape". Dianne Sawyer was visibly moved.

But that's just a "minor inconvenience" for rich white boys ... right Ken?

9 posted on 12/11/2012 4:03:16 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: whitedog57
He's right about middle America's completely unfounded racial prejudices.

People were certain that a Puerto Rican named Raymond Santana was the rapist.

They could not have been more wrong.

The rapist was actually a Puerto Rican named Matias Reyes.

10 posted on 12/11/2012 4:04:15 PM PST by wideawake
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To: InvisibleChurch

No surprise to me. Ken has suffered from “white liberal guilt” for years. Just look at how he turned his “Baseball” series into “A History Of The Negro Leagues”.


11 posted on 12/11/2012 4:05:46 PM PST by richmwill
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To: wideawake; abb

For the abb list?


12 posted on 12/11/2012 4:06:00 PM PST by John Galt's cousin (WTF? We couldn't rescue four men in Benghazi? Is our military IMPOTENT? ( /s ))
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To: InvisibleChurch

Do not purchase any Burns-related videos. Do not act, in any way, so as to cause one further penny to flow into Burns’s pockets. And of course, strip PBS of taxpayer funds, but we already know that.

Leftist is one thing, but this is just evil.


13 posted on 12/11/2012 4:11:06 PM PST by pogo101
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To: InvisibleChurch
I don't listen to effeminate men who have "Lauren" as a middle name.

"Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns[1] (born July 29, 1953)[1] is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs."


14 posted on 12/11/2012 4:12:05 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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....effeminate men who have “Lauren” as a middle name and can’t grow a beard.


15 posted on 12/11/2012 4:14:47 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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16 posted on 12/11/2012 4:16:56 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

...and wear bangs for many years past their fifth birthday.


17 posted on 12/11/2012 4:17:13 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: richmwill
Yeah, but he missed this piece of history.

The Old Negro Space Program

18 posted on 12/11/2012 4:18:57 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: InvisibleChurch

Burns is a money grubbing “authority” on nothing.


19 posted on 12/11/2012 4:20:11 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: InvisibleChurch

Is he a transexual? He looks and sounds like a woman.


20 posted on 12/11/2012 4:24:46 PM PST by Wage Slave (Army Mom!)
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