Posted on 04/27/2008 12:56:08 AM PDT by abb
Thanx!
re:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/04/020388.php
April 27, 2008
Al Sharpton convenes another lynch mob
Even a blind pig may find an acorn.
Duke 11, Virginia 9
Final
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Published: Apr 27, 2008 12:30 AM
Modified: Apr 27, 2008 03:45 AM
His passion is getting involved
Wilson: Reacting isn't solving issues
Eric Ferreri, Staff Writer
DURHAM - At Durham's West End Community Center, George Wilson is the fixer.
Need a grant proposal written? George will do it. Is the heater broken? Call George. Need an accountant to do the nonprofit group's taxes on the cheap? George probably knows someone.
“He's the first line of defense,” says Ethel Simonetti, a friend and fellow board member for the community center, which provides after-school programs for poor neighborhood youngsters. “He's our board leader, and he replicates that role all over town.”
By day, Wilson is a criminal justice professor at N.C. Central University. But by night — as with the midnight-to-8 a.m. shifts he once pulled at a local halfway house — he can often be found working with underprivileged children or with groups that help rehabilitate felons.
Wilson grew up in Birmingham, Ala., in the 1960s, a place and time of great racial turmoil. His current view of the world — and of recent violence attributed to young black men from Durham — is influenced by his upbringing and his academic training. He sees imbalance in the attention given to the killing of UNC-Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson — a pretty, blonde, white woman — and thinks killings of blacks are often glossed over. He preaches prevention and sees little point in ratcheting up punishment — such as tougher anti-gang laws, for example — if resources aren't also poured into intervention.
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In response to the incident and media coverage, NCCU ‘s Office of Public Relations distributed a memo on Jan. 16 to staff, faculty and administrators.
The memo asked employees to “encourage students to refrain from sharing information with the media if it is going to result in a negative story,” and said they should remind students to consider how negative information would affect NCCU ‘s image.
NCCU Director of Public Relations Carmelita Spicer did not return phone calls Wednesday.
Bruce DePyssler, an NCCU assistant English professor and faculty adviser, said the memo, which has been distributed in the past to employees, stems from a perception that local media frequently print negative stories about NCCU .
“It deals with how [ NCCU ] feels it's been covered historically by the mainstream media,” DePyssler said. “I've taught at two historically black colleges and that was the sentiment, that the only coverage is negative .”
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Is Cline the DA race “front-runner?”
In DA candidate Cline’s Duke lacrosse “explanations” (Post 1) I referred to Durham’s current chief assistant district attorney Tracey Cline as “the front-runner” in the four-way May 6 primary race for the Democratic Party’s nomination for Durham DA.
An Anon commenter responded:
Do you say Cline is the “front runner” because Mayor Bell and a few entrenched PACs have endorsed her? Or is because there is a voter poll somewhere? I haven’t seen any polls.
I haven’t seen any polls, either.
I should have made that clear and said something like “in my opinion” or “in the opinion of just about all Durham political observers” Cline is the front-runner.
I’ll try to be more precise next time.
I thank the Anon commenter for calling the matter to my attention.
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Thanks for the updates, abb!
Hang in there, everyone!
This too shall pass.
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