"Again I don't know what happened in that house. But I do know that Martin Luther King Jr. and many, many others of all races did not die so that the poor, black, and oppressed could surrender the moral high ground, and attempt to inflict injustice on the privileged."
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/14494721.htm
Jason Whitlock is a sports writer whose pieces appear in SI and ESPN. He is also a black man with sense. This is the latest of several excellent articles he's written on issues surrounding the Duke case.
An Outrageous Rush To Judgment Accumulating evidence strongly suggests that the rape charge may well be a lie.
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And the evidence that perhaps no Duke lacrosse player committed rape should make a lot of people ashamed of themselves: District Attorney Mike Nifong, the Durham police, many in the media, politically correct Duke professors, spineless Duke administrators, and others.
(Disclosure: A parent of one team member is a friend of mine, and I might not be writing about the case if my analysis of the evidence supported the rape charge.)
Instead of backing off, many in the rush-to-judgment crowd have simply hedged their presumption of guilt and shifted to smearing the lacrosse players -- including sons of three retired New York City firefighters, and others from modest backgrounds -- as a bunch of privileged, thuggish, racist, and (horrors) white jocks, suggestive of Southern slaveholders.
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http://nationaljournal.com/taylor.htm
Hat tip:
Betsy's Page
Even this morning's Raleigh News and Observer, which originally beat the drum as loudly as anyone promoting the rape charges, published an editorial decrying Nifongs heavy handed tactics
Prosecution's heavy hand
http://www.newsobserver.com/579/story/435515.html
Unfortunately, none of this will make a difference to a Durham jury.
Good Morning. Great link. Thank you, it's what I've been feeling regarding this case.
More from that article:
To the contrary, if anything, what is happening in Durham is further polarizing the haves from the have-nots, white from black. It’s justifying racism. It’s justifying a mind-set that states: Do it to them because they’d do it to you.