Posted on 06/12/2006 4:27:33 AM PDT by Perdogg
DURHAM, N.C., June 9 — When a woman hired to dance at a Duke University lacrosse team party claimed that members of the team raped her, Michael B. Nifong, the district attorney for Durham County, responded with an aggressive, unflinching and very public investigation.
"There's no doubt in my mind that she was raped and assaulted at this location," Mr. Nifong said on national television after the case surfaced in March. Mr. Nifong called other lacrosse players "hooligans" who had aided, abetted or covered up for the rapists. Local police officers seemed equally certain that they had a horrific crime to solve.
But in the intervening months, the case has come to appear far less robust. Three players have been indicted, but evidence that has surfaced, much of it turned over to defense lawyers by prosecutors and then filed in court with defense motions, has thrown the woman's claims into doubt. Mr. Nifong, so vocal at first, has refused to speak publicly about the case since the beginning of April.
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He missed the Tom Delay lesson on how to do a mugshot. Show your teeth. Give them a big smile.
Yeah, those too!
No kidding ... that could be his rookie card. :)
I saw a news item that a Duke law professor is calling for a special prosecutor in the case, on the grounds that the public doesn't have confidence in Nifong's objectivity.
Don't forget the missing Police Chief. He's no where to be found.
Maybe the city manager is the king pin in a drug running operation and Crystal is one of his people. That would explain a lot.
http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060613/NEWSREC0101/60613004
News article on Duke professor who wants special prosecutor.
Professor is black too. Interesting.
Given Houston Baker's conduct in response to the lax case, Duke would probably be better off not hiring anymore black professors, as would other universities. The black professors I've seen and heard about are mostly about being black, talking about it on and on, forcing students to regurgitate the same bilge they teach, all to the exclusion of real and more important academic emphasis. An exception would be Walter Williams at George Mason, and there are likely others, but they are not the norm. Baker is.
Thanks for posting that, abb. I wondered what the legal basis for the objection to the address and key card subpoenas would be.
Typical, isn't it? "If you don't give me what I want when I want it, I will play the race card."
Of course, if the woman had given her the ride, would Kim say she gave her the ride because she's black? No, of course not.
I think it's just another example of their culturally ingrained, "Do what I want, give me what I want, when I want it, or you are a racist; and I can blackmail you all day long into doing for me or giving me what I want when I want it with the threat of the race card."
I agree with everything you said. All of those things should be done to him over this case.
In the fifties, although blacks were still struggling for equal opportunities and were on the low end of the economic ladder, the black family was for the most part strong and stable. Two parent families were the rule, not the exception. They attended church together, had strong moral values, and did not comprise a majority of the prison population. Compare that to the present state of the black community after 40 years of Liberal Socialism. Our prisons are disproportionably black, unwed mothers and single parent families are the rule, black youths without a strong male role model other than rap stars and basketball players, roam the streets and are drawn into a culture of drugs and crime.
The following statistics are provided by Star Parker's Coalition of Urban Renewal, (CURE).
*60 percent of black children grow up in fatherless homes.
*800,000 black men are in jail or prison.
*70 percent of black babies are born to unwed mothers.
*Over 300,000 black babies are aborted annually.
*50 percent of new AIDS cases are in the black community.
*Almost half of young black men in America's cities are neither working nor in school.
I've read Star's book.
60% of black, inner-city boys drop out of school by the time they're sophomores, age 15-16. About 80% of those end up in the criminal justice and penal systems.
55% of black, inner-city girls are impregnated by the time they are sophomores (age 15-16).
Thanks for the reminder of those details anout the joys of the new black culture in our midst.
Of course, because there are not enough qualified blacks for universities to hire in their science, engineering and medical departements. Thus, to achieve racial diversity in their hiring practices, universities are forced to hire blacks in departments without objective stardards.
I would be willing to bet that over half the professors in the science department at NCCU are white. There simply aren't enough qualified blacks to fill all the teaching positions even at historically black colleges.
The sad thing is that black students are roped into majoring in Afro-American Studies, when if they had majored in engineering, they could have walked straight out of college into any one of a hundred engineering firms desperate to find qualified black applicants. The Houston Baker's of the world are actually doing immeasurable harm to blacks.
I would say that University's show not hire black professor merely for being black. This law professor step up and criticized the lineup which is a good thing.
Universities should hire good professor of any race. For a black professors to be a good professors, they need to be strong enough to profess and not run scared of being called an oreo, uncle Tom, acting white etc. They are in a tough situation, but they chose education, ie getting a doctoral or other terminal degree, as a someone born into a subgroup who are generally anti-education.
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