Well, all that's true. But I also see the AAs throwing Nifong under the bus as though they, themselves, had no hand in the ugliness that transpired during that approximately 45-60 days. Remember the pot-bangers? The NCCU forum? Cory Peterson? The NBBP? The candlelight vigils outside the Buchanan house? "Dead man walking"? The drive-by threats? The beating of a white Duke student at a hamburger stand? How about, "It may not be fair, but it makes us even"? The black reverend somebody-or-other and the church marches to the Buchanan house? The posters?
No, black Durhamites may want to cry victim once again by blaming Nifong for the wholoe mess, but they need to face facts. If they weren't so blinded with racial hatred in the first place, they would have withheld judgment - and their ignorant demands and threats - and let the process take its course. But no. As usual, they had to get loud.
It's a sad comment that a white candidate has to create a racial issue in order to get votes from Durham blacks because they vote in a lockstep block. There isn't one independent, original thinker among them. Think about it. They've banded together in order to make themselves a political force to be reckoned with. Okay. But all of their issues are race-based, and they all vote the same way - as they're told, basically. Through their own doing, they were ripe for a Nifong to come along and pander to their blind racial hatred, so pardon me if I don't fall all over myself because some dude named Cash Michaels finally figures out they've been had (by yet another Democrat). I hope they catch onto the final straw, and that is that it's obvious from the evidence that Nifong could not have believed Mangum's wild, shifting stories even at the outset of the case. Their first clue to his pandering for their vote with no ammunition behind the case should have been when Nifong pressed on even when the DNA said otherwise. Idiots.
Now look at the damage that the perfect storm of the black Durhamites racial hatred combined with the ambition of a useless nobody hack like Nifong have wrought for these boys. Some people are just too stupid and too mean to be allowed to vote or to run for office.
Cash Michaels may be smart enough to get out in front of the coming tide of blacks against Nifong, but he wasn't smart enough to look past his own ugly prejudice and see this case for what it was when all the earmarks were there three months ago. So let's not kid ourselves that he's changed his position from a position of moral authority. He's simply capitalizing on the inevitable.
You have a point. Cash has written some inflammatory articles on this case but my hope is that the obvious lack of evidence has had an effect on him. I hope he keeps the pressure on Nifong to explain himself. Someone has to do it and alot of the local media there are just clueless.
Some people (both black and white) seemed to want to believe these allegations for their own reasons. Prejudice, envy and all kind of resentments bubbled to the surface. Nifong played into that but he was only able to do it because they let him. You're right about that. The pot-bangers were so eager to pronounce guilt. Or maybe they never even cared about guilt or innocence and they just wanted to take all the players down. Scary. I sometimes wonder what they think now.
Cash it after money out of this thing. Wait and see. This is setting up Durham County and Duke for a lawsuit by the False Accuser for everything she has been through. You know all the things he has said about lynch mobs, cutting her hair, being away from her children for a while, not seeing her father and running all the way to Greensboro with news photographers chasing her. Yep, here come the civil suits. She might even add in the whole lacrosse team for having the party. It is becoming pretty clear.