Posted on 10/18/2006 2:45:47 PM PDT by zaxxon
The charges against the Duke lacrosse players should be dropped immediately, and the people demanding the dismissal the loudest and most forcefully should be the very people who have made a living allegedly fighting against racial injustice.
I've said this before, but it's worth saying again: Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton should be in Durham, N.C., today, promising civil disobedience until the charges are dropped and prosecutor Mike Nifong resigns.
Ed Bradley and "60 Minutes" should never be mistaken for Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court. Bradley is just a TV reporter and "60 Minutes" is just a TV show, but you couldn't help but be moved by the story they aired Sunday night about the Duke lacrosse rape allegations.
The three accused players gave their first interviews, and two of them claimed they had airtight, documented alibis. The accuser's one-night sidekick, Kim Roberts, seems to have settled on telling the truth rather than trying to spin the story for fame or money. She contradicted several of the statements the accuser gave to police.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
I bet that nice looking C Destine and his Mama, the ever gracious Finesse (President of the Durham Bar, and serving on THE Committe board) would be proud to have Nifong make an appearance.
I found and posted that. You're right.
I think Liefong has an axe to grind with the parents of all Duke students, not just these boys'. Liefong's parents both went to Duke. He went to UNC. But we haven't seen any evidence yet that he told Mangum which three to pick - any three would do.
It's about time somebody wrote something strongly holding the black racism machine's feet to the fire!
Bravo, Dr. Anderson!
You left out, "Mangum bails on Nifong, so he must dismiss, blaming Mangum's cold feet on her emotional trauma and fear for her life, but goes on to say he believes the boys to be guilty and is disappointed he won't be able to mount a prosecution due to Mangum's emotional collapse."
I view it as one more reason NOT to send your kid to Duke. Part of the tuition is going to racist shake-downs.
Then maybe they have something on Brodhead. he's way too happy to go along with the program, doing his part to run the railroad.
http://www.webcommentary.com/asp/ShowArticle.asp?id=gaynorm&date=061022
Durham County Voters: Reject Nifong as a Deceiver
WEBCommentary Contributor
Author: Michael J. Gaynor
Bio: Michael J. Gaynor
Date: October 22, 2006
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/501489.html
Get-out-the-vote rally set for today
http://www.newsobserver.com/576/story/501367.html
Weighing coverage of a thin election year
Ted Vaden, Staff Writer
Duke hates its athletes --
http://www.heraldsun.com/sports/18-780800.html
"Duke athletics director Joe Alleva said that if Finnerty and Seligmann were cleared of the charges, it first would be up to the university to decide their fate.
"If they get reinstated back into school -- that would be the first process -- then we will reconsider their status with the lacrosse team," Alleva said. "It all comes back to them being reinstated into school first, and then we would consider it.
"The key word there is 'consider.' "
Why did anyone expect Duke's "official" attitude to be any different?
"I done got myself quoted."
You can now expect to be arrested on a three-year old expired parking ticket and hauled into court, where two officers will testify as to your villainy and five more will crowd the courtroom 'just for effect'.
I gave you credit in #353 but should have mentioned it again in the follow up posts. Your contributions to this board (and other blogs) have been fantastic! Thank you!
Awesome! I especially like the barfbarf gaggag part! ;-D
[ Substantial two-page feature in Sunday's N&O on blogging-
many illustrations and sidebars]
Rules to blog by
What should the parameters be for online authors?
By Eric Ferreri, Staff Writer, N&O, Published: Oct 22, 2006 12:00 AM
As his fledgling Internet blog analyzing the Duke lacrosse case grew in popularity, KC Johnson made a conscious decision to hold himself to the same intellectual standards while blogging that he lives by at his day job as a college professor in New York.
"I have my own professional reputation within higher education," Johnson said recently. "If I produce something on the Web that's all rumor and innuendo ... that's going to reflect badly on me." -jump-
Johnson, the college professor who blogs about the Duke lacrosse case, believes in the value of unvarnished truth. A Maine native who teaches history at Brooklyn College, Johnson, 38, has no tie to Durham aside from a few visits over the years. Nevertheless, he has fixated on the enormously high-profile Duke lacrosse case, turning his own outrage over District Attorney Mike Nifong's handling of it into a lively, popular and occasionally scathing blog through which he posts daily critiques and criticisms of Nifong, other players in the case and the media.
He spends a couple of hours each day working on the blog, which, he said, is read by between 15,000 and 20,000 people each week. His blog entries are heavy with detail culled from public records. On occasion, he has corrected errors on his blog.
"If I was going to do this blog, it had to be as good as I could possibly make it," he said recently. "You can't put up wrong things and expect your product to be treated seriously."
http://www.newsobserver.com/164/story/501346.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/164/story/501346.html
* Wonder who it was Newsweek's Meadows "was still trying to get a hold of?"
Maybe Footlick and her will start reading some blogs and boards- better late than never.
It all goes back to the audience member who commented about the "will" to find out what happened. KCJ had the will. The N&O and H-S had the "won't".
Looks like they were good once. I was a little surprised to find they had actually made it to the Rose Bowl. At least twice. I didn’t even know the Rose Bowl had been played anywhere other than Pasadena. That was interesting. Thanks.
Unless something changes, it doesn't look like that's going to happen. No mention of Duke.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13502.shtml
Tonight's featured rally speaker:
Joe Leonard Jr., formerly Jesse Jackson's man in Washington and now executive director of the Black Leadership Forum.
While he was growing up in Austin, Texas, Leonard's parents were pioneering educators and his father was the first black to run for Travis County office. He lost, but went on to manage the campaign of Berl Handcox, the first black elected to the Austin City Council since the 1880s.
For Leonard, who recently completed his doctorate in civil rights history, his cohort is like the one that followed America's Founding Fathers -- a big letdown. "I chastise my own generation," he said. "We haven't done enough."
http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/tilove021105.html
As the crowd grew even larger, the sun began to shine and a smile on Reverend Jackson’s face emerged that seemed to exude the confidence he had submerged as he questioned whether his efforts were done in vain.
Gary L. Flowers, vice president of Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and Joe Leonard, executive director of the Black Leadership Forum, were overjoyed by the turnout. They proclaimed that the civil rights movement is not dead, that people are still ready to march and that “protests that lead to power” still works.
The foot soldiers undoubtedly were the members of NAACP chapters from around the country and the labor unions who were present in full force.
http://www.washingtoninformer.com/OPEDLetsTalk-2005Aug11.html
* These people are highly organized.
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