Abandoning The Duke Victim (Mega-Barf Alert)

For daring to pursue a Black woman's rape charges against white males Nifong is being driven out of town and the practise of law

A recent “editorial” in the Wall Street Journal was titled “The Michael Nifong Scandal.” This description defies logic.

A scandal has a moral connotation. It would apply to the pedophiles in the Catholic Church who masquerade as priests.

This term should have no relationship to a prosecutor seeking justice for a sexually abused woman of African ancestry. To be sure, a prosecutor charging white, privileged males for the sexual abuse of a Black woman is unprecedented. Thus, Durham District Attorney Michael Nifong is a traitor to the history and precepts of white supremacy.

In 400 years, no white man has ever gone to prison for raping a Black woman. Either Black women are not sexually attractive to white males or Black women find white men sexually irresistible. The former is untrue. See Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hennings. The latter is also untrue. See Melton A. McLaurin’s “Celia A Slave.”

On Sunday, “60 Minutes” claimed that the Duke rape case is “unraveling” before our eyes. This is also untrue. Instead, the legal system is destroying Michael Nifong before our very eyes. The North Carolina General Assembly and Congress are holding the hammers.

In only one other case, in American jurisprudence, has an attorney been destroyed amid a criminal proceeding. The New York Legislature and Congress were holding the hammers. This is a breach of the “separation of powers” doctrine.

It was People v. Sharpton wherein a grievance committee gave me the option of doing in my client, Rev. Al Sharpton or else. I chose “or else.” It would have been unethical to do otherwise. The hammer was designed to undermine Sharpton’s rights under the Sixth Amendment.

Only two attorneys in the history of American jurisprudence have ever sought to secure justice for Black females raped by white men. The modus operandi has been the same in both cases. In the Duke case, CBS-TV is leading the charge. In the Tawana Brawley case, CBS-TV also led the charge aided and abetted by the New York Times.

Blacks demonstrated in front of CBS headquarters for weeks while this criminal enterprise was engaging in media defamation against a fifteen-year-old girl, a victim of white terrorism and sexual abuse. It is in CBS’ genes.

Pre-trial publicity is not new to American jurisprudence. It is usually designed to poison the community against the accused before trial. A potential jury, therefore, sits as junior prosecutors. In the Duke case, prejudicial, pre-trial publicity is aimed at the victim. The media took the same approach in the Brawley case. Nifong did not indict those three Duke lacrosse players. A grand jury in Durham County, North Carolina indicted them. CBS should target the grand jury and review the grand jury minutes before recruiting a lynch mob for Nifong.

Since the indictments are still in play, a judge must believe that where there is smoke there must also be fire. Otherwise, the indictments, in the Duke case would have been dismissed months ago. A judge and not a prosecutor has the authority to dismiss an indictment.

Unlike the credibility issues in the Duke rape case, there was no eyewitness testimony and no scientific evidence including DNA to connect six boys to the rape of the Central Park jogger, Patricia Meili. Nonetheless, CBS was organizing a lynch mob against innocent boys. An admission alone is always insufficient to establish any crime beyond a reasonable doubt.

Yet, five of those six boys were falsely imprisoned for years and the New York Court of Appeals upheld those baseless convictions.

In order for an indictment to be dismissed, there must not only be insufficient evidence of the top count of the indictment but also the lack of evidence of lesser-included offenses. So far, the judicial system must believe that something happened. To be sure, something did happen.

Typically, there is always overcharging in the drafting of accusatory instruments. The mere fact that a count of the indictment is dismissed is not equivalent to pronouncing a suspect either legally or morally innocent. These players are certainly not choirboys and they are, at least, presumptive racists.

These players engaged in identity theft to secure the presence of two Black strippers for a KKK-type rally. They gave false names to the escort service. The escort service was never told that two Black females would have to perform before a white mob of drunken, racist hooligans. This is criminal fraud.

Strip joints employ bodyguards to protect strippers because it is well-known that a mob of drunken and unruly males will, biologically, take matters into their own hands. These females have civil claims in addition to criminal prosecutions. In addition, there is no question that these racist jocks hurled racist epithets at these women. The use of the word “nigger” to degrade a Black person is, in itself, an assault. This lewd atmosphere reeked of white terrorism and gave rise to sundry hate crimes.

The most important question in this case, based on biology, should be answered in a court of law. After the white lacrosse players watched this Black female shake her butt and private parts, in a sexually arousing fashion, did their white phalluses come to attention? Being full-blooded males, what made the phalluses come to “at ease?” In other words, what happened next? This is the answer that North Carolina is seeking to cover up.

The media and the defense lawyers in the Duke case have misled the public. In every lawsuit, there are two methods of proof: direct and circumstantial. Of the two methods of proof, circumstantial evidence is the strongest. No need exists for direct evidence in this case.

The complaining witness’ purportedly inconsistent statements are a reflection of problems of class and race in this society. In 1997, before a national television audience, Eliot Spitzer actually commanded Rev. Al Sharpton to change his story by boycotting his own defamation trial.

He did except when he was ordered to appear by the plaintiff, Steven Pagones. Attorney Johnnie Cochran, an ancestor, was the host of the Court-TV program. Sharpton was behaving the way any Black person is expected to behave in a white supremacist system.

When a Black woman accuses white men of rape, all bets are off. Warfare ensues. Anyone who seeks to protect a Black female victim had better prepare for a life of poverty. Gov. Spitzer and his mentor, Robert Abrams, are of this view in New York and no self-respecting Black female should support them.

Before the Civil War, courts routinely ruled that it was legally impossible for a white man to rape a Black woman. Today, through media and politics, most Blacks still embrace pre-Civil War law. This results from brainwashing. See “The Manchurian Candidate.” The only antidote to propaganda is critical thinking.

An effort is afoot to stop effective advocacy by Black lawyers. I need your support immediately to fight off impending disbarment in a protracted struggle. The federal litigation is on appeal. Please send any expression of support to UAM Legal Defense Fund, c/o Alton H. Maddox, Jr., 16 Court Street, Ste. 1901, Brooklyn, NY 11241. The struggle must continue. Asante sana. WHO WANTS TO BET THAT THE "ACCUSER" WILL SEE A DIME OF THAT 'DONATION'..

Barber, Wells, and the Sins of Denial

Durham in Wonderland, Monday, January 29, 2007 KC Johnson --excerpts--

As John in Carolina noted, the head of the state NAACP, Rev. William Barber, was invited to preach at yesterday’s Duke Chapel Sunday service by the man he described as his “good friend,” Duke Chaplain Sam Wells. --

Barber, alas, seems reluctant to apply his desired “theology of truth” to his own organization’s statements. Instead, the NAACP head tailored his remarks to fit the organization’s new talking points—namely, that any dismissal of the case would be based on prosecutors caving in to public opinion rather than acting on the merits. “Pontius,” reminded the Reverend, “denied his responsibility that wrong was occurring before him in the court of public opinion,” and his “denial led to a great injustice.”--

In his comments on the case, the NAACP chair continued his organization’s practice of lionizing the accuser, wondering, “What about a society where young ladies even have to consider sexual occupation for financial sustainment, or to use those things as a flawed attempt to gain self-esteem?” --

Barber chillingly summed up the consequences of refusing to follow his demands: “If we deny God’s call to face reality, to change reality, then we sin, and the blood is on our hands.”

One person who attended the service e-mailed me to say that she walked out when Barber denounced the lacrosse players.

Barber concluded his sermon by observing, “Nothing is worse than to know better and deny a responsibility to do better.” These words serve as a fitting epitaph for the state NAACP’s performance in this case. An organization that long has committed itself to procedural regularity and protecting the rights of the accused has sacrificed its legacy upon the altar of racial politics.

http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/

* The NC NAACP takes an awful keen interest in this case, err- hoax.

Countering conspiracy to disrupt Durham justice

How dare the N.C. Bar Association join the mobs in Durham who have verbally lynched and sought to politically assassinate District Attorney Mike Nifong for seeking to prosecute three white Duke students accused of raping a black NCCU student. And if we are to refer to the lady as a "stripper," allow me to refer to the men as "perverted stripper patrons."

The conspiracy to disrupt justice in this Durham case should be obvious. It is unprecedented that the alleged criminals and their defense team have the luxury of such a media platform to proclaim their "innocence" and attack the prosecutor.

More than 50 percent of the black men packed into the Durham County jail also profess to be innocent. But the media will never allow their cases to be tried in the court of public opinion. Neither will you see any form of outrage when the DA says "they did it." Consequently we find more black men in Central Prison than N.C. Central University.

I challenge the racist media and N.C. Bar Association who wrongfully used their influence to attack the integrity of a prosecutor who is prosecuting a case which has the potential to challenge racism, classism, and sexism simultaneously. Yes, we should demand justice in the courts. We should also remember Malcolm X's point, which says, "If black people can't get justice in the courts, we have to demand justice in the streets."

CURTIS E. GATEWOOD
Oxford
January 28, 2007

http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/hsletters/index.cfm#813611

* (1994 to 2002) President of the Durham Branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (Durham NAACP)

http://www.naacpncnetwork.org/Publicity/

TRAVIS MANGUM, THE NAACP and Precious-A family connection?

Posted on 01/29/2007 1:05:26 PM EST by Protect the Bill of Rights

Maybe the reason the NAACP has become so involved in this story is starting to come to light. Tin foil or not, I know country folks. The Mangums might live in Durham now, but they have long, strong family ties to Granville County.

I am looking for it, have not yet found it, but I would be willing to bet anthing there is a close blood relationship between TV Mangum and Travis Mangum from Durham

Hat tip Maggief!Tony Soprano at LS
1 posted on 01/29/2007 1:05:29 PM EST by Protect the Bill of Rights

State's NAACP at fork A family dynasty faces a challenge
The News & Observer
May 25, 1996
Author: Ben Stocking; Staff Writer
Estimated printed pages: 4

For nearly half a century, the Alexander name has been virtually synonymous with the NAACP in North Carolina.

Kelly Alexander Sr. helped found the state organization and served as its president for 36 years. At the time of his death in 1984, he was serving as the NAACP's national board chairman. Kelly Alexander Jr. grew up in the organization and has been the state conference president since his father died 12 years ago.
Now, for the first time since 1948, someone with a different name is heading the state organization - at least temporarily. The NAACP'S national board suspended Alexander last weekend pending an audit of the state conference's finances.

His suspension marks a dramatic moment in the 53-year history of the state chapter. And the timing couldn't be more awkward.

It comes as the state conference is preparing to host the NAACP's national convention, which opens July 6 in Charlotte. It also comes as the national organization is trying to regain stability after the firing of its last leader, North Carolina native Ben Chavis, and a bruising election that led to the ouster of national board chairman William Gibson.

The prospect of another round of conflict discourages local chapter heads.

"I'm saddened that here we are getting ready to go into the national convention and this is another sour note about the NAACP," says James White, president of the South-Central Wake branch. "But I've always said the organization is better than any one person. And I've always said that we will survive."

It is unclear whether Alexander's suspension will prove to be a short-term setback or the end of a family dynasty. Officials at the national office declined to discuss Alexander's suspension, other than to say that they are investigating a complaint brought against him by other members of the state conference. They won't say who brought the complaint or when the audit is likely to be completed.

In the meantime, Melvin "Skip" Alston, a Greensboro real estate broker and first vice president of the state conference, is filling in as acting president.

###

Politics or arrogance?

Alexander insists that he has fallen victim to the byzantine internal politics of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. His rivals at the state and national level have come together to do him in, he says.

"What you've got is a collection of folks who have axes to grind," Alexander says. "It's politics at its worst. It's really an attempt to lessen my voice as the national convention comes to town, to make me less of a thorn in the side of the powers that be."

Alexander contends that his opponents have seized on a technicality in an effort to undermine him. The pretext for his suspension, he says, was the fact that he used pre-signed checks - checks signed by the former state treasurer - to pay some bills. He says that he made no questionable expenditures and that he told the newly elected treasurer, Z. Ann Hoyle, that he was using the checks. She didn't object, he said.

Alexander blames several state and national NAACP members for his travails, including Hoyle and Skip Alston, the acting president. None would reply to Alexander's charges.

Alston, the only one who would comment at all, expressed admiration for Alexander.

"I've learned a lot from Kelly," he said. "He's dedicated to the NAACP and its principles. He has basically committed his life to this organization. I think he will always play a role in the NAACP one way or another."

But some state conference members say that Alexander shares an unappealing trait with Chavis and Gibson: arrogance.

"Sometimes his tactics are a little high-handed," said White, the South-Central Wake branch president. "Sometimes he seemingly is not in tune with the will of the people."

(snip)

//

Alston/Mangum???

Obituaries
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
April 29, 1997

EXCERPT

MANGUM

Mrs. Nancy Mae Bobbitt Mangum, 86, of 19 Dauphine Place, died Friday, April 25, 1997 at 4:30 a.m. at Duke Hospital. She was born and raised in Granville County.

She is survived by five sons, Willie Alston Jr., James Alston, Travis Mangum, Edward Mangum, William Mangum; and two daughters, Mrs. Gennie V. Pettiford, and Mrs. Glendora Harris Mangum, all of Durham, NC.; one brother, Paul Lyons; six sisters, Pearle Mae Lyons, Roberta Bobbitt and Dorothy Lee Percy, of Durham, NC., Eva Mae Lyons of Long Island, NY., Pourthy Lee Bass, and Marie Pattieway of Creedmoor, NC.; two sons-in-law, Mr. Phil Harris and Mr. Wallace Pettiford, both of Durham, NC.; five daughters-in-law, Mrs. Della Alston, Mrs. Mary Cheek Mangum, and Mrs. Betty Mangum, all of Durham; and S.F.C. Veronica Jean Mangum, of New Jersey, twenty-eight grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday at 12 noon at Greater St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church. Rev. Michael Page will be officiating.

Visitation will be Tuesday from 7-8 p.m. at Scarborough and Hargett Funeral Home, and at other times at 19 Dauphine Place. Burial will at Markham Memorials Garden.

2 posted on 01/29/2007 1:33:42 PM EST by maggief

http://triangle.johnlocke.org/blog/

Freepers onto something?
Posted at 4:57 PM by Jon Ham

http://www.carolinajournal.com/cjcolumnist...hor.html?id=191

Jon Ham joined the John Locke Foundation on Feb. 21, 2005. Prior to joining JLF he had worked for The Herald-Sun newspapers in Durham, NC, for 19 years, 13 of those as managing editor and four as director of digital publishing.

(snip)

3 posted on 01/29/2007 1:36:14 PM EST by maggief

To: Ken H; xoxoxox; JLS; Locomotive Breath; TommyDale; All

FYI -

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:9D-xmG-4Pd4J:ncmuseumofhistory.org/workshops/civilrights1/Session2_1.html+%22t+v+mangum%22+naacp&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=6&client=firefox-a

Growth of the NAACP
Black North Carolinians joined the NAACP in ever-increasing numbers before and during the Second World War. Led by idealistic lawyers, the NAACP fought in the federal courts for racial justice. Before the war it spearheaded the effort to keep conservative North Carolina jurist John J. Parker off the United States Supreme Court.

Membership in the NAACP soared in the war years, and the number of branches in the state more than doubled. By the war’s end, Winston-Salem had the largest NAACP chapter, with 1,991 members. The North Carolina Conference of NAACP Branches formed in Charlotte in 1943, largely as a result of efforts by Ella Baker, Kelly Alexander, and T. V. Mangum. The ongoing conference created a powerful united effort for reform.

5 posted on 01/29/2007 1:40:44 PM EST by maggief

Travis Mangum Thread--

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1775600/posts?q=1&&page=1

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