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Duke DA backlash
Newsday ^ | April 2, 2007 | Joseph Mallia

Posted on 04/02/2007 2:35:38 AM PDT by abb

DURHAM, N.C. -- -- Sitting on the stoop of his small wood-sided home, on a parcel of scrub pines carved from a former tobacco plantation, William Ragland, 76, said he wanted to see justice, and soon, in the Duke lacrosse case.

And that would mean putting on trial not the lacrosse players, but the district attorney who led the early prosecution of the case, said Ragland.

"I was shocked by how Mr. Nifong did the whole thing. It was a cover-up. He had evidence that these boys did not rape her," and improperly kept it secret, said Ragland.

The retired Durham Housing Authority maintenance supervisor has lived in the predominantly black South Central district for a half-century.

This area of modest homes and city housing projects, where 92 percent of the residents are black, is the kind of neighborhood Nifong supporters looked to in order to help re-elect him last November. Eighty percent of South Central's voters cast their ballots for him. But now, a year after an off-campus Duke lacrosse team party sparked charges of sexual assault and put the school and Durham under a national spotlight, many neighborhood residents said this week neither he nor the accuser, who used to live here, have earned their support.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: duke; dukelax; durham; durhamdirtbag; nifong
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To: ladyjane

It’s not ever going to end as long as the left has control of the education system. They now train minority college students to be professional victim advocates through the ethnic studies programs and the public administration majors. I know a girl who majored in the ethnic studies program at the University of Washington because she wanted to get into law school and wasn’t going to make it with a regular major. The courses were a joke, but they succeeded into turning her into a flaming lefty idiot.


41 posted on 04/02/2007 6:44:30 PM PDT by Eva
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To: OldFriend

As a black man myself I am reticent to admit to what I am about to say. You have no idea as to how many in the black community have been corrupted by racial identity and racial grievance mongering politics. Racial anti-black conspiracies abound here, and the idea of objective truth and fact often pales against the notion of “reparative justice” for the past sins of whites. It is all aided and abetted by many of the politicians that the black community elects, and their political plantation the DemocRAT party.

All this despite the historical truth that the DemocRAT party is the party of lynchings, the KKK, poll taxes, Jim Crow, anti-Reconstruction, and that the GOP was responsible for the 13, 14 15th amendments, the 1st black Lt. Governors, the first black US Senators, the 1st black state legislators, every piece of foundational Civil Rights legislation from 1866-1968, that it was FOUNDED to oppose slavery, and on and on.

I wish it were not so, but untill the black community acquires a bit more introspection nothing is going to get better.


42 posted on 04/02/2007 10:03:58 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: DMZFrank

Thanks for the honesty. I wish more people would study history and learn from past mistakes.


43 posted on 04/02/2007 10:08:26 PM PDT by tioga
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To: Eva

People wanted the students to be guilty. They didn’t care if they were guilty or not.


44 posted on 04/03/2007 5:20:47 AM PDT by OldFriend ( TOM DeLAY FAN)
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To: OldFriend
It wasn’t that people wanted the boys to be guilty, they believed that they were guilty by proxy. The boys were simply chosen at random to serve as the nominal perpetrators of White persecution of Black women. The arrogance of the left to think that they had the power to prosecute this case as a case of restorative justice is stunning. Now the left is stunned that they didn’t pull it off.
45 posted on 04/03/2007 10:54:12 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Eva

The tragedy is that people would be willing to sacrifice innocent people to avenge past sins.

There is no denying past failings of the judicial system, but people of class and dignity do not want to perpetuate that crime on others. People of class and dignity want the justice system to be blind, and unbiased.


46 posted on 04/03/2007 11:52:13 AM PDT by OldFriend ( TOM DeLAY FAN)
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To: OldFriend

I don’t think that anyone would argue that those on the left have any class or dignity.


47 posted on 04/03/2007 12:23:52 PM PDT by Eva
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To: DMZFrank

Simple self interest should drive blacks away from the dem party at this juncture. The dems are a pure power trip and nothing more and they view blacks as a wholy owned voting block. You might want to try collecting a few of John Gato’s articles about the NEA (one of the two major financial pillars of the dem party) and the state of American public schools at this juncture and show them to influential blacks when opportunity arises. Gato was a teacher of the year in NY and is an expert on what’s wrong with American education and he’s not talking about blacks or inner city schools specifically but the whole country. He as much as says a kid would be better off being raised by wolves like Mowgli or by chimpanzees like Tarzan than being in an American public school at this time.


48 posted on 04/03/2007 5:05:32 PM PDT by rickdylan
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To: abb

“DURHAM, N.C. — — Sitting on the stoop of his small wood-sided home, on a parcel of scrub pines carved from a former tobacco plantation, William Ragland, 76, said he wanted to see justice, and soon, in the Duke lacrosse case.

“And that would mean putting on trial not the lacrosse players, but the district attorney who led the early prosecution of the case, said Ragland.

“I was shocked by how Mr. Nifong did the whole thing. It was a cover-up. He had evidence that these boys did not rape her,” and improperly kept it secret, said Ragland.”

The link below will take you to a picture of the druggie ho that the two black Raci$ts, Rev Un$harpton and Je$$e HyJack$on lied about to make headlines and bucks for Je$$e and $harpton.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04122007/frontback.htm

It is time to debar LieFong, frog march him to criminal courts to tried for consperiacy and malfeasance. Then frog march him over to civil trials by the players and their parents, the coaches and anyone who came close to being lynched by the black racist and mediots of America.


49 posted on 04/12/2007 7:58:40 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (GW has more Honor and Integrity in his little finger than ALL of the losers on the "hate Bush" band)
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