Posted on 01/10/2007 6:31:28 AM PST by TBBBO
How was this professor's membership on the committee expected to improve black - white relations?
She needs to resign from the faculty for being an ahole. It certainly would not miss her or any of her type.
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Since that time, though, the prosecutor’s case has all but fallen apart, and public opinion has swung drastically in defense of the lacrosse players. Professors like Holloway — who had condemned the players — are now facing criticism for prematurely assuming the players’ guilt and, ironically, making racist charges against the White players.
What a great person to put in charge of a committee to "heal" race relations. Can we put the Grand Master of the KKK on another committee?
If she is so incensed, she should resign her position at the University, not just the committee. Won't happen though.
Why is it that blacks can never be racists? I see this as a blatant case of racism.
in the guts of the article, it's not clear whether she just resigned from the committee or resigned from Duke.
If she feels that strongly, then she should resign from Duke.
If she just resigned from the committee, she's a hypocrite.
Yowza yowza yowza - for 'Black Studies' professors, white is always guitly - evidence need not apply.
I guess she was Head of the White Guilt Steamroller Department
Hell no, she's got her tenure to think of.
Also see the editorial in today's Duke Chronicle at: http://www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2007/01/10/Editorial/Nifong.Make.The.Right.Move-2616541.shtml?norewrite200701100939&sourcedomain=www.dukechronicle.com
Nifong: Make the right move
Posted: 1/10/07
The lacrosse debacle came to a new peak in December, as Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong dropped rape charges against the three indicted members of the 2005-2006 men's lacrosse team Dec. 22.
The case seemed to have been falling apart in Nifong's hands in the preceding months for myriad reasons: two negative DNA tests, evidence from the defense indicating that at least one of the accused was not even at the party at the time of the alleged rape, skepticism about the legality of the lineup in which the accused stood, and a North Carolina State Bar investigation of the district attorney's actions.
Then, the alleged victim reneged on her original testimony, saying she actually wasn't sure a rape had occurred.
And with that, the rape charges were gone.
Two charges still stand: kidnapping and sexual offense. We have yet to see whether or not these will be found to hold any truth. But there is one other aspect of the case that now must go, and that's Nifong.
It is now clear-glaringly clear-that the district attorney had made egregious errors in his handling of the case.
Worse, it seems that he made some of these errors consciously. Not only did he brazenly condemn the lacrosse players as "hooligans" in the media and proclaim their guilt even before DNA tests or any other thorough investigation had been conducted, but also, as the testimony of Dr. Brian Meehan in early December showed, Nifong also took steps to keep exculpatory evidence from the defense.
McCarthy-esque overzealousness in the public spotlight evolved into what many now perceive as intentional malice.
The bottom line, however, is that whether a matter of intention, perception or misstep, what Nifong did is inexcusable. From his early accusatory remarks to his handling of DNA tests and the lineup, he has made mistake after mistake, tripping down the ugly path of this case.
In the process, Nifong has fed the fire of an already chaotic media circus and cast a dark shadow over Durham, at least in the national eye.
Now, he must step away from the case-and be forced to do so if he refuses. It is clear that he cannot be objective, that he cannot be a fair asset in the legal process.
For the sake of all parties involved-the accused, the accusers, Duke and Durham-It is time for the case to be placed in someone else's hands, someone the public can trust.
If there is truth in the remaining charges and whatever evidence Nifong has can prove it, the case will stand up in court under the eye of a new prosecutor. If this is not the case, we will soon see that Nifong may have performed more poorly than we even now think.
But outcomes have yet to be determined. The crucial move now is that of taking Nifong away from Duke lacrosse, out of the fray. Only then can this case move forward in an honest light.
Mr. Nifong, have you no decency? If you do, take the first good stand you have thus far in the case, and pass it on to a party more objective, fair and just than yourself.
I'll bet the "good" professor would have had no problem with the University giving Tawana Brawley a tenured position with the University racist committee.
Well your whining resignation should certainly increased the support for you.
To me the only faculty that deserves support is the coach who resigned. What in the world would engender public support to any other faculty member. But I guess she is just jealous or something. Sound like a "me, me, me" liberal whiner.
REVERSE RACISM!.....oops! Forgot! Blacks can't be racists!.......
Typical cut-n-run collectivist.
Sounds good. At least they won't have to fire her.
Why would anyone pick a racist to run a committee to address racism anyway?
Excuse me??? Fine, let the whiny baby take her prejudices and leave. The campus will be better off.
Lemme guess--she was a member of the "Duke 88" who basically called the students guilty before the police investigated, failed former lacrosse players (wrongly), and whose full-page advertisement calling for their removal from the university is now down the memory hole.
Yeah. Got it.
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