Posted on 01/10/2007 6:31:28 AM PST by TBBBO
I would hope that no parent would even consider sending their son or daughter to such a place.
As opposed to the decision by the university to suspend the players and to cancel the LAX team's season based on a case that now appears to have no basis in fact.
I see, Ms. Holloway. I see...
The sound of the double standard is deafening.
I just sent this:
Dear Ms. Holloway: I just read your comments on why you resigned for the race relations committee. Do you have any idea how hateful and prejudiced you sound? Do only blacks deserve to be considered innocent until proven guilty? Are whites guilty no matter what? Think what you are doing to the students you teach; you are indoctrinating them to harbor hateful presumptions against whites. That is a terrible thing to do. A little fairness and evenhandedness would go much further toward helping race relations than warped white-male-rich=evil/guilty theme you champion. You have a lot to answer for. Instead of simply resigning the committee, you ought to resign from Duke. That would go further toward healing the racial problems than for you to continue to put forth hateful anti-white racial attitudes.
Sincerely,
PS: And when you resign, why not apologize to the lacrosse players whose due process you have done your best to deny? Injustice is still injustice, no matter who it is perpetrated against--and a great injustice has been perpetrated against those three young men, in that people like you have attempted to convict them prior to their trial. Shame on you.
Would someone please tell me why "Black" is capitalized as in "Holloway, who is Black" and "The accuser was a Black single mother" ... ?
Her essay on the matter. Probably the saddest example I have seen yet on what is now considered scholarship from a professor of English. That this woman is also a professor of law is positively frightening.
http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/sport/printkho.htm
Obviously, this gal does not want to be confused with the facts. In his mind, these "animals" raped this poor working single mom student and it was a racial incident. I thought Duke was smarter than this and didn't employ morons.
"Too damn bad all the white students and alumni don't withdraw from Duke for employing @ssholes like this professor."
There was a time when people acted on principal. There is no consequence to biting the hand that fees you anymore.
"It's clear Holloway believes justice is exacted at the hands of a frenzied mob"
As do most liberals. Take to the streets to invoke change. It's their mantra.
Very well said,too bad it's taken white people over 30 years to finally start renouncing some of this one sided racial crap. Most of what whites feel today is white guilt. Get over it.
Dr. Holloway, do you not understand that you and the faculty hasn't received public support because they don't deserve it?
"http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/sport/printkho.htm"
That's what quotas get you.
I live up the road from Duke, they've got an abundance of her type. We never even considered Duke or UNC Chapel Hill when our son was looking at colleges 3-4 years ago.
Why would anyone want to go to Duke now?
Scary huh? She's a law professor.
Dr. Karla Holloway, the William R. Kenan Jr., Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke
From Durham in Wonderland (http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/):
Holloway Leaves CCI
Karla Holloway has resigned her position as race subgroup chair of the Campus Culture Initiative, to protest President Brodhead’s decision to lift the suspensions of Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty. “The decision by the university to readmit the students, especially just before a critical judicial decision on the case, is a clear use of corporate power, and a breach, I think, of ethical citizenship,” said she. “I could no longer work in good faith with this breach of common trust.”
Holloway had not always been so concerned with the significance of “judicial decision[s] on the case.” This summer, she wrote that “justice inevitably has an attendant social construction. And this parallelism means that despite what may be our desire, the seriousness of the matter cannot be finally or fully adjudicated in the courts.” Therefore, since the presumption of innocence “is neither the critical social indicator of the event, nor the final measure of its cultural facts,” judgments about the case “cannot be left to the courtroom.”
Holloway’s departure from the CCI is a welcome development. Holloway’s comments over the last nine months had shown little or no respect for a wide variety of groups on campus, and so her occupying such a prominent place with the CCI seemed a basic contradiction in its mission.
Male athletes? “The ‘culture’ of sports seems for some a reasonable displacement for the cultures of moral conduct, ethical citizenship and personal integrity,” reinforcing “exactly those behaviors of entitlement which have been and can be so abusive to women and girls and those ‘othered’ by their sports’ history of membership.”
Those who defended the players targeted by Nifong? They believed that “white innocence means black guilt. Men’s innocence means women’s guilt.”
Women’s lacrosse players who had worn armbands expressing sympathy with Seligmann, Finnerty, and Dave Evans? She denounced their “team-inspired and morally slender protestations of loyalty that brought the ethic from the field of play onto the field of legal and cultural and gendered battle as well.”
The sympathetic article announcing Holloway’s resignation from the CCI came in a publication called Diverse Online. Here’s how its author, Christina Asquith, described the scene last spring. “Initially, many at Duke supported the dancer. Students held candlelight vigils on campus and 88 professors, now known as the ‘Group of 88’ signed an advertisement in the student newspaper calling for the administration to take a stronger stand against the players.”
Apparently Asquith didn’t receive the memo on the new party line regarding the Group of 88’s intentions.
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Her degree is not in English and she has no law degree. Her Ph.D. is in Black Studies from Michigan State.
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