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Just a year ago, "rape" charges spread lynch-mob hysteria on the campus of Duke University and in much of the liberal media, while professional race hustlers descended on the town of Durham, North Carolina, and mindless tribalism was stirred up by extremists in the local black community.

. . . It is painful — and dangerous — how little we learn from history, even [such] recent history.

Professor Sowell is a patriot, and almost the definition of the term. He is indifferent to whose ox is being gored, and eloquent in his defense of the ox which was attacked while minding its own business. If, Heaven forefend, I am ever on trial, I want Thomas Sowell on my jury.

I caught the discussion of

Until Proven Innocent:
Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices
of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case by Stuart Taylor , KC Johnson

on C-Span BookTV Saturday. If you follow the above link to the reviews of the book on Amazon, you will get the flavor of the C-Span discussion featuring Stuart Taylor.

The book illustrates the fact that the Duke "Rape" case is a devastating indictment not only of Nifong and of Duke and some reporters but of the unaccountable power of prosecutors, of academia at large and of journalism at large. Just like the "Texas Air National Guard Memos" fraud, the "Duke Rape Case" is an open-and-shut case of ruthlessly tendentious journalism.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

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Thanks for the ping, c_I_c. Another OUTSTANDING Thomas Sowell article! Thanks for posting, jazusamo.