The HOAX Disgrace

He had a can't-lose case. "A touchdown!" said Nancy Grace. The faculty was in his face, egging him on to save a race...

Duke's Tenured Vigilantes

"Mike Nifong's handling of the case was clearly outrageous. But he would probably not have gone so far, indeed would not have dared to go so far, had he not been egged on by two other groups that rushed just as quickly to judge the three accused young men guilty of gross and racially motivated carnal violence. Despite the repeated attempts by the three to clear themselves, a substantial and vocal percentage--about one-fifth--of the Duke University arts and sciences faculty and nearly all of the mainstream print media in America quickly organized themselves into a hanging party. Throughout the spring of 2006 and indeed well into the late summer, Nifong had the nearly unanimous backing of this country's (and especially Duke's) intellectual elite as he explored his lurid theories of sexual predation and racist stonewalling.

The metanarrative they came up with was three parts Mandingo and one part Josephine Baker: rich white plantation owners and their scions lusting after tawny-skinned beauties and concocting fantasies of their outsize sexual appetites so as to rape, abuse, and prostitute them with impunity. It mattered little that all three accused lacrosse players hailed from the Northeast, or that there have been few, if any, actual incidents of gang rapes of black women by wealthy white men during the last 40 years. Karla Holloway's online essay was replete with imagery derived from this lurid antebellum template. She described the accuser and her fellow stripper as "kneeling" in "service to" white male "presumption of privilege," and as "bodies available for taunt and tirade, whim and whisper" in "the subaltern spaces of university life and culture." On April 13, Wahneema Lubiano, a Duke literature professor, wrote in another online article, "I understand the impulse of those outraged and who see the alleged offenders as the exemplars of the upper end of the class hierarchy, the politically dominant race and ethnicity, the dominant gender, the dominant sexuality, and the dominant social group on campus."

And, how's THIS for a sharp stick in the eye...

"Thavolia Glymph, AAAS (Assistant Professor of African Studies), said she is disappointed with the community because "since the DNA results were returned Monday, we [have been] moving backwards."

She said the results have given the community a false sense of vindication and that students now feel issues such as race and gender no longer need to be examined."

Translation: The accuser lied. There was no rape. The team was dimissed and forbidden to participate in athletic events. 3 men were vilified, their reputations impugned, lifetime expulsions threatened...but the REAL crime...

Is the fact that she and her ilk can no longer use the HOAX to slander all white people on the face of the earth.

The real victims were of course the men falsely accused. NOT ONE MENTION of this is made by ANY of the GANG of 88.

Sickening racists, all. Instead of apologizing to the ones they smeared, they are sorry, SORRY, that no rape occurred.

Reminds me of the Anti's that wait patiently for someone to die from a criminals bullet so that they might use the demise of their fellow man as a stepping stone to further an agenda.

Oh, and I know this will come as a great shock to you all, but Thavolia Glymph also believes that the Jews are evil, and the Palestinians kept under their thumb in apartheid.
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But yes, kids, there's more...

"If faculty members don't think the Campus Culture Initiative is worth their time, why should students?

...Professor of English Karla Holloway's resignation as co-chair of the CCI's race subcommittee is another blow to an initiative that has drawn little interest from undergraduates-except perhaps for some of the DSG types.

Holloway's resignation was symbolic: she was angry that Duke had offered to reinstate indicted former lacrosse players Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, and wrote in her resignation letter that she "could no longer work in good faith with this breach of common trust."

What? She was angered that Duke wishes to atone for an egregious mistake? Ruined her whole day because the men were found to be NOT GUILTY?

Can you even BEGIN to imagine if the accuser was white, and the men black, but exonerated? There'd be liberal bells ringing from coast to coast.