The Duke Lacrosse rape case is in the news and at a very interesting time given the current rage over the IMUS case (sees previous blog).
I must admit that this particular case had my ire up quite high – from the beginning!
To me, all prosecutors are now suspect. They are not interested in justice but just a chance to run for higher office; well maybe not all of them but most. They are capable of sacrificing an innocent person’s life just to win a conviction and therefore a winning resume. I can point to many cases here in Michigan, especially the Detroit area.
The motives of the North Carolina prosecutor in this case MIKE NIFONG should have been suspect from the beginning. He was running for re-election in a black community and he did not even bother to interview the woman accuser until nine (9) months after the charges were brought against the three Duke students.
I am surprised that no one in the police or justice department stepped up to the plate to call out prosecutorial misconduct. Where they all scared for their jobs? I think they should all be included in the legal civil suits that will surely follow – and I think heads should roll big time!
The prosecutor played the race card; rich white students, poor black single-mother, student and dancer just trying to make ends meet – perfect!
Sharpton and Jackson made an appearance as they always do – remember IMUS? I hope their names come up as this whole thing blows up.
Many are wondering how our justice system could allow such a miscarriage of justice. Why don’t we have a system that can identify rogue prosecutors?
The three white students had rich parents and so they could afford to spend 3-5 million dollars on a good defense team. What if they were poor students going to Wayne State University in Detroit using their GI Bill after the Vietnam War (like me and my friends) to get an education and had no extra money available except to feed themselves. I would venture to say that those students would be facing 30 years behind bars – lovely?
The question of race and sex is a national pathology as anthropologist Lionel Tiger of Rutgers says. We react. We are allowed to be manipulated and we forego the use of reason. We are pawns in the game of race and race card players are very good at it.
It is time we stood up to this manipulation because people’s lives are at stake or at least their well-being.
People that don’t have a racist bone in their body should not be made to feel as if they are inherently racist because they are white – enough!
I must admit that this particular case had my ire up quite high – from the beginning!
To me, all prosecutors are now suspect. They are not interested in justice but just a chance to run for higher office; well maybe not all of them but most. They are capable of sacrificing an innocent person’s life just to win a conviction and therefore a winning resume. I can point to many cases here in Michigan, especially the Detroit area.
The motives of the North Carolina prosecutor in this case MIKE NIFONG should have been suspect from the beginning. He was running for re-election in a black community and he did not even bother to interview the woman accuser until nine (9) months after the charges were brought against the three Duke students.
I am surprised that no one in the police or justice department stepped up to the plate to call out prosecutorial misconduct. Where they all scared for their jobs? I think they should all be included in the legal civil suits that will surely follow – and I think heads should roll big time!
The prosecutor played the race card; rich white students, poor black single-mother, student and dancer just trying to make ends meet – perfect!
Sharpton and Jackson made an appearance as they always do – remember IMUS? I hope their names come up as this whole thing blows up.
Many are wondering how our justice system could allow such a miscarriage of justice. Why don’t we have a system that can identify rogue prosecutors?
The three white students had rich parents and so they could afford to spend 3-5 million dollars on a good defense team. What if they were poor students going to Wayne State University in Detroit using their GI Bill after the Vietnam War (like me and my friends) to get an education and had no extra money available except to feed themselves. I would venture to say that those students would be facing 30 years behind bars – lovely?
The question of race and sex is a national pathology as anthropologist Lionel Tiger of Rutgers says. We react. We are allowed to be manipulated and we forego the use of reason. We are pawns in the game of race and race card players are very good at it.
It is time we stood up to this manipulation because people’s lives are at stake or at least their well-being.
People that don’t have a racist bone in their body should not be made to feel as if they are inherently racist because they are white – enough!
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