Rape Case Is Seen as Symbol at Black College in N.C. (Duke LAX)

Washington Post ^ | 05/07/2006 | Anne Hall

[OakOak]

Now that was Funny! LMAO!!

[last american]

Not rationalizing what the duke pigs did, but I find it interesting that those that claim to be most offended, are more than likely the most "offenders".

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm#lifetime

Based on current rates of first incarceration, an estimated 32% of black males will enter State or Federal prison during their lifetime, compared to 17% of Hispanic males and 5.9% of white males.

[OakOak]

Ladyjane,

In the article by Kathleen Parker it doens't mention those stats tied to gang-rape. Although, I've seen other Freep posts citing the same stats for gang rapes (cross race).

One thing we DO know, if those stats were incriminating of whites, we'd be reading them at the top of every article on this subject. Just like EVERY article points out the race of the alleged victim and the race of the suspects.

[dr_who_2]

I don't watch 'Law and Order'. If I did, maybe I could get ahead!

[dr_who_2]

The accuser reminds me of Tom Robinson's accuser in To Kill A Mockingbird. She was a pitiful character, and she knew it. The only security blanket she had was her made-up story. The Jim Crow jury in that story also had to rule in her favor, because the truth wasn't acceptable.

[OakOak]

We have to repect to amount of time this people have put into watching TV.

I'm surprised the Post let that slip in. They'd like to portray like most of these poor people don't own televisions.

I did notice the going rate, cleared, for women working as escorts in Durham is $100.00 an hour. It seems they were getting paid considerably more for this gig at the off-campus house.

[OakOak]

Ping.

[JLS]

"We are the same age," Bennett said. "Both of us are single mothers. And both of us are poor."

..... and we are victims
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That is the irony. Statistically the way to almost assure that you will be poor is to be female and have children without bothering to be married. So they victimized themselves but I guess no one ever points that out?

[OakOak]

.. Notice how the Main Stream Media is walking in lock-step,
look at the similarities in this article by the New York Times. See how the Drive-by Media is taking the same "angle" on this story

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/education/01central.html?hp&ex=1146456000&en=2f0a5418e2db9701&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[dr_who_2]

We have to repect to amount of time this people have put into watching TV.

It almost has gotten to the point that I get annoyed at people who regularly watch and talk about TV, not a good thing. I could maybe get a decent tv, pay $100 a month in cable/satellite bills flipping between reruns of The Beverly Hillbillies/BBC citcoms/Mexican Game shows/Pakistani Musicals/Learning Channel stuff to my heart's content without hating myself too much, but it's easier and cheaper to keep throwing away tv's that other people have dumped on me. Flat screens, projection screen tv's, DVDs are cool, but not worth it if they gather dust too much of the time.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

<< What color was Kim's (the other stripper) car? >>

In the 911 call at Kroger, Kim can be overheard telling the security guard that her car is dark blue, but looks black.

Included among the defense photos (which you can see in the following post) is a photo of what the defense says is a lacrosse player helping the accuser into Kim's car, which as you can see looks dark blue/black:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1617550/posts?page=1013#1013

[Repub4bush]

saving place

[JLS]

I could not get by the author calling NCCU and Duke sister institutions. They most certainly are not. NCCU's sister institutions are UNC-CH, UNC-C, UNG-G, NCSU, UNC-W, ASU, WCU, UNC-A, FSU, ECU, NCA&TU, etc.

Duke is a private school that does not rely on NC tax revenue and is not responsible to the people of NC.

[dr_who_2]

I did notice the going rate, cleared, for women working as escorts in Durham is $100.00 an hour.

When I was younger, I used to like Durham-or parts of it. It's gotten increasingly seedy looking since then. Worse than Washington, DC in some spots.

[robertpaulsen]

Then that ties together. The cabbie must have been wrong when he said it was white.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

<< The cabbie must have been wrong when he said it was white. >>

Looking at the roof of the car in that photo, it looks to be partially covered with white crud, as if the car was normally parked outside and was never washed after a long winter with road salt and grime. Or maybe it's just peeling paint. Perhaps the top of the trunk has the same white crud/chipped paint, which the cabbie saw when he pulled up from behind.

[Alia]

Thank you for the ping, OakOak.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

" Or maybe it's just peeling paint"

lookee here......

2002 Honda Accord LX from North America

I purchased a new Honda Accord (2002) on June 21st, of this year. While washing it at a car wash using a pressure washer, a piece of paint peeled off of the front bumper. I phoned the salesman at the dealership, and he told me that this happens all the time, and it was probably from a tiny stone chip, and then using the pressure washer made a loony sized piece of paint to peel off. The salesman told me that I shouldn't use a pressure washer, because that is what will continue to happen. The salesman suggested that I buy a $200. front protector to save the paint............I took it to the dealership and the supervisor told me, yes it's a stone chip, and the pressure washer peeled the paint, there is no warranty for that, we can fix it for $300. or put on some touch-up paint.

25th Sep 2002, 19:05
My 1999 Honda Accord LX had a bumper repair after a front end collision and I had the same problem with peeling paint. The work was performed by a Honda authorized dealer and I thought it was just a poor paint job. It sounds as though there may be an inherent flaw in the material used to make their bumpers.

21st Oct 2002, 19:03
I purchased a 1998 Honda civic last year, and the paint is bubbling up and peeling on both the front and back bumpers. After searching for "bad Honda paint job" on Google, it turns out this is a recurring theme. My dealership repainted the front bumper, but refuse to touch the back, suggesting I "take it to a body shop". Honda has a big problem here

8th Nov 2005, 14:07
My 2002 Accord had a leaf-sized patch of paint on the front fender peeled off immediately after a routine automatic car wash. Don't believe it was the car washes fault tho. Has anyone had anything similar happen? I'm thinking it was hardened bird droppings, and it ate thru and loosened the paint.

http://www.carsurvey.org/viewcomments_review_28053.html

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googling "bad Honda paint job" comes up zero.....but a search of "peeling Honda paint" (without the quotation marks) produced this:

Results 1 - 10 of about 56,600 for peeling Honda paint. (0.21 seconds)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=peeling+Honda+paint&btnG=Search

[Alia]

Duke is a private school that does not rely on NC tax revenue and is not responsible to the people of NC.

Hmm.

This means the "rape nazi's" aren't able to bully the school into funding specialized "feminist pograms" as they have been successfully able to do at all the other institutions of "higher learning". Jotting this note to self...

[OakOak]

Jeez. On this subject of biased Media, I may have found the worst example in today's (Sunday's) News & Observer. For 2 weeks, they've been trumpeting a special section in the Sunday paper devoted to the Duke case where all sides will be aired.

This is just sick. Disclaimer: I'll say up front the excerpts are of my choosing.

On the Cover page of the section, the Editor of the paper has a column beating her chest about the N&O's coverage of this incident (every though they've been consistently biased and have printed contradictions and outright errors).

Also on the Cover page, there's an article by a black Freelance writer from Durham. He mentions some older cases of cross-burning and generally laments the Big Media coming to town and distorting Durham's image.

There's a article by Tema Okun that asks "why are we so complicit?" She says "Privleged white men who have innumerable choices are portrayed as victims while a young, African-American woman's limited choices are used to attack her."

A Duke professor of history, William H. Chafe, has an article. He says, "Like Hurricane Katrina, the Duke Lacrosse fiasco is important not just because of what HAPPENED, but because of what it reveals - and what makes it possible." I'm sorry Professor, I thought we didn't know
what happened yet. The professor writes, ""What should I do," a WHITE senior in my seminar asked his classmates, "to learn how to relate to women and racial minorities WITHOUT using all the ASSUMPTIONS I have grown up with about people who are different than me?""
It seems the Duke History professor has identified the problem - and it is the wretched white man.

There's a back page with more articles dedicated to the subject. The first article on that page is by a neighbor of the lacrosse team (610 N. Buchanan), the title is: 'It takes only one bad neighbor to make life miserable for many.' The author goes on to cheer diversity and he says "Renovation of 610 N. Buchanan can't happen soon enough to suit me," and he looks forward to the house being inhabited by someone "who will be a valued part of the neighborhood."
So, these white boys were not valued by a liberal that champions diversity! That's breaking news.

An older black woman authors another article on the page (Wahneema Lubiano). She mentions the growing anger in Durham "against aspects of everyday life at Duke." She writes, "life here for those that are marginalized by structure and generally INIVISIBLE RACISM, sexism, and class division." That leaves me to wonder how one identifies "INVISIBLE RACISM", but these are extraordinary people, you know. She continues, "we don't have to wait for working class or poorer students to be targeted by fraternity 'theme' parties or cross burnings on the quad or in dorm halls, or for sexual assaults to be attested by perfectly placed witnesses and indisputable evidence."
I wonder if Wahneema stood up for sexual assualt victims like Paula Jones and her clones that were poor and powerless and yet, they didn't have perfectly placed witnesses or indisputable evidence. If she traveled with the pack, which I suspect she did, then she thought there were bigger fish to fry when Paula Jones and others reported sexual assault and harrassment at the hands of Power.

The last article in the widely promoted special section the Duke case FROM ALL SIDES is written by a faculty member at NCCU, the accuser's school. The author is a white liberal named Bruce DePyssler. He seems to divide the factions into two distinct camps when he says the NCCU campus newspaper, the Campus Echo, "has received e-mails from across the country. Some rally behind the accuser; others are simply racist." He goes on to say "within American society and within the American historical experience, a history in which the RICH and the WHITE have had their own insidious affirmative action program."

I believe the New & Observer truly belives they have represented all sides in the special section - and that is SCARY!