It should be emphasized, and repeatedly, that there would be NO race problem at Duke, except that a politically ambitious DEMOCRAT DA wanted to create race problems to assure his re-election.
And each and every African-American in that district should be aware that the man they most likely voted for is a race-baiter who is more than willing to create race hatred against them for his political power.
They should be reminded, over and over again, that voting for Nagin is no different than voting for a Ku Klux Klan leader for public office.
I think you mean't to say Nifong, not Nagin although the same arguement could be applied universally to both.
bump, you hit the nail on the head.
Schadenfreude. I never really appreciated the nuances of this word until I beheld the burgeoning fallout from this incident. I LOVE to see liberals hoisted on the petard of Political Correctness, racial identity politics, gender determinint feminism and what I have coined as "Tawana Brawley Syndrome".
TBS exists when one takes a historical reality such as the marginalization of innocent blacks within a once overtly racist crminal justice system or the past subjagation of women or any number of other offenses and attempts to apply that to a contemporary situation wherein the objective facts don't apply; ala OJ Simpson, Rodney King, Anita Hill etc.
Nifong was not only hoping to ride to re-election a wave of politically motivated outrage from the Black community over this contretemps, but I suspect that he was seeking to appropriate PC bonus points and obtain instant moral authority by championing the cause of the "other" (marginalized black exotic dancer) against racist male chauvinist members of the privliged white elite. A case of cultural Marxist Class warfare that boomeranged. GOD how I love it so!!!!!