http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/hsletters/index.cfm#813837
Letters to the editor
Herald-Sun, The (Durham, NC)
January 28, 2007
Countering conspiracy to disrupt Durham justice
How dare the N.C. Bar Association join the mobs in Durham who have verbally lynched and sought to politically assassinate District Attorney Mike Nifong for seeking to prosecute three white Duke students accused of raping a black NCCU student. And if we are to refer to the lady as a "stripper," allow me to refer to the men as "perverted stripper patrons."
The conspiracy to disrupt justice in this Durham case should be obvious. It is unprecedented that the alleged criminals and their defense team have the luxury of such a media platform to proclaim their "innocence" and attack the prosecutor.
More than 50 percent of the black men packed into the Durham County jail also profess to be innocent. But the media will never allow their cases to be tried in the court of public opinion. Neither will you see any form of outrage when the DA says "they did it." Consequently we find more black men in Central Prison than N.C. Central University.
I challenge the racist media and N.C. Bar Association who wrongfully used their influence to attack the integrity of a prosecutor who is prosecuting a case which has the potential to challenge racism, classism, and sexism simultaneously. Yes, we should demand justice in the courts. We should also remember Malcolm X's point, which says, "If black people can't get justice in the courts, we have to demand justice in the streets."
CURTIS E. GATEWOOD
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Duke Case: A Reverend Revving Up Rioters?
WEBCommentary Contributor
Author: Michael J. Gaynor
Date: January 28, 2007
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Fiery advocate sees bigger dreams ahead
The News & Observer
December 27, 2002
Author: Rah Bickley; Staff Writer
EXCERPT
GATEWOOD CHRONICLES
1993: Curtis Gatewood first gains notoriety at the highly publicized trial of Michael Seagroves, a homeowner who shot a teen who fled after a break-in. When a psychiatrist testified in behalf of Seagroves, Gatewood stood up and shouted, "No, I cannot allow this to happen."
MARCH 1995: Gatewood wins presidency of Durham NAACP.
NOVEMBER 1995: Gatewood urges blacks to boycott Christmas shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving, the kickoff of the shopping season, to avoid overspending.
JULY 1996: In a public letter, Gatewood calls interim school Superintendent Ted Drain a "house negro" and an "Uncle Tom" for replacing the principal at historically black Hillside High School.
NOVEMBER 1996: Durham NAACP and Gatewood win state's NAACP Branch of the Year and Branch President of the Year awards.
FEBRUARY 1997: NAACP writes school board members saying superintendent candidate Ann Denlinger's "record and history are suspect." Denlinger gets the job.
NOVEMBER 1997: Gatewood loses a bid to lead the state NAACP to Skip Alston of Greensboro.
JULY 1998: Gatewood writes Duke University President Nan Keohane, asking her to scrap the school mascot, the Blue Devil, saying, "It's pretty much promoting the devil."
NOVEMBER 1998: Gatewood elected to second term as local NAACP president.
JANUARY 2000: Gatewood and demonstrators bring a school board meeting to a halt by chanting, three weeks after saying the NAACP would not sit by as disproportionate numbers of black males dropped out or were suspended.
SEPTEMBER 2001: Four days after terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, Gatewood calls on blacks not to fight in any war of retaliation, citing the NAACP's nonviolence policy and racism in the United States. The NAACP reprimands him and threatens to strip him of his post.
JULY 2002: Five months after the NAACP requests a police investigation into the February Cheek Road Apartments raid, Durham Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson rules the Cheek Road raid unconstitutional.
AUGUST 2002: Gatewood and supporters halt a school board meeting by chanting after the board re-elects Kathryn Meyers as chairwoman. He is escorted out of the meeting and is later convicted of trespassing.
SEPTEMBER 2002: Gatewood issues a statement urging blacks not to fight in a war on Iraq.
NOVEMBER 2002: Gatewood says he will not run again as Durham NAACP president.
Well now it isn't fair that the boys get three words in their title & the.... ahem...."lady" get only one. So in the interest of fairness maybe it should be "skanky ho stripper". Or is it "strippa"?
Nice.