First, you can look at the hysterical Duke faculty statement after the Lacrosse players were charged with rape, etc. Ooops, you can't - perhaps not out of shame for the lynch mob hysteria that they whipped up, but for fear of lawsuits they yanked it off.

http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/listening.pdf

Because of the stupid statements of the old cracker Imus, race hustlers like sharpton and jackson are demanding a dialog on race. Now after the lynch mob has dispersed, Duke has invited the lacrosse players back - how generous of them, after wrecking a year of their life and causing their parents $3 million in legal fees. One thing that SHOULD come out of this is a national dialog on fake rape accusations. But the media, which had such a wonderful time blabbering about rape, race, and "privilege", will now get real quiet about the whole affair.

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Yes, it's a real shame. Shame on Duke University for rushing to judgment. Shame on Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for not only rushing to judgment, but almost causing a race riot....and shame on all those Duke Professors who also rushed to judgment. And to think, THEY are professors. Well, here's what I'd like to propose happen...

1) Duke University should hold a Press Conference where they call in all the networks and apologize for their behavior.

2) Those same Professors should write another letter where they publically APOLOGIZE for condemning a group of young men before they had any of the facts and with little or nothing to go on. They should ask for forgiveness from the boys and their families.

3) Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson should call a national press conference and announce their errors in judgement about these young men and admit publically they rushed to judgement and apologize to all involved. They should also vow to never do such a thing again.

and finally....

4) Nifong should be brought up on charges for prosecutorial misconduct. He should lose his job and not be compensated for his firing. He should lose his law license. And he should be barred from EVER trying a case again. EVER.

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Exellent, I especially like the last one.

I play lacrosse, and I will be playing next year for the University of Tennessee. One good thing that has come out of this whole mess is that the sport has gotten alot of exposer. In Tennessee we have had 5 or six new teams in the past year. So maybe this whole thing will turn out good for the sport.

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he might even do time - but forget about that.

This guy is just a bad District Attorney

Considering you have underage boys drinking, hiring strippers and bothering neighbors.

Then , you have the boys admitting to the police that they DID yell the racial things at the stripper (about the only evidence to come out during the ethics trial of Nifong)

Also, there was DNA evidence of David Evans under her fingernails. - something went on between the two - even if it was a lap dance.

Then you have the Ryan McFadyen email that the media has somehow forgotten and Nifong could have wrapped all these up for a misdemeanor offense enough to get the boys kicked off the team.

One of the three was arrested for trying to beat up gays in another city.

Nifong went for the homerun on faulty evidence and lies. There was no rape. Something did happen and a good DA would have gone for what he could get.

These players are bad apples but now they have sympathy (as they should) because Nifong screwed up.

Going on right now.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070615/.../duke_lacrosse

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Man up.

Chemo, a good DA would have dropped it because there was no DNA evidence despite what you claim. There was a ridiculous amount of evidence in favor of the Duke players that they didn't do it, but he wrecklessly pursued it anyway. Despite what you say, college kids party and have fun, it isn't that big of a deal.

I don't necessarily think that it was about race, but that may have been why Jackson and Sharpton got involved. It's too bad that it did turn into a problem with racism even though race obviously had nothing to do with it. Those kids lifes were really messed up and as Raytri pointed out the DA is on trial so thats good. But hey, they won the national championship.

Uh, you don't know what you're talking about. Nifong was an appointed DA, and had to run against a black candidate, Keith Bishop. Nifong couldn't win without a good chunk of the black vote, so he sacrificed the Lacrosse players to his political ambitions. The Duke faculty wouldn't have screamed like stuck pigs if it had been an alleged white rape victim. The whole incident had EVERYTHING to do with race.

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yes, David Evans DNA was not excluded from her fingernails - try to catch up.


Many colleges expell or suspend "student" athletes in this scenario - especially ones that consider themsleves academic institutions.

Also noticed you didn't remark on the email calling for skinning the stripper or beating up gays - I guess good ol' college fun.

Seems I heard this line somewhere before..........oh I know after the OJ Simpson Trial.

Now before OJ white men got away with killing innocent black men in this country since when the so-called founding of this country, but when the majority feels like a black man got away with killing two white people now we need to take a look at the Justice System.

3 young white men are falsely accused of rape and we need to dialogue about rape, race, etc., but young innocent black men that were falsely accused sit in prisons across this country til this day and there was never a need for dialogue why is that?

It just shows there are two justice systems in this country.

Peace.