Really?
How about we include a few more 'devils'?
Duke Professors Reject Calls to Apologize to Lacrosse Players
"WednesdayÂ’s letter was signed by 87 members of DukeÂ’s faculty, including 90 percent of the African and African American studies department, 60 percent of the womenÂ’s studies and a third of the English department.
Professors who signed the letter said they had received vicious and threatening e-mails after the advertisement was published. Dubbed “The Group of 88,” the professors became targets for all those charging that Duke professors were
left-leaning and close-minded. The professors, however, say their initial intent has been misrepresented. "
Duke Professors Reject Calls to Apologize to Lacrosse Players
Not sure I get your meaning. Are you saying that I should include you in with the devil's or that the people reported on in this article are also devils? My position was never that this was fair for the lacrosse players to have been treated that way. My point is that it is unfair to say that this one instance shows a pattern of bias in favor of african americans, which is what was being said by the "devil's" I commented on. This mockery of justice is the exact type of thing that blacks and other minorities have suffered regularly in this country for centuries, and still continue to suffer to this day. To cry foul in this instance and not reccognize all the other historical instances of the shoe being on the other foot (i.e. the Kobe Bryant example I gave) is to take hypocrisy to new, Michael Jordan slam dunk-like levels. I hope this isn't what you are saying.
Malcolm,
First of all, had the now-infamous case involved a White purported "victim", and a group of Black athletes falsely accused of kidnapping and rape, my reaction to the subsequent conduct of the accuser, the media, the prosecutor, the university and the local community would be precisely the same. I do not care to see anyone, and I do mean ANYONE, "railroaded" in such a fashion, anytime, anywhere in America. I do not care to see ANYONE, of whatever race, made the subject of what amounts to a public lynching of this kind, to include a prejudgment of guilt without benefit of a trial.
I have seen this sort of conduct before, by pandering prosecutors and a local media both complicit and credulous, with regard to Black defendants. I found it revolting in those cases, and I find it equally revolting in this case. I do think it telling in regard to the hypocrisy of the liberal elite that infest the ivy halls of academia, that the infamous "Group of 88" professors has yet to apologize for its actions in prejudging the guilt of the defendants (and for that matter, the other members of the lacrosse team), or in deliberately inflaming campus and community passions against the same. "That's not the way we intended it" is a feeble and cowardly excuse. Of course they knew; either that, or we have in evidence a group of phd.'s who do not comprehend the meaning of words in the English language! They accomplished precisely what they intended, right up until the moment when the lie they so gleefully swallowed was revealed for what it was! I hate to say it, but had the races been reversed, the rest of liberal academia might have subsequently condemned this shameful behavior; as it is, we hear nary a peep from the clucking pontificators of the liberal campus establishment who are more often more concerned with indoctrinating students than educating them. Lynching, it appears, is acceptable when liberals do it, so long as the lynchees are of the appropriate color and class. So much for the "integrity" of the academic Left, proudly held high here in all its reeking shame and infamous hypocrisy. Those "progressives" who constantly decry every "injustice", real or imagined, could do worse than to start with cleaning up the cesspool that serves as their intellectual fountainhead.
You are right to be disturbed by this case, as I am right to be disturbed when an injustice of this sort involves Black men. America is a nation of law, and whenever that law is ignored by a pandering prosecutor and a community whipped up into a lynch mob, then neither your rights, nor mine, are secure, no matter what the color of our skin..