The Disgrace of the Duke 88
The three lacrosse players have been declared innocent, Duke University has agreed to a multi-million dollar settlement, and Michael Nifong’s law license has been yanked. But unfinished business remains.
Three weeks after Crystal Gail Mangum made her false allegations of rape, 88 Duke professors ran an advertisement in the student newspaper asking, What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like? [http://listening.nfshost.com/listening.htm]
The rambling April 6, 2006 statement lamented, “… no one is really talking about how to keep the young woman herself central to this conversation, how to keep her humanity before us.” But no mention was made about the humanity of three male students falsely accused of rape.
Worse, the professors’ manifesto used the logic of the lynch mob, fostering the notion that since a Black woman claimed to be a victim of rape, everyone at Duke was now tinged with racism: “We go to class with racist classmates, we go to gym with people who are racists … It’s part of the experience.”
Exactly who are the members of the Duke 88 and what is their agenda?
The most vitriolic member of the bunch was professor Houston Baker, who repeatedly indulged in racist and sexist claims. In his letter to Duke provost Peter Lange, Baker charged, “Young, white, violent, drunken men among us – implicitly boasted by our athletic directors and administrators – have injured lives.”
Young, violent, drunken men among us – Dr. Baker, that’s the language of the KKK, not of a university teacher.
Karla Holloway, chair of the university’s Race Subcommittee, justified her membership in the Duke 88 because she desired to express her support for “all” students at Duke. When asked whether her support for all students included the beleaguered lacrosse players, she refused to answer.
When Crystal Gail Mangum changed her story for the umpteenth time and the case had more holes than the frayed netting of a lacrosse stick, the Duke 88 fell back on their neo-Marxist slogans and stereotypes.
History professor William Chafe made the claim that “Sex and race have always interacted in a vicious chemistry of power, privilege, and control.” Somehow Dr. Chafe forgot his history lessons about the notorious case of the Scottsboro Boys, the nine Black teenagers who were falsely accused of rape in 1931.
Wahneema Lubiano outrageously argued the lacrosse players were probably guilty since they were “the exemplars of the upper end of the class hierarchy, the politically dominant race and ethnicity, the dominant gender, the dominant sexuality, and the dominant social group on campus.”
Rich, white, male, and heterosexual – yep, guilty as charged.
So when the DNA tests failed to link Mangum to any of the lacrosse players, Lubiano poo-poohed the news as part of a “demand for perfect evidence on the part of the defenders of the team.”
Likewise, professor Thavolia Glymph fretted the DNA results would cause the Duke 88’s crusade to transform the campus to start “moving backwards.”
And even after her radical leftist colleagues fell under withering criticism, Gang of 88 member Paula McClain refused to express remorse. “I’m not going to be intimidated into modulating speech,” she retorted.
And for real entertainment, a visit to the websites of the Duke 88 provides a revealing glimpse into the mindset of these academic elites.
Like professor Kathy Rudy’s website that reports she is “Currently workig on a new project critiquing animal rights from speciesist persective.” [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/WomensStudies/faculty/krudy]
Speciesist perspective? Workig?? Thank goodness this black-gowned agitator is teaching women’s studies, not English spelling and grammar.
And literature professor Antonio Viego, whose website proudly announces he specializes in “queer ethnic studies and lesbian and gay theory.” [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Romance/faculty/aviego] Parents, have you ever wondered where your $34,000 tuition money is going?
The Duke 88 advertisement marked a critical turning point in the Mangum rape case. It condoned the actions of the campus potbangers, hardened racial divisions in the Durham community, and provided fodder for Michael Nifong’s re-election campaign.
And just 12 days after their statement came out, two members of the lacrosse team were arrested on charges of rape, first degree sexual offense, and kidnapping. A month later, a third player was indicted.
A year later, these young men have been declared innocent and a semblance of normalcy restored to their lives. But their names and reputations are forever associated with a heinous crime.
Meanwhile, the identities of the Duke 88 remain unknown to the public, their deed of infamy hidden behind the cloak of anonymity and plausible deniability.
So let it be said that these 88 men and women acted in a scurrilous manner to foster race hysteria, inflame gender relationships, and trample on the due process protections for three men falsely accused of the crime of rape [http://listening.nfshost.com/supporters.pdf]:
1. Stan Abe – Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
2. Benjamin Albers – University Writing Program
3. Anne Allison – Cultural Anthropology
4. Srinivas Aravamudan – English
5. Houston Baker – English and African & African-American Studies
6. Lee Baker – Cultural Anthropology
7. Christine Beaule – University Writing Program
8. Sarah Beckwith – English
9. Paul Berliner – Music
10. Connie Blackmore – African & African-American Studies
11. Jessica Boa – Religion & University Writing Program
12. Mary T. Boatwright – Classical Studies
13. Silvia Boero – Romance Studies
14. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva – Sociology
15. Matthew Brim – University Writing Program
16. William Chafe – History
17. Leo Ching – Asian & African Languages
18. Rom Coles – Political Science
19. Miriam Cooke – Asian & African Languages
20. Michaeline Crichlow – African & African-American Studies
21. Kim Curtis – Political Science
22. Leslie Damasceno – Romance Studies
23. Cathy Davidson – English
24. Sarah Deutsch – History
25. Ariel Dorfman – Literature & Latin American Studies
26. Laura Edwards – History
27. Grant Farred – Literature
28. Luciana Fellini – Romance Studies
29. Mary McClintock Fulkerson – Divinity School
30. Esther Gabara – Romance Studies
31. Raymond Gavins – History
32. Meg Greer – Romance Studies
33. Thavolia Glymph – History
34. Michael Hardt – Literature
35. Joseph Harris – University Writing Program
36. Karla Holloway – English
37. Bayo Holsey – African & African-American Studies
38. Mary Hovsepian – Sociology
39. Sherman James – Public Policy
40. Alice Kaplan – Literature
41. Keval Kaur Khalsa – Dance Program
42. Ranjana Khanna – English
43. Ashley King – Romance Studies
44. Claudia Koonz – History
45. Peter Lasch – Art, Art History
46. Dan A. Lee – Math
47. Pat Leighten – Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
48. Frank Lentricchia – Literature
49. Caroline Light – Institute for Critical U.S. Studies
50. Marcy Litle – Comparative Area Studies
51. Ralph Litzinger – Cultural Anthropology
52. Michele Longino – Romance Studies
53. Wahneema Lubiano – African & African-American Studies and Literature
54. Kenneth Maffitt – History
55. Jason Mahn – University Writing Program
56. Anne-Maria Makhulu – African & African-American Studies
57. Lisa Mason – Surgical Unit-2100
58. Paula McClain – Political Science
59. Louise Meintjes – Music
60. Walter Mignolo – Literature and Romance Studies
61. Alberto Moreiras – Romance Studies
62. Mark Anthony Neal – African & African-American Studies
63. Diane Nelson – Cultural Anthropology
64. Jolie Olcott – History
65. Liliana Parades – Romance Studies
66. Charles Payne – African & African-American Studies and History
67. Charlotte Pierce-Baker – Women’s Studies
68. Wilma Pebles-Wilkins
69. Arlie Petters – Math
70. Ronen Plesser – Physics
71. Jan Radway – Literature
72. Tom Rankin – Center for Documentary Studies
73. Marcia Rego – University Writing Program
74. Deborah S. Reisinger – Romance Studies
75. Alex Rosenberg – Philosophy
76. Kathy Rudy – Women’s Studies
77. Marc Schachter – English
78. Laurie Shannon – English
79. Pete Sigal – History
80. Irene Silverblatt – Cultural Anthropology
81. Fiona Somerset – English
82. Rebecca Stein – Cultural Anthropology
83. Susan Thorne – History
84. Antonio Viego – Literature
85. Teresa Vilaros – Romance Studies
86. Priscilla Wald – English
87. Maurice Wallace – English and African & African-American Studies
88. David Wong – Philosophy
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June 26th, 2007 at 7:43 am
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June 26th, 2007 at 8:20 am
I not ony condemn the Duke faculty but also the media. The following is
from Fred Reed:
Diversity and its Prospects
The Hazards of Regarding Lying as a Solution
June 24, 2007
From :Wikipedia: “Christian’s parents found her abandoned Toyota 4-Runner two blocks away from the Chipman Street house on Monday, with the help of her mobile phone provider. An envelope recovered from the vehicle yielded fingerprint evidence that led police to Lemaricus Davidson and 2316 Chipman Street. When police went to the address on Tuesday, January 9, they found the home unoccupied and Christian’s body in a trash can in the kitchen. Christian was strangled to death.[5] According to the grand jury presentment, Christian was raped vaginally, orally, and anally, and Newsom was raped anally.[2] Vanessa Coleman told police that “she witnessed Christian’s mouth being cleaned with a bottle of some type of cleaner,” in an attempt to remove DNA evidence.[6] Coleman also said that she had seen “clothes that were stained with blood and smelled of gas being put in the washing machine at the house.”[6] Newsom was shot three times, “his body wrapped in a blanket, set afire and dumped alongside nearby railroad tracks.”
The American media hold a special place in my heart for their faith in diversity. In the recent Duke case, with which I presume everyone is familiar, a lying black whore (she was lying, she was black, and she was a whore: I suppose I should identify her as Snow White’s sister and a pediatric nurse.) accused innocent college kids of raping her, whereupon the entire complex of media and governments piled on, ruining the boys’ lives. The racial aspect got tremendous attention: White racists in the South abusing a poor black girl. This is a favorite template of the media.
Many see the hooker of Duke as just trying to get attention or money. Perhaps she was, but she was also trying to get the white kids put in the slam for many years (where, incidentally, they would almost certainly have become the sex toys of a heavily black population.) This should be a serious crime with heavy penalties. It doesn’t seem to be.
But in the Tennessee case, the crime was real, and hideous. It didn’t fit the template, though, so both the government and the media tried to smother the crime and to conceal the race of the criminals. This is the government to which I’m supposed to be loyal.
Note that in both cases the crimes were racial. The whore in the Duke case knew, had to know, how to work the racial angle. So did the prosecutor, who was perfectly willing to destroy the kids to advance his career, though he got disbarred for it. He ought to be jailed. With respect to the Tennessee case, note that rape is not primarily a sexual crime. Any man who wants to get laid can find a hooker for twenty bucks on a downtown street corner. It’s easy. Men know that it’s easy. Rape? You don’t risk life in jail on a murder charge for a few minutes of lousy sex.
You do it from hatred. If you really hate whites, you make a white girl give you a blow job in front of her boyfriend. It’s a kick. On your knees, bitch….Then you wash out her mouth with Drano or whatever to destroy the evidence.
Why do the government and the press consciously hide the race of criminals? Part of it is abject cowardice. Part of it is reflex, the journalistic templating that is now almost genetic. Reporters are not thoughtful. White-on-black crime is something you write about. Black-on-white isn’t. Truth doesn’t matter. A reporter wants to keep his job and get along in the news room. You don’t make waves where you work.
The deeper reason, though, is otherwise. If the press reported the extent of black crime, hell could easily break loose. There are limits to forbearance, even federally enforced forbearance. Racial animosity is high in the United States but papered over, with mention of it verboten in the media and punished by heavy penalties, such as losing jobs. Things are not getting better. Blacks burn a city every ten years or so. Los Angeles, Cincinnati, DC, Newark, Watts, what have you.Whites are cowed and submissive but very often quietly hostile. Any white man with a daughter will look at Christian and think, “My kid could be next.”
As for black crime in general, I spent over six years as a police reporter, riding at least weekly in a variety of cities, usually in black sections because that’s where the crime was. There’s a saying that you can bullshit the fans but you can’t bullshit the players. I know what is out there. So does every cop, every prosecutor and most urban reporters, unless they cover runway fashion. None will say it. To tell the truth is a firing offense. It’s another world downtown, troops, nothing like anything most people have ever imagined.
What is out there are very high rates of black crime, much of it targeted at whites, with interracial rape being almost entirely black-on-white. The blacks of the slums hate whites. This isn’t my overactive imagination. Check The Color of Crime. The figures come from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, and the National Crime Victimization Survey.
If you have any doubts about the attitude of the media, ask your local TV channel to hold a live debate with Jared Taylor, who compiled the figures. If the media could show his numbers to be false, they would crucify him in a heartbeat. But he’s right and they know it. They are unlikely let him near a microphone.
If things were getting better, then holding the lid on, pretending and lying, might make sense: a few more years, one might say, and blacks downtown will assimilate and the whole sordid mess will evaporate. But things are getting, if anything, worse. Few jobs exist for functionally illiterate blacks from the vast sprawling slums that whites never see. Do you know how many are functionally illiterate? When blacks and Latinos compete for jobs, the Latinos invariably win. Latinos are gaining in political power, taking over neighborhoods from black gangs. The bastardy rate among blacks hovers around seventy percent, guaranteeing social disaster. The performance of blacks in the schools is horrible and not improving. A great many whites are sick of affirmative action, sick of Jesse and Al, sick of lying news coverage, and sick of living in fear. Hispanics by the way have not a shred of guilt over the problems of blacks.
Blacks are sometimes (quietly) described as a a failed race in permanent custodial care. This may not apply to those of the middle class. It does apply to those of the slums. They are what they are going to be. Affirmaitve action has indeed produced a middle class, which may have been the best of the available choices, but the underclass is still there, waiting. There you are. I wish it weren’t so, but every indication is that it is so.
For how long will silence work? The feds and the press now control the tension well . Nobody can object . We are all afraid of gpvernmntal coercion. . Consequently there exists an edgy stability. As a friend in Phnom Penh described things to me before the final siege, “The situation is hopeless but not critical.” Not yet. But the hatred that fueled the burning of the cities remains, and the imposed calm eliminates any incentive to examine a problem that isn’t admitted to exist. I don’t think the feds quite know how many whites are how angry. Today blacks assume that whites will always back away. The Japanese once thought the same thing.
If there is a solution, we had better find it, instead of closing our eyes and putting our fingers in our ears. One day, as the pressure on blacks from Latinos grows, if the economy begins to drop under Chinese pressure and the special privilege is no longer affordable, things may very well blow–probably between blacks and Hispanics, since they are in direct competition and often in close physical proximity. I hope I’m wrong. Stick around.
To see pics of these evil low life dirt bags go to:
http://www.fredoneverything.net/FOE_Frame_Column.htm
I hope they all fry.
June 26th, 2007 at 8:30 am
It is gratifying to see that professors in the hard sciences, medicine, engineering, and mathematics (a single exception) lack places on the list of bigots. This is no surprise to me since liberals generally inhabit those positions in academia that require only a modicum of effort and intelligence to obtain.
June 26th, 2007 at 8:55 am
These disciplines (as noted in the list above) generally tend to be occupied by those who attack issues with a fact-less, emotional, illogical, feel-good response. You often find people in these positions overestimating the importance of their education. Certainly, humble personalities are rare. The degrees not represented represent those who generally approach things with a logical, reasoned response, backed with factual evidence. Oops, have I described the difference between a typical liberal activist and a conservative?
June 26th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Denis:
Thanks for the posting. I had never heard of “The Color of Crime,” although I had seen some of the statistics therein. It is amazing how effectively that report has been suppressed — not simply ignored — by the media. I encourage everyone to check out Vdare.com, and also read Walter Williams’ excellent (pre-911) analysis at http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3691. No one can accuse Williams of being a racist — he is extremely intelligent and black. Why is it that we are not even allowed to discuss this topic in a rational, factual manner? It’s sort of like trying to debate global warming with a liberal.
June 26th, 2007 at 10:48 am
From the Office Environment of the Dean
& Associated Multi-Functional Gender Affirmation Team.
Duke University.
Ref: The 88
Learners and Learning Managers,
My Peace be with you.
Recent real time discourses have revealed the potential of socially disruptive semiotic structures among the Professorial College. The Committee Responsible for Academic Proposals (CRAP) have initiated a radical program to be rolled out in the short term to augment the multifarious offerings in each Faculty.
It was an unforseen and legally instructive but nonetheless timely juncture that has enabled a proactive action language plan to be unveiled in all our Academic Departments across and within our University, as the narrative of the interface of the recent series of racially divisive sporting programs with the democratic people’s election requirements and the community response to extra-curricula, off-campus multi-racial contacts mark a starting point to healing the rift between our various interlocking cohorts.
That the narrative exposes a dysfunction is a given, if and only if such givens are also recieved. For that to be seamlessly integrated heralds a call for the new program. From tomorrow, all communicable speech will be witnessed by understandability audit trails.
Our new Language strategy, more prepotent than heretofore, and comprehensively holistic will roll out the self-actualisation and self-actualising of all, and will empower learners and learning Managers alike, ending endemic, co-dependant, abusive relationships between individuals or their designated spokespersons and non-sustainable grammatical styles, regardless of and being inclusive of origin.
By drilling down into this most recent trauma we will achieve national, perhaps International, Racial, Gender, GL&TG, & Intellectual closure, inducting citizens of the campus and beyond into sustainable, disaggregated converse & linguistic intercourse, oral and non-oral, with aural inclusivity.
It is time the writing came off the wall and onto the blank pages of societal rights and associated inherant responsibilities.
We the undersigned do propose;
to Speak Clearly;
to Maximise the Clarity in Word usage Scenarios, inclusive of Arrrrrapaho & Rap; to make English ‘Fit for Purpose’.
Hence our New Linguistic Competencies Foundation Program.
We will also be firing 88 staff starting this afternoon.
June 26th, 2007 at 10:51 am
I expect feminists are pleased with how things turned out at Duke.
Nifong is a male feminist, part of the feminist government’s criminal system. He was encouraged by the feminist community (Duke 88 + media + more) to process the Duke men using feminist justice (men bad, woman good).
Under the magnifying glass of a national attention, Nifong got caught acting unethically; however, the feminist community now ignores him. After all he is a man first, feminist second (I suppose if Nifong were a woman the results would be different).
The Duke students were harmed. Yet the feminist have not apologized or express remorse as the students are men.
Crystal Gail Mangum, the woman that the hospital’s rape unit first found semen from four different men in her cavities (but no semen from the accused), was not harmed. According to our feminist government, the media, and the community, Mangum is blameless for false witness against others.
http://johnsville.blogspot.com/2006/04/duke-rape-accuser-crystal-gail-mangum.html
I expect feminists are pleased with how things turned out as no women were harmed in this process.
June 26th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Sadly, the disgraced Duke 88 faculty are members of the last remaining Brahmin class of annointed high mystics — i.e. TENURED university teachers.
They cannot be fired for what they say or do, excepting extreme cases of moral turpitude. (Sleeping with your students does not qualify; though denouncing the Iraq war might….)
The feckless fearlessness with which these lofty academics signed a decree of condemnation against three “innocent until proven guilty” young men is revealing in the extreme — ideology trumps logic every time in today’s arenas of “higher learning.”
Yet there is nothing that can be done to hold them accountable. They are tenured.
That’s the academic Holy Grail, the lifetime passport for job security regardless of future performance or even marginal utility to the actual enterprise of learning.
Nothing in the Evil 88 faculty roster surprised me, except for Fellow Traveller # 70, a Physics professor?
I’m betting s/he was a transfer from Gender Studies.
June 26th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
http://carbolicsmokeblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/dukes-gang-of-88-who-took-out-ad.html
June 26th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Judge Rufus,
You are a very dangerous voice.
I like that!
Though your web site needs a graphic designer…..
June 27th, 2007 at 5:48 am
carey..thanks for the list..
June 27th, 2007 at 7:43 am
scottkirk,
Follow this link and you’ll get even more useful info on “the list:” http://z10.invisionfree.com/FODU_Open_Board/index.php?showtopic=4
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Nice to be back, fellas.
I called Duke and talked with the Senior Vice-President, John Burness. I asked him whether the “Gang of 88″ would be punished for their manifesto which was really an attempt to lynch the Duke lacrosse team. My point was fairly simple: that manifesto poisoned the pool of potential jurors thereby denying the defendants due process of law and the right to a fair trial.
“It’s the job of a university to tolerate opions it doesn’t agree with”, was his bull-shit reply. When David Horowitz tried to give a speech down there last spring however he was harassed by 3 feminist professors.
What Mr Burness was really saying was that it was the right of liberal, tenured professors to say anything they damned well pleased whether it was legal or not and conservatives had better shut-up or feminist professors will strip to the waste showing their sports bras.
Ugh!
October 4th, 2007 at 10:29 am
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