This Imus thing

[stripersnipr]

Isn't Rosie (Basketball Head) O'Donnell a little late interjecting her under-informed, hypocritical opinion on the Imus issue?

[fishpoopoo]

[cheferson]

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[mosholu]

What comes out of the Imus affair is that conduct that tends to polarize race relations has to be punished strongly. It would therefore seem to me that NC Atty General's office should strongly go after the DA and any other officials in the Duke lacrosse case where it appears that a prosecution was brought to in large part advance the political ambitions of the DA. The family of each student should sue the same individuals (although they may be depleted of funds and the student want to get on with their lives) and I think there may even be grounds for the Federal Government to bring an action.
This travesty did significant damage to race relations and now that we have set a benchmark lets prosecute!

[fishpoopoo]

i don't see the Duke Lax player rape case as a racial situation as much as an opportunity for the D.A. (Mike Nifong, who is white) to try to score political brownie points at the expense of some purty white boyz. IIRC he was up for re-election at the time. when the evidence came to light there wasn't much outrage in the black community at these defendants or white people in general. but everyone was pissed at Mike Nifong for the railroading.

talk about a backfire.

[mosholu]

Originally Posted by Bassturbed

i don't see the Duke Lax player rape case as a racial situation as much as an opportunity for the D.A. (Mike Nifong, who is white) to try to score political brownie points at the expense of some purty white boyz. IIRC he was up for re-election at the time. when the evidence came to light there wasn't much outrage in the black community at these defendants or white people in general. but everyone was pissed at Mike Nifong for the railroading.

talk about a backfire.

According to the article in today's NY Times the DA Nifong mentioned his efforts in this case on the politcal stump on occasions where he was speaking to a minority crowd. He was exploiting the racial differences as well as the economic differences of the community to advance his own career. In a state that has a large percentage of African American voters being the guy who is willing to take on the "rich white elite" is not a bad platform to run off. The problem is you can not corupt the judicial process to make it so.

[pmueller]

cbs pulls Imus late Thursday and will not let Imus on his radiothon.