Education
N&O editorial revised (you’re welcome)
Note: As a courtesy, I revised the December 10, 2011 editorial for N&O editors. The editorial is revised to reflect news that the Democrats on the Wake County school board…
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Scenes from a protest
On a sweltering morning in downtown Raleigh, Carolina Journal Executive Editor Don Carrington took these photos at the NAACP-led demonstration protesting the Wake County school board’s assignment policies. Several hundred…
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Timothy Tyson in Carrboro Tonight
The author of Blood Done Sign My Name will speak about his book and race relations at 6 p.m. this evening at Carrboro High School. The book, which chronicles Tyson’s…
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The spirit of the lynch mob lived on in — oh, wait, this is about Bill Clinton? Nah, he’s cool. Or: Are Duke lacrosse team members ‘as black as’ Obama now?
Last year, when the Gang of 88 at Duke were in high dudgeon over the infamous rape hoax that victimized Duke lacrosse players, the News & Observer published a truly…
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Bob Lee Swagger plays the great Durham “What If” game
That being, of course, “WHAT IF it had been a team of BLACK athletes and a WHITE ‘college (honor) student and single mother of two’?” With such a setup, the…
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NC Central students: prosecute lacrosse students regardless of truth, to serve justice for the past
From Newsweek: Across town, at NCCU, the mostly black college where the alleged victim is enrolled, students seemed bitterly resigned to the players’ beating the rap. “This is a race…
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Martinezes to be on WPTF 680-AM tonight to discuss DNA results for Duke’s lacrosse team
Kudos to WPTF for suspending regular programming to allow the community to respond to this important news. Our Donna Martinez and hubby Rick will be on shortly to guide the…
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On those DNA tests on the Duke lacrosse players
A trusted source close to the investigation has told me that the DNA test results will come back negative and that other evidence exists that will exonerate the players. That…
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On Duke leftists, Orwellian definitions, and “no rush to judgment”
Duke professor of English and African-American studies Houston Baker writes: There is no rush to judgment here about the crime — neither the violent racial epithets reported in a 911…
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About that “free market is really a slave market” stuff
The subject line refers to the following quotation by “Blood Done Sign My Name” author Tim Tyson in his N&O article on the Duke gang-rape allegation. I discussed his column…
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I doubt there’s a more irresponsible, pluperfectly foolish column on the alleged Duke rape than this
I’m referring to this column by Tim Tyson, winner of the last year’s UNC Summer Reading Program sweepstakes, in today’s News & Observer. Here are several choice selections: Rape is…