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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

"Death to all rapists"

So I read this on the N&O online about an editorial in the NCCU slamming the dismal of the Duke lacrosse case, calling for physical retaliation. Here's an excerpt:

"I am not surprised at the outcome of this case. As a son of Africa, I know that American law is not worth the paper it is written on," he wrote, adding later in the column: "White people still murder us with impunity. White people still beat us with impunity. White people still rape us and get away with it."

I was not suprised by the outcome either, especially after DNA tests all came out negative and the girl didn't know what she was talking about. And I mean, this guy couldn't possibly be biased:

In 2000 and 2001, he served a 13-month prison sentence after pleading no contest to charges of robbing two Duke students at gunpoint and then violating the terms of his probation.

I can't believe the editor of this paper ran this. If you don't want his opinion to reflect the views of your paper and university, let him find his own forum, especially when calling for violence against others. That's not so intellectual, is it? Maybe you, writer, should go somewhere else if you're not so big on how things are done here, somewhere you're free to mug people, and where everyone should just police each other on a whim? I can't imagine what that would be like.