Sunday, June 17, 2007

D-Day for Daddy.

Today is Father's day. Hope all of you dads out there having a good time, and for you dead beat fathers, I hope you're having second thoughts. Well I'm sure former Durham County D.A. Mike Nifong isn't having a good Father's Day. After sobbing his eyes out yesterday in court, and resigning from his post as D.A. of of Durham County he was dealt a predictable fate, disbarment. You might remember him, wait who am I kidding unless you were in a coma for the past year , you know him as the lead prosecutor in the Duke Lacrosse rape case. You know the case where three, white kids form Duke University in Chapel Hill, North Carolina were accused of rapping a black female stripper.

Now this case caused some outrage in the South amongst the black community and even some activist came out condemning the players for their alleged actions. Even tough they maintained their innocence,m they were already tried and convicted in the most powerful court system of all, the court of public opinion. You would be hard pressed to find anyone who were sympathetic to battle that these kids faced. I mean come on we are talking about the South here, where injustice concerning black people is a deep rooted in history, and it didn't help these kids came form pretty well off families. But the tide started to change, at least legally, it did. The accused victim started to change and twist her story like she was twisting her body on a pole in a strip club ( Gentleman's club for those of us who want to feel better about ourselves). And new DNA evidence showed that none of the accused had actually raped the girl. But this new evidence was ignored by Mike Nifong as he continued to prosecute the case like it was business as usual. Mr. Nifong is now paying the price for his crookedness.

Now exonerated, there has been few to apologize for wanting these kids heads on a silver platter. Common, a rapper, has apologized. Last year he made a comment at a concert about this issue,and blasted the Lacrosse players for what they allegedly did to this black woman. Now faced with the truth, he issued a public apology to the Lacrosse players and Duke University as a whole. Now if a rapper can do this, then why can activist like Rev. Al Sharpton among others do the same. Maybe they feel they would be weakened by offering an apology to white men for falsely accusing them of rape. Certainly the leader of The New Black Panther Party, ( A party which is not supported by the Huey P. Newton Foundation) Malik Zulu Shabazz, would probably die before offering an apology to a white man, but in this case isn't it the right thing to do.

For those of us keeping tabs on news items besides Paris Hilton . In the Middle East, Gaza to be more precise, its Hamas V.S. Fattah in the land that surrounds Israel. Well lets hope that Hamas doesn't get much further, for peace is at stake here. Sure Fattah and Hamas might look alike on the surface, but Hamas puts more fueled by religion. And believe it, with more religious nuts in power, its going to harder to gain the illusionary idea of Middle Eastern peace.

Also gets this, a woman is missing but she's not white. I'm glad to see some mainstream national news outlets are picking up the story of Stepha Henry, the missing John Jay graduate, form New York. Two weeks ago Stepha went missing while on vacation in Miami. We all know the odds in this cases like these, its more likely that she'll turn up as a corpse, than as live human being, but I'm sure her family are holding on to the hope that she will be found alive. After all there have been cases where missing people have been found alive, so lets not take away their hope yet, because they are clinging on to that fact.

Well until next time, be lewd and crude to your fellow man and woman, and maybe, just maybe you might get a surprise!!!

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