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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

RE: Attorneys: No DNA Match in Duke Scandal

I'm beginning to seriously consider the possibility that this thing was a setup. Consider this: Someone finds out this girl is going to do a private party for these boys and intercepts her on her way to the thing. He or they beat and rape her and tell her she better blame the rich white boys. She has plenty they can hold over her head.

As for motive, there are forces in the Durham area that seek to incite class and race hatred for their own reasons. It was that way when I lived there. From what I hear, it is that way now. Contrary to the picture painted by the BP's resident troll, we lived on the edge of the neighborhood in which this took place. We didn't have a house and property inherited from a well-to-do relative. Marie and I lived in half of a run-down house for which we paid most of my salary in rent. We had a beat up old VW bus that ran most of the time, necessitating that I walk to work when the weather was decent (and sometimes when it wasn't). As a result of all this, I talked to people and got to know the character of that part of Durham.

Social justice types, both black and white, were always pandering to the class envy and racial tensions in Durham. Most of the time, it was wealthy white liberals from Duke and from Chapel Hill doing the inciting. They were always raising the specter of the Klan, which was almost a parody of itself. There was an incident in which two toothless, half-wit, inbred brothers donned sheets and tried to burn a cross, only succeeding in setting one of the brothers on fire. It was later revealed that they weren't even at the right house. Such was the Klan bogeyman in Durham.

This is just an idea. I won't be surprised if they eventually discover that the boys on the lacrosse team were involved. But I also won't be surprised if the whole story just kind of dies on the vine, sort of like the cross burnings last year. The forces who seek to incite race warfare have no lack of official cover when their effort goes wrong and they are in danger of being exposed.

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