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Duke Celebrates Tyson

By K.C. Johnson

Said David Jarmul, associate vice president for news and communications: ?Professor Tyson is highly regarded here at Duke for his work as a faculty member."That's the same Professor Tyson who:--in his capacity as a teacher, attended a guilt-presuming protest outside the lacrosse captains' house, at about the same time the supposed "victim" was taped pole-dancing at a strip club;--publicly asserted about Duke students, based solely on evidence supplied by Mike Nifong, ?I think the spirit of the lynch mob lived in that house on Buchanan Street, frankly, and I think that we prefer to think of white supremacists as ignorant, pot-bellied, tobacco-chewing sheriffs and Ku Klux Klan members from Mississippi, but here we have the sons of power and privilege, the wealthy and well-educated among us, who are acting out this history...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on June 17, 2010 (boomark / email).