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Professionally, it's just about over for Nifong. His anemic apology is too little, too late.*Doug

Don't worry Doug! Help is on the way for brother Nifong. Don Imus is arriving in Durham this coming week and has sign up with brother Nifong for therapy sessions at Duke's Hare Men For Apology Club. President Broadway will be conducting the sessions with such thrilling subjects as:

1. Don't let the door hit you on the way out Nifong
2. It ain't over until the I-Man crys and apoloizes for the Duke womans basketball coach for going to Texas.
3. And to top it off, Duke's President Broadway will be the Duke's team jock cleaner under Coach K.
4. And finally! The 88 Duke diversity at any costs Profs will be dress as female cheerleaders next year at all half time Sports events including the Duke Le Crosse games.

Once again, Doug. You seem to be hammering on Nifong , and with good reason. It just puzzles me no end how you can hammer one race-pandering demagogue who tried to railroad some white people because it suited his personal political agenda and electoral advantage in Durham, and give a free pass to our favorite Guilford co. demagogue.

The education editorial in today's paper again shows you're having trouble over there getting it. You even referred to the schoolobaord's action as creating an "escape clause". The point is, NOBODY'S children should ever have to "escape" anything. Don't you see? Why would I want to live in High Point if I have to "escape" when I could live someplace else like Greensboro and not have to "escape"? Again, not a single word about disparities in Greensboro.

Nobody should have their educational decisions predicated on the personal politics of a person in power who is willing to force them on other people.

Justice was done in both cases.

I think your sense of proportionality is all wrong. Dot Kearns wasn't trying to send anyone to prison for 30 years.

Yes, to be fair, the school board has to put escape clauses in all its assignment plans.

You have to hand it to Cooper a great horse and pony show. IF he had meant it. Crystal would be in jail, Nifong would be in the same cell, and the Durham police dept would be getting out of the state.

Ah let's see, Doug.

Three kids not going to Duke any longer. Several hundred GC kids to private or home schooling perhaps never to return.

Financial strain: Paying lawyers vrs. selling house at loss and paying premium price in another county where no Dotfong.

Fighting a despot for the last twelve mos. in Durham vrs. fighting a GC despot for the last 38 mos.

You're right, Doug. No parrallels at all.

In fact the Duke guys may make out better with lawsuits plus they can write tell all books etc. Somehow, I don't think I'll sell many books when I write: "Dot and Me".

Doug, the Duke guys were only ever in very marginal danger of ever doing any time from the get-go, and everybody knew it.

But your right. No similarities.

SCS when you write a book called "Dot and Moses and Me" I will buy it.

Savage, I suppose this has been a character-building experience for Seligmann, Finnerty and Evans. Whereas, if they'd had to go to high school eight miles from home, they would have been ruined for life.

Call "60 Minutes." They should be covering the story of your suffering instead of those spoiled rich kids.

One more thing, Savage. I challenge you to read today's review of the case in the News & Observer and tell me how Dot compares to Nifong.

http://www.newsobserver.com/1534/story/564100.html

Doug, The Duke trio are not ruined for life. Far from it.

I've detailed enough similarities on this blog between Dot and Nifong, even on this strand, that I can't beleieve you would even ask for a furthur cataloguing.

The basic problem is: constucting a narrative in one's own mind and then forcing it on other people.

Nifong: The Duke boys are racsist bigots and everybody knows it. They are cretins who are certaininly capable of such a thing. They exploited this black woman. I know it. You know it. All you others who have been exploited your whole lives by these very same scoundrels, Rise up! Re-elect me.

Dot: The reason High Point schools are failing is because white people sequester themselves in the northern part of the city, not because I'm incompetent. They are priviledged and they are short-changing others in the course of supporting their local school.
(even though their school is one-third minority (2004) and the population of GC is one-third minority-I checked the W-2's of these students and they appear to not be poor-at least not as poor as others). This can't go on. These people need to be shown the error of their ways and with the help of almighty God and the Simkins Block I will get re-elected and prevail, so help me God!

You rejected the first narrative. You're blind to the latter.

Once again, Savage, pitch it to 60 Minutes and other big-time media. If you're right and Dot is in the same villain class as Nifong, and if the horrible injustice you've endured is on a par with the Duke lacrosse players, the media will jump to broadcast your story.

Furthermore, if the Duke guys are going to come out all the better for this because of their opportunities to press damage claims, you should do the very same thing. Why should you be denied your measure of justice when you have been wronged to an even greater extent than those young men who were saddled with serious criminal charges for a year and whose families paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars to lawyers? If it's as crystal clear to the whole wide world as it is to you that your victimization was as great or greater than the Duke defendants', then demand compensation. Present your case in a wider forum that this blog. Don't let those Duke boys claim one bit of sympathy that rightfully belongs to you and yours. No one ever has suffered more than you. Make the world see, Savage. Don't stop at comparing Dot to Nifong. Why, the likes of Hitler, Stalin and Mao never made people suffer more than she has tortured you. Never stop until the world understands.

Doug, it appears you're finally having some type of catharsis that's been brewing for awhile. It's good to get these things out.

Hopefully we can put all this behind us. Like Garth said, this past week was a call to arms and a beginning. If we are going to do anything we can't start from a state of division and co-ersion, which is what we had the last three and one-half years.

I wouldn't have said another thing on the subject
except N&R editorials somtimes demand answering.

Never before has one town's newspaper been so obsessed and fretted over putative racial imbalance and injustice in another town, but nary uttered a word on greater imbalances in their own community.

If the Kearns vs the children of High Point was a war then her supporters (Allen and Doug) are sore losers. Last Tuesday the school board took a hard look at the results of the last four years and made a sensible decision. The right decision. Enrollment on High Point schools is down in real terms by probably 20%. According to Grier a disadvantaged child costs twice the amount of a more fortuneate child. If the middle class desert the public school system then the its an almost impossible situation. As Amos Quick said "the public have voted with their wallets". They needed to get the children back into the schools for the benefit of all children. Tuesday was a bad day for private schools and a good day for public schools.Doug and Allen, enjoy your blind folds.