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From the CCI Archive: Voices of the Extremists

By K.C. Johnson

As his committee began to take shape, CCI head Bob Thompson received a number of e-mails reminding him that the coterie of extremists that swarmed the Duke campus in spring 2006 extended beyond the Group of 88. In early April 2008, a Duke student named Tsahai Tafari (who described herself as an African-American woman) told Thompson that ?I have been afraid of the young white men on campus at Duke for a very long time, and the racist assault and . . . the rape basically confirmed my fears.? She complained that in her lab, she was forced to listen to people talking about the ?lacrosse case? who??horrific in their lack of humanity??suggested that the players might be innocent. Such speech, apparently, needed to be prohibited at Duke. In mid-April 2006 (several days after DNA tests that Mike Nifong had promised would clear the innocent had shown no matches to any lacrosse player), Denise Jackson, the mother of a Duke female student, complained to Thompson...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on June 18, 2009 (boomark / email).