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The Rev. Barber

By K.C. Johnson

The N&O reports that William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, has been elected to the NAACP national board.That's the same Rev. Barber who:--demanded a gag order against defense attorneys in the case, with the head of his organization's Legal Redress Committee suggesting that the defense attorneys, not Mike Nifong, had committed ethical misconduct; and then rejoiced when the order temporarily was put in place;--had his photo above an 82-point guilt-presuming memorandum of law riddled with factual errors and unfounded speculation about the lacrosse players, a document for which neither he nor author Al McSurely has ever apologized;--went to Duke Chapel to attack the lacrosse players' character while remaining silent as the grave about Nifong's procedural abuses;--suddenly rediscovered his concern with prosecutorial misconduct after the lacrosse case had concluded;--is, according to last report, overseeing his organization's own "investigation" into the lacrosse case...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on July 16, 2008 (boomark / email).