The Dukes of Hazard

The highly-touted Duke University Lacrosse Team season is now officially over. But for 40-plus of their players a new season is just beginning. A season where they’ll be no winners. By now, we are all aware that a black exotic dancer was “hired” to perform for the Duke White Devils Lacrosse Team. The dancer has alleged that she was raped--or at the very least--sexually assaulted and the recipient of a caravan of racial slurs during the ordeal. If those facts didn’t strike a chord.... chew on this..

The Duke University team is comprised of 46 white males, and one brotha. The team ranked in the top ten in the country and were highly favored to win the NCAA Championship before the season was cancelled by the school’s president and some time before a single player was (officially) charged with a crime.

Put Up Your Dukes

Unleash the mini cars, clowns and bearded ladies, as the circus officially began once media model, Jesse Jackson volunteered his services. Once Jackson climbed on board, the-not-so simmering racial component boiled to an ugly head (no pun intended). (Side note) I wondered why Jackson chose not to challenge the NCAA committee about the fact that there is only one black person on the Men’s Lacrosse Team? Maybe he feels that nigga is crazy. I imagine that brotha echoes similar sentiments about Jackson. As I digress.

If this were your “normal” stripper versus student sexual assault case, the customary “smoking gun” (in this case) negative DNA tests results would’ve all but “acquitted” all of the accused. But, this is not a typical case. This is Duke University. This is a black stripper. And, I told you Jesse Jackson was on the scene. Jackson is so committed that he didn’t even answer Cynthia McKinney on line 2.

Because I’m liberal on sex and ultra conservative on crime, I’m on the fence on this one. Is this dancer an opportunist seeking vengeance? Or were the Duke boys exercising their embedded, sexually explicit violence acted out of their inherited master’s mentality? In the truth lies the hazard.

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Ray Lewis

McKinney Madness

So Cynthia McKinney thinks the congressional police are racist, huh? I know the brothers and sisters on the streets in Cincinnati, Ohio and the corners of Jasper, Texas are saying "no shit?" For the record, I like Ms. McKinney. But, I probably like her more because she’s black and less because she so politically astute. Sometimes I get the feeling that Cynthia thinks being black is more important than being effective. I can just picture Tiger Woods on The Masters' Green this weekend whispering.., see that's what I'm talking about?

In truth, McKinney stood a better chance of winning an Angie Stone look-a-like contest than entering the congressional floor without proper identification. The part that confuses me about Sin Cynthia is how do you go from suing the cop for an in proper search/ sexual haharassment mishap, to apologizing for slapping him? When keeping it real goes wrong.

You see the one thing I know about my people is, we rarely apologize when we are wronged. I cannot imagine Desire Washington apologizing to Mike Tyson for slapping the rap charge on him, and her case was EXTREMELY questionable.

In the end, I hope Cynthia finds peace, hopefully in a reality series... after all, she already has the hair style.

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Ray Lewis