Sharpton and brother Nifong

A black woman accuses three white men of rape. Then her story changes and changes again, and again, and again. Each new story contradicts the woman's earlier accounts. After months of the media smearing the accused and race baiting hustlers stirring up trouble, investigators conclude that no attack ever took place. The Duke rape case? It could be, but it is actually the 1972 Tawana Brawley case in New York.

The big difference between the Tawana Brawley and the Duke rape cases is that the guy who stirred up all of the trouble in the Brawley case went on to become a serious DemoRAT presidential candidate. To this day the Right Reverend Sharpton remains a serious guest on the various “respectable news” programs. Ironically, Sharpton’s stature has actually risen as a result of his loud mouthed, inaccurate, libelous, race baiting in the Brawley case. Now the Right Reverend Sharpton gets to sit in judgment of Don Imus. While Imus’ statements about a women’s basketball team were callous and stupid, he never put one person’s freedom in jeopardy or put a community on the edge of a race riot for weeks. Sharpton’s lies in the Brawley case did just that.

The Sharpton like slug in the Duke case is Mike Nifong. But instead of using the Duke case to springboard his presidential bid, Nifong will be lucky to stay out of jail. It’s unlikely that Nifong will ever get his own radio show or be invited on O’Reilly to pass judgment on someone stupid enough to use a racial slur on a national radio show. Sharpton should be in the same boat as Nifong.

And let’s not forget Nifong’s office. Who was advising Nifong? How many resigned while Nifong was railroading the Duke players? How many participated in the railroad? How many should be issued their walking papers for not standing up to Nifong?

Were I Nifong, I’d do a genealogy search and come up with black blood somewhere in my family tree. Then I’d buy a bullhorn, grease my hair back and march through black Durham neighborhoods chanting “No justice. No peace. No white interlopers. No hymies.” Of such things DemoRAT presidential bids are born.