The Real People of Durham and The Word in the Street

Over the past four months, our most frequent, and vocal, critics have been quick to point out that we are out of touch with the “real people of Durham.” Kindly, these hecklers have continually offered insight as to the “word in the street here in Durham.” While painting a very clear picture of their own mindset, these visitors to the blog demonstrate that the sentiments expressed by the Herald Sun’s Greg Childress, NCCU’s Chan Hall and the local Democratic Party’s Harris Johnson are not simply three random, misguided perceptions. In gratitude for the contributions by these local commentators, today we turn the blog over to the “Real People of Durham” for a presentation of “the word in the street here in Durham” with a selection of their comments deposited here.

“you are a hypocritical no writing no rhyming bitch and i hope you have a nervous breakdown when the newest news on these "boys" comes out. word in the street here in durham is that there is a real shocker coming out soon and it involves the accused not the accuser.”

"the real people of durham hate obnoxious yankee punks who think they can come down here and piss on people's lawns and mistreat a local girl and try to get away with it."

"They have contributed to the excess publicity, especially most recently after the indictments when nifong went silent for the most part. they will not get a change in venue. if one is granted, there will be a riot.”

"the lax families and players are in for an ordeal and a potentially embarassing exposure before the world before the judge may chose to end it. word is,though, that the local people do not want a dismissal like that as they are afraid of a riot if it does not make it to a complete trial

"What happens after verdict in lacrosse case? Simple answer: Three convicted rapist will go to jail, for a long time. You asked and that is the answer.”

"joan foster, there are a myriad of Nifong supporters posting because not everyone has idealised these accused rapists-sodomist-kidnappers as you have done and we see through the defense's manipulation and lies and see the truth: something happened at that party and it was not tiddlywinks.”

"When you go to trial you are innocent, until proven guilty. 12 jurors said that OJ was not guilty, so he is innocent."

"How can Sir Charles say OJ is guilty, you are innocent until proven guilty, so if the jury says "not guilty" it means innocent. Therefore OJ is innocent."

"And you can call me crazy, but the court of law found OJ not-guilty, so as far as I'm concerned, he's not guilty."

"of course barkely would say something like that. he is a white wife having sell out uncle tom”

"I'll have tears streaming down my face from laughing so hard when the dukes guilty verdict is handed down. We will do more shouting than the OJ crowd. Remember OJ?? He was found NOT GUILTY."

"Why doesn't anyone believe that DA Nifong has the right people indicted? Remember is is the "minister of justice" and that is what he is doing JUSTICE"

"you only care about the lacrosse players BECAUSE THEY ARE WHITE MALE ELITES and you could give a damn about the rest of the people being railroaded in Durhm."

"Boy are you confused, Joan, they are under indictment, by the State of North Carolin for rape, kidnapping and sexual assault. They will be found guilty of at least one of those charges, the jury will make sure of that."

"All of your bad mouthing Mike Nifong is pointless. You can't get these criminals off. They must pay for their crime."

"You people are totally out of your minds! You want Mike Nifong off the case because he is seeking justice for a black rape victim. Listen for once in your lives....everyone is entitled to equal protection under the law. The rich and powerful with all their money and resources will not get special treatment. A crime was committed against the victim and justice will be served."

"You will burn in hell, if not sooner"

"According to the victim's own statement, the medical report, and Mike Nifong....A rape happened! "

"ed bradley was a sellout and an uncle tom. other than doing his job and being token negro on 60 minutes, what causes did he support?"

"What you naive white people don't get is that Ed (earring wearing) Bradley sold out to the rich white boys. Word is that he needed a lot of money quick to do something? before he died. "

"What has my opinion got to do with racism and hatred?It's my d*mn opinion and I have a right to one. You must be a hater of blacks b/c you're supporting the duke 3. Don't you dare pass judgment on me? I happen to believe that Mike Nifong has the evidence to convict all 3. "

"Please Are you idiots going to continue to defend the duke 3 even after they've been sentenced to 30 years in prison? Get ready b/c you are in for a long long wait. Let me think....they're going to be about 50 something years old. Quess that'll teach them to keep those zippers up, huh."

"Sorry, bradley was well known but not beloved in the black community because he never spoke up for the community publiclly and the duke lacrosse profile was proof of this; he put the white man's agenda above our community's. people like him and Prof Coleman do not have a lot of support in the black community."

"Yeah, Ed sold out just like that sellout half-Korean stripper (uh huh) Kim, and that cab driver who doesn't sound like a real black man, and those sellouts (probably half-Korean) at the club where the victim/sister/student/victim was forced to perform to make money to feed her babies. Cash and the other real brothers and sisters of Durham know this because they got it straight from the street."

"ed bradley was an uncle tom who sold his soul to work at the network. this duke report showed that."

"this is about ed bradley and no one in durham bought into that bullshit piece he did on the lax case. sorry but a lot of black durham people called him a tom after that piece and some of them said he is dead now for the lies he put on the air for that story. they said the nc saying: "he is dead suddenly and that is proof the Lord does not love ugly"

"Wrong! The community has nothing but respect for Cash Michaels. Cash happens to be a leader, a role model to many, and a great journalist. Stop your evil lies about him right now. You don't want to hear the truth, only your twisted version of it. There is nothing you can say that would make me or anyone else in the community think otherwise. Cash Michaels shoots from the hip, and pulls no punches. If you're looking for him to buckle and go against what he believes in, then you are incredibly mistaken."

"cash is wrong on that. the black community feels cash has been bought off by the defense and he is losing a lot of credibility. i have even heard some people making offensive comments about his private life the other day and usually this if off limits around here but this is a sign of how cash's stock has fallen."

"you all are mostly yankees and therefore have no concept of honor in politics or anything else. that is why you are defending a bunch of racist drunken thugs."

"and here is a special note for joan foster: all those stupid ass poems and drawings and stories of detectives and all the crap you put so much energy in did not help defeat nifong. you are not talented and need to take yourself back to new york where you came from because you have made a complete fool of yourself."

"Railroaded???? HOW DARE YOU! It was their own reckless action that got them in trouble. Now they're looking for a way out. NO NO NO....Time To Pay The Piper. They're NOT buying their way out of this! "

"I think your time would be better spent by compiling a list of tips on how not to drop the soap in the joint for your "boys."

"1. Reade Seligmann was there, dressed in a red shirt.(pictures) 2. Collin Finnerty was there because, (his dad said) on Dan Abramhs...Collin saw the dancers come and he saw them leave. (I watched the report). 3. Dave Evans was there partying his @$$ off. Now who is lying here??? WILL YOU BE LAUGHING WHEN THE DUKE 3 ARE FOUND GUILTY??? "

"F*&% You You're just like the sorry @$$ accused rapists. That's the kind of thinking that landed them in bigtime trouble. Prison time awaits them and it won't be a cake walk, baby. You despicable baitch! Mike Nifong is going to hang their @$$ out to dry."

"you are too stupid. the voyeur couple is not going to testify and expose themselves to ridicule in the community. durham is a religious place and nobody would wants that kind of info out."

"most people here are baptists and methodists and we hate drinking, pornography and sodomy. too bad that is what the team digs. oh and dismemberment like in american psycho."

"i said before that the people of durham are mostly baptists and methodists and we hate drinking, sodomy and porn. we also disapprove of sexual gratification derived from dismemberment like in american psycho. too bad the lax team likes all of the above as well as racism and rape."

"no one in durham is feeling those spoiled yankee brats who mistreated some local girls and are trying to get away with it."

"i have news for all of you on here. they are charged with 3 separate felonies. all a jury would have to do is find them guilty of even one felony and they are going to serve serious jail time."

"the players and defense started ABN and the petitions, etc, hired a pr firm and arranged for 60 minutes which was the defense version of the case. they even rescheduled it so it would be closer to the election so the expose would hurt nifong more. then when the program did not work as well as they thought as shown in the n and o poll before the election, kim and the bouncer who took the tape suddenly appeared with even more revelations and last but not least,then an ada charged him with ignoring sexual harassment on the eve of election. the voters in durham who want justice and a trial were not fooled and voted for nifong anyway. they saw through the lies and paid for testimony of pimps and whores and unauthenticate video tapes and biased tv news stories."

"the real people of durham hate obnoxious yankee punks who think they can come down here and piss on people's lawns and mistreat a local girl and try to get away with it."

"the cabbie? a black hero? please,another uncle tom who is supporting the white agenda."

"the stroke of the pen statement was indeed meant for the defense and the lax players and families. nifong is gloating in a way but he is justified after all the hell he is going thru...he will still proceed to nail them and their criminal offspring to the wall and to try to bring the guilty to justice."

"Every lie after lie that the defense has come up with is shot to h*ll. Example: 60 lie,ABC lie,(put marks on me) bouncer lie, Yolonda lie all was shot to h*ll. Stop with the excuses for these pathetic dukes. They made a point of being arrogant rude and out of control from the very beginning. "

"word is the article was pulled to be rewritten to be more favorable after nifong won in court friday! no amount of stupid poetry is changing the fact that nifong won by not having to produce the bill of particulars and he also had 600 more pages of discovery to give the defense and his motion about the survey made the defense look bad to the public. i was at the courthouse and saw it with my own eyes."

"and nifong scored a homerun in the press. the survey allegations were front page in the raleigh paper and it was on the local news. no amount of writing like sam spade or those stupid cartoons can disguise the truth."

"what was inflammatory was when the spoiled duke brats called this woman a n----- b---- and told her to thank her grandfather for picking the cotton for her shirt and assaulted her. the story reported was heinous because their actions were heinous that night."

"What is shameful is people like you whose minds are so warped that they refuse to see the duke 3's lies. "

"You are angry at Mike Nifong without cause..... you should be angry at the duke 3 for what they did and the choices they made."

"they are afraid of a riot if it does not make it to a complete trial but that is why the defense picked a judge not always in durham so he can dismiss without worrying about re-election in durham."

"There is NO way a man like Mike Nifong would punish these dukies unjustly. He is only doing his job by seeking justice against these dukes."

"After 7 months, she decides to come clean. It's laughable and you know it. Who paid her? I want to know so that all can be thrown in jail...Your little 60 show didn't work and someone paid Kim to lie in order to hinder people from voting Mike Nifong in office. Kim is a lying money hungry B**ch. She will sell her soul for a dollar."

"kim is a lying b---- and it is obvious the defense/families paid her off to keep telling stories. if this was true, why did she not tell this to ed bradley? kim is making it up as she goes along and as the payments come in. too bad no one in durham listened to a thing she said. she would shoot her own mother for a dollar."

"you all should know that most of the black people in durham do not beleive kim. they know a liar when they see one and the rumor is out that the duke family that is down here all the time, the finertys, are the ones that slipped her some money to come up with some more lies to help defeat nifong. justice will tell you the same thing as it is all over black durham just like it was when the cabbie was paid off. the cabbie got a new car and everything right after it happened that he "suddenly" remembered picking up reade after papa reade came down here and paid him off. yeah right, that is why he said the car the women was in was white when it was black on the photos. he was a paid off liar just like kim. noone down here believes the tow paid off liars even if they are black. they believe nifong has a case and the defense is afraid of what he has."

"they got to the cabbie about his testimony"

"you were already a racist and this case fueled it even more. Keep waiting until h*ll freezes over. You don't really want to hear what I have to say anyway. In your mind the dukies are innocent and the h*ll with the victim and what she has to say. Remember you became a racist after March 14th. Why would racist people want to hear a black person's facts of the case? Are you that stupid too?? Nice f'ing try though, flake.... you lose...again!"

"what you wrote is nothing but a cheap lie like everything else you write on this blog. it is not amusing or cute. well, it is easy to see why you like the duke 3 so much. they are liars too and they will be exposed for the lying perverts they are in open court.i hope you will be writing your little stories and poems when that verdict comes back guilty."

"They did the crime and must now pay for it. Why should these criminals walk?? No way, I say. They must "Pay The Piper" like any other common criminal. End of story."

"I must tell you: A jury will think differently and the outcome won't be pretty. Count on it!"