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Tyson Reinvents History

By K.C. Johnson

Last week, the N&O?s Peder Zane profiled Duke faculty member Tim Tyson?s efforts to examine the racial history of the South; the article revealed that ?Pender and New Hanover counties District Attorney Benjamin R. David?s mother signed up for the course last year, then convinced her son that the class would help his efforts to build trust across communities.? Given his race-based assumptions on the lacrosse case, the idea that Tyson is providing any intellectual assistance to any law enforcement official is?to put it mildly?troubling.Several people e-mailed Zane to note the contradiction between Tyson?s performance in the lacrosse case and his apparently newfound support for due process. Zane followed up with Tyson, and blogged on the matter yesterday...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on May 24, 2008 (boomark / email).