Money + Power = Respect (to some degree at least). The money that was lavishly exhausted on this defense team represents old money that was spent rather strategically: one portion going to legal expenses while the other went into a public relations campaign. According to ESPN, Bob Bennett, an ex-Clinton lawyer headed the external public relations campaign for the accused. Duke University followed suit retaining their external public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller, whose clientele include McDonalds, BP, and Cisco. Further, with the lynching of Mike Nifong there are still questions which remain outstanding. His methods, clearly reprehensible; could it be that he knew something we refuse to recognize; the negative equity of African-American women in the presence of white men of privilege. Was he was attempting to employ the same tactics used to demonize alleged black rapists in reverse? According to legal scholar Valarie Smith, the press tends to dehumanize black rapists as savages, wolves, and beasts which in turn fuel the fears about black men. Why is it that the accused in this matter were allowed to surrender themselves under the cover of darkness, completely prepared for the “perp walk” as opposed to being apprehended and drug into jail like the folk from lower castes of this country that we see on “cops?” Could it be that Nifong attempted to beat the Cheshire defense squad to the punch of media deflection and misdirection as they vehemently inundated the press by painting the accuser as the stereotypical black jezebel? Rush Limbaugh clearly called the woman a “Ho” but still has a job. http://mediamatters.org/items/200604030004 One last question, being that Cheshire and others are riding this horse of justice, I wonder do they plan to do any pro-bono work for others in jail who have been wrongfully accused?
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