@Voltimand — you are confusing Cornel West with Houston Baker, formerly of Duke University and now teaching at Vanderbilt. Click the link and read about dear Professor Baker.

One of the more interesting curiosities of this election is the tenuous connection of the Obama, Ayers & Dohrn crowd to the Duke Lacrosse case and the inability of K.C. Johnson to see the connection. Johnson was one of the blogging heroes who did incredible work in exposing that sham set-up in Durham but, remarkably, he is (I think) a big supporter of Barack Obama.

Weird, weird, weird.