Duke University, North Carolina’s premier college and 20th in Time’s worldwide rankings, has found itself at the centre of a very revealing scandal. During “Black History Month” celebrations, a large booth was set up there, including a picture of George Floyd
And one night, a dissident daredevil pinned a printout of the report on the cause of Floyd’s death to Floyd’s photo. There were fierce battles around the publication of that report all summer 2020.
Let me recap briefly what the case was about. A few days after Floyd’s death, the Minneapolis DA’s office had the toxicology report. It stated, in black and white, that Floyd had died of an overdose of a combustible mixture of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cannabinoid.
But Minnesota’s attorney general, far-left politician Keith Ellison, could not allow a report to be published that would destroy the beautiful BLM myth of Floyd’s tragic death at the hands of the police. Especially at the very moment when Floyd was being ceremoniously buried in a golden coffin.
So the prosecutors simply kept the toxicology report classified. Its details were only quietly made public on August 25. By then, the wave of protests had died down, thousands of establishments across America had been looted and burned, and 30 people were dead.
The liberal cabal in the US had studiously ignored this report. It itself is now apparently recognized as a manifestation of “hate speech”. In any case, the Duke University authorities launched a whole investigation into the circumstances of its appearance on the BLM stand.
Such outrageous dissent, they say, when items of samizdat are on public display, must be punished to the fullest extent of the statute. Against the backdrop of the crisis of higher education in the US, such stories will only increase the exodus of students from the haven of liberal professors.
Malek Dudakov