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Sat, 22 Sep 2007

Thousands rally in La. to support Jena 6

Imagine the reverse situation: six white teens pound a black classmate to a bloody pulp. I guarantee that the same people would be there protesting for the exact opposite result, demanding that the six offenders stay in jail and be charged with a hate crime.

AP - Traffic jammed the two-lane road leading into the tiny town of Jena early Thursday as thousands of demonstrators gathered in support of six black teens initially charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate.

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On 9/22/2007 13:14:30
SB wrote

Yeah, lets just forget that one of the white kids pulled a GUN on the black students, and that the black kid who managed to wrest the gun away was charged with THEFT. Or you know, the entire thing started because a black kid wanted to sit under a tree that the white kids had reserved for themselves, so the white kids hung NOOSES from the tree. Nooses hung from a tree are a blatant death threat, you have to have lived in a cave all your life not to read them that way. How long has it been since a black person was actually lynched in Jena? I'm willing to bet it hasn't even been 40 years. No one is saying that they shouldn't be charged, but ATTEMPTED MURDER is a little extreme, especially since the white kid who pulled the gun got charged with nothing. This isn't about getting away scott free with assault, this is about a white system excusing white kids but over punishing black kids for the same thing. And lets not gloss over the racism here, if you lived every second of your life with someone shitting on you and the very real threat that you could be beaten or killed just for being black, you'd lash out too! Yes, they over reacted, yes they should be punished, nobody is disputing that. http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/05/22/under-the-white-shade-tree/ http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/11/a-reminder-to-support-the-jena-six/ http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/09/19/justice-for-the-jena-6-thursday-is-the-day-of-action/ http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/09/20/progressive-blogosphere-mia-on-jena-6/

On 9/24/2007 10:53:37
Arwin wrote

Bloody pulp?

From what I understand the white kid who was "beaten to a bloody pulp" attended a school function later that night.

On 9/26/2007 12:05:38
Dave H wrote

Ya know

I really wasn't commenting on the guilt (or innocence) of the "Jena 6" - I was commenting on the propensity of this particular crowd of "protesters" (read: politicians, as in Al "Tawana" Sharpton) to *only* protest this kind of treatment when the accused are minorities. If white kids were in the same jail on the same charges, does anyone honestly think that Rev. Al or Jesse would've shown up to protest? Sorry, folks - call it "middle age white guy angst" if you will, or "backlash" if you must, but I'll stand by my initial comments and call these protesters what they are: hypocritical pols abusing a tragedy to advance their own agendas. Thanks for the write backs and Be well, Dave H.

On 9/28/2007 22:59:35
ThePerson wrote

I think you hit the nail on the head with this one, Dave. It is indefensible that six men (or boys) should jump one person, regardless of whether those people are black, Asian, white, Hispanic, etc. There is such a thing as free speech in this fine country, meaning that you can say very nasty things to people. People need to get a thicker skin and get the f*ck over it. Seriously. Calling someone a nigger is not a crime, but getting 5 of your closest buddies together and jumping that person is. End of story. And the people that ganged up and whomped on this kid should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, skin color nonwithstanding. I've been called some seriously horrendous names in my life, and I have also had people threaten me. However, I did not go and get all my buddies to go beat the crap out of the person who did it. Whatever happened to sticks and stones... Whiny black people piss me off! Slavery happened. Sorry. You are not the first race to be oppressed, nor will you be the last, unfortunately. Get the f*ck over it.

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