Anyone heard of the Jena 6 case? SHOW YOUR SUPPORT?

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(please don't throw out that i'm posting this in the "wrong section" i've been here long enough to know majority of the threads posted here aren't footie-related)

Okay so i'm pretty sure that most of you guys haven't heard about Jena 6. They are 6 boys fighting for justice in Jena, Louisiana. They've been racially ridiculed and their story is one that reads like back in the Jim Crow era. Black not considered equal to whites? Could it be? A tree reserved for "WHITES ONLY" ? We are in 2000s....right??! .......

Watch the video...their story needs to be told: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YuoiZnr4jLY
Sign the on-line petition...if there ever was a time to STEP UP.....the time is NOW!!!

http://www.naacp.org/get-involved/activism/petitions/jena-6/index.php

THANK YOU

@droid327 are you insane? or are you just not thinking right? check it: some white kids hang up nooses on a WHITE ONLY tree and only get away with a 3 day ***** suspension and school offcials bypass that as a harmless joke? and when black students (in their own right) protest the damn DA tells them he can take their lives away with a stroke of a pen? who's at fault here....the black students protesting (no harm there) or the white students hanging up nooses?!! and it doesn't even end there. some white guys gang up on ONE black student at a party....hmm did those white students get any punishment??? i'll answer for you..NO. the guy that those6 boys beat up was motivated by ***** frustration. the white victim racially insulted the boys and in that used the "N" word. i mean come on....it's fighting for your dignity here. that white guy went o the hospital but was released that SAME day and attened a ***** socila event the night of. dude...the boys get charged for attemtped murder.....

.......why not the first white guys who ganged up on the black guy? OKAY now what about the charge on theft when the white guy in the store THREATENED the 3 boys? if that's not racist and injustice i don't know what the hell is.

Answer 1

"the guy that those6 boys beat up was motivated by ***** frustration."

I think you probably meant to say that the 6 boys that committed assault & battery against *one* boy, were motivated by frustration.

So you're saying it's ok to for a gang of 6 to beat the bloody hell out of one person just because they're frustrated? I get frustrated pretty regularly, but I don't assault people when I do. If I and five of my friends assaulted someone, I'm pretty sure we'd be standing trial. Especially, if we already had four other violent offenses on our juvie record, as does Mr. Mychal Bell, one of the 6 criminals.

Answer 2

Kids get into fights all the time! But to get 22 years and lose the opportunity to go to college for some dumb school fight? And what about the kids who hung the nooses in the tree? It's so easy for others to brush that action off if none of their family members were ever lynched. (Louisiana has had the most lynchings in the HISTORY of the United States).

What they don't tell you on some news stations is that some of the same Black students were beat up days prior at a party by some Whites. What they don't tell you is that the White boy who got the concussion kept racially taunting those same Black kids about being beat up at the party. And after he got the concussion he was shortly released from the hospital and went on to school that evening. What they don't tell you is that some Black kids in Jena had guns pulled on them by White ADULTS numerous times for nothing, and they got arrested. This is what happens ALL THE TIME in Jena. I don't condone the children's actions, but at what point are Black kids expected to get use to this type of treatment?

A Black student asked the principal for permission to sit under the campus tree! I'm sorry, but that says a lot.

It just amazes me that this is the same America that Blacks and Whites are going to war for. And if you think that there's no injustice in this incident, than imagine that it was your child spending 20 years in jail for A SCHOOL FIGHT.

I signed the petition and I am certainly going to donate money towards the defense of these KIDS.

Answer 3

I don't support them because what makes it OK for them to do what they did. Most black people think it was OK as was seen on the news. If that many white people beat a black kid it would have been a riot and looting. To me it shows that the real racist are mainly black people, because look how many will stick up for something that is wrong just because it was done by blacks. They will make up lame excuses why it was ok for it to happen. Even Obama has made excuses for it and he wants to be president. Of course if you say anything against a black person your racist and if your black then they say you hate your race or your an uncle tom. Racism will never stop because people like sharpton and jackson will be out of business, they want it to keep going, so they keep it going. Nothing a white person can do is right when it comes to many blacks, your damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Answer 4

So, as a resident of Louisiana, this S*it is everywhere. For most of you from up North, you wouldn't understand the racism down here.

Kids fight. End of story.

Is hanging nooses right? By all means, no. Are fights right? By all means, no. But what many of you don't understand is that seems to be the way it is down here. Kids (especially in high school) will racially taunt one another. It happens. It doesn't mean, because you are called the "n" word, that you should go start beating the hell out of folks. I grew up in a pretty much mixed high school with a graduating class well in the 300's with about 900 kids total in the school. You hear stuff like that. Most people just blow it off. People call others names. Is it right? No. But they're kids.

If the shoe was on the other foot, though, it would be all over the place as far as the news. If a group of white guys beat up a black guy, it would surely be considered racism also.

Sadly, racism exists and it's still pretty strong down south, especially here in Louisiana. I, by no means, am racist. Alot of my friends in high school were black. I heard from them and from the white kids at school all about the name calling, but of course, it always goes both ways. Blacks talk about whites, whites talk about blacks. It's just skin color, people! Some people are so shallow as to only see the skin color of a person.

Do I think a few kids who got in a fight at school over something so stupid (name calling) should spend 22 years in prison? NO WAY! It just goes to show how screwed up the system is.

Best of luck to those guys and I hope they don't have to spend 25% of their lives behind bars over a stupid fight that happened between immature students in high school. :(

Answer 5

Sick! before the fight, The white boys gang the black boy knocking him out while beating him with glass bottles. The principle though that the boy was dead. WHile the fight afterwards with black on white was noting compare with the black boy went through.

Answer 6

Those 6 students who beat the one student should be criminally prosecuted. Being exposed to hateful words or symbols is no excuse for a savage beating. We live in a world where all of us, not just African Americans, are exposed to vile hate-filled speech. Nobody has the right to respond to such speech with violence. African Americans are not an exalted position, they have no greater right to resort to violence than any of us.

This isn't Jim Crow. This is dispassioned justice.

Answer 7

Some have completely missed the point. The indisputable injustice is the way that the trial of the 6 went, especially the jury selection. From what I have read, the trial was not fair.

OMG... a Lady chatelaine sighting.

Answer 8

"Not only is there almost no media coverage of the Black violent hate crimes against Whites, but in high profile cases when Blacks are prosecuted for heinous crimes against innocent Whites, the White victims are ignored and the Black criminals are turned into “real victims” by the media.

Nothing more clearly illustrates this point than what has occurred over the past year in Jena, Louisiana and the orgy of hatred that Jena has suffered. today, September 20, the town has been invaded by thousands of thugs like Al Sharpton who seek to make violent Black hate criminals such as Michael Bell and the rest of the so-called “Jena Six” into heroes. Even worse the entire White population of the town is facing a media lynching by being labeled racists who are unjustly persecuting Black young men.

Michael Bell, who has been convicted of four previous violent crimes, (a fact scarcely revealed by the media), led a group of six Black students to attack and unmercifully beat a White Student at Jena High School in what can only be described as a vicious hate crime. Motivated by racial hatred, the six Blacks attacked one lone White student, Justin Barker. They stomped and kicked him to unconsciousness and continued to kick him and stomp him as he lay helpless. The attack could have easily have taken his life if others had not intervened. Only by the grace of God did he survive.

To show the insane bias of this whole case, just imagine if the facts were reversed.

If a gang of six Whites motivated by racial hatred and led by a White with four previous violent-crime convictions had attacked a lone Black student, kicking and stomping him into unconsciousness, would there any concern that the leader and the other White gang members could be charged with aggravated assault? Would not there be national demands to charge the White attackers with the most serious of federal civil rights violations and hate crimes? White leaders from all over the country, even the leaders of the local town of Jena, would not be defending the White attackers, they would be condemning the attacks and calling for the harshest of punishments allowed by the law.

As far as the Media are concerned, oh yes the supposedly unbiased media, they would be interviewing the Black victim on every TV talk show across the land, discussing his fear, his pain, his suffering. They would be interviewing his crying relatives and friends. They would not be voicing any fear that the White attackers would be treated too harshly. No, they would be demanding the harshest of penalties.

Federal officials from the President on down would be calling for additional serious charges of federal civil rights violations. But you see, in the America of 2007 Whites are no longer deemed to have any “civil rights.”

When a lone White kid is beaten savagely by a gang of six hate criminals, the media is only concerned about how the Black attackers are being treated too harshly. And if you are waiting for civil rights charges to be filed against the Black attackers who violated the civil rights of the boy they almost beat to death, don’t hold your breath.

The entire Jena scenario and the coverage of it by the media show once again that it is not the people of Jena who are racists. By voting for me and by demanding justice in this case, they have shown rightly that they believe in fairness to all and that White people are now the real victims of racism in America. Once again it is shown that we must have advocates for our rights and heritage just as any other group is permitted to do so.

May the District Attorney and the people of Jena stay strong and never give in to those who seek take away their rights of life and liberty as guaranteed by the United States Constitution."

Answer 9

wait...so are you saying the one guy who has been convicted, who has a history of violence, who was convicted of earlier violent crimes and violated probation for that 3 times, has the right to beat another boy down with 5 of his friends, kicking him on the ground and sending him to the hospital, just because a few other boys at the school were racist?

This may have started as a race issue but it sounds like its just an assault issue now. 6 on 1, kicking him on the floor, is assault, regardless of the events leading up to it. He committed a crime and should receive a fair punishment for it.

Sure, the racism that was shown (both ways) is horrible and deplorable. But you cant correct one injustice by allowing another.

Answer 10

Oh my god. I didn't even know stuff like that happened anymore. Its just a replay of how things were in the far past. This is injustice to the max...its so atrocious. I just pray that those racists will get their punishment and those boys will get the justice they so desperately deserve.