jena 6 what do you think .?

Question

do you really think it would be diffrent if it would have been 6 whites beating up on one black guy. yes the white guy was wrong.but being beat down by six people thats wrong fighting is wrong. solves nothing right.the law is the law.the kids black or white should pay the price. also remeber that all the people marching down there are just bringing money to that racist commuity.

Answer 1

hold!!

You obviously didn't do your research before making that ridiculous statement. Let me help you sweetheart.

A timeline leading up to the Jena 6
In the front yard at a high school in Jena, Louisiana, with a total population of 4,000, there sits a tree. This is "the white tree", where only white students sit during breaks.

In September of 2006, a black student asked 'permission' from the school administration, if he could sit under the tree. They said he could sit anywhere.

The very next day, three nooses, in the schools colors, hung from "the white tree".

Three white students were identified as being responsible and the principle recommended they be expelled from school. However, the white superintendent said, "Adolescents play pranks," the superintendent told the Chicago Tribune, "I don't think it was a threat against anybody," and gave them a three day suspension instead.

A few days later, the entire black student body protested the no-nothing 'punishment' and sat under "the white tree". That day the white District Attorney came to Jena High School for an impromptu assembly, with back-up law enforcement. It has been reported that the DA threatened the silent black students who were sitting under the tree, saying if the did not stop making a fuss about the "innocent prank...I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen." The school was then put on lockdown for the remaining week.

Thursday night, November 30th, 2006, a fire burned down the main academic building of Jena High School. This incident is still unresolved.

Friday night, December 1st, a black student was beaten by a group of white students at a "white party".

Saturday, December 2nd, at the Gotta Go convenience store, the black student who was beaten up the night before, along with his friends, ran into one of the white students who beat him. A confrontation broke out and the white student went to his vehicle to get his shotgun. The black students wrestled the shotgun away from him and brought it to the police department and told them of the incident. The black students were arrested for stealing the gun. The white student was not charged.

Monday, December 4th, 2006, a white student, Justin Barker, was attacked at school by a group of black students for taunting them with racial slurs and verbally supporting the nooses that were hung on "the white tree" and also supporting the white students who beat up the black student at the party. He was treated at a hospital and released the same day, attending a social function that evening.

Six black students were arrested for beating Barker, and charged with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. These charges hold a possible sentence of twenty to one hundred years in prison. They were all immediately expelled from school.

17-year-old Robert Bailey Junior -bail was set at $138,000 17-year-old Theo Shaw - bail was set at $130,000
18-year-old Carwin Jones - bail was set at $100,000
17-year-old Bryant Purvis - bail was set at $70,000
16 year old Mychal Bell - bail was set at $90,000 (a sophomore in high school, was charged as an adult)
There remains another unidentified minor

Mychal Bell remained in jail from December 2006 until his trial because his family was unable to post the $90,000 bond. Theo Shaw has also remained in jail. Several of the other defendants remained in jail for months until their families could raise the money for bond.

In the local paper, the 'incident' was reported as fact and the white DA Reed Walters published a statement saying, "When you are convicted, I will seek the maximum penalty allowed by law."


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On July 31st, 2007, Mychal Bell will be sentenced. He is facing up to twenty-two years in prison.

The remaining five students await their trial on charges of attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. They face up to 100 years in prison."

The white student who was beaten at the convenience store was later arrested for bringing a hunting rifle loaded with 13 bullets onto a high school campus. He was released on $5000 bond. The white man who beat up the black youth at the off-campus party was arrested and charged with battery.

The white students who hung up the nooses in "the white tree" have never been charged.

Answer 2

Yes it would have been very different and that is why they are marching because the equality is not there or anywhere else for that matter. Blacks are treated like second class citizens while White people complain that they hear about racism to often. Well if Whites would stop being racists then Black people wouldn't complain. Trust me it doesn't make our day to complain about something that we wish would go away. No one reminds you that your White but Blacks are reminded everyday when the send in a resume get the interview but the look on the persons face changes when they see that the degree and experience belong to a Black person. Jobs we struggle for White people get because of a hook up through a friend even if they have no experience. That is what makes America a sad place for us. People like supreme knowledge who say that Blacks should be sent back to Africa should pack his bags and go back to your cave in Europe since that were it seems like you left whatever education you attained. Even if we went back we wouldn't be there long because Whites would come back and hire us to do the work they are to lazy to do.

Answer 3

So, you're sixteen years old and have all this discovered because of the fact which you're knowledgeable. i think it particularly is a similar age as those boys. Are you asserting that they've been too ignorant to be attentive to the version between suitable and incorrect because of the fact they weren't 18 years old? How did you get so plenty greater guidance on your sixteen years than all of those boys? Do you think because of the fact which you experience which you're greater mature and knowledgeable than the frequently used sixteen 12 months old that in case you dedicated considered one of those criminal offense which you ought to be tried as an person? Did the racial element come into play while the nooses have been hung? i do no longer think of so. i think of it began while between the black pupils asked if he ought to take a seat under the tree understanding that this spot grew to become into traditionally occupied by utilising white pupils. What grew to become into team meant to tell him? They instructed him that he ought to take a seat everywhere he extremely joyful. yet why did he desire to take a seat THERE? i think that his objective grew to become into racially inspired and wanted to stir racial tensions. I grew up 12 miles from Jena interior the small city of Olla. I lived in Jena for numerous years yet I now stay in North Carolina. I even have worked for the reformatory equipment in the two Louisiana and North Carolina. If an inmate assaults me, I even have the astounding to look after myself yet basically till resistance stops. easily you do not have self belief it particularly is okay to knock somebody out and proceed beating them exceedingly having 5 different accomplices assisting you. those boys have found out no longer something yet that in case you have darkish pores and skin you will get by utilising with committing crimes and in case you do no longer then you definately have been discriminated against. they might get out of their latest quandary yet i will merely approximately assure you that those boys would be convicted of different crimes before they attain 25 or might have been killed interior the attitude of committing yet another crime. i'm no longer advocating that what the white pupils did as suitable yet on a similar time i won't be able to see those boys getting off scott loose the two. All this protest did grew to become into to further alienate those 2 races.

Answer 4

"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 5

6 people beating up 1 is wrong, but that happens 1,000 times a day in gang fights and school-yard jumps. Do THEY get 22 years in jail???? C'mon man.

Answer 6

Black, white, or any color of skin should not matter. All of the kids involved were guilty of violent behavior and should be punished.

Answer 7

I don't think the whole community is racist. But, I do agree six guys beating one guy is wrong and should be punished. Good luck. 2D

Answer 8

You know listening to all the comments I hear a lot of people saying 6 against one is wrong and it is, I totally agree. I also hear a lot of people saying those boys did a crime and they do the time and thats where the buck stops with me.

As a black man I feel obligated to explain to you just how angry it makes our community when someone hands rope on a tree! See for the majority (white) in southern states rope on a tree is tolerable but for blacks its an ugly UGLY UGLY UGLY symbol of a generation of massacre, torture, rape, mutilation, its just A DAMN ABOMINATION! I want you to close your eyes and think for a min that one day you're walkn along the beach shore after a long day of hard work and somebody jumps you and puts a hood over your head, ties you up and throws you onto a cold wood floor. Now you dont know where u are all you know is that the floor is rocking back in forth and you hear water. Next thing you know the hood is taken off and you are trapped in a tiny room full of the most god awful stinch you ever smelled. Theres Urine on the walls and **** on the ground next to you and the air is so congested with flies that as you inhale they crawl up your nose! As you're traveling many of the travelers with you get sick and in response to that men with sticks and whips come in , take them out and toss them to the sharks!

Finally you reach land and your stood on a wooden block where men in funny close take lard and rub it around your skin to oil you up as people throw money at you taking bids. Now today you didn't sell so you were put into another ship with another group heading toward new land. The same thing as before happens only this time your women are raped before your eyes and tossed to the sharks as the boat heads for new land once again. Once it stops you are taken inland to a tree stomp where more funny men in funny clothes oil you up and chant words like "boy" and the "N" word at you as they bid on who has bigger muscles and what women are more nicely shaped. Theres a woman that was on the boat with you , she was pregnant. She was sold as a two for one deal to some white men but they changed their mind and decided they didn't want her to be pregnant so that punch her in the stomach with wooden sticks until she has a miscarraige. Then they throw hoer on the back of a funky old truck along with you. You get to a place they call a plantation and you see hoards of your own people with chains on their ankles and collars on their necks digging away at the ground. Across from that you see a tree where one young man is hanging while white men pull on his legs to keep the spasms down and get him to break his neck faster. they then start to take out knives and cut pieces of his flesh off, ears, lips, eyes and place them all on decorative chains and give them to their white kids. You even see a white kid given a knife by his father and taught how to cut a black up. Finally you're taken off the truck and placed into another **** hole of a room, with the woman. A midwife comes in and helps the woman deliver her now dead baby. A white man walks in and decides that he wants her to breed for him so he pairs her up with you and orders you to make babies just minutes after she just had a miscarriage. You spend a week together as assigned husband and wife. One day you come back to the room and shes not there. you go looking for her only to find a bunch of young white boys making sport of her, raping her over and over and over again for the hell of it. She hasn't even been given time to heal yet and you can hear her screaming. You decide to defend her and in return you are beaten and hung by dawn. While you're hanging there wit a noose around your neck you can see them still raping her but there is nothing you can do because now you are DEAD!

Now some of you might think hanging rope from a tree is a prank but I'm gonna tell you as a black man if I catch a white guy hanging anything on a tree in front of me, I'm gonna make damn sure he doesn't have the physical ability to hang another damn thing in his life. that boy that got beat is lucky they didn't break his damn hands too, cause I woulda broke his damn arm!