What can you do to support Jena 6?

Question

Jena 6
Enough is Enough...Un-Equal Justice is just not acceptable! Remember the Duke 3.Wear Black on September 20th to show your support! for Jena 6. What would be different about the case if the Jena 6 were white?
45% - There would be no punishment and no trial
53% - The fight would have been handled by school administrators
0% - The situation would be exactly the same
2% - It's not about race, it's about discipline

Sign petition to Louisiana Governolr and US. Justice Dept. Stop calling each other names and look at the facts. Poor whites are in no better position and are 2 paychecks away from tragedy.

Answer 1

So you feel that 6 people beating 1 person unconscious and continuing to beat that person even after s/he is unconscious is a justified response to nooses hanging in a tree? Sorry, I disagree. And this is ALL about race and how the poor Black person is always victimized by Whitey and, therefore, each and every action a Black person takes is justified. I'll never go for that!

Answer 2

So, you're sixteen years old and have all this figured out because you are educated. I believe that is the same age as these boys. Are you saying that they were too ignorant to know the difference between right and wrong because they weren't 18 years old? How did you get so much more education in your sixteen years than all of these boys? Do you believe because you feel that you are more mature and educated than the average sixteen year old that if you committed such a crime that you should be tried as an adult? Did the racial thing come into play when the nooses were hung? I don't think so. I think it started when one of the black students asked if he could sit under the tree knowing that this spot was traditionally occupied by white students. What was staff supposed to tell him? They told him that he could sit anywhere he pleased. But why did he want to sit THERE? I believe that his purpose was racially motivated and wanted to stir racial tensions. I grew up 12 miles from Jena in the small town of Olla. I lived in Jena for several years but I now live in North Carolina. I have worked for the prison system in both Louisiana and North Carolina. If an inmate attacks me, I have the right to defend myself but only until resistance stops. Certainly you don't believe it is OK to knock someone out and continue beating them especially having 5 other accomplices helping you. These boys have learned nothing but that if you have dark skin you can get by with committing crimes and if you don't then you were discriminated against. They may get out of their present predicament but I can almost guarantee you that these boys will be convicted of other crimes before they reach 25 or will have been killed in the process of committing another crime. I'm not advocating that what the white students did as right but at the same time I can't see these boys getting off scott free either. All this protest did was to further alienate these two races.

Answer 3

Yep a very big difference between a rope in a tree and a boy beaten till he was unconscious and beyond for what a word if that.

The boy had blindness and a swollen head and still has headaches which of course a doctor can't determine the cause and yet grown people can't understand why they want these poor innocent jena 6 locked up.

If it were me or my kid I'd lock them up and everyone here knows they would too.

Nope I'm not a racist just confused as to why they a white boy getting beaten means nothing while a rope in a tree which hurt no one physically is more imprtant.

Answer 4

6 against 1? Not good odds. They beat the daylights out of that boy. I don't support criminals, no matter their color. What about those six white people in West Virginia who tortured that black girl? I think they should be punished as well.

The Duke players were innocent, were they not? So you can't compare the cases on that basis. The NAACP was all about punishing those three guys for something they didn't do. They also supported Michael Vick in the beginning even though there was plenty of evidence linking him to dogfighting.

Answer 5

Just as the public has turned a blind eye to the entire story in Jena, it seems my Answers colleagues are also overlooking the fact that more than one assault occurred in this blur of events. Was there not a confrontation with a gun? Was the person using the gun to threaten the other not a teenage white guy? How is one assault and the other swept under the rug? Hello??? Teenager .... with a gun....threatening another person????

Answer 6

If you can't find a better comparison than the Three Duke la cross players....then your argument is dead in the water..

They were innocent....not just "not guilty"...but innocent....you need to get your facts straight.

The "victim" got off with no charges even though she ruined numerous lives with her lies. Where is your moral outrage at that!!

You are just another racist.

And if you want to be taken seriously, you will need to make a valid point.

Answer 7

I agree that poor whites are in no better situation. I don't believe that we can ever support mob violence, however. Hate speech (in this case) is dispicable, but it does not excuse the kind of violence that occurred.

Answer 8

I do not "support" any criminals no matter what color their skin happens to be, the Duk three were innocent - in case you have forgotten.

Wow - you call that a "fight" 6 guys jumping one guy, to me, is a full on assault, not a "fight"

Answer 9

Write and/or e-mail your State Representatives and tell them how you feel.

Don't keep quiet even if what you believe is unpopular....speak up.

Some things are blatantly racist and unfair......this is truly one of those things.

People need to read the WHOLE report and not just blurbs on the local news.

Answer 10

Since when is 6 guys beating up one guy not a crime?