Last fall in Jena, Louisiana, the day after two Black high school students sat beneath the "white tree" on their campus, nooses were hung from the tree. When the superintendent dismissed the nooses as a "prank," more Black students sat under the tree in protest.
A series of white-on-black incidents of violence followed, and the DA did nothing. But when a white student was beaten up in a schoolyard fight, the DA responded by charging six black students with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
It's a story that reads like one from the Jim Crow era, when judges, lawyers and all-white juries used the justice system to keep blacks in "their place"--but it's happening today. The families of these young men are fighting back, but the odds are stacked against them.
Only Bell remains in jail, on a $90,000 bond.
Bell is scheduled for a Sept. 20 sentencing hearing where he faces up to 22 years in prison.
We are wearing BLACK to support these 6 on the day of Mychal Bell's hearing.
2007-09-19 21:34:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
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 at least till they are 21.
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 important.
If it were just a few punches I'd feel diferently and say probation but to beat and kick someone into uncounscious is a pure hate crime and deserves some punishment.
They should have known better and Bell has 3 priors for the same crime.
2007-09-21 16:46:12 · answer #1 · answered by NoGood 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are also a complete and utter moron. Do you live here or have clue what life is like around here? I do. The black and white kids at school have been going back and forth with juvenile, racially motivated pranks, that are not at all uncommon with high school kids. Is it right? Absolutely not. Who is to blame? Both sides. But when you take it a step further and actually beat the living hell out of a kid, black or white, and then 5 of your buddies take turns kicking him in the head 50-60 times, you have crossed the line and need to be punished.
2007-09-20 02:29:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hanging a noose i a tree was ignorant to do...but the black students actually beat someone nearly to death! The nooses were not put around anyones neck and caused no deaths or injuries. Attempted murder and actual assault is far more serious than the noose nonsense
2007-09-19 23:23:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, you're sixteen years old and have all this found out considering you're knowledgeable. i've got self assurance that is a similar age as those boys. Are you asserting that they have got been too ignorant to renowned the version between perfect and incorrect because of the fact they weren't 18 years old? How did you get so a lot extra education on your sixteen years than all of those boys? Do you have self assurance considering you experience which you're extra mature and knowledgeable than the common sixteen 3 hundred and sixty 5 days old that in case you committed this type of criminal offense which you would be tried as an person? Did the racial factor come into play whilst the nooses have been hung? i do no longer think of so. i think of it began whilst between the black scholars asked if he ought to take a seat down under the tree understanding that this spot grow to be traditionally occupied by white scholars. What grow to be team meant to tell him? They advised him that he ought to take a seat down everywhere he thrilled. yet why did he desire to take a seat down THERE? i've got self assurance that his purpose grow to be racially prompted and needed to stir racial tensions. I grew up 12 miles from Jena interior the small city of Olla. I lived in Jena for countless years yet I now stay in North Carolina. I easily have worked for the detention center gadget in the two Louisiana and North Carolina. If an inmate assaults me, I easily have the main suitable to safeguard myself yet in user-friendly terms till resistance stops. unquestionably you do not have self assurance that is alright to knock somebody out and proceed beating them extraordinarily having 5 different accomplices helping you. those boys have found out no longer something yet that in case you have darkish dermis you may get by with committing crimes and in case you do no longer then you have been discriminated against. they might get out of their recent capture 22 difficulty yet i'm able to virtually assure you that those boys would be convicted of alternative crimes earlier they attain 25 or might have been killed interior the technique of committing yet another crime. i'm no longer advocating that what the white scholars did as perfect yet on a similar time i won't be able to see those boys getting off scott unfastened the two. All this protest did grow to be to added alienate those 2 races.
2016-10-19 04:33:35 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This would be a completely different discussion if it were six white boys who beat the snot out of a black kid. Then they would each be charged with a HATE CRIME! Six on one is not an "incident" people...that's intent to do serious harm to someone and should be punished strongly!
2007-09-19 23:12:54 · answer #5 · answered by The Warlock 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sitting under a tree in protest of obvious racism is one thing , but violently beating another student is not acceptable behavior and should be punished.
2007-09-19 22:18:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think these kids were overcharged.
Assault and battery is a more appropiate charge.
Make no mistake these guys need to be punished .
The Principal at the school has tried to handle this situation
but he has been overruled by his superior.
2007-09-20 00:43:02 · answer #7 · answered by Henry J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I've heard of this tragic crime. I agree it sounds like something out of our past. I guess HATE is alive and well.
Fortunately, there is plenty of LOVE alive in America, too.
God Bless!
2007-09-19 21:52:09 · answer #8 · answered by Mel W 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It will be interesting to see how this small town reacts to 40,000 protesters on their way there now.
They are about to wake up and find out that it's not 1950 anymore.
2007-09-19 22:53:10 · answer #9 · answered by FOA 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋