Un-Freaking-Believable!!!!
2007-09-20 05:45:52 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
"Rev" Sharpton and Jackson are setting race relations back another 50 years...GOOD GOING GUYS!
2007-09-20 05:56:02 · update #1
Reading all of these ill-informed comments has really made my head hurt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuoiZnr4jLY
Rather than doing a little research - people jump on the bandwagon express & post what they "THINK" are facts.
2007-09-20 07:14:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
i don't comprehend..... perhaps that's because of the fact i've got no longer experienced what it is decide to be yet another coloration different that white .... yet as quickly as I have been say chinese language ... and yet another chinese language person harmed say a Black person ... i could no longer shelter them .. in the event that they did some thing incorrect .. i might would desire to sentence their movements .. regardless to them being the comparable race as myself ....... is this greater approximately that had it been a White team of infants .. that they might are turning out to be off lighter ? is this protesting greater with regard to the imbalance in how the perpetrators are dealt with quite than the crime itself .... because of the fact i will work out it as 2 matters ... if a white gang beats a black person .. they might desire to be punished .. we could use a length of 10 If a black gang beats a white person .. then they might desire to recieve the comparable .... so back I ask is this protesting occurring because of the fact Whites get a lighter punsihment ??? because of the fact in spite of if it is .. THEN I completely comprehend .. IF no longer help the Protest,,,,,, IF even though it is with regard to the Black gang being punished in any respect ... THEN The protest is incorrect.... The crime and the punishment would desire to be the comparable for the two. ( wish people comprehend what i attempted to describe)
2016-10-09 13:03:20 · answer #2 · answered by marolf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What I don't understand is this:
Why is this not a hate crime of black against white?
If all were of the same race, this news would have been no news.
If this were a mixed race of individuals, this news would have been no news.
If this were 6 whites beating up 1 black, then it would be deemed a "hate crime".
Why is this not called a "hate crime"?
I'm sure there are lots of details we are unaware of, but when 6 go up against 1 this = bullies vr victim. Irregardless of race.
And were there any witnesses to WHO placed the hanging ropes under the tree used primarily by the white kids?
What if it were a black individual who did that to spark racial tension? Perhaps it was to say that "now white people will be lynched" rathar than referring back on an ugly history of lynchings against blacks by whites...
Rathar than jumping to conclusions and allowing emotions to perform a virtual lynching party, lets step back and get ALL of the facts and motivations behind ALL of the transactions that led to where we are today...
092007 12:40
2007-09-20 06:40:17 · answer #3 · answered by YRofTexas 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
If he beat the guy almost to DEATH, why did he go to a school ceremony the same night? Stop being melodramatic. And go start your West Virginia Six protest. Hehe.
2007-09-21 07:04:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am trying to find a way to agree with the fact that the charges were excessive but, when 6 boys seek out a single person for the sole purpose of beating the crap out of him, wouldn't the fact go through their minds that they might kill him? I mean come on, 6 against one????? Still, maybe aggravated assault may have been the appropriate charge.
I must be naive because I didn't know that putting hanging ropes on trees was a racial statement, is this a KKK thing or something? Still, a prank isn't exactly illegal is it?
2007-09-20 06:35:50 · answer #5 · answered by pacdog 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Because they only look at one side of the story and how justice is not being fair.
Read this article written by a BLACK reporter from Fox sports. He does a good job of looking at both sides.
http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/7170510?MSNHPHMA
The article takes a little while to address the Jena stuff directly but he leads up to it.
LOL nevermind... some else beat me too it.
**response to answer below**
Comfy! : Are you a doctor? Have you ever been knocked out or knocked someone out? It is NO minor thing. As it turned out this kid was just plain lucky. If i had been knocked out I wouldn't be going to any activities that night, but nobody is saying this kid is smart. And yet again... where were his parents that should have told him he had to stay home, he was in the hospital for 3 hours for goodness sake.
And WTF! does writing an article about Don Imus and the basketball girls have to do with this subject? Just because someone presents information from a view different from yours does not mean it is biased.
2007-09-20 06:00:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 2⤋
Let me get this right - other boys hung the nooses from the trees, caused this problem, but some of you are justifying the fact that these young men beat up another boy that didn't have anything to do with the nooses and such???
So- one person offended you, so that makes it OK for you to go beat up another guy that looks like him?
Is it a case of "all them white boys look the same"? Is it a case of people making rash judgements based on hearsay and assumption, just because a person was nearby, they too are guilty? Great- next time a robbery happens on your street, we're going to charge you for the crime too, because you were in the vicinity.
AND if you pay attention, the charges were dropped to assault- which they are fully and quite guilty of.
Damn right, read the article - and since some of you won't I copy pasted the part of the article about this case (he talks about miss America too)
"The "Jena Six" are becoming a cause célébre for Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the media. At least two or three times a week for the past three months, I have received an e-mail from someone asking me to support the "Jena Six."
On the surface, the story sounds like a horrifying tale of Emmett Till-style justice. At a predominantly white high school in a segregated town (Jena), a black student sat under a shade tree that was traditionally used by white students. The next day three white students hung nooses from the tree, sparking racial tension and a sit-in (under the tree) by black students. The principal attempted to expel the three white students, but the school board overruled the principal and the students were given a suspension, which sparked more racial tension.
Police patrolled the school's hallways. The town's district attorney visited the school for an impromptu assembly, allegedly looked at the black students and said he could end their lives with one stroke of his pen. A little more than three months after the noose incident — and just days after two off-campus fights/heated exchanges involving a black student and white former students — the "Jena Six" punched, beat and stomped a white kid who made fun of a black kid for getting whipped in a Friday-night fight.
The white kid was knocked unconscious. After a three-hour hospital visit, he was released. The town prosecutor initially charged the "Jena Six" with attempted murder. Mychal Bell, the first of the six to stand trial and a Division-I football prospect, was convicted of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy by an all-white, six-person jury, a white judge and a white prosecutor. His public defender did not call a single witness in his defense. Bell could be sentenced to 22 years.
Whew!
Before I go any further, let me state this: The prosecutor should've never charged these boys with attempted murder. The entire school board should be replaced for stopping the noose-hanging kids from being expelled.
OK, having said that, much of the mainstream reporting on this story has been misleading, irresponsible and inflammatory.
No one mentions that Mychal Bell's clueless public defender was black. No one mentions that there were no black jurors because of the 50 people who responded to the more than 100 summons, none were black. No one mentions that Bell was already on probation for battery relating to a Christmas day incident in 2005. No one mentions that Bell was adjudicated (convicted) of two other violent crimes in 2006 and one charge of criminal damage to property. No one mentions that Bell's father acknowledged he moved back to Louisiana in February (after seven years in Dallas) to supervise his son because of the "Jena Six" mess. No one mentions that Bell starred on the Jena High football team while constantly jeopardizing/violating his seemingly flimsy probation.
This was all talked about in open court during a bond hearing for Bell, and a newspaper in Alexandria, La., wrote about it. Just about everybody else has pretty much ignored the "other side" of the story. Including the fact that not one witness — black or white, and there were 40 statements taken — connected the jumping/beatdown of the white student (Dec. 4) to the noose incident (Sept. 1).
No one mentions that a black U.S. Attorney, Donald Washington, investigated the "Jena Six" case and held a town-hall meeting explaining that there was no evidence connecting the jumping/beatdown to the noose incident.
Only after the prosecutor overreacted (or tired of letting Bell and others skate once the successful football season was over; Bell wasn't the only football star charged) did the "Jena Six" blame the attack on the nooses and the white shade tree. " Jason Witlock for Fox Sports
From the article listed by Boudicia and another person.
2007-09-20 06:04:35 · answer #7 · answered by Cheese Fairy - Mummified 7 · 10⤊ 1⤋
Im not sure I understand this one either. Maybe they feel that they are being unjustly charged? I don't care what color your skin is... If you do the crime then you do the time. Why does everyone have to make it out to be a race issue?
2007-09-20 06:01:29 · answer #8 · answered by Jerod H 1 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Yep.
Wow SuperB, that is a very interesting article. I wish more people could read it.
2007-09-20 06:00:23 · answer #9 · answered by sweetmommy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You do not have your facts straight therefore you should not speak on things you do not understand or rather want to understand. The boy was ok to go to a party, beaten to death, thats not true at all. So your post doesnt make since. Try and post something you actually have facts on and stop being racist.
2007-09-20 06:45:47 · answer #10 · answered by bibtn 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
i think all the whites of the town should protest al sharpton and jesse jackson butting their nose in where it doesn't belong! It does appear that that town needs some changes - BUT those kids DID commit a crime. They should be punished. The attempted murder conviction was dropped. End of case. Let them charge him with assault and MOVE ON! - Al needs to go back to the luxuries of what he would call a "white" neighborhood (where he lived in Beverly Hills)and shut the hell up
2007-09-20 05:59:05 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 5⤋