Hey.. I have really no clue what it is?? any details. I mean i know its about race. but I need details please. thanks and why did people wear black today??
2007-09-20 11:25:11 · 10 answers · asked by amazing 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
People wore black to support the 6 black thugs that nearly beat to death a white kid. It seems that it's okay for black people to beat up white people, and there should be no punishment for them.
2007-09-20 11:31:14 · answer #1 · answered by crknapp79 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Jena Six refers to a group of six African American teenagers who have been arrested and charged with crimes related to their alleged involvement in the assault of a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana, on December 4, 2006. The incident is one of many racially charged events that have occurred in the town since the hanging of nooses on the "white tree" on the Jena High School campus, which some have called a prank and others say recalls the history of lynching. Critics of how the case was handled, including civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, have said that the arrests and subsequent charges were racially motivated.[1] Some residents of the town - both Caucasian and African American - have expressed the view that the current problem is more the fault of outsiders using racial politics to influence the justice system. Additionally, U.S. Attorney Donald Washington, who is black, has expressed the opinion that although discipline was mishandled by the school, he found no reason to believe that there was any unfair judicial action.[2]
2007-09-20 19:19:12 · answer #2 · answered by What you believe, is what becomes = ) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's one thing that you have to keep in mind about this case. after all it is a case.. first the clear cut evidence
1. this is a completely different case than all the other sht that was going on
2. white guy had no involvement in the noose incident
3. those same boys had no involvement in the sitting under the tree incident
4. Mical bell had priors
5. 6 men beat one man
6. he was singled out because of his race and big mouth
7. the 6 men were beating him while he was unconscious, kicking and wounding him.
that is the relevant material in a case. The media is the one that ties the stories together in order to create an exceptional one that every one will look at,, that is how they sell news papers and make their money. I don't think that they should get alot of time.. but if race wasn't a matter they would still be in deep ****. Especially if they got on the main guys nerves. Which they did by trying it incite racial tension because of the nooses, even if it wasn't directed at them
2007-09-20 23:20:44 · answer #3 · answered by JUDAS RAGE 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the jena 6 are thugs and they need to be punished for what they did . Mr. Sharpton and the rest of those ppl need to go home !!! this case is not about race it is about 6 ppl beating on one person that my freind is assault . If you can't do the time then dont do the crime !!! I wonder if all those ppl would be there if there were 6 white kids that beat up one black kid . answer it for you NO!!! they would not .Also Jesse Jackson needs to go home as well !!!!
2007-09-20 18:35:00 · answer #4 · answered by Kate T. 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
These 6 black kids decided to beat this white kid for no reason. Now, good ol Jesse Jackson is defending them.
They should be charged with a hate crime.
2007-09-20 18:32:44 · answer #5 · answered by tony g 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A bunch of white people were harassing some black people, and the racist police wouldn't do anything about it. Some black people defended themselves, and now the police are using that as an excuse to lynch them.
2007-09-20 18:36:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
You're wrong crknapp79. What happened was that : If you don't know who the Jena 6 are, you are not alone. The first I heard about the black high school teens being railroaded through the Louisiana criminal justice system was last week when I received an email urging me to wear black Thursday the 20th in their support.
The first Sean Hannity heard about it was last night when Reverend Al was trying to bring it up and Hannity assumed he was talking about Megan Williams, the young black woman who was tortured and sexually assaulted by those crazy hillbillies in West Virginia. Cryptkeeper Colmes tried to explain but as usual Hannity didn't hear a word he said.
The Jena 6 case began last fall when a new black student to the mostly white, rural Louisiana town of Jena sat under the "white tree," so called because it was the place where the white kids at school congregated.
The next day three white boys on the rodeo team hung three nooses from the tree.
The white boys were only given an in-school suspension, their act deemed no more than a "prank."
The day after that several of the school's black high school football stars organized a peaceful silent protest under the tree. The school freaked, called in the police and the next day Reed Walters, the local D.A., addressed the school. There, he is reported to have looked at the black kids in the audience, waved his pen in the air and said, "With a stroke of this pen, I can make your life disappear."
The football season was a good one for Jena and for a few months there was relative quiet in the town. Then on November 30th, a wing of the high school was burned down. Whites thought it was blacks and the blacks assumed it was the whites.
The always excellent Wade Goodman of NPR reported what happened next:
"The next night, 16-year-old Robert Bailey and a few black friends tried to enter a party attended mostly by whites. When Bailey got inside, he was attacked and beaten. The next day, tensions escalated at a local convenience store. Bailey exchanged words with a white student who had been at the party. The white boy ran back to his truck and pulled out a pistol grip shotgun. Bailey ran after him and wrestled him for the gun.
After some scuffling, Bailey and his friends took the gun away and brought it home. Bailey was eventually charged with theft of a firearm, second-degree robbery and disturbing the peace. The white student who pulled the weapon was not charged at all.
The following Monday, Dec. 4, a white student named Justin Barker was loudly bragging to friends in the school hallway that Robert Bailey had been whipped by a white man on Friday night. When Barker walked into the courtyard, he was attacked by a group of black students. The first punch knocked Barker out and he was kicked several times in the head. But the injuries turned out to be superficial. Barker was examined by doctors and released; he went out to a social function later that evening.
Six black students were arrested and charged with aggravated assault. But District Attorney Reed Walters increased the charges to attempted second-degree murder."
The first black kid to go to court, Mychal Bell, then 16, was tried as an adult and convicted by an all-white jury. He faced 22 years in prison. After an outcry the charges were reduced; however, tomorrow Mychal Bell is to be sentenced on the lesser charges.
The white kids who attacked Bailey the night before have not been charged with anything.
As always happens in these cases, the blacks say of course there has always been racism in this little town, and the whites say their little town is just like any other small town full of good, churchgoing folk.
What white Southerners still fail to realize is their complicity in some of the most vicious and effective terrorism the world has ever seen. Lynchings were only the most visible and brutal embodiments of a system to terrorize the black minority. A noose is a symbol the way a swastika is a symbol. A noose hanging from a tree in that context is an almost unimaginably vicious act. Those white teens, instead of being ashamed of their terrorist ancestry, reveled in the evil. The adults who are charged with the education of all the students deemed it merely a prank.
The scariest part of this ordeal is that you know these boys are the relatively lucky ones for whom publicity might spare them. How many other black lives are still thrown away at the whim of our broken justice system?
I'M WHITE AND I THINK IT'S WRONG THAT THE WHITE KIDS BEAT UP THE BLACK KID AND GOT AWAY WITH IT. AND THE ****** PULLED A SHOTGUN ON THE BLACK YOUNG MEN? NOW THAT'S WRONG AND HATE AGAINST OTHER HUMANS. GROW UP PEOPLE! DON'T GO FOR YOUR RACE, GO FOR WHAT'S RIGHT! THE BLACK AND WHITE KIDS SHOULD BE IN JAIL!!!!
2007-09-20 18:39:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2007/09/20/students_back_jena_6.aspx
2007-09-20 18:30:53 · answer #8 · answered by idinafan4life 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a joke
some whitemorons put a noose in a tree.
some black gangsters almost beat someone to death and kicked in his skull. they're now on trial.
the race baiters are now rallying for their hero criminal scum as usual.
2007-09-20 18:42:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Read this:
http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/7170510?MSNHPHMA
2007-09-20 18:34:00 · answer #10 · answered by sweetmommy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋