What are your thoughts on JENA 6 ?

Question

That is the question for today. There is a great
movement going on here in America. And we
all over the world, should just learn to accept people
for who they are, regardless of race or color.
Because unity is the driving force of humanity, and
harmony among the entire world. So please tell me,
what are your thoughts on the Jena 6. The case of
injustice in the state of Louisiana. Best answer wins.

Answer 1

As I have not the slightest notion of what you are talking about, I can not give you my thoughts! Do not assume that anything big in America is also big elsewhere!

Hey, why the thumbs down? How an I supposed to know about something that has no publicity outside of the USA?
This question has been posted on yahoo UK and Ireland!!
If I knew any details I would be happy to respond with an opinion!

Answer 2

Those 3 guys should have been punished for sure just as the 6 should be. But there is sure no reason to get Jackson and Sharpton, the two most racist people in this country, involved. I agree what the 3 guys did was so wrong and deserved to get their butts kicked. But 6 on 1, that does not seem to be an issue that 6 ganged up on 1. You can rest assured it is doomed when Jackson and Sharpton and the media get involved, there will be no justice.

Answer 3

Did you read what the person above me wrote?? can you believe that sh*t?? How $#@%ing ignorant can one person be? really? 'maybe curly hair is the mark of evil' omg! get on some f*ckn meds. please!!!

Anyways!

I think it's all kind of disturbing, becuase now so many dumbies are hanging nooses everywhere. And I would say racial tension in the U.S. is running on high these days, it feels like it has been all year actually!

But on the flip side, it's good to know there all still some people in this world willing to speak up for themselves(and others) because maybe too many people have been too quite for too long!!!

and I'd just like to say this isn't JUST a race thing,(even though we'd all seem to like to make it out to be) it's about our court system, their is ALOT of favoritism going on!! and it's not just 'black' or 'white' it's the 'poor' vs. the 'rich', the 'loser' vs. the 'winner'... I've seen these things 1st hand in the town I grew up in and I KNOW the same things are happening in small towns (and big cities) all over the U.S. Our courts SHOULD NOT be showing favoritism (especially when it comes to juveniles) based on how much money you make, where you grew up, who your parents are, or what color your skin is, or for any other reason.

Answer 4

Great movement.....what is so great about it? I think the U.S. has a long way to go before calling it a great movement and loving and living in peace with their own citizens.

The situation is being exploited on CNN t.v. as they always do running the same thing over and over again and people still stand for that why?

Don't understand it all and don't want to, what happens in the U.S. is hard to witness as a neighbour. If anything I wish we could tune the U.S. news right out of our lives as it is for the most part about this type of hatred toward all human beings.

They have sooooo much to fix in the U.S. when it comes to the racial problems, it looks hopeless, except for all of those people of course that are making money off of it.

Let's hope they can learn from all their neighbours in the world (to the north of them and to the north east of them etc...) that live peacefully in multicultural and diverse societies. Never heard of so much hatred as there has been reported on the news in the good old USA.

Answer 5

I would like to see the national press cover the incidents which led to the final act in this tragedy. They have covered teh noose incident but there has been very little mention of the white adults assaulting the black kids, or of the white adult who pointed a shotgun (there was no way for anyone to know it was not loaded) on the black teenager who had recognized him from the aforementioned assault. When the young man took the gun away from the white adult he was charged with stealing the gun.

It appears the Jena government, police and school board has done everything in their power to make sure this situation exploded into racial violence.

Answer 6

I live in louisiana, What i think about it, is if it was 6 white men beat and left a black person for dead they would have been in prision allready for the rest of their lives, I think all six of them boys need to go to prision NOT because they are black, but because they beat another person brutally and left them for dead, and everyone knowns that isnt right no matter what the reason was in the first place.

Answer 7

Injustice against who. I would like to see color taken out of this and people look inside there hearts and ask this question If my child was beat up what would I want done. If they were trying to kill my child, would I want them free. Unity can't come from only one group of people it has to come from all sides. And if this is a great movement to set people free that have commited a crime against another person where's the humanity in that. A great movement was Martin Luther King. This is not. This is people putting there color before whats right or wrong. . And untill everyone accepts responsibility for there own actions and we stop using rascism as an excuse. And we stop treating other people like second class citizens. There will never be unity.

Answer 8

Well 2D that's nothing compared to all of the number of white people that hung blacks from trees back in the day. If you put a noose around a tree near me and I'm just happen to be standing there and knowing you're a racist, I would whoop your @ss too! If you don't like a person from another race, just simply keep it movin. You don't have to like the opposite race. We're not asking prejudice people on either sides of the tracks to kiss each others @ss. But a little respect from each of us would make things go a little more smoother in the transition of things.

Answer 9

Everyone was in the wrong here.

These poor kids going to jail the rest of their life is just fucked up. I think they should do sometime. A weekend at the most.

Answer 10

It seems to me that the protesters are just behind this cause it is pack mentality. Is it really legal to allow 6 people beat up one person on the street just because he ran his mouth? I don't think it is. Why does a race "win" when a criminal is able to walk the streets free?

Answer 11

I am going thru a "Jena 6" type situation myself in a lowly bigoted town on the west coast. While I rejoice knowing that there is much support for the " 6 " regarding the racial injustices in that town, I mean one side of the town appears to be white with nice homes, etc., and the other Black with not so nice homes, the horrible racism there in that town let's me know that the "good fight" can never stop.

The disparaging manner in which those Black boys were treated versus how the white boys were excused for their behavior, and mind you, whites attacked a Black boy not long before the " 6 " taught that white big mouth his lesson, and that Black boy was beaten with a bottle, but the white boys were charged with nothing.

I'm just sick of them, you know? I live in this bad racist town myself and now on every bit of correspondence I send to this racist monkey court out here, I put a note in the bottom left corner of the mailing envelope "Support The Jena 6; Join The March September 20, 2007; Say No To Racism and Unfair Treatment By Courts". The only thing that has not happened to me out here is a noose being hung on my property but I've been called the N word, and we have a Sambos right in the heart of my town. It's not a good place to live, but when you've lost so much as I have out here, it's hard to relocate though I am doing everything possible to do so. It's just a never-ending fight with these "ape-type" bigots. LET ME MAKE IT VERY CLEAR: IF A NOOSE WERE HUNG IN MY YARD ON A TREE NEAR ME AND I SAW WHO DID IT, LET'S PUT IT THIS WAY, THAT ONE WOULD WIND UP IN A HOSPITAL BED IF NOT WORSE. I WOULD NEVER TOLERATE SUCH HATE. A NOOSE REPRESENTS VIOLENCE AND LYNCHING A HUMAN BEING. IT IS A HATE CRIME!

We must always keep on our suit of armor because as you can see, the hate just never stops and when you feel like giving up, you just can't. Just think about our next generations.

There is a bigoted white that moderates the forum at early evening to like midnight and he/she/it/shim attacks all the Jena 6 comments that don't contain any violations. I appealed several of my questions and posts last night and one area of YA reposted my posts and said I won my appeals, then that slob on nightshift sent me violations on them within minutes and deduced my points. I have written back in showing proof of how my questions were reinstated and how I won the appeals; nothing yet. Even something like that shows that we constantly need to be on our guard.

Filth racist trash exist always, esp. in America. They just never learn their lesson. Why YA has implemented this new reporting and appeal scheme yet keeps the same trash moderators in its employment defeats the new system and is fruitless.

We can compare that matter to the Jena 6 situation. It is time for some judges, prosecutors and juries there to get lost and hopefully those type hatemongers, if they don't change, which I certainly feel they won't, to fall off a very tall cliff somewhere away from everyone and civilization, never to be heard from again. Everyone can certainly do without corruptive bigot waste in the world. I find this situation to be outrageous. The racial divide in that town is immense though the population is not. I am very questionable of the 4 convictions that Michayl Bell received prior to be charged and convicted of attempted murder.

Did you see the protests in that town? It was totally racially divided. When you saw news conferences, a bunch of whites ganged up as usual looking and behaving very disturbed, but when you saw Black people, they were in defense and rallying in the peaceful march. What did that show you? It's never going to end.

I support the Jena 6 all the way. Never can stop the "good fight". Today Michayl Bell has a hearing to be released from prison. His conviction has been overturned and the white boy who was supposedly beaten so badly is walking around free and healthy as a bird. Next time he'll keep his big mouth shut. For now, we need to be concerned with Michayl and get him out of that hell hole.