when does six's guys of any race find heroism in beating up one man?

Question

we pick and stand up for the wrong things and gang banging one guy is not one I would stand up for any reason, what message are we sending that to hit and beat is OK as long as you are pissed at some one for any thing they are doing as to justify our taking the law in our on hands and and making us hero's ,where were the black leaders before the beating when the things about the tree started, you think maybe the kids would of not gone this way with some good leader ship.

Answer 1

I think you missed the point. Equal justice under the law. Both those old race baiters, Sharpton and Jackson said it- I was shocked to hear them say it. They said, " Our protest does NOT excuse BAD behavior" ( as seen and heard on " The Today Show, The Early Show and CNN)
The black leaders probably, as most well thinking people might have aSSumed, that the situation would have dealt with evenhandedly.
When a BLACK student goes to his principal and ask for permission to sit under the " WHITE" tree, that should have a been a wake up call to the principal. When the nooses were hung the following day Sept 1, 2006, you did not need to have a school district override a principal's decision on harsh punishment for the perpetrators. The ONLY thing that saved the WHITE students from being charged with a hate crime was the local D.A. refused to label them as adults- white teens who were the same age as the black teens who were labelled as such by the same DA later.
You did not need to have a DA go to the school the tell students, " I will take your life away with the stroke of a pen." Jena did not need to have an incident where a white student from a group breaking a glass bottle on the head of a black student on Dec 1, 2006 and only charge him with a misdemeanor and sentenced to probation. Jena did not need to have the following day, Dec 2, 2006, a white teen pulling a shotgun on a group of black teens coming out of a convenience store and the black teen being charged with stealing because he wrestled the gun away from the white teen and took off with it. White teen is not charged.
Then the beating took place 2 days later. The nooses were the catalysts, the other incidents just brought the gang beating to the boiling point. I could understand assault and battery, even aggravated assault- but attempted murder, that to me and to many of the protestors was a stretch.
Incidents such as these cannot be left up to the "black" leaders to fix. All they can do is point a huge spotlight on it and help them make the changes from within Jena

Answer 2

This is what happens when people let anger and hatred rule their actions. Yes people should have been mad, some kind of punishment should have been given to the harassing, noose hanging students, but for SO MANY people to rally behind these kids for beating up the other one is just wrong! Violence never fixes anything, now there will be a trickle down wide spread reaction to this whole thing that will spark a hundred other incidents. I pray someday race stops being an issue in America. I don't judge people by their race, I judge them by their character or lack there of.

Answer 3

The guy they beat up not only had nothing to do with the incident they cite as the cause for the violence, but the incident (nooses being hung in a tree) happened three months before they beat him up. Talk about taking advantage of an oppurtunity.

Answer 4

It is sad, but the Civil Rights Movement has transformed into the "Civil Wrongs" movement.

They used to stand by people for equality, but now they stand by folks only because of racial identity. I think they have become what they used to oppose.

Jesse Jackson has become a darker version of what George Wallace used to be back in the 1960's.

But, I also remember the excessive wrongs of white-on-black crimes from the Jim Crow era. Maybe next time we all stop by a retirement home, we should berate the so-called "greatest generation" for the remnants of racism that we still have to clean up.

Answer 5

No ones claiming its OK, the uproar is over the charge of attempted murder. The protesters are only asking that they be charged with assault, which is exactly what this is.