What's worse, hanging some rope from a tree or beating someone's head in?

Question

Dont ask Sharpton or Jackson this one!

Answer 1

Nice spin. Hanging rope from a tree doesn't sound bad at all compared to beating someones head in, does it? Though, why someone would want to arbitrarily hang rope from a tree is beyond me. If you're referring to the current Jena case, either you haven't heard or read all of the examples of local double standards for whites and blacks committing the same crimes and receiving drastically different punishments, or you have heard and read them and are still determined to put your racist spin on the situation. Either way, I've spent enough time on you.

Answer 2

"Patriot Watcher", I know you're smarter than this question would seem to make you, I've seen your responses on answers.

To say that NOOSES hung from a tree by white students who had made rascist comments to the black student who sat under the tree in a southern state with a long and distressing history of anti-black rascism is "hanging some rope" is specious. It wasn't "some rope" it was a statement directed at black students, from white students who didn't like them sitting under the "white tree". Apparantly nobody told them Jim Crow was outlawed.

That said, the retaliation was absolutely wrong and innapropriate. But is attempted murder an appropriate charge for what was basically a high school brawl? No. Certainly a suspension and misdemeanor assault charges would have been appropriate.

As for Sharpton and Jackson? Don't get me started, they give progressives a bad name.

Answer 3

You're comparing apples and oranges but don't worry, you're in a good company. It seems that everyone (black and white) is doing the same thing.

Obviously, the kids should be charged as they committed a crime and no one has ever argued (to the best of my knowledge) that it wasn't criminal and that they should have been let go without any sanction. If anyone is making that argument, they're an idiot. This crime should only be "compared" with the crime that the white student committed when he beat up a black classmate at a party (resulted in a simply battery charge for which he currently on probation).

Try comparing the punishments of the kids who hung the ropes (three days of of in-school suspension law enforcement never called) with the punishment of the kid who sat under the tree in the first place (formally charged in a court of law with inciting a riot). That's comparing apples and apples. See how that works?

Answer 4

It depends on the context. In the Jena 6 case, hanging rope from the tree symbolized a time when blacks could actually be lynched for just being black. It's a hate crime.

Also, it's not just that the black kids beat up the white kid. It's that they got charged with attempted murder. The punishment for the noose-hangers? A three-day suspension, hardly a sufficient punishment for committing a hate crime.

Answer 5

From the press releases I've read (which by no means makes me an expert on this) there was some racial tension at this school due to nooses being hung in the tree and "white only" areas.

The noose hangers got suspension. I'm not sure what law that breaks, so what crime would they be charged under? Being mean?

Now, the guys who physically beat on someone else, regardless of their color, definitely broke the law and are being charged with battery. What's the issue?

By the way, I have read of no news story where "whites beat on blacks and got off" recently there. Which is irrelevant anyway.

Answer 6

well, lets see...if your black and beat a white person it isn't racism, but if you're white and beat a black person, then it is. Well, at lease according to liberals and most ignorant persons-oops, one in the same! Ask Sharpton or Jackson (whose opinion should be taken very lightly) if they would attend a rally if it was the other way around. NOPE!
Putting a rope in a tree...not the best way to handle your problems with people, but no one was killed. The kid who got his head beat up did attend a function later, but if you know about head injury's you would know that at times it can take awhile to "set in."
That's why when someone has a concussion they have to be watched thru the night!

Answer 7

Dependent upon your definition of morality, either can be an appropriate response.

But you must examine what the rope symbolizes before you jump to brash conclusions.

This rope hanging from a tree symbolizes 200 years of English and later American slavery in the New World, and until the Act of Liberties (Britain) and the Emancipation Proclamation (USA). This rope represents the rape of the African coastal tribes by their own brethren and the exploition of a centuries old practice by western imperial powers and the hubris of thought.

So, no. Hanging a piece of rope is not worse than beating someone up.

But advocating the renewal of brutal slavery practices certainly is.

Answer 8

There were numerous fights after the nooses were hung. I'm guessing some black kids got beat up by whites too, but it helps when your Dads are cops or on city council.
PS: As for "beating someone's head in" the kid went back to school that same day.

Answer 9

Just watch Jackson and Sharpton reactions, do a 180 and there is the answer to your question

Answer 10

Well according to the Jena 6 supporters getting beat is nothing. I guess Columbine and Virginia Tech were justified using their criteria for judgment.