Jena 6. Voice you Opinion?

Question

A whole lot of talk about this subject is going around,So here is your chance to voice your opinion. Who is guilty and why. Personally I am against racism. Not only for blacks but for indians, chinese, mexican, whatever. What is your opinio about the Jena 6 thing

dear, sensibleman,
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Answer 1

this thing has gotten out of hand. apparently the boy who was beaten up had no correlation with the nooses that were hung from that tree in the past incident. Why was this particular boy targeted? i still haven't figured that one out aside from his skin color. Now, as for the "discrimination" they claim is happening, hanging nooses from a tree is harming no one aside from showing the world how ignorant those white kids were for putting them there and showing how ignorant the black kids were for getting offended by it (haven't we grown past this as a nation?). as for the beating, someone got badly hurt and there is every reason for those boys to be prosecuted. There is a punishment for every crime and if those boys were so offended by the noose thing, they should have pressed charges against the boys who did it for a "hate crime" rather than beat up a different boy. This is just plain rediculous...no wonder i don't like going to the south....

Answer 2

i don't think the media is telling us everything. in fact, the first few days i've been reading about jena 6, all i was hearing was 'free the jena 6' and 'racism, racism, racism' without substantial evidence noted.

three days later, more details are coming out, and i believe it's not as racially inclined as the media, jesse jackson, and al sharpton would like us to believe.

i do however believe that any student, regardless of color, should be tried if he or she participated in a fight. then again, i think that's true in every town at every time. i also believe that the kids who hung the nooses should be brought up on terrorist threats. however, we're learning that the two situations are exclusive of each other.

i think pulling the race card gets in the way of true justice. pardon the pun, but it colors everything and creates panic, which is exactly what we DON'T need.

Answer 3

It boils down to two wrongs don't make a right. If this incident happened between two factions of the same race there would not have been this strong of a reaction. How can there be equality if we keep going on with this type of behavior? Hanging the nooses from the tree was a despicable act, no doubt. That doesn't give anyone else the right to physically attack someone else and they should be prosecuted for breaking the law.

Answer 4

First off,I think the idiots who put those nooses on the tree should be punished and second I think the young men who beat up the boy should be held accountable too. I think that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson saw a chance to get their faces on TV and that is unforgiveable. Injustices were done,but bringing in strangers from the outside to tell a whole town what to do isnt the right way to go about solving the problem. The demonstration is over and Jesse and Al have gotten their publicity. Now let the town take care of their problems.

Answer 5

The white kids were clearly wrong in hanging the noose, but assault is assaut. Bottom line is the people beating eachother up on both sides should be locked up. What you have to look at here is the situation they were facing, if they didn't make arrests somebody was going to end up dead, the racism was already out of control on both sides and it needed to be stopped. That being said, what was the tree? was it the white dude tree? I just don't get the concept I guess. I'd also have to wonder did the black kids have a place that they said white people couldn't go? Nationally we don't have the whole story and never will. Whoever hung the noose should be arrested, and yes the 4 kids that beat up on one kid instead of fighting one on one should all go to jail. The white ones and the black ones.

Answer 6

My advice is to hold your opinions because there is much more to this story than has been revealed so far. A few new facts have come to light now that all the showboating and name calling has subsided.

For instance, the "nooses in the tree" is a non-issue. That event happened over three months ago. The town was appalled and punished the perpetrators for it. This beating had nothing to do with that event.

This town is not racist but everyone gets along quite well. This Michale Bell, the black 16 year old about whom all the hoopla has bee, has been convicted of many. many crimes so far in his young life. In fact he was convicted of beating up one of his own female family members.

He has, in fact, been living with a white family that took him in after his own family threw him out.

Stand by to hear much, much more before you start condemning everyone involved.

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Answer 7

The Whites were wrong to
1.hang the noose
2. not expel the boys who did it
3. Charge the boys as adults
4. Charge them for murder when the boy didn't
even spend the night in the hospital.
The Blacks were wrong to
1.Say the 6 were totally innocent of doing ANYTHING
wrong.
2. Yelling to free the Jena 6 when there is only ONE in jail
3. Leaving him in jail for months when they could easily
have bailed him out. They had the money, but obviously
keeping him there helped their cause.

Answer 8

I think that the white students as well as the black students should receive a fair punishment for whatever crimes the law says they committed. They should also have to make a public apology to each other and the American people for all the trouble they have caused. In this case no one is complete right or wrong.

Answer 9

Here is where I stand:

Should they be punished? Yes. You cannot condone beating another human being into an unconcious state.

Did they get railroaded? Yes. I believe that the charges (where each child faces a maximum of 20 years in prison) is a bit extreme. And the Bell case was an absolute disgrace. His defense didn't even defend him properly.

We need to start talking about race as a nation, it's getting worse instead of better.

The Neo-Nazis are posting things on their websites trying to incite a lynching of these boys.

Answer 10

Hey! I appreciate all your opinoins. U R all teaching me! Well...history needs to be read by the Jena 6...they would understand that their American history is one of slavery...they need to be educated more. Look at the statistics of hidden bias thruout the criminal justice system...Black people can't let themselves get emotionally involved in a system that is stacked against them.