So, what have we learned?

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It's amazing... another one bites the dust. When are we going to get it? The media is like a drama hungry snake that only stops when it gorged itself on petty small town crises, and in the process gets all of America hyped up... for what? Jena 6, honestly I don't know when and how we came to literally wearing our integrity on our backs. It should not matter if I wore black that day or not. My support for my race goes beyond black t-shirts, and school pranks. Its crazy; I get up every morning, thank god that for one I'm alive, two I'm in school, I'm black, I'm smart, I have sense, a mind, a voice and I thank him for all the people that died for me to be here BUT I still get stares for not wearing a black t-shirt? I love my race but I'm not going to defend violence in any way whether or not they had it coming. I've learned from my fathers before me, and non-violence is what they taught. Really people spend too much time being angry for the wrong reasons. People are born, they live they die in anger, but I refuse to be angry because so many died angry before me. The best way to show respect is to live happy, so the deaths of those who were angry- fighting for what I have standard would not go in vane. It just amazes me how little things like high school fights, in a small-town town spawned by racial hoopla managed to make front page news days in a row... seriously its beyond me. I can't believe I'm even wasting my pixels on it, let alone my time. I think the whole thing got blown out of proportion... again.

DJH- Yeah I saw the news and I've read the articles... I know a black kid get was beat up by a group of white people. But I still think It got blown out of proportion. And I'm not trying to sound insensitive, but I really don't care what color they are, it was wrong both ways violence like that is never justified. And there is probably a group a Japanese kids beating up on a Mexican as I type this... you know? Is it really news worthy that's all I'm asking. And about the black t-shirt thing I held off about a week just to see if anyone would care. In a previous question I said in a answer a week from now nobody would care and got a thumbs down.. but hey I was right nobody cares :)

Renegade- Umm no, and if you didn't want to "hear" it then you should have clicked the back button :)

Answer 1

I can't say I learned anything I didn't know already....but I doubt what I learned and what you are referring to aren't exactly the same thing.

Keep your head up anyway chic. Sounds like ya got a good head on your shoulder, so to hell with those who want you to be a conformed soldier rather than an individual leader.

NO! A black kid WAS NOT beat up by a GROUP of white kids!! Why do people keep repeating this BS??? A GROUP of black kids got into a fight with a GROUP of white kids after the BLACK KIDS refused to leave a private invite-only party they were not invited to!!!! QUIT BELIEVING PROPAGANDA. It is NOT HARD to find out how NOT TRUE that retarded twist on reality was! Who the hell started that twist, and WHY? People will twist a freakin apple into an airplane to make themselves victims today.....

I find it utterly hilarious how someone can say "I know the facts" or "if you knew the facts" or "the facts of Jena" and then complete the sentence with an utter falsehood about the events. Does anyone give a d*mn the white kid that was cowardly jumped (yes, really jumped....not like the story that has been invented about the black kid being jumped, as that DID NOT happen) had NOTHING to do with the nooses, nothing to do with the fight at Fair Barn, nothing to do with the fight at the convenience store...NOTHING to do with ANY of it?? Unlike some of the Jena 6 who were involved in ALL of the trouble, one of whom had an extensive criminal record, including violence? Good Lord people....quit believing propaganda.....look at court records, police reports, local media of the events that was printed long before bigots like Sharpton and Jackson and the national media put their DECEITFUL spin on the FACTS.

Answer 2

A salute to you - you sound a very smart young lady. You will go a very long way with the thinking like that. Another Condoliza Rice coming soon simultaneously.
You go girl - don't be in any hoopla doopla crazy things like that. you have better things to do. I don't know what they are fighting for - it doesn't make any sense - they just better go to Iraq and help out there, at least that's heroic. The color of the blood is still red - what's the *****.... don't get it!!

Answer 3

I think the problem has gone beyond what has brought us to this point. It is now a question of attitudes and agenda.

Too many people are hand-fed by the media.

The media has only one or two or both of these goals:

1. Ratings/advertising/money
2. Power/political influence

At the end of the day the way we are taught to think and act will directly affect what media we are willing to consume.

It will also affect how we view and what actions we take towards racial tension and conflict.

Answer 4

It was surely a controversial issue, and I agree that while it might have been an issue: The media did blow it way out of proportion.

You expressed yourself very well. I didn't wear black either, but I also didn't know the situation well enough to say if I supported it or not.

Answer 5

the black shirt thing was sooo last week..Get with the times

But you do realize the black kid was beat up by whites too. People tend not to pick up on that.