What is everyones feelings about the Jena 6?

Shane

I think that we're forgetting the bottom line here. These 6 guys attacked and beat a guy. Let me say that again, SIX GUYS, beat up one dude.

Reasons aside, they beat him up because of his skin color.

But nobody cares about that. If it was 6 white dudes that beat up one black guy, it would be a hate crime of the most extreme magnitude, and rightfully so.

I'm getting off topic. None of that should matter.

They went 6 on 1 and assaulted a guy. Case closed. Lock them up. It's not racism, it's not unfair, it's assault and it's illegal, and you go to jail for it. Simple as that.

What would be unfair is if 3 black guys got together with 2 white guys and beat somebody up; then only the 2 white guys went free. This is not unfair. If me (a white guy) and 5 of my, white friends beat up a guy, I could fully expect to go to jail for it and you can BET nobody would organize a march for me.

All that said, was the guy being a moron? Probably. Did he maybe deserve a little of what he got? Probably. Are he and his friend swamp-rat hillbillies? Yeah. But hanging a noose in a tree and being a racist, while stupid, ignorant, and retarded, is not illegal and doesn't really hurt anyone.

So there ya go.

jurydoc

My feeling is that most people are spouting off their opinions based on incomplete or worse, downright wrong information. People need to get the facts instead of fanning the flames of ignorance.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/jena6.asp

Wounded Duck

Everyone here acted in an unacceptable manner! The white kids should have been charged for the nooses! Shades of the KKK. The black kids are no better! Where are the parents! Al Sharpton should meet with the boy the black kids beat and apologize.

ltdteam68

I am very far from racist I assure you. But the boys who hung nooses didnt physically hurt anyone. If the 6 black kids had hung a flag that said kill whitey or something it would have been a different story. I am so far from excusing what the white kids did because they should have been punished and something should have happened to them but physically hurting anyone regardless of race is unacceptable.

Free To Be Me

Six teenagers beat another teenager unconscious.

If people really want racism to end, they will stop defending indefensible behavior because of the color of the skin of the defendants.

Who cares if other people were imprisoned unfairly? No one is on trial except the criminals who committed this horrible act.

What if six teenagers of any race(s) had beaten a black teenager with that much viciousness?

The hypocrisy of the outcry will only make racism worse.

THE WRAITH OF GOD IS COMING

If they almost killed someone they almost killed someone and that is attempted murder.

Have a nice day.

anya_mystica

Too bad blacks still have to march to get justice in America. America has the best justice money can buy and until that changes we will have marchers.

Hokie

The local KKK doesn't cause this much of a stir. If you visit this area, there is a county where the Klan flag is just as common as the American flag. These kids need to be punished, but it should have been handled by the school. I also mean the white kids who hung the nooses. You people are too sensitive. I'm not a racist. People made nooses all the time at my high school using the strings from the window shades. All that ever happened to them was their parents were called, and maybe suspension.

magy

Ridiculous- the charges fit the kids, black or white doesn't matter. All those protesters would be pushing for attempted murder charges if the races were the other way around. I think the charges fit the crime on this- sick of everyone turning everything into a race issue.

Larry

"Not only is there almost no media coverage of the Black violent hate crimes against Whites, but in high profile cases when Blacks are prosecuted for heinous crimes against innocent Whites, the White victims are ignored and the Black criminals are turned into â€œreal victimsâ€ by the media.

Nothing more clearly illustrates this point than what has occurred over the past year in Jena, Louisiana and the orgy of hatred that Jena has suffered. today, September 20, the town has been invaded by thousands of thugs like Al Sharpton who seek to make violent Black hate criminals such as Michael Bell and the rest of the so-called â€œJena Sixâ€ into heroes. Even worse the entire White population of the town is facing a media lynching by being labeled racists who are unjustly persecuting Black young men.

Michael Bell, who has been convicted of four previous violent crimes, (a fact scarcely revealed by the media), led a group of six Black students to attack and unmercifully beat a White Student at Jena High School in what can only be described as a vicious hate crime. Motivated by racial hatred, the six Blacks attacked one lone White student, Justin Barker. They stomped and kicked him to unconsciousness and continued to kick him and stomp him as he lay helpless. The attack could have easily have taken his life if others had not intervened. Only by the grace of God did he survive.

To show the insane bias of this whole case, just imagine if the facts were reversed.

If a gang of six Whites motivated by racial hatred and led by a White with four previous violent-crime convictions had attacked a lone Black student, kicking and stomping him into unconsciousness, would there any concern that the leader and the other White gang members could be charged with aggravated assault? Would not there be national demands to charge the White attackers with the most serious of federal civil rights violations and hate crimes? White leaders from all over the country, even the leaders of the local town of Jena, would not be defending the White attackers, they would be condemning the attacks and calling for the harshest of punishments allowed by the law.

As far as the Media are concerned, oh yes the supposedly unbiased media, they would be interviewing the Black victim on every TV talk show across the land, discussing his fear, his pain, his suffering. They would be interviewing his crying relatives and friends. They would not be voicing any fear that the White attackers would be treated too harshly. No, they would be demanding the harshest of penalties.

Federal officials from the President on down would be calling for additional serious charges of federal civil rights violations. But you see, in the America of 2007 Whites are no longer deemed to have any â€œcivil rights.â€

When a lone White kid is beaten savagely by a gang of six hate criminals, the media is only concerned about how the Black attackers are being treated too harshly. And if you are waiting for civil rights charges to be filed against the Black attackers who violated the civil rights of the boy they almost beat to death, donâ€™t hold your breath.

The entire Jena scenario and the coverage of it by the media show once again that it is not the people of Jena who are racists. By voting for me and by demanding justice in this case, they have shown rightly that they believe in fairness to all and that White people are now the real victims of racism in America. Once again it is shown that we must have advocates for our rights and heritage just as any other group is permitted to do so.

May the District Attorney and the people of Jena stay strong and never give in to those who seek take away their rights of life and liberty as guaranteed by the United States Constitution."

NoGood

Yep a very big difference between a rope in a tree and a boy beaten till he was unconscious and beyond for what a word if that.

The boy had blindness and a swollen head and still has headaches which of course a doctor can't determine the cause and yet grown people can't understand why they want these poor innocent jena 6 locked up.

If it were me or my kid I'd lock them up and everyone here knows they would too.

Nope I'm not a racist just confused as to why they a white boy getting beaten means nothing while a rope in a tree which hurt no one physically is more imprtant.

â˜†soaking in the blood of angelsâ˜†

it's sad. that's what i think. race shouldn't have to do with. but it does. that's the sad part. people are so narrow mind and don't wanna realize that it doesn't matter what color skin you are it's how you act that is important. and, the white kids that put the nuse in the tree, it could have meant something else. it was INTERPRETED to be racist. and now everybody is going crazy over a peice of rope...

Officer Me

Lil whitey prolly say sumptin dat piss of the homey, dawg. Cracka cant be breakin down da force. Pimp.

Paula Revere

Sorry - not going to risk a violation notice just for this nonsense.

Consul of Rome

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Lavrenti Beria

"the justice system isn't applied the same to all crimes and all people."

I can certainly attest to that. My family received a threatening letter from a neighbor about our dog barking. I called the pigs, er, police, who made a half-harted effort to find the perp. If I had been a judge or politician, the FBI would have been involved and the culprits found and prosecuted. Now, when the pigs call for donations I ask them how the investigation is comming along then hang up on them.

LOD

Who cares

1st Amendment Nut

The issue is not that these kids were wrongly accused, it is that they are facing possible life altering prison terms that they would not be facing if they were white.

EDIT

Example. less that twenty percent of the population in the US is black. More than half of all drug users are white. Eighty percent of people in prison on drug charges are black.

Do the math.

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