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[mack4289]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/6685441.stm

"It all began at Jena High School last summer when a black student, Kenneth Purvis, asked the school's principal whether he was permitted to sit under the shade of the school courtyard tree, a place traditionally reserved for white students only. He was told he could sit where he liked.


Tom Mangold interviewed primary witnesses in Jena
The following morning, when the students arrived at school, they found three nooses dangling from the tree.

Most whites in Jena dismissed it as a tasteless prank, but the minority black community identified the gesture as something far more vicious.

"It meant the KKK, it meant 'niggers we're going to kill you, we're gonna hang you 'til you die'," said Caseptla Bailey, one of the black community leaders.

Old racial fault lines in Jena began to fracture the town. It was made worse when - despite the school head recommending the noose-hangers be expelled - the board overruled him and the three white student perpetrators merely received a slap on the wrist.

....As racial tension grew last autumn and winter, there were race-related fights between teenagers in town. On 4 December, racial tension boiled over once more at the school when a white student, Justin Barker, was attacked by a small group of black students.

He fell to the ground and hit his head on the concrete, suffering bruising and concussion.

He was treated at the local hospital and released, and that same evening felt able to put in an appearance at a school function.

District Attorney Reed Walters, to the astonishment of the black community, has upgraded the charges of Mr Barker's alleged attackers to conspiracy to commit second degree murder and attempted second degree murder. If convicted they could be 50 before they leave prison."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/324177_amygoodman19.html

"Mychal Bell was convicted by an all-white jury. His court-appointed defense attorney called no witnesses. Bell will be sentenced on July 31, facing a possible 22 years. The remaining five teens, several of whom were jailed for months, unable to make bail, still face attempted second-degree murder charges and a hundred years each in prison."

The strange thing about this story is that it seems ready-made for major news organizations but it hasn't gotten as much coverage as you'd expect. It got some coverage from the Washington Post, the BBC, MSNBC, the USA Today, Newsweek and Fox but nothing from The NY Times, the WS Journal, CNN, or Time Magazine.

[Alyallen]

[Tiger Beer]

Louisiana...

Definetely racial. Sounds like nothing more than a typical school fight issue that happens all over the U.S. everywhere.

In this particular case, a black kid beat up a white kid...and prison? WTF?

Yeah, this should be getting a lot more exposure. If it was in Los Angeles, people would be rioting.

This is similar to David Duke, a prior KKK guy running for political offices in Louisiana (the second largest african-american state by population in the country)...and I believe David Duke got a lot of votes FROM the black community as well and won some political offices in the state of Louisiana!

Something's not quite right in the State of Louisiana...

[stevemcgarrett]

No, but they chose to sit in the caboose of the train of opportunity.

[mack4289]

[Tony_Balony]

Wow, tough call here. Sure is tough to be a Negro in The USA nowadays.
Bad enough White people are catching on to the violent crime put against them by Black males so those Mississippi Burning bandwagons are a little less full lately. I can post some of those gruesome details about the Knoxville murders but I think that won't be necessary. The big kicker now is the Mexicans. Sure can't manipulate like them White people. They can run to another country. The Feds can't control them. Are we gonna see another Newark soon?

A few months ago, A Black man was caught burning crosses and he was given a slap on the wrist. So whats the big deal about these nooses?

What the big deal about the tree? Same with the barber shop. Maybe they don't want to do geri curls there or sell do-rags. Whats the point really? Its a frickin' barber shop. And a tree. Butt out. There are plenty of public parks off limits to White folk in the Midwest. Everybody knows we each have our own turf. I used to work for the Federal government. I found out that's a Black owned business wink-wink.

So whats your question? Why is wrong for six young Black males to attack a White kid? Big deal. So they go to prison a few years sooner. After that, they even get out sooner. That almost sounds like a favor.

I think its kind of interesting that the young man "fell". He "fell". Like "Oops, my darn shoestring!".

Attempted murder? Thats silly. They should be charged with "Teaching That White Boy a Lesson" in the first degree.

[mack4289]

[Alyallen]

[pkang0202]

The media is just waiting for Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson to go down there.

[cbclark4]

Barak Obama should go there and make a big stink, and he should ask Jesse and Al to stay home. He should call for a federal investigation under the RICO statute, and under the Civil Rights act.

The nooses were legally intimidation and harassment of the first degree.

[mack4289]

[Alyallen]

[stevemcgarrett]

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[Alyallen]

[cbclark4]

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
{R.A.H.}