Jena Six
There is no doubt that what the white kids did to the black kids in Jena was racially motivated. It may have been a bad joke or may have been for pure racial hate reasons.
The problem I see is why no one is addressing the opposite racial factor here. The “Jena Six” jumped a kid only for the fact he was white. It doesn’t matter what he did before, if he was involved or not, this was racially motivated. That makes what they did racially motivate and a racial attack. I do not see Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson bringing that point up? Rather they would rather get more people thinking everything is racially motivated just so they can have a job. They are throwing fuel on the fire and not letting races get along.
They also call this a fight. When six people jump one person and knock them out and continue to attack them when they are knocked out, it is not a fight. It is an attack. How come the media is not covering this. No one has the right to do this to people. Now that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have successfully stirred another issue up, there cannot be fair justice. I admit they went very light on the white kids and they should not have.
That is just my two cents. This is an equal guilt issue, I do not see why it is becoming one sided. Also, I think it was on CNN that I saw a black minister bring these points up. I will try to find the transcript for you but he said that Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton are turning young blacks against whites by all the stuff they are doing. He also believes that it was not a fight and racially motivated. I commend his words.
Before you bash me I believe the white kids should be charged for the noose thing and the black kids should be charged for jumping the kid. That would be equal, not the murder charge he got now.
What do you think?
One Response to “Jena Six”
By Blair on Sep 27, 2007 | Reply
The local presecutor says he would have charged the three students who hung the two (not three)nooses but could find no state laws to charge them under. The U.S. Justice Department investigated the noose-hanging incident and determined it did not fit within the parameters of a hate crime.
Following the beating of Justin Barker at Jena High School, the Justice Department reopened its investigation into the noose-hanging incident and found no link to the assault on Justin Barker or other confrontations between black and white students in Jena. Donald Washington, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, told CNN that “A lot of things happened between the noose hanging and the fight occurring, and we have arrived at the conclusion that the fight itself had no connection.” He added that “We could not prove that, because the statements of the students themselves do not make any mention of nooses, of trees, of the ‘N’ word or any other word of racial hate.” Washington also told CNN that Bell had “several previous assault charges on his record.” The CNN story is online at http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/19/jena.six.link/index.html?iref=newssearch
Justin Barker was not involved in the noose-hanging incident and has not been named in any other cofrontation between black and white students that occured prior to the beating. In their statements to police, none of the black students accused of beating Barker or witnesses to the attack allege that Barker used racial slurs. These allegations emerged in blogs after the Jena case atttracted national attention. One of the accused does claim that Barker taunted one of the black students does claim that Barker taughted his about losing a fight at a private party, but Barker denies this allegation. Signed statements made by wittnesses and the defendants during the police investigation are online at http://listics.com/20070927137.