Thread: Racist Mob Engulfs Small Louisiana Town

Thousands rally in La. to support Jena 6
JENA, La. - Thousands of chanting demonstrators filled the streets of this little Louisiana town Thursday in support of six black teenagers initially charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate.

The crowd broke into chants of "Free the Jena Six" as the Rev. Al Sharpton arrived at the local courthouse with family members of the jailed teens.
Martin Luther King III, son of the slain civil rights leader, said the scene was reminiscent of earlier civil rights struggles. He said punishment of some sort may be in order for the six defendants, but "the justice system isn't applied the same to all crimes and all people."

True enough. These racist bastards are trying to make sure black kids engaged in attempted murder and assault aren't punished as hard as white kids that beat up deys black folks.

The six teens were charged not long after the local prosecutor declined to charge three white high school students who hung nooses in a tree on their high school grounds. Five of the black teens were initially charged with attempted murder, but that charge was reduced to battery for all but one, who has yet to be arraigned; the sixth teen was charged as a juvenile.

"This is the most blatant example of disparity in the justice system that we've seen," the Rev. Al Sharpton told CBS's "The Early Show" before arriving in Jena. "You can't have two standards of justice."

True. The charges shouldn't have been reduced.

"We didn't bring race in it," he said. "Those that hung the nooses brought the race into it."

And those that hung the nooses were duly punished in a manner fitting the severity of their act. Who did they beat unconscious and put in the hospital?

Sharpton, who helped organized the rally, said this could be the beginning of the 21st century's civil rights movement, one that would challenge disparities in the justice system.

No, it's just another example of the race and poverty pimps converging on an insignificant local event and getting as much camera time as they can.

The district attorney who is prosecution the teens, Reed Walters, denied on Wednesday that racism was involved in the charges.

Of course. Because there isn't any racism apparent in them.

He said he didn't charge the white students accused of hanging the nooses because he could find no Louisiana law under which they could be charged.

That racist bastard! Why didn't he charge them with attempted murder and battery? I mean, he had to know dat dem black kids was gonna riot, didn't he?

In the beating case, he said, four of the defendants were of adult age under Louisiana law and the only juvenile charged as an adult, Mychal Bell, had a prior criminal record.

"It is not and never has been about race," he said. "It is about finding justice for an innocent victim and holding people accountable for their actions."

The race baiters and poverty pimps don't want justice, they want special treatment so they can get camera time.

The white teen who was beaten, Justin Barker, was knocked unconscious, his face badly swollen and bloodied, though he was able to attend a school function later that night.

Bell, 16 at the time of the attack, is the only one of the "Jena Six" to be tried so far. He was convicted on an aggravated second-degree battery count that could have sent him to prison for 15 years, but the conviction was overturned last week when a state appeals court said he should not have been tried as an adult.

Here's the question: Can he be re-tried as a juvie, or is this a double-jeopardy case?

Thursday's protest had been planned to coincide with Bell's sentencing, but organizers decided to press ahead even after the conviction was thrown out. Bell remains in jail while prosecutors prepare an appeal. He has been unable to meet the $90,000 bond.

The town's bailbondsman doesn't take food stamps?

"We all have family members about the age of these guys. We said it could have been one of them. We wanted to try to do something," said Angela Merrick, 36, of Atlanta, who drove with three friends from Atlanta to protest the treatment of the teens.

If it could have been one of your boys, doesn't that mean you're raising young thugs? And if you're raising thugs, shouldn't you be working a second job saving up for future defense funds rather than taking vacations from Atlanta to join pointless race-baiting protests?

Just another day at the race pimp convention, not unlike the DNC Convention with Jesse speaking.
I still remember three young men in NC that were hung out to dry & that was because of another race pimp & yes a democrat looking for votes so he thought he could sway the blacks in his favor, guess what, he did.

Originally Posted by Freedom for All

...white kids that beat up deys black folks.

Is that a typo or are you just trying to affect a black dialect? Do you think that helps win people to your point of view?

I know, I know, you don't give a shit because you're righteously fed up with coddling minorities... yatta yatta...

I'm fed up with "coddling minorities". They're no better nor worse than the majority & deserve NO special rights.

.......Because we all know there are NO disparities in the justice system, such as cocaine having a much lighter sentence than crack, or blacks being many times more likely to be jailed for the same offenses as white people(Look it up for yourself).....

....Not to say these kids deserve a hug and not a good beating themselves, but come on, there is a point in all this, as rediculous and ineffectual a case as they might choose.

Originally Posted by Luigi

.......Because we all know there are NO disparities in the justice system, such as cocaine having a much lighter sentence than crack, or blacks being many times more likely to be jailed for the same offenses as white people(Look it up for yourself).....

You forgot murder & OJ.

Originally Posted by Migi e!

You forgot murder & OJ.

OJ got off because he was rich and famous, not black. If he was Tyrone Jenkins the night janitor at Walmart, he would have been thrown in jail the first time around.

All I know about the Jena 6 is that on facebook, i've gotten about 293 invitation to 'show support for the Jena 6'.
People are likening it to the civil rights movement and the marches in alabama/washington.

anything where people try to make an 'example' is suspicious in my book.

Originally Posted by Luigi

OJ got off because he was rich and famous, not black. If he was Tyrone Jenkins the night janitor at Walmart, he would have been thrown in jail the first time around.

No, OJ got off because his trial was moved to a "jury of his peers". Did you see the reaction after the verdict across the country?