These political hacks are going to keep our country divided forever.
Then I found out the essence of this story, which is that CNN is showing a woman crying on TV NOT because her son was beaten up but because he DID the beating-up; NOT because he was found guilty of attempted murder but because he was found innocent in this supposedly-racist society; and that the crux of this is that "black leaders" were working up outrage because six people beat up one person and the "proof" that it was no big deal is that he was able to attend a school function that night (though the papers skipped the part about him having to leave early because he was in pain)...and that all of this is because the REAL crime was the hanging of nooses on a tree.
The nooses required stern punishment, but the working idea here seems to be that they are the height of outrage not just because they were a "message" but because they could inspire, well, violence, or someone getting attacked.
Yet, the actual violent attack that followed is being portrayed as LESS a crime than the imagery/message that preceded it (and would inspire, if it did, inter-racial crime going the OTHER way).
This is the height of PC insanity: an ACT is portrayed as less than a SYMBOL of that same act (violence).
Just astonishing, although I must say I'm not seeing the average person buying the story the way the media are.
/sarc
The media did not reveal that Mychal Bell, who was convicted of battery in the Barker beating, was convicted a year ago for battery and committed three additional crimes while on probation, making the Jena 6 verdict his fifth conviction for a crime of violence.
Yep, nobody in the news media here bothered to mention this either. They were all tripping over themselves about how the evil prosecutor was pressing for an attempted murder case instead of whimpering in front of the "racists" chant and letting him go. Looks like the prosecutor had it right.
A number of offenses (hangman's noose (warning not to sit in a certain place) and a physical attack on the youngster being held/tried were committed by the student who subsequently was beaten.
Had the administrator (principal) handled the earlier offenses without prejudice, this would have been nipped in the bud.
This is racist.
“Free the Jena Sicks!”
Someone or some organization has left themselves open to being shaken down.
Follow the money
hanging a noose...a hate crime
6 blacks beating a white kid that had NOTHING to do with the nooses...NOT a hate crime
the sane legal justice system in the US....non-existent!!!
CajunConservative provided this link on a previous thread.
Read it, esp. the timeline toward the bottom.
At least 3 of the perps have a ‘history’.
http://www.thejenatimes.net/home_page_graphics/home.html
This is an MSM inspired and created mess.
There’s no reason why white teens and black teens shouldn’t have equal protection of the law. However, equal protection doesn’t mean you can engage in aggravated assault and not be punished, which is what some of these activists apparently believe.
Of course jena should release that kid from jail! Hell, everyone knows its much worse to hang a rope in a tree than for 6 guys to kick the snot out of one!
This political theatre is a morality play based on the fantasies of liberals. In terms of intellect its an embarrasment, not one of these fools demonstrators or liberal media poofs could answer the most basic rudimentary questions beyond what a child could answer as to what constituted race relations in America.