Two of Jena 6 defendants present BET award (Beat up a white person & BET will make you a celebrity)

Two of the teens enmeshed in the nationally known "Jena Six" case helped present the most anticipated award during Black Entertainment Television's Hip Hop Awards show broadcast Thursday night.

Carwin Jones and Bryant Purvis were introduced by Katt Williams, a comedian and the awards show's host, as two of the students involved in a case of "systematic racism."

"By no means are we condoning a six-on-one beat-down," Williams said during his introduction of the teens, one of whom is still facing attempted murder charges in connection with the attack on white student Justin Barker. "... But the injustice perpetrated on these young men is straight criminal."

As Jones and Purvis walked onto the stage at the Atlanta Civic Center, where the awards show was filmed on Saturday, they were greeted by a standing ovation.

"They don't look so tough, do they?" Williams joked as the teens stepped up to the podium.

Both Jones and Purvis thanked a number of people, including family, friends, the "Hip-Hop Nation" and the thousands who came to their small hometown to rally behind their case.

Purvis said the Sept. 20 rally proved "our generation can unite and rally around a cause."

The teens assisted Williams in presenting the Video of the Year honor to Kanye West for "Stronger." Purvis handed the award to West, who in turn shook hands with both teens.

Also attending the show was Mychal Bell's father, Marcus Jones; Carwin Jones' parents, John Jenkins and Dwanda Jones; and Theo McCoy, the father of Theo Shaw, another defendant.

"The black church has to be the instrument of change. "

It already is...PROGRESSIVISM.

"For one thing, I believed and still believe in the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change...I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death, but rather as an active, palpable agent in the world."

"And that is why that, if we truly hope to speak to people where they're at - to communicate our hopes and values in a way that's relevant to their own - then as progressives, we cannot abandon the field of religious discourse."

"Because when we ignore the debate...oers will fill the vacuum, those with the most insular views of faith, or those who cynically use religion to justify partisan ends."

"In other words, if we don't reach out to evangelical Christians and other religious Americans and tell them what we stand for, then the Jerry Falwells and Pat Robertsons and Alan Keyeses will continue to hold sway."

'Call to Renewal' Keynote Address

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Note how Obama is hypocritical denouncing partisanship, even as he advocated using religion as a vector for socialism. Sickening.

I’m sure Bill Cosby would have some choice words about this. Of course he’d be condemned as a “sell-out”, “Uncle Tom”, “traitor”...blah, blah, blah.

I sometimes wonder what Alice in Wonderland universe the so-called black leadership lives in.

“In fact, it is the younger white generations that should be pissed. They are practically second-class citizens, between Affirmative Action, hate crimes that only apply to white people, every minority free to say whatever insulting thing he wants to and about white people but white people having to walk on eggshells around minorities, and now two of the six bastards who rat-packed a white kid are being celebrated on television.”

That’s the truth and I wish more people had the nerve to say it. If this continues sooner or later whites will just stop caring, then where with the black community be?

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