Posted on 05/23/2007 9:25:54 PM PDT by amchugh
The trouble in Jena started with the nooses. Then it rumbled along the town's racial fault lines. Finally, it exploded into months of violence between blacks and whites.
Now the 3,000 residents of this small lumber and oil town deep in the heart of central Louisiana are confronting Old South racial demons many thought had long ago been put to rest.
Advertisement One morning last September, students arrived at the local high school to find three hangman's nooses dangling from a tree in the courtyard.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
With all due respect FRiend, that story reads like pure leftist propaganda to me. Are you sure you are not being suckered here?
There can be problems with whites. And there can be problems with blacks. Generations of hatred in the South does not help anything. Time will heal things -- but there must be people to try to bridge the gap so that there are fewer and fewer folks filled with hate.
A priest told me that circa 1960, you had to be a member of the KKK to be part of the Atlanta police department. In about 2001 Atlanta, a black security guard called a black police officer about an incident (which happened at an abortion clinic). The black police officer lied about the incident (claiming he had seen the incident first hand when he was in fact not present) that occurred, and an internal affairs investigation occurred over the this incident. The black security guard was later let go, and I am not certain what happened to the black police officer.
What would be good for many is the viewing of the 1960s Star Trek episode that was about racial hatred. In that episode, one race was black on the left side of the face, and white on the right side of the face.
The other race had black on the right side of the face and white on the left side of the face.
Frank Gorshin was in the episode, and the title of the episode was Star Trek: Let This Be Your Last Battlefield.
What exactly are you referring to here?
What is "disgustingly sick"?
This is Star Trek: Let This Be Your Last Battlefield.
Frank Gorshin was in the episode, so this is another way to look up the episode.
It is about two races of people: each was half black and half white in the color of their face. But it was the opposite between the races -- in other words, they were black on the right side for one race, and black on the left side for the other race. The same was true for the white side of the face -- one had it on the left side, the other had it on the right side.
The point of the episode was to show the futility of racism...
I think that perhaps the leftists are taking advantage of a propensity among some to conclude this in order to sell a bill of goods here.
one little incident and the media run after it like vultures...
whites as victims...no matter how horrible...and the silence is deafening
we don’t stand a chance as a culture as long as we keep beating ourselves up over almost non-existent anymore white racism...why do we hold whites to higher standards?
are they better or are minority victims more worthy...which is it?
this illusion and the accompanying self flaggelation compromise our ability to wage the WOT, deal with illegals, borders, culture, crime, illegitimacy and so forth
it’s utterly ridiculous...and the need for white folks to show how friggin sensitive they are to it is a mass neurosis
i am not aware of anything ever like this before.
read McGowan’s Coloring the News and learn why our media does this dance with lies
we are the most tolerant of everyone nation in the history of mankind
The whole incident. Read the main article.
From the IMDB Database -- STAR TREK: LET THIS BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD
(Warning the above link to the Internet Movie Database may have spyware and other ads...)
Racism in Louisiana? I’m totally dumbfounded...in this day and age.
In my experience, the threat of assault from blacks is ever-present. Many blacks love to intimidate whites and their racism is never explored.
I did read it. As I said above, it reads like evil leftist propaganda to me.
Leftist horsenoose in the Baltimore Sun?
You sound like you amy know something that the rest of us do not know. By this propaganda you speak of, do you think the nooses were really placed in the trees by black students or perhaps even by "Yankee Agitators?"
Ok... but I don’t think anyone is denying that the incidents happened. Have you any source claiming otherwise?
If not, I’ll have to assume that the incidents did happen.
Step 1: Get off your high horse.
Step 2: Can the smarmy condescension.
Step 3: Re-read the article, carefully and objectively.
Step 4: Say something intelligent and relevant to the thread.
Try it. It works.
Straw man argument.
After NOLA I lived in Houston, NYC, LA and Austin and grew to understand what he meant. The racial tension in NOLA was profound. I recall being a a school trip on the school bus crossing the River and being told by the nuns to duck down as we passed the Fisher Projects. The word was that once in a while people in the projects would shoot at busloads of white Catholic Kids.
We lived Uptown on a "White Block" but just down the street was a block of all black families. I made friends with a couple of the kids there and invited them home to play. Some of the neighbors who out family had known for 40 years told my father of my evil deed. Dad told them to go to hell. This was in the late 1970's.
I love New Orleans with all my heart and Katrina impacted me more than the death of a family member. But the best thing my dad ever did was move us out of that town and show us the way the world is supposed to work.
You’ve got that right! New Orleans has to be the most corrupt city in North America, and that’s sayin’ a lot!
Yes. All of yours that is. Got up from the wrong side of the bed this morning?
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