Racial incident at school overwhelms Louisiana town

Baltimore Sun ^ | May 20, 2007 | Howard Witt

[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.

[trumandogz]

Again, if you have additional information or another person’s perspective, please share it with us.

[CarrotAndStick]

No, I’ve seen enough of your “complaints” and “counter-arguments” to realise that you’re a lost cause, not worth wasting any time over. If you’re seeing me coming back with replies, it’s only for the pure entertainment that I seek out of your plight. Good luck!

[Altura Ct.]

Very well I might add! Lord have mercy!

[rogue yam]

You are claiming that the article is untrue, and others are asking you for proof. That’s not a straw man argument.

I did not claim the article stated facts that are untrue. You are saying stupid things.

[rogue yam]

Which one? The one who sat under the traditionally whites-only tree?

You are being profoundly dishonest. The comment to which you replied specifically mentioned the attempted murder charge.

[trumandogz]

Could you please clarify which one of us wins the 2007 Rouge Yam Smuggery Award?

It is me or CarrotAndStick?

Please explain how damaging to America our smuggery really is!

Is it more damaging than illegal immigration or Islamic Terrorism or perhaps even more damaging than that evil weed the kids are all smoking these days?

[Altura Ct.]

Well,my experiences in the South showed me that both groups contain more than their share of troublemakers and agitators.

As opposed to where exactly? Your implication that large racial problem is mostly a southern thing is so much BS I can't stand it and show just how ignorant you are. The south has no more race problems then anywhere else. Where were the Rodney King Riots again? Tell me just how great cities like Cincinnati, Detroit, Baltimore, St Louis and DC are. The press knows how to work and manipulate most people to accept anything they want.

[rogue yam]

Or should they have simply been given an A for their History Class project giving tribute to the Old South?

This sort of condescension, combined with the utter vacuousness of your arguments, is exactly the sort of purile, unproductive argumentation that the leftists have spent decades conditioning the American public to embrace, the present article being a prime example of said conditioning. Congratulations to you for so obediently, if unwittingly, doing the leftists bidding.

[trumandogz]

Just answer the question.

[rogue yam]

No, I’ve seen enough of your “complaints” and “counter-arguments” to realise that you’re a lost cause, not worth wasting any time over. If you’re seeing me coming back with replies, it’s only for the pure entertainment that I seek out of your plight. Good luck!

You are no longer in junior high school. You are supposed to be ashamed of your inability to think and express yourself by now.

[Altura Ct.]

You are claiming that the article is untrue, and others are asking you for proof. That’s not a straw man argument.

If there is one thing we have learned around Freepers is how truthful and unbiased the press is. They certainly don't have any agendas.

[rogue yam]

Just answer the question.

Ask an intelligent one and I will.

[trumandogz]

What do you think should have happened to the kids that hung the nooses in the tree?

[CarrotAndStick]

Anything else you’d like to add?

[Judges Gone Wild]

The Communist ACLU to the rescue!

[rogue yam]

Please explain how damaging to America our smuggery really is!

Is it more damaging than illegal immigration or Islamic Terrorism...

Immigration and terrorism are two policy areas where the debate has been utterly skewed and stifled to the advantage of the left by the same race-based demagoguery of which your smuggery is an integral part. If you were smarter and better educated this would be clear to you.

[Cronos]

Since the 1960e, most black vs. white racial incidents have been started by...dare I say it? perhaps, but not in this case

[rogue yam]

What do you think should have happened to the kids that hung the nooses in the tree?

Based on the limited information contained in the linked article I see no reason to conclude that the punishment handed out by the school was inappropriate.

[rogue yam]

Anything else you’d like to add?

You are just one tiny step shy of "neener neener" at this point.

[Cronos]

Not really -- a hate crime is one in which a person is targetted because he/she is a member of some ethnic/social/religious group, for no other reason than that.

So, if a group of Martians attack a Plutonian, then, yes, it's a hate crime, even if that took place on Pluto. It's got nothing to do with the majority or minority community....