I read somewhere within the last couple of months about Jena, La. I have spent a lot of time in Monroe and Shreveport Louisiana. I have driven thru but not really stopped in most of the small towns in central Louisiana. In spite of what the papers say not much has changed in small towns in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama or Georgia. Many of those folks have lived there for generations.
Anyway, what I remember reading had to do with a tree that Whites only were allowed to sit under. I thought that was crazy but the story gets more racist and more unlawful. Please watch the video. Remember we live in America and this is the year 2007.
Democracy Now had the story about a month ago. They seem to have a nose for injustice and shines their spotlight on it.
Please write to Jena 6 Defense Committee, PO Box 2798, Jena, La 71342 or email – jena6defense@gmail.com
2 WRONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT IT HAS TO STOP SOMEWHERE PROBLEM IS IT ALWAYS ESCALATES TO SOMETHING LIKE THIS. SOMEONE/SOMETHING HAS TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO LET IT GO! STOP IT BEFORE IT STARTS. SO PUT ANOTHER PIC OF MARTIN LUTHER KING UP. I DON’T THINK HE PROMOTED TREATING VIOLENCE WITH VIOLENCE. I THINK KINDNESS WOULD BE A BETTER TOOL. NO ONE’S STRONG ENOUGH FOR THAT ARE THEY??????
Natalie
You are 100% correct. Unfortunately, when you’re in it, it’s hard to think clearly. The folks who should think clearly are our elected officials. They are the ones that we are paying to think clearly. They are the ones that we’re paying to follow the law. It is clear, in Jena, Louisiana, that those elected officials are not thinking in the best interest of our Constitution. They’re thinking in the best interest of Jim Crow.
Remember, Martin Luther King was a great leader. He followed a path that others had tried and failed. He was aided by something that his forefathers didn’t have. Television. The spotlight of Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley was as important as Martin Luther King’s poetic words. Never underestimate the power of millions of people watching on the armed Americans have police dogs turned on them and have fire hoses turned on them. I mention this because there is no television coverage of Jena, Louisiana.
[…] Cooper ran a story on the Jena 6. Unfortunately, it was very superficial. Without the detail you really can’t figure out the […]
[…] A little history for those who aren’t familiar with this story. more here and […]
It is a terrible thing that is going on in Jena, LA. When you live in urban areas you do not realize that racism is as horrific as you are seeing here. When will tolerance be taught and we truly live the dream that Martin Luther and others have died for?
The three white who hung the nooses should have been expelled. The SIX blacks who attacked the ONE white should be in jail.
Matt –
And what about the White guy who pulls a gun at the gas station? He got nothing and the Blacks who took the gun away from him were arrested. What about the group of Whites that attacked a Black guy before the retaliation that you mention? The problem in this case is that there is a pattern of Whites getting off without any significant punishment and the Blacks getting more and more punishments.
Thanks for your comments.
[…] Look, all that I want is fair and equal treatment. That’s it. The dude who pulled a shotgun on some of the black students needs to be charged. The White dudes that beat up a Black dude and this happened before the 6 Black dudes jumped on the White guy. The White dudes need to be charged with something. Oh, and didn’t the White guy, the victim taunt the Black students just before they kicked his butt? Here’s the whole story. […]
This is the shizzle!!!! You MFs are really turning this into the country we have hoped for. I have a dream, that I can leagaly shoot any racist whitey for looking at me cross-eyed.
We shouldn’t kill them though, we need them to keep working and paying the taxes that provide food stamps and welfare checks. Speaking of which, I have lots of time on my hands and am able so let me know if I can help too.
Sweeeeet Jesus, I love America. Let it be!!!!
The politically correct motivated pinheads preach and preach that race does not matter.
Intergrate, dumb down, and tolerate ghetto culture or wear the badge of racism and humiliation.
Black Power is justified and honorable.
White Power is evil racism.
A black beats a white to near death and thousands of blacks march, demonstrate and protest the attempted murder charge by the district attorney.
It is obvious to me that if you are black then race does matter. Damn the white kid that nearly got killed but uplift and praise the black that nearly beat him to death.
The nooses hanging in the tree was in extremely poor taste, but no one attacked the blacks and nearly killed them.
The double standard here is so obvious.
Tolerance and multiculturalism are a perverted twisted one way street at the expense of white American culture and heritage.
“Welcome to the new America where thugs and gang bangers are the new heroes and the white middle class are the villains”
I think that we sould be worried about the “white” child that was hurt in all of this. That child seems to be forgotten. What about his family, his hospital bills, etc. I think we are too worried about the “black” kids and not the one that got hurt. Why is everything turned into a racial thing? The point is someone got hurt reguarless of the color of their skin!!
Mack –
thanks for your comments. You don’t know the story. White kids DID attack a Black teen. The retaliation 2 – 3 days later is why Mychal Bell is in jail. Read. Learn. Then comment.
This has nothing to do with thugs. This has nothing to do with gang bangers. No thoughtful American will embrace them.
Manley –
You, too, have missed the point. Read the Democracy Now story that is linked to above. Watch the video. Then comment.
[…] Jena is a town of 2900. So the town will be overwhelmed by the expected 40,000 people. The Jena DA has spoken out. He wonders why no one has talked about the victim. Look, if 6 guys jump some dude who is minding his own business then everyone talks about the victim. When, there has been a series of events in which Blacks have systemically have been given the shaft time after time then we are all less sympathetic to the victim. Look, all that I want is fair and equal treatment. That’s it. The dude who pulled a shotgun on some of the black students needs to be charged. The White dudes that beat up a Black dude and this happened before the 6 Black dudes jumped on the White guy. The White dudes need to be charged with something. Oh, and didn’t the White guy, the victim taunt the Black students just before they kicked his butt? Here’s the whole story. […]
[…] just seen network coverage, then you are behind and really don’t know the story. Read my original post and watch the […]
-Hate is just under the skin-
Oh yes back to you cowtown ASS, if you noticed I mentioned that it’s your white women that love black men, because your not man of enough to satisfy them. By they way, isn’t is always a white women crying on national T.V about having committed crimes against her own race, even her own blood, killing her own children? You all enjoy sitting in the sun to try to make yourselves look like us, but you fail miserably, even aging at a much faster rate than any other race. You all look elderly after 20, most of your race consists of fat, stupid balding white guys and wrinkled women with sunburns flat asses. And also just to school you, the only reason that any black man look at a white women is to prove that they can have them easily, yes they are very EASY!!! and suck everything. So after our black men take them, they use them until they look old, which is about one to two years shelf life, and drop them back where they found them,Pay back for wrongs committed against and showing their fathers I alugh at you I had your slutty daughter, sister, wife, aunt and grandma. Just to show that they could snatch the worthless winches from your sorry behinds, I know your kind,and you seem to be just the nerd that had your woman taken, and with your small penises, no wonder your MAD Ha-Ha!! Yes it seems to me that you are me that you have been very shaken up by some of the things I said, but so what. I’ll make you face facts about yourself. I see you have gotten yourself messed up in school and never forgotten it, which is why you so cowardly hide behind these posts to express your anger. that’s O.K. I feel sorry for you. NOT!! Well you are a cracker, milky, pasty, and you stink!! Everyone seems to admire the body of a black man with their natural muscle definition. One to one blacks are healthier and younger looking longer than the average white. I’ve always known that whites were jealous, but you’ve proven it in everything you said and on top of that I think you fantasize about being able to defeat a black man in battle, but not in your wildest imagination could you do it so you write about what you wish you could do because youve been getting your ass beat for so long you must have suffered brain damage. You’ve made my day,thanks for that Ha-Ha-Ha, so now, you and the rest of you saltines can just go back to your trailer parks and wait for a hurricane to carry your asses away.It would be a much better world.
Comment by Tina
So I guess the game is on. You admit that it’s OK for violence to beget violence.
RN –
I never said any such thing.
Sorry ecthompson was this your blog? I should have known by the dancing around tactics. This is a case against 6 boys who committed a crime.
The past cases such as the boy attacked at the party by white guy/guys should be tried as well. You know, pictures of injuries, hospital bills and testimony.
That guy pulled a shotgun just for buying gas or buying a Slurpee? I wouldn’t assume anything untill I saw the video-tape.
Anyone can be an ass, and your assumeing the white guys were not provoked in these other cases?
If you make your surgical decisions this same way, Thank God I know your name.
Redd
RN –
Maybe you have been in the sauce and the room is spinning around you. I’m not dancing around.
The facts of this case have been laid out in the video above. If you are not going to accept the presentation then we need to start from square one. If you are willing to do an investigation then I’m willing to wait for your findings.
6 kids beat up a guy and they are charged with attempted murder. The fact that the White guy taunted one of the Black guys shouldn’t enter into the discussion. What? You want to look at all of the evidence. Cool. So, let’s be fair. I’m just saying treat folks fairly. That’s all. If you are going to charge the 6 Black guys with attempted murder then charge the White guys from the earlier fight with the same thing. If on the other hand, if you are going to let the White guys off with nothing, then the Black guys should get off with the same punishment. That’s all that I’m saying.
Look at the facts. Look at the evidence don’t look at the skin color as the primary determinant of sentencing.