Comments on: Teen's Conviction Tossed In La. Beating

Court Throws Out Conviction Against Black Teen In Beating Of White Schoolmate

[bbenjamminn]

Why is this story a back page story with TV stations NBC, ABC, FOX 5,CBS, CNN It should be a Major story. We are talking Jim Crow is still alive. And going strong we just don''t hear about it Why? And you cant even get no play on TV About Jena Six time to let NBC, ABC, FOX 5,CBS, CNN and there sponsors know that we want more coverage on these issue''s. Email them this Jena Six URL ( http://www.whileseated.org/photo/003244.shtml ) to them and let them know what there are missing

[cbs_oliver]

The rest:

The following Monday, December 4, a white student named Justin Barker, aged 17, loudly discussed how Bailey had been beaten up by a white man that Friday night. When Barker walked out of the school gymnasium into the courtyard later that day, he was assaulted by Bailey and five other black students, and was temporarily knocked unconscious and kicked repeatedly. Barker was examined by a doctor at the local hospital. After two hours of treatment and observation for his concussion and an eye that had swollen shut, Barker was discharged in time to go to the school Ring Ceremony that evening. The six black students were arrested and charged.

[cbs_oliver]

Violence is bad.

Injustice is bad too.

Here''s a summary of some events in the case:

On Friday, December 1, black students including Bailey requested to enter a local party but were denied. A white man, who was not a student, instigated a fight at the door. After this another fight between a group of non student white men and the black students broke out outside. Police were called. Justin Sloan, a white male, was charged with battery for his role in the fight and was put on probation.

The following day, a white student who had attended the party encountered Bailey and several friends at a local store. An argument ensued, after which the white student ran to his pickup truck and produced a pistol-grip shotgun. Bailey wrestled him for control of the gun. Bailey''s friends intervened and took the gun away. Bailey refused to return it and ultimately took it home with him. Bailey was charged with three counts: theft of a firearm, second-degree robbery and disturbing the peace. The white student who had produced the weapon was not charged.

[jlmcscanner]

This story just goes to show the reasons why White Americans leave large population centers in the cities and the closely surronding suburbs.These areas are rotting away because the parents never have taken any accountabilty for anything and the childeren are taught the same.It`s always the other persons fault.If your black and don`t get the job or promotion you want then just cry racism, even if your job peformance stinks, if your black and your child gets in trouble and is proved without a doubt as guilty of a offense then just cry racism.I say we all just leave the large cities and take our tax base and wealth and let it either rot or the people there with actually have to have accountability for themselves.

[sblake63]

6 punks who kicked & punched a kid in the head till he was knocked out and yet they are getting this passionate defense from people like msdawn03. There were 6 of them, all it would take is a lucky blow to the head and this kid could have been DEAD. They don''t deserve this outcry. Some blacks are showing their racism by defending these FELONS and then use the "standard" copy out diversionary tactic of trying to avoid vigorous prosecution by using the old worn out "race card".

What a message we are sending to these 6 kids by defending them. It''s ok to beat on people, you were "oppressed".

This attitude has far reaching ramifications. I have seen it in so many different forms. What is it with people defending another person or a group no matter what they do?

I recall having to go to my daughter''s school to pick her up because she was sick. There was this loud mother shouting at a teacher because her kid got expelled for fighting. She said the teacher was racist and her kid was a good boy. It''s called projecting HER lack of parenting skills on others. I would bet my life these 6 PUNK have been in similar situations where somebody just dismissed their bad behavior because of their "environment". Because they are part of one "group", their parents, talking heads like Al Sharpton have brainwashed them into thinking they are "victims" no matter what they do. Lock them up - Toss the key !!

[cbs_oliver]

No. George Bush and the Republican party are responsible for the entitlement of the kind of hateful racist behavior that has taken place at Jena.

He talked about hanging a black man''s portrait and everybody knew what he was saying - because he paused for applause.

He should get the credit/blame for the strange and ugly fruit of his work.

[msdawn03]

Let''s not get on George Bush who has yet to address this issue. He''s a joke! Hillary Clinton has been ignoring the issue too! And this is why she will not get my vote! Ignoring this MAJOR INJUSTICE is to me like saying, I DON"T CARE!!!! And if she does not care about black people I definitely do not want to put another person in the White House that DOES NOT CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE. ie- Hurricane Katrina

[msdawn03]

From what I''ve seen the whites in Jena act as though they are oblivious. They are acting as if they don''t know why people are so upset. They can'' understand why we are so angry over the treatment of these six black boys. What world are they living in? Or has rasism been the nor and mow some one is finally speaking up about this nonesense! My blood is boiling over their ignorance! It is 2007 and we are not going to allow this blatant modern day lynching of our black youth. Walter Reed should be DISBARRED!

[whatithink-2009]

msdawn03,

Demonizing the so-called black leader is nothing new. What Sharpton and Jackson are receiving is probably a multitude lighter than the wrath brought down on MLK during his time. If you focus your effort on the messenger, you avoid having to critically look at the message. The same thing happened with Michael Moore in a different context.

[cbs_oliver]

President George Bush''s Remarks at a Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration, January 21st, 2002:

"Well, thank you all very much for coming. Mrs. King, thanks for this beautiful portrait. I can''t wait to hang it. [Pause] [Laughter]"

George Bush decided to on that day to show Americans that he could mock Mrs. King to her face in front of the entire nation and not only get away with it but actually benefit from it.

That was when permission for the nooses that were hung at Jena and the bigoted behavior of the town was approved at the highest level.

The President and all those who laughed and all those who said nothing gave their approval right then for a new wave of bigotry in America.

And we are seeing it in many ways and all over since then.