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Georgia Supreme Court Deems 10-Year Sentence "Cruel And Unusual Punishment"

[susanhelit]

No, Thurbot Baker, it''s not over until you are out of office. Whether out of spite, ego, or racism, you persecuted a good kid, misused a law intended for old men raping teenagers, and tried to put him away for a long time for what was a misdemeanor at best. It''s not over until you and your evil are out of office.


This case would never have gotten this far were it a white kid - and he knows it - the shouting would have been louder and wider, and he''d have been set free far sooner. Baker''s the villian in this - he refused to take the jury''s word, the senators change to the law, the judges orders to free the kid, only when overruled by the state Supreme Court is he forced to let his victim go, and now he wants to just say it''s over? Nope, not a chance!

[whatithink-2009]

tuckerndfw,

So, if this was an upper middle class white guy (like one of the Duke guys) and all other things were equal, do you think he would have been prosecuted AND spent two years in jail?

I have also said that class probably played a role. But, when you mix poor with black, you get an AUTOMATIC GO TO JAIL and NO SYMPATHY FOR YA, BUDDY. That is how is has been and unfortunately, how it is.

Finally, I''ve seen many white people whining about various things through the years. Whining is not something specific to blacks. It is specific to human. If one must accept injustices, then you must accept whining.

[whatithink-2009]

kailumego1,

If the black kids were a mob against the white kid, then the whites at the party were also a mob against the black kid.

How do you differentiate the two?

[whatithink-2009]

kailumego1,

I don''t condone either incident. But, hitting someone over the head with a bottle should be enough grounds for attempted murder charges if sneakers are. None of the white people at the party were given attempted murder charges.

Also, right before the incident, one of the whites pulled a gun on some of the black students. They were able to wrestle it away from him and were charged with STEALING HIS GUN.

I don''t condone what the black kids did, but I think it is clear that they had had enough. The system was not working and they did the wrong thing. But, this was the thing that they could do...although wrong.

This was a school fight. The white kid went to a party the same night of the incident.

[kailumego1]

whatithink, on Jena Six, I agree they all should have been punished, however, having the unfortunate experience of witnessing a mob of students viciously attack one, beating him unconscious, bloody and battered, this was not simply a "school fight". It''s a school fight, one on one, not six, seven, eight, etc. against one, that''s why all should have been punished..

I don''t hold these six as heroes against injustice, because I''m quite sure they''ve wreaked havoc within their neighborhoods.

I don''t even think the fight was over the prior incident e.g. nooses being hanged, but more so, long-standing antagonism between white and black students, in which whites deliberately segregated themselves from blacks..

Poor Tucker

What women broke your itty bitty heart? Actually what women do best is make, raise, and tolerate such as you. Stop being a chicken**** troll and say something of substance will ya?

[kailumego1]

The real incident started at the party, in which the one black student went uninvited, this started the "big brew ha ha", between white and black students.. The uninvited black student was assaulted by a group of whites, which out of retaliation six black students sucker punched and vicious beat a white student. While I''m not in total sympathy mode for the white student, because I believe, like the others, he''s just as responsible for all the racial tension, I''m disturbed over this "mob mentality", gangs of kids unattentively ganging up on one, stomping, kicking, and thrusting while the victim lays bleeding and unconscious..

This is not the picture of a "school fight" many blacks and black leaders have tried to paint, it is a vicious attack, tandem to prior savage and vicious attacks on blacks by white mobs, e.g. Benson Herst...

The "mob" in the example were a group of black kids, and the victim was black, this isn''t the first incident of a group of black kids committing an onslaught against one, this behavior has become habitual....

[jn122736]

%u201COmg lol.. This is EXACTLY what I am talking about. BTW i have 3 kids and they are doing FINE without this nonsense being part of their life.%u201D

%u201CBut, her parents were the "enablers" in this event - serious family counceling is in order and perhaps church on sundays?%u201D

Posted by sblake63 at 12:33 PM : Oct 26, 2007
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Re. first quote;
There is no way you can KNOW everything your 3 kids may be doing unless they are pre-school age, and although we all want to trust our children, it is still a matter of trust, not fact.

Re. second quote;
Judging others based on your own biased opinion and suggesting counseling, especially that they should go to church on Sundays is an unchristian-like behavior, don%u2019t you think

[whatithink-2009]

tuckerndfw,

Who sent out the memo in 1970 changing how society treats black people? Who went to reprogramming school to change their racist views in 1970? The fact is the same racists exist that existed prior to 1970. The racism today is in some ways even worse because it is covert instead of overt. Institutions, as long as ran by man, have the potential to be racist.

Why is it only whining to you when an injustice happens to black people? Do you consider the people who whine about OJ or the Duke case, whiners as well?

[kennedy7955]

The system worked in the end but just barely. I wonder how much money was spent defending this poor kid and where it came from. You would think someone in the government would have seen this travesty and stopped it. Where was the Governor in all this? Without publicity and money this kid would still be in prison and who knows for how long.