Sharpton Wants DA Probed Over "Jena Six"

Six Black Students Face Criminal Charges In Louisiana High School Fight With White Classmate

(AP)  The Rev. Al Sharpton called for an investigation of the district attorney prosecuting a group of black teenagers on serious criminal charges stemming from a Louisiana school fight involving a white classmate.

In a telephone interview Sunday from New York, Sharpton also said he would join thousands of people in Jena on Sept. 20 - the day one of the teens is scheduled to be sentenced on an aggravated second-degree battery conviction. Mychal Bell faces up to 15 years in prison.

"After that, if we need to, we'll go to Baton Rouge and see the governor and the Legislature," Sharpton said.

Sharpton said he wants the state attorney general and judicial oversight agencies to investigate the actions of LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters.

A telephone message left at Walters' residence was not returned Sunday. He has previously said he cannot comment because of the pending cases.

The case drew protests after five of the six teens, dubbed the "Jena Six," were originally charged with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, carrying sentences of up to 80 years in prison. The sixth was charged in juvenile court.

The beating victim, who is white, was treated for injuries at a hospital and released the same day, and a motive for the alleged Dec. 4 attack at Jena High School was never established.

The beating came amid tense race relations in Jena, a mostly white town of 3,000 in north-central Louisiana. After a black student sat under a tree on the school campus where white students traditionally congregated, three nooses were hung in the tree. Students accused of placing the nooses were suspended from school for a short period.

In Jena on Sunday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson urged residents to come together to demand equal justice.

"Why be fighting when we can turn to each other and find common ground?" Jackson said. "Jena is too small not to move together."

[Krazcarl]

See it worked for Sarpton never seen such long drivilous blogs on any other issue. That''s why he travels around stirring up things he gets finacial gifts from friends dosen''t have to work sits around and runs his mouth. Never ever mentions the one hundred and ten thousand white men that died to abolised slavery. He even feeds on his own people.What has amazed me he has made a living at it sucking cash from the poor OK he''s a preacher and I''m suposed to care what this bloodsucker thinks.

[kailumego1]

I never thought the accuser in this case was credible, but nor did I find those three Duke degenerates unremarkable neither, they both screamed BS, as do you.


And it%u2019s because of the myopic unilateral ideology of individuals such as you are reason why America can%u2019t commit itself out of the dark ages, international relations with other countries are screwed, and we are stonewalled in this bogus war.


Washington, Madison, Jefferson, etc. didn%u2019t subordinate themselves to England%u2019s oppressive tyranny, they tried to negotiate with the King, but when they hit a %u201Cbrick wall%u201D, they came out swinging, so how can you argue for passivity pertaining to blacks, when it was your %u201Cforefathers%u201D that paved the way for revolutionary ideology, which they had absolutely no problem with pillaging, plummeting, and murdering English officials, when it came to fighting for their freedom.


That%u2019s the %u201Cgrand-scale%u201D hypocrisy with individuals such as you, the malignant narcissism that propels your sense of entitlement to encroach upon others %u201Cpersonal space%u201D.

With a marvoleous history enriched in violence such as your ancestry, I find it quite paradoxical that you would dare stand in pontification over someone else.

There''s an article where six white thugs brutally beat a black woman, love to read your response

[sy2502]

sy2502, you I won''''t apologize too, because you have mentioned in your post O.J. and Twanna Brawly, which has nothing to do with this case.
Posted by kailumego1 at 03:02 PM : Sep 11, 2007

I don''t need your apology and I am not asking for it. You demonstrate the closed mind that perpetuates racial tensions, and generalized contempt for white people for the only reason that they are white. You can scream and shout against white racists, but you are just like them, and therefore have no moral ground to stand on.

And for the record, learn to read. I didn''t mention OJ. I did mention the Duke case because that was another instance where Sharpton got all up in arms, with complete disregard for who was guilty and who wasn''t, publicly slandering those boys because "they are white and she is black so they must have done it", and then never apologized to them. The parallel is very pertinent to the article, it shows Sharpton has no idea what he''s doing. Just like you, he''s plowing ahead, racial card in hand, and screw anybody who gets in the way.

[klingon69]

sy2502 go back to "grade school" and take reading comprehension, I said they both were equally at fault, although the white crowd instigated the entire situation, and if they all weren''''t going to be prosecuted then they should have been reprimanded and let off.
The White crowd instigated it? Seems first step was the black youth that wanted to sit in an area that was tradionally another groups...maybe you will understand if it says, was invading another groups turf.
Once again, why did the whites beat up the black at the party? Was it just because he was black, were there no other blacks there? Was he told to leasve by the host/hostess and refused, was he trying to hook-up with one of the groups girlfriend? There is too many unanswered questions, but one thing is clear, a group of thugs laid in wait to ambush, attack and attempt to destroy this young man.

The prosecutor shouldn''''t have gotten involved in the first place, so what six black youths kick a white boy''''s behind, well before that happened a gang of white youth kicked the black boy''''s behind, get over it you moron.
Posted by kailumego1 at 02:22 PM : Sep 11, 2007

[kailumego1]

sy2502, you I won''t apologize too, because you have mentioned in your post O.J. and Twanna Brawly, which has nothing to do with this case.

And Hwy71So I vehemently disagree with you on the underlining cause.

[kailumego1]

Hwy71So I apologize, I thought you had, so please excuse my lashing out at you.

[hwy71so]

"Hwy71So Profiling???????

You''''re the ones who''''s profiling, how many times have I read O.J., the Duke Boys, etc., are you "stuck on stupid" deliberately.

You have to be the most schizophrenic personalities out there, the Duke case, Twana Brawly, do you people re-read or edit what you post, you can''''t be all that stupid.
Posted by kailumego1 at 02:26 PM : Sep 11, 2007"

Who are you talking to and what are you talking about? I''m talking about the Jena 6 thing only. I''ve not brought anything up about the duke boys or brawly or whoever. Just the Jena 6.

[sentry88]

Sharpton should keep his nose in New York where theres plenty of prolems. He may watch those gators in the swamp YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM a fat preacher.

[hwy71so]

Actually, the black freshman initiated the onslaught by his affront. He should have went to the authorities to correct the segregation rather than take it into his own hands.

This was nothing more than a turf war.

[sy2502]

kailumego1, once again you throw mud around without even bothering to read people''s comments. The more I say that violence is inexcusable regardless of race, the more you accuse white people of being more lenient for whites than blacks. You are obviously incapable of sustaining a reasonable, civilized conversation. You are so completely blinded by what you perceive white people to think, that you don''t even listen to what they are actually saying. People like you are a huge part of the racial problem in this country and only contribute to make it worse.

[kailumego1]

Hwy71So Profiling???????

You''re the ones who''s profiling, how many times have I read O.J., the Duke Boys, etc., are you "stuck on stupid" deliberately.

You have to be the most schizophrenic personalities out there, the Duke case, Twana Brawly, do you people re-read or edit what you post, you can''t be all that stupid.

[hwy71so]

So you''re saying the whites should shut up when a black cries foul?

I did a search and read the account of the Jena disgrace. All parties were guilty of foolishness. BUT, this in no way excuses any and all cases of assault.

We were both typing at the same time in my last post.

[kailumego1]

sy2502 go back to "grade school" and take reading comprehension, I said they both were equally at fault, although the white crowd instigated the entire situation, and if they all weren''t going to be prosecuted then they should have been reprimanded and let off.

The prosecutor shouldn''t have gotten involved in the first place, so what six black youths kick a white boy''s behind, well before that happened a gang of white youth kicked the black boy''s behind, get over it you moron.

[hwy71so]

kailumego1
I notice you don''t address my challenge? Are you profiling? If you are, that discredits your perspective. Enjoy your day.

[kailumego1]

Hwy71 and sy2502, you both are the epitome of schizophrenic behavior, you rant and rave about how blacks persistently throw up the %u201Crace card%u201D, then overtly and covertly post racist rhetoric, the Duke, O.J., Tawana Brawley, etc.

Grow some "balls", at least I''m man/woman enough to stand behind my comments and not "swing back and forth" with your schizophrenic logic.

So, no I profiled those that fit the criteria, those whom possesses a "unilateral" perspective towards "right and wrong" or what is "just or unjust", when it is concerning blacks and whites in America. So, if the "shoe fits" then wear it, did I specify or pontificate "all" whites, or only those that come out of the "woodwork" whenever there is a racial dispute between blacks and whites, of which they are most certainly taking the side of a white over a black.

[sy2502]

kailumego1, I think you are the one with the ''racial blinders'' around here. You seem to be the only one here making excuses for the criminals. A group of people ganging up on an individual to beat him up is criminal, regardless of who did it. Is there any way I can say it any clearer than this? Nobody here has excused what the white guys did, and nobody is going to excuse what the black guys did. You are the only one excusing this kind of behavior. That says something about your moral standards. Like, that they are very very low.

[kailumego1]

I call it like I see it also, and if you''d read my post "carefully", you would have read harsh criticism against "black on black" crime and other criminal acts committed against whites other than this one, which is clearly out of malice and contemptuous behavior perpetrated by whites within this community against blacks. Unlike you and others, I have no problem with condemning someone black for committing senseless wanton violent acts against others, I feel about black perpetrators of violence and unproductively identically what I feel about racist whites, Arabs, etc.

However, this case is different and if your small-narrow-mind can''t see that then that''s your problem not mine. I researched Google and read article after article which showcased the racial tension between blacks and whites, of which this incident snowball into the racial chaos because of the nooses hung under the so-called %u201Cwhite%u201D tree, now why would any rationally sane person defend that, and the attack on Bell at a party by a gang of white youth. This altercation between two groups of students quickly snowballed into a racial %u201Cincident%u201D, when an overzealous racist prosecutor reprimanded the white students while charging those blacks with attempted murder, outrageous.

[kailumego1]

And I repeat a majority of the white posters keep harping on Barker being kicked repeatedly to a level of unconsciousness, while failing to take off their %u201Cracial%u201D blinders to objectively look at the entire incident, what precipitated this aggressive action on both, distributing blame equally instead of focusing on the alleged instigator%u2019s brush with unconsciousness. I always find it interesting when individuals such as you jump to the defensive before weighing the circumstances, it certainly tells a lot about your character.
And if the situation had been reverse and six black youth%u2019s instigated a racial conflict I would have felt the same, if they had gotten their %u201Cbutts%u201D kick in the process. A young black female acquaintance at my job dated a white male, well one day her old boyfriend, who was black, decided to garner up enough nerve to confront her on the job in front of her white beau, all hell broke loose and the ex-boyfriend got his as[s] beat really, really, really, good to the point of unconsciousness, when she told me the story I laughed and said he got what he deserved, because I objectively looked at the circumstance and concluded he should have accepted it was over and moved on.
What%u2019s even more interesting that individuals such as you talk about using the %u201Crace card%u201D, but throw up O.J. at every opportunity a black does something criminal%u2026. You%u2019re certainly not one to talk!

[sy2502]

This is the same man who had us all crying for Tawana Bradley.
Posted by perm3800 at 01:41 PM : Sep 11, 2007

Funny, I was also thinking of the Duke case. By the way, did Sharpton ever apologize to those kids for treating them like monsters even if they were innocent? I don''t think so. If I was them, I would sue him for the shirt on his back for defamation.

[perm3800]

This is the same man who had us all crying for Tawana Bradley. The black kids in Jena were overcharged. No way was it attempted murder. But ''free'' them'', dismiss all charges? No. It was assault. The other boy, the supposed victim in this, should also be charged. And the principal who thinks ''hate speech'' is just another word for ''high school prank'' needs to be fired. But these boys chose to gang up on a single person and beat him unconcious and should pay the consequences of their choice.