Jena 6 All-purpose thread

Lash out, react, do anything you want. This is the thread to do it.

 

For those who don't know what Poin's referring to, here's the article from today's Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/us/21jena.html

The subject's getting bounced around on the still-not-dead taser thread, but here's a quote from the Times piece that I posted over there.

A marcher, Latese Brown, 40, of Alexandria, said, “If you can figure out how to make a school yard fight into an attempted murder charge, I’m sure you can figure out how to make stringing nooses into a hate crime.”

Read about this story a while back. Wondered when the shit would hit the fan.

 

Sorry, I didn't get to bring the thread back up upon original mention...
Race and prejudice in America.

 

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/columnists/jason_whitlock/story/284511.html

 

I can't believe it's taken, what, four days, to start a thread on this here. And I know that starting this on the taser thread took that thread off track, but sonofabitch, how can this topic not have a thread while "The" Andrew Meyer has 18 pages of arguing. And how's this for amusing. From AP.

Hours later, police in nearby Alexandria said they arrested a white man after officers noticed two nooses dangling from the rear of his pickup truck. The driver, identified as Jeremiah Munsen of Colfax, was charged with inciting a riot.


Maybe they should charge the people who hung the noose with the same.

 

You had to ressurect that pathetic thread?

 

Oh...this should be fun.

Obviously, this was badly handled, from the failure to properly address the incident with the nooses to the attempted murder charge. Still, how many assault charges does Bell have to face before we wonder about him, too?

And BYM, you know how it is with this place....not always a rhyme or reason to things.

 

http://averagebro.blogspot.com/2007/09/averagebro-blogs-live-from-jena-la.html

There's a link in the "Epilogue" for a contribution to the legal fund for the six black students.

Neither of the links I've posted is by way of commentary; just to provide something you may miss otherwise if this subject interests you. I've been following it for a while, from straight news to all sorts of opinion pieces.

That's enough from me.

 

So the argument is: they beat the boy, but not that bad?

 

"And I am in no way excusing the nooses."

Of course he is, in the context of the subsequent events.

 

You would have hoped the days of nooses and all-white juries were a thing of the past. Apparently not.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071008/younge

 

Black people don't want to discuss this with you. We have our OWN bloggers - thanks anyway.