Did the blacks have a valid injustice case in Jena? Well it certainly looks like it even though none of us were there or know anything about that area of the country.
Judging from the “white tree” and the “nooses” incident, I would say that there were racial tensions in that school between two groups and probably have existed for some time. That is not to say that all the students had racial problems but definitely a specific group of white and black students did.
Did the prosecutors overreact? It does appear that way. I have seen teenagers tried as adults but that is usually for a pretty horrific murder not for being involved in a high school fight.
Should the students have been charged at all? This depends on the school but in my memory, high school fights were handled by the school and students were punished by suspension or expulsion.
Did the blacks overreact? Well, they were reacting to the facts as they were presented to them which were not all that accurate but all they heard was “…another case of injustice for the black man by the white system…” and that is all they needed to hear. History has many examples of grievous injustice towards the black man in America and especially in the South.
The fact that it still continues is a surprise to me but not to the blacks who shout that racism is alive and well in America.
Many columnists wrote about the Jena 6 case including Leonard Pitts, Jr. that I read on a regular basis; in fact, he has a large group of white readers.
He took exception to the many white readers that wrote him about injustice towards whites as in O.J. Simpson, Twana Brawley and of course the Duke case. Leonard screamed that how dare you bring up those cases when in 388 years there were thousands of cases of injustice towards blacks where they were tortured and lunched indiscriminately and you bring up your piddly few white injustice cases?
Well I can understand the black position because; yes they have many years of undeniable evidence of horrific injustice but I think they should also acknowledge the trend in our society of playing the race card at the expense of whites or just plain justice. In other words, two wrongs don’t make a right.
Until blacks and black organizations like the NAACP admit that people like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton use the race card at the drop of a hat without ANY regard for truth or justice and denounce their tactics; white people will continue to counter black injustice with white injustice.
Judging from the “white tree” and the “nooses” incident, I would say that there were racial tensions in that school between two groups and probably have existed for some time. That is not to say that all the students had racial problems but definitely a specific group of white and black students did.
Did the prosecutors overreact? It does appear that way. I have seen teenagers tried as adults but that is usually for a pretty horrific murder not for being involved in a high school fight.
Should the students have been charged at all? This depends on the school but in my memory, high school fights were handled by the school and students were punished by suspension or expulsion.
Did the blacks overreact? Well, they were reacting to the facts as they were presented to them which were not all that accurate but all they heard was “…another case of injustice for the black man by the white system…” and that is all they needed to hear. History has many examples of grievous injustice towards the black man in America and especially in the South.
The fact that it still continues is a surprise to me but not to the blacks who shout that racism is alive and well in America.
Many columnists wrote about the Jena 6 case including Leonard Pitts, Jr. that I read on a regular basis; in fact, he has a large group of white readers.
He took exception to the many white readers that wrote him about injustice towards whites as in O.J. Simpson, Twana Brawley and of course the Duke case. Leonard screamed that how dare you bring up those cases when in 388 years there were thousands of cases of injustice towards blacks where they were tortured and lunched indiscriminately and you bring up your piddly few white injustice cases?
Well I can understand the black position because; yes they have many years of undeniable evidence of horrific injustice but I think they should also acknowledge the trend in our society of playing the race card at the expense of whites or just plain justice. In other words, two wrongs don’t make a right.
Until blacks and black organizations like the NAACP admit that people like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton use the race card at the drop of a hat without ANY regard for truth or justice and denounce their tactics; white people will continue to counter black injustice with white injustice.
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