In the wake of Jena
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- September
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The historic march in support for the Jena 6 in Jena, La., on Thursday, appears to have achieved a great deal, and some of the results are probably not what organizers had hoped for.
Blacks and others united around a common cry that resonated across America, and came to Jena by the tens of thousands. In the wake of the peaceful march, though, some white supremacist groups appear to be using the incident as fodder for their agendas.
According to reports, one neo-Nazi Web site published the names and addresses of the six teens, with calls to find them and drag them out of their homes.
The American National Socialist Workers Party has started a nationwide campaign dubbed “Noose on the Loose� in which it urges whites across the county to hang nooses from trees to show defiance of black (they didn’t say “black� though; they the used the N-word) “mob rule� and to show support for their “Lynch the Jena 6� campaign.
According to reports in the Associated Press and The Chicago Tribune, Jena’s mayor, Murphy McMillin, praised pro-white groups’ efforts to organize counterprotests, and told one white supremacist leader that “your moral support means a lot.â€?
Civil rights advocates across the country have expressed strong concerns about a white supremacist backlash in the wake of the march on Jena.
For those who aren’t clear on the background of the case, read about it here.
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on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 at 7:04 pm by Suzan Clarke.
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I have long believed that there is a different standard of justice for the rich (usually white) and for the poor (often non-white).
However, I tend to think that the rich who commit crimes aren’t treated harshly enough, not that the poor are treated too harshly. All in all, our justice system doesn’t punish those who harm others harshly enough, in my opinion.
I don’t know enough about this case to judge whether the Jena 6 were treated too harshly. I do, however, find it hard to swallow the argument that beating a person to unconsciousness shouldn’t result in some punishment. Certainly there was provocation, but that wouldn’t be accepted as justification if the racial element were removed.
I also question the strategy of organizations like the NAACP associating themselves with what must still be recognized to be criminal activity. Even if these groups get their way with the Jena 6, in a larger sense, it probably prove to be a very pyrrhic victory.
Hanging rope from a tree is not against the law (I don’t agree with it)but beating the crap out of someone is against the law. Leave it to the Journal News and a female
black reporter to give a one sided view of the whole thing.
Nothing was stated in Suzan’s article about the beating of
the white kid just white power people. Go figure.
The item clearly states at the end of the item, if one reads carefully: “For those who aren’t clear on the background of the case, read about it here.”
We shouldn’t assume before we read.
I know what it says at the end of the article i did read it.
My point was the reporter only wrote about the wrongful
white end of it in HER article and not the wrongful black
end of it. This leads me to believe that the writer must
be a racist and should not be writing a diversity column.
The article under click here has the following:
“The six students were accused last year in the beating of a white student in an incident that was the culmination of months of racial unrest at Jena High School in north Louisiana. The victim was knocked unconscious, treated in a hospital emergency room and released the same day. Five of the six teens were hit with attempted-murder charges, but critics of the prosecution say those charges were excessive. While some call the incident a schoolyard fight, others call it a brutal attack.”
Those paragraphs seems to tell us what the kids did.