Seriously I thought America was the land of freedom, the multicultural capital of the world. I guess not. Sh!t like this happen in the United kingdom everyday. God help us all. Im in the uk so cant sign any petition but I would put them in prayers.

yall are just funny. sure its a serious topic, but hell no can you have a serious conversation on a site where the next story is going to be about some hot ghetto mess, or hot or not shit, or blind item, or guess who the rapper, i mean c’mon get real for a minute, this site is no place for a serious conversation, its more like a place to come when ur bored and are looking to hate or show love to someone youll never meet in ur life, point is its pretty much useless in terms of topics like race or pointing out injustices in the system, why dont you call a local radio station, or start some kind of petition or something, otherwise this site does make me laugh, from guess the rapper to jena 6 update…… lol, maybe am just too old to understand the transition

Judah, I agree.

Here we go again …

I know Mychal Bell, will find justice, this is just plain BS! What goes around comes around and those racists pigs will get what they deserved! They are not going to get away with this!

We can talk about how enraged we are until we’re blue in the face but talk is cheap. Realistically, change won’t come until we collectively take a stand. If anyone lives in the NYC area and is interested in going down, let me know [HolleyMonelle@gmail.com]. I’m driving down [I know, 22 hours] for the sentencing on the 20th. We’re leaving on the 18th of September, and heading back on the 21st.

There’s also more information offered at http://www.colorofchange.org.

@78

Lol, I bet this thread will creep to about 120-130 posts, like the Katrina post. Maybe if Polow Da Don had kicked some black women from underneath the white tree the post would be more impassioned.

CRY ME A FUCC RIVER AND BUILD ME A DAMN BRIDGE FOR PETE SAKE…..

I AGREE WITH #36…I’M TIRED HEARING BLACKS CRYING ABOUT RACISIM….WTF CAN YOU DO. I REPEAT WTF CAN YOU DO. LETS GET WITH THE FACTS…WHY DID THAT BLACK BOY DECIDED TO GO TO AN ALL WHITE PARTY BY HIMSELF? I PERSONALLY THINK ,THAT WAS THE MOST STUPID MOVE A BLACK PERSON COULD MAKE. WHAT WAS HIS PURPOSE TO GO TO THAT WHITE PARTY? WHY DID THE BLACK KIDS SIT UNDER THE TREE? DID THEY REALLY THINK THE WHITE KIDS WAS GOING TO LET THAT SLIDE.

BLACK PEOPLE ALWAYS LIKE TO BLAME THE WHITE PEOPLE FOR EVERYTHING. HOW ABOUT TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF. I DONT OWE NOBODY ANYTHING. I HAVE WHITE FRIENDS AND I HATE TO SAY IT BUT I TRUST THEM WAY BETTER THEN SOME OF MY DAMN BLACK FRIENDS.ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT THE SAME, AND VICE VERSER. IF YOU KNOW YOUR TOWN IS RACIST WHY WOULD YOU STAY IN IT? WHY WOULD YOU SEND YOUR KIDS TO A RACIST SCHOOL? WHY DOES EVERYONE WANT TO ASK WHERE IS JESSE AND AL AT? WHO CARES WHERE THEY AT….THEY AINT WORRYING ABOUT NONE OF YALL.

DONT GET ME WRONG….IF THEY SEND THAT BOY TO PRISON FOR 22 YRS THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE. I DONT THINK HE DESERVE TO BE PUNISH FOR THAT LONG. I ALSO BELIEVE HE SHOULD GET SOME SORT OF MILD PUNISHMENT FOR HIS ACTION THOUGH.

Jason Witlock seems to think that ya’ll need to stop crying:

Journey to Jena, justice is long, misleading
Jason Whitlock / FOXSports.com
Posted: 4 days ago

Forgive me. This column is going to ramble and stumble a bit before I get to my main point. Real Talk is like that sometimes. Good conversations don’t always fit in a tight package. They wander from time to time, and the wandering provides context to the point.

My dad once explained to me that absolutely everything you accept from another human being comes with a responsibility whether stated or not. He was a bit tipsy and the conversation took place around 2 a.m. He drifted, bad-mouthed some of his best friends, bad-mouthed a couple of my friends. I was 17. I’ve never forgotten his message, and repeat it at least two or three times a year.

I’m already meandering. Stick with this column; you’ll enjoy the journey to Jena.

We’re in this age of whining and bitching about the lack of accountability among professional athletes and wannabe pro jocks when it comes to bad behavior. The message sells. I’ve sold it.

But America’s accountability crisis extends well beyond the sports world and bad behavior. You know that. Wednesday afternoon, I surfed the ‘Net and came across the video of Miss Teen South Carolina absolutely butchering a relatively easy question about why one out of five Americans can’t find the USA on a map.

Lauren Caitlin Upton’s response was unintentionally hysterical, a piece of comedic gold that must be viewed to be appreciated. Her fourth-place finish in the Miss Teen USA pageant and the subsequent Today Show pity party thrown in her honor say all you need to know about how we treat our “beautiful people.”

They can do little wrong, little we can’t excuse, and we hold them to the lowest of all standards in nearly every regard.

The 40-plus contestants who finished behind Miss Teen South Carolina should all file lawsuits. The clip is literally making millions laugh, but her rambling, incoherent soliloquy didn’t really hurt her in the pageant standings. Short of calling a group of women’s college basketball players “nappy-headed hos,” I’m not sure how the 18-year-old could’ve answered the question any worse.

I clicked from the Miss Teen video to stories about Chicago linebacker Lance Briggs’ one-Lamborghini, hit-abandon-n-run accident early Monday morning.

Briggs, a Pro Bowler, met with reporters Tuesday and fed them a line of (spit) that they pretty much refused to swallow. He claimed he “panicked” and ditched his $350,000 vehicle because he didn’t want to create a “big scene.”

Good move. By running, Briggs avoided a sobriety test, and left the police with no choice but to hit him with a few misdemeanor traffic citations. More important, Briggs handcuffed commissioner Roger Goodell, the discipline dean of the NFL. An arrest for driving under the influence could’ve potentially landed Briggs in the league’s substance-abuse program and in Goodell’s suspension crosshairs.

Instead, Bears coach Lovie Smith quickly announced that the club planned to take no action against Briggs, and Lovie grew angry when reporters asked if Briggs had been drinking.

Well, this is the organization that lost Tank Johnson to guns, pit bulls and a driving-while-sober traffic stop. I’m sure Lovie feels like his roster is owed a get-out-of-Goodell’s-office free card.

Again, it’s not just pro jocks who feel like they’re owed something. It’s not just pro jocks who have their failures rationalized and excused. It’s a societal problem, brought on by the fact that our pursuit of a bigger house, a fancier car and a splashier vacation has short-circuited our commitment to parenting. At the end of the day, only your parents can truly hold you responsible for your misdeeds. Coaches can’t. The media can’t. A judge can’t. Teachers don’t stand a chance.

This belief crystallized for me over the past couple of months as I tracked and researched the case involving the “Jena Six,” a group of Louisiana black boys who have been charged with a very serious crime after jumping, beating and stomping a white boy on school grounds.

The “Jena Six” are becoming a cause célébre for Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the media. At least two or three times a week for the past three months, I have received an e-mail from someone asking me to support the “Jena Six.”

On the surface, the story sounds like a horrifying tale of Emmett Till-style justice. At a predominantly white high school in a segregated town (Jena), a black student sat under a shade tree that was traditionally used by white students. The next day three white students hung nooses from the tree, sparking racial tension and a sit-in (under the tree) by black students. The principal attempted to expel the three white students, but the school board overruled the principal and the students were given a suspension, which sparked more racial tension.

Police patrolled the school’s hallways. The town’s district attorney visited the school for an impromptu assembly, allegedly looked at the black students and said he could end their lives with one stroke of his pen. A little more than three months after the noose incident — and just days after two off-campus fights/heated exchanges involving a black student and white former students — the “Jena Six” punched, beat and stomped a white kid who made fun of a black kid for getting whipped in a Friday-night fight.

The white kid was knocked unconscious. After a three-hour hospital visit, he was released. The town prosecutor initially charged the “Jena Six” with attempted murder. Mychal Bell, the first of the six to stand trial and a Division-I football prospect, was convicted of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy by an all-white, six-person jury, a white judge and a white prosecutor. His public defender did not call a single witness in his defense. Bell could be sentenced to 22 years.

Whew!

Before I go any further, let me state this: The prosecutor should’ve never charged these boys with attempted murder. The entire school board should be replaced for stopping the noose-hanging kids from being expelled.

OK, having said that, much of the mainstream reporting on this story has been misleading, irresponsible and inflammatory.

No one mentions that Mychal Bell’s clueless public defender was black. No one mentions that there were no black jurors because of the 50 people who responded to the more than 100 summons, none were black. No one mentions that Bell was already on probation for battery relating to a Christmas day incident in 2005. No one mentions that Bell was adjudicated (convicted) of two other violent crimes in 2006 and one charge of criminal damage to property. No one mentions that Bell’s father acknowledged he moved back to Louisiana in February (after seven years in Dallas) to supervise his son because of the “Jena Six” mess. No one mentions that Bell starred on the Jena High football team while constantly jeopardizing/violating his seemingly flimsy probation.

This was all talked about in open court during a bond hearing for Bell, and a newspaper in Alexandria, La., wrote about it. Just about everybody else has pretty much ignored the “other side” of the story. Including the fact that not one witness — black or white, and there were 40 statements taken — connected the jumping/beatdown of the white student (Dec. 4) to the noose incident (Sept. 1).

No one mentions that a black U.S. Attorney, Donald Washington, investigated the “Jena Six” case and held a town-hall meeting explaining that there was no evidence connecting the jumping/beatdown to the noose incident.

Only after the prosecutor overreacted (or tired of letting Bell and others skate once the successful football season was over; Bell wasn’t the only football star charged) did the “Jena Six” blame the attack on the nooses and the white shade tree.

Rather than report the truth, flames have been fanned by lazy or cowardly or agenda-driven members of the media. Because the white kid regained consciousness and survived the attack with only a swollen eye, defenders of the “Jena Six” have called it a typical “schoolyard fight.” Would anyone call it that if six white football and basketball players jumped one black kid?

I’ve mulled this topic for months, and I keep coming back to one question: Where in the hell were the parents — all of the parents, white and black?

Shame on the parents of the kids who hung the nooses for hiding behind a seemingly racist and insensitive school board when their kids were inexcusably wrong. Shame on the parents of the “Jena Six” for blaming white racism for the cowardice of a six-on-one attack.

And shame on the prosecutor, the media and Al Sharpton for not rising above the ignorance and distortions, and seeking a truth that will set everyone in Jena free, including the “Jena Six.”

Judah, I find that funny now that you metioned it, and that’s a damn shame.

I shouldn’t say “impassioned”, I should say more people would be willing to post because the people that have spoken seem impassioned. That’s why I say the things that I say sis, and that’s why alot of these brothers and sisters have bad things happen to them. They come on blogs like this, say things to cause confusion and then they disappear when a post that doesn’t fit their, “The media is colorblind” nonsense presents itself. The media is colorblind; it’s blind to the issues of people of color. When I see a case like this emerges, I don’t concentrate on it. It makes me think of how many other cases we’ll never hear about where everyone gets 25-life and becomes a damn statistic.

Has anyone noticed that Nike is a weapon now.

@82

LMAO, so that’s why your devil-worshipping ass was crying for a moderator on that post a while back when the scriptures were coming out. It never fails damnit. Damn, it must’ve really gotten under your skin to see so many black people incensed. I admire your honesty though. At least you’re proud to be a house negro. There are alot of intellectual house negroes on this site that try to perpetrate like they’re so logical and level-headed, lol.

@ 82 You are the walking blind.

In the words of Mike Baisden…..This is some fraganakle BULL! Im trying to get the feel of the commenters here. If we talk about it, we talk to much. If it isnt addressed we are superficial. SMH, damned if u do damned if u dont. I’m going to Jena on September 20,2007.

It’s 2006 and it’s a damn shame things like this still exhist. I will be so pissed if they give them unreasonable punishment and there’s a double standard because they’re white and in the south. I hope that someone interveins that has the power to shut down and expose those racist creeps.

# 87 DO YOU KNOW ME SWEETIE…THEN STFU WITH YOUR COMMENT. I AM NO DEVIL WORSHIPPER…I BELIEVE IN GOD AND I PRAISE HIM EVERYDAY. I THAN HIM EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR WAKING ME UP AND BLESSING ME. I’ AM NO DEVIL WORSHIPPER YOU MUDDA CUNT. I HAVE MY OPINION AND SO DOES ANYONE ELSE ON HERE. GIVE ME A BREAK YOU WEIRDO.

Opps It’s 2007 sorry I was off by a year……bless those families because I know that something like this is all to much realizations that there are still underlying hate that won’t ever subside in the south. I know that’s a hard thing to deal with.

Soulja, Sweety, its 07! LOLOLOL! roflmbo!
I had to mess with ya! LOLOLOL

uhm its 2007 and again I say showing up at a sentencing isn’t going to change anything. we have the reources to do more than our grand parents etc. how about we start here

I’m a weirdo but you came on a thread in which blantant racism was committed to brag about how much you love white people over black people. Alright. I’ll take that asa compliment, lol.

dactryinigal or whateva. you are right opinions are abundant, its just that their is a time and place for everything and now is not the time for you and your offbrand comments

this is really disgusting. the people on this case should be ashamed of themselves. There are people out there raping, and killing yet we are focused on giving a kid 22yrs for finally standing up for himself? This absolutely makes no sense. This entire situation is all about making an example out of this kid. I swear if he is let go, he should bring in a civil lawsuit against that entire town.

Jena, Louisiana *smh* we should be way above this shit now. Look at these statistics tho:

The racial makeup of the town was 85.56% White, 12.02% African American, 0.67% Native American, 0.47% Asian, 0.50% from other races, and 0.77% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.21% of the population.

There is something seriously up with that.

Well, here is what is ignorant, the fact that there is still a place or town or dwelling or gathering of any type that would be so racist that the brother couldn’t mingle as a “Human being amongst others” and not have the race card thrown out. Who cares if there was a party filled with white peers just the fact that it was a party was reason enough to go. I mean it’s not a matter of looking at this case isolated but the principle of racism being present and boldly disregarding all that our ancestors and Historical Black Figures fought for. I can’t believe this person’s ignorant menatality and I won’t mention who. As The Roots say “Stand Tall or Sit The “F” Down, with that said what will you do is the question and stop bumpin’ your gumms…..

I would like to reply to Angela, #48. Please read the complete details of this incident before you reply. Apparently, you have not since you don’t know whether the white male was killed or not. You don’t know who visits these sites and could be swayed by your comments. This incident is very critical. God Bless us all and he can change the hearts of men.

@97

Black people only make up approximately 8% of the American population. There are numerous towns throughout America with those population percentages. What it is is that black people living in metropolitans think that where they live is a microcosm of America and it is not. That’s what I’m talking about when I say that black people’s viewpoint is skewed. This is a caucasian country and when blacks realize that we’ll be far more successful, for however much longer the Lord allows this land to exist. One thing that I will agree with that clown, #82, about is what the hell is one black boy going to a “white party” for? He was asking to get that ass-whuppin’.

In Fact Look at this information right here

http://jhs.lasallepsb.com/school_policies.htm

What does it say the punishment is for fighting? Where do they get off imposing 22 yrs?

Dont know what to say about this school (or for its crappy website for that matter eww)
http://jhs.lasallepsb.com/

#95 YEAH YOU A WEIRDO…YOU DONT KNOW ME AND YOU CALL ME A DEVILWORSHIPPER. I NEVER SAID ANYTHING BAD ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE. WHAT I SAID IF YOU WAS READING CLEARLY…I TRUST MY WHITE FRIENDS OVER SOME OF MY BLACK FRIENDS. NOTHING IS RACIST ABOUT WHAT I SAID…GIVE ME A BREAK.

#96 MY NAME IS DCTRINIGYAL…NOT WHATEVER. DID I DISRESPECT YOU…NO , I DIDNT SO DONT DISRESPECT ME. THIS IS MY OPINION AND ITS A APPROPRIATE TIME FOR IT. I DIDNT GET OFF TOPIC AND I SAID WHAT I HAD TO SAY. IF YOU DONT LIKE IT THATS YOUR PERSONAL PROBLEM. DONT START NOTHING AND IT WONT BE NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!

#100 YOU A CLOWN AND DONT AGREE WITH ME NOW…..I CALLED YOU A WEIRDO BECAUSE YOU CALLED ME A DAMN DEVIL WORSHIPPER. PLEASE BEAT YOUR FEET AND BOUNCE ALONG. THANKS

I like to say onc e again thank you to CL for getting this out because of this and their first post on this article the michael baisden show did respond to the emails we sent him from the people who posted on concrete loop .

here is what he decided to do and please everyone support any way you know how
Thanks

The Michael Baisden Show: Live from Jena , LA September 20th

The Baddest Man on radio is putting action behind his words. On September 20th Michael Baisden along with comedian George Wilborn, national celebrities, and thousands of loyal listeners will March on the Jena Courthouse to demand justice for Mychal Bell, one of the black teenagers awaiting sentencing in the Jena 6 Case. Mychal Bell could receive up to 22 years in prison for what amounted to nothing more then a fist fight between black and white high school students.

Michael will need all the support he can get to show the prosecutors, the Judge, and the entire nation that we will not stand by while they steal the lives of our children. Time for talk is over, it’s time to act!

Details about Michael’s visit to Jena :

DATE: Thursday September 20, 2007
TIME: Peace & Protest Rally at 8:00am
SENTENCING: 9:00am for student Mychal Bell

LOCATION:
LaSalle Parish Courthouse
1050 Courthouse St
Jena , LA 71342
(25 minutes from Alexandria )

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dctrinigyal wrote:
“WHY DID THE BLACK KIDS SIT UNDER THE TREE? DID THEY REALLY THINK THE WHITE KIDS WAS GOING TO LET THAT SLIDE.”

WAKE UP–WE’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LIVING IN A SEGREGRATED SOCIETY ANYMORE. THE FACT THAT A BOY HAD TO ASK PERMISSION TO SIT THERE IS VERY TELLING. THOUGH NOT LEGALLY IN FORCE, SEGREGATION IS STILL VERY MUCH PRATICED IN AMERICA. THIS IS LIKE THE CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA–BANNED UNDER LAW BUT STILL PRACTICED (SO THAT CERTAIN PEOPLE ARE STILL HELD DOWN)!

I WILL BE FAIR WITH YOU THOUGH, BLACK PEOPLE DON’T OFTENLY TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS, BUT INSTEAD BLAME THE WHITE MAN (AS YOU SAID), HOWEVER, PLEASE DON’T TELL ME THAT THE LEGISLATORS MADE THE CORRECT DECISION. BOTH SIDES (BLACKS AND WHITES) ARE GUILTY, HOWEVER THE LEGAL SYSTEM HAS BLATANTLY FAVORED THE WHITE STUDENTS, WHO LITERALLY GOT AWAY WITH THEIR CRIMES. IF YOU’RE GOING TO CHARGE THE BLACK STUDENTS WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER, YOU MIGHT AS WELL CHARGE THE WHITE STUDENTS FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER, AS WELL (THE PARTY INCIDENT).

THE WHITE STUDENTS WHO TIED NOOSES AROUND THE TREE SET THIS OFF. WHAT FAULT IS THERE IN A BLACK STUDENT WANTING TO SIT UNDER IT?? THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF THIS BLACK PERSON WANTING TO FLAME RACIAL TENSIONS.

I had been read about this like a month ago and wrote in about this situation not a big AL Sharpton fan but he have been on this from the first time I read this.

Judah, Im well aware that those statistics also reflect those of other areas in this country. The point is, that area is saturated with basically one race and when you have a group of people who are so used to thier own ways and then you have someone else whos different moving into your space, this is the type of situation that occurs. Why subject yourself to it? That among many areas are known to be a little closed minded when it comes to culture. Why subject yourself to it? what to make a stand? You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. Nobody black, white, or yellow, should have to put up with this type bullshit thats all im sayin. Peace

The world really hasn’t changed much since the civial rights movement I hope things work out for these kids and the are able to have bright futures.

What’s truly disgusting is NOW, after nearly every Black blog or any other Black media outlets reported this months ago, CNN & MSNBC are all up on it like its brand new. The news media in this country is so biased its sickening! I’ve read media reports on the Jena 6 on BBC and other foreign media. Its a damn shame our so-called news organizations won’t report “news”!

Aint dis a bitch dis realli dosent make n e since everytime i read dis shyt it makes me cry dis shit realli makes me no since..i realli dun understand y..it realli shudnt have gone dis far…attempted murder cum on b foreal..shyt like dat happens at my skool erry year da white kids go round skool paintin racist shyt all ova da skool startin riots n errythang all becuz dey dun want “niggas” dere da most da skool board will do is supend or expell i mean cum on dis racist shyt is realli gettin old history will neva repeat itself if it dose den hell must b real…da more dey try 2 push or waeva dey tryna prove da more black ppl will ova come DIS SHIT HAS 2 STOP

THE BLACK STUDENTS HAVING A SIT-IN=FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION WITHOUT INCITING HATRED WITH POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS REPRECUSSIONS!!

THE WHITE STUDENTS HANGING NOOSES AROUND THE TREE IN THE SCHOOL COLORS=ALSO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. THIS DID INCITE HATRED AND POTENTIAL VIOLENCE.

LOOK AT THE HYPOCRISY. THE BLACK STUDENTS ARE THREATENED BY THE POLICE, WHEREAS THE WHITE STUDENTS ARE MERELY SUSPENDED.

I’M NOT THE TYPE TO DEFEND THE P.C. BLAME IT ON THE WHITE MAN ARGUMENT ON MANY OCCASIONS, BUT THIS TIME, I CANNOT SAY THE SAME. THIS IS RACISM BY THE SCHOOL ADMINSTRATION, THE POLICE AND THE COURTS.

damn dctryingyal why couldn’t you be up on 20 years seeing as how you like to pull the if all else fails bonnie bad as# routine. pipe down what are you going to do…JUMP through the computer?! smh the topic is Jenna 6….now who is up to contact the local Lousiana state representatives?

ITS THE DEVILS WORLD I TELL YA!

#105 TELL ME WHERE IN MY POST DID I SAY THE LEGISLATER MADE THE RIGHT DECISION. I SAID THAT IT WOULD BE WRONG ,IF THEY SEND HIM TO PRISON FOR 22 YRS. IF YOU GOING TO QUOTE ME THEN QUOTE ME RIGHT. DONT TANGLE UP MY WORDS IF I DIDNT SAY THAT. WHY WOULD THEY CHARGE THE WHITE PEOPLE FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER…BECAUSE THAT IS A WHITE TOWN DUH. I AGREE WITH YOU ON BOTH SIDES ARE GUILTY BUT WHEN WILL PEOPLE SEE THAT ITS NOT ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE FAULT. THE LEGISLATOR IS FULL OF RICH WHITE PEOPLE….OF COARSE THEY GOING TO STICK WITH THEIR OWN PEOPLE. THE WHITE PEOPLE WHO TIED THE NOOSE ON THE TREE DID THAT BECAUSE THEY WAS ALLOWED TO DO IT. REMEMBER JENA IS PRODOMINETLY WHITE. THEM BLACK PEOPLE KNEW WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT TO DO. YOU CANT GO INTO A WHITE TOWN THINKING YOU RUNNING SOMETHING. WE ALL NO THAT RACISM IS EVERY WHERE…NOT JUST DOWN SOUTH. I VE BEEN TO PLACES UP NORTH THAT DONT EVEN SERVE BLACK PEOPLE IN RESTAURANTS. I MEAN ITS WRONG BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO. YOU GOING TO TELL WHITE PEOPLE OFF OR BEAT THEM UP BECAUSE THEY DONT LIKE BLACK PEOPLE. I’M NOT TAKING ANYBODY SIDE…I’M JUST SAYING STOP BLAMING WHITE FOLKS FOR EVERTHING.

ANDRICE YOU NEED TO PIPE DOWN…I DONT DO TO MUCH THUGGING ON A CELEBRITY BLOG LOL…..I WILL LEAVE THAT FOR YOU HUNNY. IF YOU CANT TAKE THE HEAT THEN GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN. CONTACT WHOEVER YOU WANT IT WONT MAKE A DIFFRENCE LOL. SOME OF YALL BLOGGERS KILL ME . A ALL WHITE JURY AGAINST ONE BLACK BOY. YOU BE THE JUDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they might have well have killed him for the way they’re being charged…thats fuckin unfair…makes me wanna bitchslap a fool

They def have my support. I wrote about 100 emails to CNN - I have gotten some correspondence back and they assure that they will be doing a story on the Jena 6 some time this month. Every keep an eye open for that story.

There is def a double standard and racist undertone. Anyone who does not see that is not being honest with themselves. But the more you address it the better it gets. Pretending it does not exsist is the reason that a lot of these kids act the way they do.

CNN pledges to do an In Depth Investigative Report on the story. It is on the front page of CNN.Com today! CHeck it out!

The story is actually on Lou Dodds right now for anyone that wants to check it out!

The story will be on CNN tonight at 8pm EST too!

Be sure to catch the entire story on CNN!

Some of our hard emailing has finally paid off.

UNLESS I PLAN ON POSTING AGAIN, I’LL SAY THIS ONE LAST THING:

ALL ETHNICITIES HAVE THEIR PROS AND CONS. WE SHOULDN’T BE BLAMING EACH OTHER OR USING SCAPEGOATS (”BLAME IT ON WHITEY”, “SLAVERY”, “RAPPERS”, “LAZY COLORED PEOPLE”). THERE NEEDS TO BE UNDERSTANDING FROM ALL SIDES. THESE ARE JUST BROAD GENERALISATIONS.

IT IS THE POLITICIANS AND MEDIA WHO HAVE THE MOST POWER AND THEIR INFLUENCE HAS A LASTING IMPRESSION ON THE MASSES. THEY WANT TO DIVIDE COMMUNITIES FOR THEIR OWN INTERESTS–POLITICIANS WANT MORE VOTES AND THE MEDIA WANT MORE VIEWERS (NEWS)/READERS (NEWSPAPERS)! THIS INCLUDES JUDGES AND LEGISLATORS, AS THEIR JUDGEMENTS HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUR LEGAL SYSTEM.

IF WE DON’T SEE PAST THIS, INTER-COMMUNITY RELATIONS WILL CONTINUE GOING DOWN A PATH OF DESTRUCTION, I AM AFRAID.

^^ALSO KNOWN AS DIVIDE AND CONQUER.

Blasphemy!

Well dey r coverin it on CNN finally n BET need 2 step dey game up on it 2, dang cnn doin a bettr job smh
Stuff is jus wrongg dat aint right who do they think they r

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@ dee dee # 22
that is not true about all rappers because David banner actually announced the situation on 106 n park last week sumtime n put it out there i beleive that y it is finallty gettin the reconaztion it shoud

cks are always crying racism. There is no need for this. STAY AWAY THEN!! Why would you want to be somewhere you are not wanted. You come here with your ignorance and laziness and expect people to not say anything or treat you different. I agree it’s hard to be black and make it but just because it’s hard doesn’t mean you can’t make it. It’s hard for mexicans and they make it and they are not legal citizens. They work harder to make it so they are more accepted. look in black neighborhoods, they can’t even take care of their own neighborhoods. THey just damage it , throw garbage all over, write on buildings..ect. The stores in the neighborhoods are not owned by whites but by another minority and they make it. WHy don’t blacks stand up and run businesses in their own neighborhoods?? not because they are black?
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i live in the south and it actually mexicans(no offense) who are bringing down the neighboorhood n memphis. they come and put gang initials on our walls and open up restaraunts that are writin in spanish. they are the ones sitting beside the house wit 10 cars on the grass drinking beer and playin the music loud thas is in memphis. i am not tryin to be racist on the situation but don’t try to blame everything on the black. we actually arent as bad as white america makes us seem……should i bring up hurrican katrina, when we took sumtin it was looting but when the white population took something they where finding it. before you try to atack black america get your facts rite and step up on your intelligence read a history book . .we where brought here by europeans against our own will. the mexican jus come on there own. we are proud american citizen but look at it most of them don’t even pay taxes b/c they are not legal citizen. mam whatever your ethnicity is dont try to judge. and if black is so bad why do white citizens get tan …..to get darker. why do we have white people who try to fit in with the black society..it oviously isn’t to bad. n jess did i mention im only 15 and have more knowledge then you do

in the words of the great Marvin Gaye this injustice truly “Makes Me Wanna Holla”

I dont understand why black people continue to favor white people. I mean, if you love them so much, why dont you just turn in your pride and dignity now and just jump into bed with them. Smh @ some certain people on this blog. However, Even though Im deeply disturbed by this, (I commented on this when the article was first posted) I cant say much anymore. All I can say is one day, nothing but pure hell and the almighty heavens are going to break loose. People are going to pay for their evil, heinous acts. For now on, Im just going to leave all my problems to the Lord. This is Satan’s world and you can forget about ending any type of problems such as racism,world hunger, diseases, violence, poverty, murders, etc… We as black people are @ a
time where nothing but money,materialism,violence,drugs and promisicuty seems to motivate people in such a sickening and disgusting way. Sorry to sound so despairing but nothing is going to change because right after this post, this thread will most likely be forgotten in the brains and thoughts of most black people on here. Polow Da don and Beyonce will continue to reach about 500 useless comments while this thread and H.Katrina only reach a miserable 130 comments. Hmmph. Judah was right.

e n memphis. congratulations on your ability to articulate your opinion in a mature way. contact your local congressman and speak to he or she about the jenna 6 situation. i believe that your voice will be heard.

p.s. big ups to my school HOWARD UNIVERSITY. We have been discussing, supporting young men of the jena six for awhile. Were also having a rally tomorrow

dctrinigyl FYI here in america civil liberties were impacted by the efforts of blacks…like picketting, boycotting etc. if this is such a lost cause to you why don’t you just log off…go to rnbdirt.com or something. its really only about progresssion on this post..p.s. how in the world do you know of a place up north where blacks aren’t served? were you slumming it with your trusty white friends when you came upon the joint? never mind strike that-you’re too immature for a rational response

I am just curious…how many more slaps in the face will the black masses tolerate before they stand up. Between the Jena6 and Katrina, I think white America have sent black America a very powerful, clear message. I tell you right now, the pot is simmering…the question is, when will it blow over.

We can no longer afford to be disillusioned. No more of this, I am saddened…or I feel bad. As people we can no longer afford to feel disheartened or sympathy. We have many powerful blacks in several influential positions. They can send a powerful statement back to white America: injustice to blacks will no longer be tolerated. I’m waiting to see, who among these influential blacks will speak out on this issue. Who will shy away, so as to not offend their white friends or consumers?

Jena6 can be a momentous civil right victory for blacks, catapulting us to conquer greater civil and judicial injustices…or it can be an insignificant spec in American history. It is moments like these, leaders are born.

Ok here is my little tad bit. This is about race. I will say this up front, BUT lets look at it for what it really is. Kids hating other kids for no reason. None of these kids were alive during the civil rights movement so they only know what they are taught. What should have happened in the issues is that the black kid who was assulted should have went to the police. I have yet to find a story to suggest that the black kid went to the police after he was beaten up. Instead of kids under the tree, there should have been parents, pasters and other community adults. My last point, and this is going to piss u off, THE LAW IS THE LAW. People how many times do I have to say get your shit in writing. There is a law against fighting, no law against hanging nooses. Lets see how many people go out and lobby for a federal crime amendment for hanging nooses. We rather send the message that it is ok to fight with your hands and not your words. AND WHO EVER SAID THEY WANTED TO PUNCH A WHITE PERSON, PAT YOURSELF ON THE BACK. IT IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT TEACH OUR KIDS TO HATE BLACK OR WHITE. SO THANKS DUMB ASS

Actually this story has been around for quite sometime. Those of you who don’t know need to pick up a few newspapers every now and then. And, IF you are unsatisified with the numerous visits that Al Sharpton has made to Jena and the NUMEROUS radio shows he has been on then YOU do something. This isn’t Al Sharpton’s job! He doesn’t get paid to do this…People say that he’s not a spokes person for us but then the second he’s not somewhere we’re looking for him and when he is there we’re complaining it’s his own selfish intentions. Bottom line, stay up on the news YOUR damn self and do something yourself. Don’t be expecting white news to have what’s going on in our community on the front page, we have be our own advocates - COME ON!

UPDATE: Charges reduced on two more students - per MSNBC - The SAME place I heard about it when it happened a while back. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20589789/

I hope they are set free and put that auwful school behind them, obviously they don’t care about the social side of there school, ignorant in saying they can sit any where obviously knowing people were calling it the white’s tree! They need to get a life, and stop being so horrid, we are all people and deserve equal treatment. If I went that school, of p*ssd on that tree and sat with everyone else in the protest for equal rights.

Don’t know about this attempted murder charge, if they just hit the guy… bit extreme….

@128

There will be a race war in America. It is unavoidable and it will come to pass because not only do the scriptures tell you that there will be a race war, but these white people are training for one. There was a report in the New York Post that a brother put me onto a while back that revealed that hundreds of Neo-Nazis, skinheads, and klansmen have joined the Marines in order to get the military training needed for the race war. That’s why there are so many genocidal acts that are being committed against the Iraqis and Afghanis that are not being shown in the media.

The thing that I still have yet to grasp about black people is, what is the ultimate goal? The white man is a man of the law, his law. His law states that all American citizens are equal, allegedly. So that can only mean that black people are trying to appeal to the compassion and love of white people. It’s 2007, and these things are still going on so they are not going to change because they are not meant to change. I think that due to an increased amount of blacks in sports and entertainment, black people have been seduced into believing that they are on the “come up” in America. What law do black people hope to see get passed that will stop this from happening in the future?

@133

Lol at the “anti-noose” law. What about the “anti-chicken, watermelon, Newport cigarette” laws. Maybe we can get the white man to draft a new negro constitition. If you hope for these people to pass laws to oppress themselves and if you’re looking at their law as the arbiter of justice then that means that you view the white man as god. No disrespect but it’s people like you that prepare their children to be eaten up out here. My only thing is, be consistent. If you “love” everyone, then love everyone. Don’t pop up later when you see the black man with a white woman and bare your fangs. That was the point of Martin Luther King. The white man sent him out there to deceive black people and the man did a splendid job (Jer 8:11, 23:25-32, II Cor 11:13,14). By the time the man realized that he was being used, his usefulness was at an end and it was time for him to bite the bullet.

where is Al sharpton on this?????????????????????????????

Judah, there is no ultimate goal or else half these dingbats wouldnt walk around looking like a helpless lost cause. I mean Just lost. I mean, on behalf of my generation, these n*ggas aint getting far. They refused to see that. I hate to say it but my generation aint sh*t. Wheewww (that hurts). I dont get how the older generation, all the way from the CRM let my generation just lose themselves like that. I thought they would be spreading their wisdom upon us. Because right about now, this time of day, we could certainly use it. Too many misguided young black men and women walking the streets, have no idea whats going to erupt in the near future, have this dont give a f*ck what happens, it is what is type attitude. Like I said when all hell and the high heavens break loose, thats the only time people will care then. There is no solution. Point blank. Even if there was one, do you even know or even possibly imagine how hard it will be to achieve it. Like I said, n*ggas out here dont care and just ignorant. Once again, I will leave my problems to the Lord. He knows what to do. Satan is just running things for now. All I know is my black ass feels the heat, steady and burning.

I seen this on Headline News and they down played it so much that its a shame. They act like it was nothing serious. So I CNN do a better job of covering this.

#131 I KNOW BECAUSE I WENT TO SCHOOL UP NORTH…MAYBE YOU HEARD OF PENN STATE UNIVERSITY. MY COLLEGE WAS LOCATED IN A RACIST CITY. I WENT TO A RESTAURANT NEAR MY SCHOOL THAT WOULDNT SERVE BLACK PEOPLE. NO I WASNT WITH MY TRUSTY WHITE FRIENDS….ARE YOU TRYING TO BE FUNNY. YOU SOUND IGNORANT MAKING A SMART AZZ COMMENT LIKE THAT. HOW AM I IMMATURE…YOU THE ONE THATS IMMATURE SWEETIE. I’M NOT GOING TO CHANGE MY OPINION FOR ANYONE. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT.

@ 136

You always seem to make lite of a serious issue. You read what you want in the bible about a race war, I thought it said among the nations, but I could be wrong. I’ll read it again. The world is bigger than America. I dont have a problem with two people in love ( what ever the color ), nor should anyone. We all got to get pass this black and white thing. Its sad that todays generation can’t get the tools the need to be productive adults, because the adults are acting like kids. What the black kids did was illegel, what is white kids did was wrong. It’s a difference. And for the record, it’s not the WHITE MAN’S LAW, its everybodies law. And damn it if #83 aint right on the money.

Angel,

Thanks for giving light to this story.

I am outraged and also hurt that this shit is happening to these black students. I feel like this, no one deserve to get beat up, but also no one deserve to be tauted with racial slurs. Those white students finally got what shoulld have happened to them earlier, a wake up call to show them no longer will we stand for there rude ass comments or just take what they have to say about us just because they are WHITE!!

Fuck them!!

Actually this story has been around for quite sometime. Those of you who don’t know need to pick up a few newspapers every now and then. And, IF you are unsatisified with the numerous visits that Al Sharpton has made to Jena and the NUMEROUS radio shows he has been on then YOU do something. This isn’t Al Sharpton’s job! He doesn’t get paid to do this…People say that he’s not a spokes person for us but then the second he’s not somewhere we’re looking for him and when he is there we’re complaining it’s his own selfish intentions. Bottom line, stay up on the news YOUR damn self and do something yourself. Don’t be expecting white news to have what’s going on in our community on the front page, we have be our own advocates - COME ON!

UPDATE: Charges reduced on two more students - per MSNBC - The SAME place I heard about it when it happened a while back. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20589789/

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I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU LIZ….THIS IS DEFINETLY NOT AL SHARPTON JOB…..YOU RIGHT ABOUT THAT.

I just say this. I don’t understand how you have students hanging nooses from a tree and you don’t expel them. Don’t they realize that that sort of thing is frightening? I see that as a threat on every black student’s life in that school and I think it’s ridiculous that they weren’t expelled. If I went to that school and saw that shit I wouldn’t be able to return. It’s too much to ask us to watch something like that, a reminder of what our position once was in society, and not react. And though there are 2 sides to every story and maybe the boys should not have beaten that white kid I am sincerely glad that they did. Show those bastards that they aren’t the only one with the power to hurt.

I’m just sorry that the rest of his life is now tainted by an incident that stems directly from racism.

Isnt it funny how a Beyonce or Rihanna post can get 300 or 400 comments, but this one barely has 150. We have our priorities all wrong…

This is outrageous and we will not stand by and watch these young men lives be destroyed. America you are still a racist divided nation. Jena, LA officials we want your jobs. We want the job of the govenor of LA. Katrina and now Jena Six. Black America speak out against this atrocity NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the real world.

Co sign with no. 4, I am 23 myself, and it just seems that every step foward equals nine steps back. I will be dead and gone before equality exsist in the world.

This is such a shame - granted there may not be a national law against hanging nooses, but aren’t there rules that students at that school must live by? Ethical standards and zero tolerance rules? Yes, the football player may have been a bad ass, in trouble with the law at a young age. I am not trying to make light of what he may have done, but I honestly feel that if he was not black, he would just be a “troubled youth.”

To those who ask the question why did the black kids sit under an all black tree…I’ll just say I’m glad Rosa Parks didn’t give up her seat. No, I’m not saying what the black youths did was all in complete innocence, but it seems that they were trying to make a stand for something that seemed like an injustice to them. I will do the same through petitions, support and whatever else can be done.