Showing posts with label racial tensions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racial tensions. Show all posts

20 September 2007

Jena 6

aCan someone explain to me what is going on. I'm not quite sure I understand this story.

Maybe there is something that I am missing.

Six black kids beat up a white kid because three other white kids hung up nooses in the school yard. Now they are in jail and 30, 000 people are in Louisiana today because of what???


I do not get it.

Is it the fact that the kids that beat up the other kids are black?
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Is it the fact that this is Louisiana?
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Is it because of the racially motivated actions of some other kids?
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Is it because Al Sharpton says this is a travesty and so we carry it like government work?
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Is it because we are trying to drown out the media OJ Simpson is getting?
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Is it because we just need a reason to gather and Thanksgiving is a ways off?
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Is it the fact that the kids punishment was too tough?


I honestly don't get it. All i know is that my boy J calls mii and wants to know why Rev. Jesse Jackson thinks Obama is acting white in regards to the whole Jena 6 case. Please someone explain the ramifications of this situation to mii because I think we have more racially motivated hate crimes with totally innocent victims out there, this isn't like the 4 church girls in Alabama or the man in Jasper Texas. These boys DID beat up another kid.

But I haven't been following the story.
So yeah enlighten mii.