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The Jena 6 thing

September 23, 2007 By 13 Comments

I am super confused. Even after reading this detailed account of what went on. Can anyone explain to me what the fuck went down there? The story makes no sense!

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  1. egyptchick7 says:
    September 23, 2007 at 5:59 am

    There was a tree that on school grounds. Everyone at the school thought knew it to be a “whites-only” tree. Meaning only whites could sit underneath it. A black student asked his teacher permission to sit under the tree. The teacher said “ok”…the next day, 3 nooses were hung from that very same tree sparking a lot of racial tensions.

    The black students protested by standing under the tree. Someone set the school on fire ( a white guy I believe)…the whole town racially motivated arguments and fights. UNtil one day, a white kid tried to beat up a black guy. He got a slap on the wrist while when blacks fought a white guy, they were all arrested. 6 of them…5 are free on bail and one is refused bail! He is a honor student and has never had problems with the law! These 6 were known as the Jena 6 and there was a huge protes. 3 X the population of Jena attended. I would have love to have gone but coudn’t. Hopes that clears things up.

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  2. ella says:
    September 23, 2007 at 8:12 am

    egyptchick7

    Please read more carefully, the guy had not only problem with law but also with other black people who many times called police.

    SM
    I do not live in the States but I think that is what happened.

    1) There was a tree, called a “white tree” in the school yard. :

    - one version of event said that only white boys were usually sitting under that tree and when a black boy asked to sit under that tree next day there were 3 nooses hanging from the tree. The noose is seemingly a symbol of Ku Klux Klan

    - the other version said that everybody, blacks and whites used that tree, sitting or playing

    that happened in September.

    2) the boys who hanged nooses from the tree were :
    - according to one version – suspended for three days
    - according to another – isolated at an alternative school for about a month, and then given an in-school suspension for two weeks.

    3) Then there was an arson at the school, nobody knows who did that.

    4) There were couple of brawls between black boys and the white boys between September and December

    5) In December six black boys (Jenna six) beat a white boy, who got concussion and probably some broken bones

    6) The boy who beat a white boy and who some people say should not get the sentence he got was before on probation for at least two counts of battery and a count of criminal damage to property

    7) The jury which sentenced the boy was white, the residents were selected randomly by computer, however black residents selected did not show up. Therefore the jury was exclusively white.

    the town lies in southern states of USA and a Ku Klux Klan was active in that area during last century, furthermore there was racial segregation for quite a long time. Because of that and because the jury which convicted the black boy was exclusively white, it seems that people drew similarities to the old days of Ku Klux Klan and the racial segregation. Some people made a showcase of that trial naming it Jena Six and drawing similarities to the case in 1930 of a Scottsboro Boys.
    It seems that there is still a racial tension in town, particularly because it is quite a poor country and many people can not get a job and have to seek it in other parts of States. However I believe that it is something blown out of proportion by newspapers, some activists in US showing support for blacks in deep south and by some people outside of US.

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  3. Jimmie Hicks says:
    September 23, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    A boy is beaten up at school allegedly by a group of boys. The boy is knocked unconscious and allegedly beaten while unconscious by the group of boys. The whole incident reportedly took seconds.

    The boy is take to the hospital and released the same day. He is not kept for neurological observation. He even attends a school function later that day. The DA puts on his white cape and charges the group of boys with attempted murder instead of simple assault. Why?

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  4. James M says:
    September 23, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    There’s an election for Governor of Louisiana in November.

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  5. Uchuck the Tuchuck says:
    September 23, 2007 at 8:11 pm

    I was born in and live here (in the Southeastern United States), and I don’t understand what actually happened. The really sad thing is that we aren’t ever going to actually KNOW what happened. As the above posts indicate (and any number of stories that come up in response to a google search of “Jena 6″) the events have become the province of race politics. Each story has its own spin on events, often wildly at odds with other stories, each dependent on the political position of the writer. Was it the “whites only tree” or not? Can’t tell from the stories. Was the young man convicted an honor student and a choir boy, or was he a troublemaker and vandal? Take your pick, as you can find both versions online. Will justice be served? Probably not. DEo I have an answer to the situation? Not a clue.

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  6. reine.de.tout says:
    September 23, 2007 at 9:38 pm

    OK, I live here in the State of Louisiana and grew up 30 minutes south of Jena. The best reporting I’ve seen on this thus far is here:http://michellemalkin.com/2007/09/21/the-jena-six-and-racial-narratives/
    It is no wonder that you and thousands of others are confused. The U.S. mainstream media has “made” this story to fit their preconceived notions. The actual timeline of events in the story, when you look at them, don’t make sense as regards to the story the MSM wants you to believe. If you don’t want to follow the link above to the story that Michelle Malkin posted, here are the most pertinent parts:
    Jason Whitlock at the Kansas City Star sheds some light on facts about the case you may not have heard that undermine the presumed racial narrative:

    There are undeniable racial and economic inequities in our criminal justice system, and from afar the “Jena Six” rallies certainly looked and felt like the righteous protests of the 1960s. But the reality is Thursday’s protests are just another sign that we remain deeply locked in denial about the path we need to travel today for true American liberation, equality and power in the new millennium.

    The fact that we waited to love Mychal Bell until after he’d thrown away a Division I football scholarship and nine months of his life is just as heinous as the grossly excessive attempted-murder charges that originally landed him in jail. Reed Walters, the Jena district attorney, is being accused of racism because he didn’t show Bell compassion when the teenager was brought before the court for the third time on assault charges in a two-year span.

    Where was our compassion long before Bell got into this kind of trouble?

    That’s the question that needed to be asked in Jena and across the country on Thursday. But it wasn’t asked because everyone has been lied to about what really transpired in the small southern town.

    There was no “schoolyard fight” as a result of nooses being hung on a whites-only tree. Justin Barker, the white victim, was cold-cocked from behind, knocked unconscious and stomped by six black athletes. Barker, luckily, sustained no life-threatening injuries and was released from the hospital three hours after the attack. A black U.S. attorney, Don Washington, investigated the “Jena Six” case and concluded that the attack on Barker had absolutely nothing to do with the noose-hanging incident three months before. The nooses and two off-campus incidents were tied to Barker’s assault by people wanting to gain sympathy for the “Jena Six” in reaction to Walters’ extreme charges of attempted murder.

    Much has been written about Bell’s trial, the six-person all-white jury that convicted him of aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery and the clueless public defender who called no witnesses and offered no defense. It is rarely mentioned that no black people responded to the jury summonses and that Bell’s public defender was black.

    It’s almost never mentioned that Bell’s absentee father returned from Dallas and re-entered his son’s life only after Bell faced attempted-murder charges. At a bond hearing in August, Bell’s father and a parade of local ministers promised a judge that they would supervise Bell if he was released from prison. Where were the promises and supervision before any of this?

    It’s rarely mentioned that Bell was already on probation for assault when he was accused of participating in Barker’s attack. And it’s never mentioned that white people in the “racist” town of Jena provided Bell support and protected his football career long before Jesse, Al, Bell’s father and all the others took a sincere interest in Mychal Bell.

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  7. reine.de.tout says:
    September 23, 2007 at 9:43 pm

    By the way, in case any of you want to dismiss the reporting of Jason Whitlock, who is the reporter who wrote the story posted in the Michelle Malkin link, be advised that Mr. Whitlock is African-American.

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  8. ella says:
    September 24, 2007 at 3:53 am

    Hmm, reine.de.tout, I think you may be right.

    On the link SM gave there is a mention of black couple who few times complained to police about Bell’s behaviour. It seems Bell and his friends were scratching cars, breaking car windows and spraying property with paint.
    The other thing is that the previous Bell convictions were not mentioned because at that time Bell was underage (i.e. he was under 18 )
    Even black people in town who do complain of some discrimination think that Bell should go to prison for a long time.
    So I think this “thing” is a combination of PC, politics and newspapers blowing up things out of proportions.

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  9. Anna says:
    September 24, 2007 at 3:56 pm

    :)

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  10. Anna says:
    September 24, 2007 at 6:27 pm

    No, that was just supposed to be a smile.
    Not one of those psyho smilies..turn that off

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  11. Jim says:
    September 24, 2007 at 10:13 pm

    Where were all these protesters when the Duke lacrosse team was falsely accused? Oh wait, they were white. That explains it. This is what we get when we don’t just shoot for a color blind society. Everyone should be treated equally period. No affirmative action, no Jesse Jackson, just the same standards for everyone.

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  12. f says:
    September 26, 2007 at 11:45 am

    Not only is there almost no coverage in the corporate media of black violent crimes against white people, but in high profile cases they proffer black criminals as ‘real victims’.

    To illustrate the sickening bias, imagine if the facts were reversed – if a gang of six white kids led by someone with four previous convictions for violent-crime had attacked a lone black student, kicking and stomping him into unconsciousness. As far as the corporate media are concerned, they would be interviewing the black victim on every TV talk show across the land, discussing his fear, his pain, his suffering. They would be interviewing his crying relatives and friends. They would not be voicing any fear that the white attackers would be treated too harshly, or even that they would be treated at all.

    No one knows who hung up those nooses, but clearly ‘white racists’ lost out the most from it.

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  13. tedders says:
    September 28, 2007 at 1:04 pm

    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2007/09/28/what_they_don’t_want_you_to_know_about_the_jena_6_case

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