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Quote by: tivodan1116  Thousands rally to support 'Jena 6' - CNN.com
Let's be clear here - no one is denying that the so-called "Jena 6" assaulted another student. What is being claimed is the fact that they are being charged with a crime means there is racism in the county.
What is wrong with these race-baiters that they don't see that when there is a crime committed, the people responsible are going to be charged with a crime???
The protesters say the people who, three months earlier, hung nooses from a tree because black students had taken to sitting under it, should be charged with a hate crime. WHAT hate crime? It is not illegal to be a racist jerk, and you do not have a Constitutional right not to be offended... |
I don't believe in hate crimes, but I believe in terroristic threats, and hanging nooses from a tree fits that description, imo.
Maybe you don't know it, but down here whites used to string black people up by those things on a regular basis, and the KKK cop, DA, and judges wouldn't do a damn thing about it.
The issue here is not that the boys were charged with a crime. It's that in the same town, with the same DA, a white kid breaking a bottle over a black kid's head was charged with simple battery, and given probation, and in a similar fight, the black assailants were charged with attempted murder, and tried as adults.
If you don't see a racist disparity there, well, I don't know what to tell you.
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