Thursday, September 20, 2007

Not Just Any Tree..................


The town of Jena, Louisiana where 6 young African American students are accused for attacking a so called innocent white student over a tree. Yes. A tree. But it's just not any tree. This tree ( shown here) is the center of a storm. The tree is located on the grounds of Jena High School. The predominately white campus where only white students sat under this tree. Blacks students were often told to stay away from sitting under the tree. So when a Black student decided to ask the principle if he and his friends could sit under the tree. The principle said "yes".
The Black students sat under the tree. How nice it must have been to get away from the hot Louisiana sun and be the first in the school's history to enjoy the tree just like their white counterparts. Well the next day. Someone decided to place several noose hanging from the tree. And you don't need to be a rocket scientist to know what that meant.............Niggers stay away from our tree or meet the same fate that some of your ancestors did. This happened in August 2006! This year! Not 1863! Blacks in this country still must deal with the disgusting and ignorant fate of racism in this country.
The guilty students were briefly suspended from classes, despite the Principal's recommendation that they be expelled, according to Donald Washington, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Louisiana
On December 4, about three months after the nooses were discovered, six teens, dubbed the Jena 6, were accused of beating classmate Justin Barker. The six -- Mychal Bell, Robert Bailey Jr., Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis, Theo Shaw and Jesse Ray Beard -- were originally charged with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy, according to LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters.
Bell, the only one of the six who remains in jail, was to be sentenced Thursday after convictions for aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to do the same, but both charges have been vacated, awaiting further action by the district attorney.
Charges for Bailey, Jones and Shaw also were reduced to battery and conspiracy when they were arraigned, while Purvis still awaits arraignment. The charges for Beard, who was 14 at the time of the alleged crime, are unavailable because he's a juvenile.
Bails for the "Jena 6" were set at between $70,000 and $138,000, and all but Bell have posted bond. Bell, 17, has been in prison since his arrest. The judge has refused to lower his $90,000 bail, citing Bell's record, which includes four juvenile offenses -- two simple battery charges among them.
Now today thousands of people have swarmed the little town of Jena to protest the situation. And they should. While most people in the town have left for the day and closed most city offices and schools. Some dumb ass red necks have decided to place a confederate flag on their front porches and flag post.
Nothing is more sickening than to see dumb ass white people. In fact 15% of the town is collage educated and it shows! This backwoods town needed a fucking wake up call. But unfortunately. There are thousands of town like Jena out there. And some Democrats feel the Obama has a shot for the White House. It would be an serious uphill battle for victory when racism is so prominent in this country.
I hope we start trying to clean our house before we start fucking with others around the world.
I'm outta here!

2 comments:

HotBelgiumGuy said...

It is sad that there is still racism in the world. And no one wants to talk about. Just imagine if this story would have went un notice. Those boys lives would have been ruined. Sometimes I am embarrased of being White.

Anonymous said...

Look buddy. I am expressing an opinion and didn not need to get attaccked like that. It is YOU that need to get more informed on the case. These 6 savages randomly selected a white man and beat him up! The guy did nothing to these boys to provoke a beating. In fact your precious Micheal Bell was on probation for an privious assult case in 05. That is why his bail was denied. So don't give me this liberal bullshit and join bleeding heart bandwagon and not know the facts. He was wrong. He is in jail like a savage animal should be and you look stupid. Just like your fucking Liberal blog site! And it seems that I have read more about this than you. And yes asshole. I can read!