Because they are black. Free OJ.

So just so I’m clear, what is considered fair justice for six people who blindside another person and continue their melee even after the victim has lost consciousness?

Kevin...it's RACIST attitudes like yours that cause people to dislike and distrust Whites in this country.

IM NOT DIRECTLY AFFECTED?

Please.

Hey I have work 2 times as hard to make sure that what I say or what I do will not cause me to lose a job, lose my income and most of all lose my FREEDOM.


This event going on is Jena is nothing NOTHING but a direct reminder that things HAVE NOT changed.....hell, reading your cavalier comments are proof of that already!

I am a target and a statistic every day I walk out of my door.

I am a target and a statistic each time I go out in public because someone is waiting for another of us to ACT OUT to get us on the news as a homicide statistic, a drug user or in jail.

Everytime I go into a class room I lower one stat and barely push up another...because I am one of few who are educated.

Every year I get closer to 40 I do the same....I don't have a rack of kids being taken care of by child support and I am not incarcerated nor am I causing a woman to be on welfare.

Everyday I punch in at 730 and get home at 4pm the same because am not pushing up the unemployment rate.

I got two little nephews who are 3 and 4 I worry about because of the world they are coming into and thankfully THEY TOO are not statistics because GUESS WHAT....thier FATHERS are married to thier MAMAS and LIVING in the home.

But I am not directly affected...yeah ok...believe that dumb stuff if you want.

I cannot tell you how many times I have been pulled aside because "I fit the description" or been told that I need to "watch where I am going..." or been stopped and had an ID checked because I 'didn't belong here"

It's racist idiots like you who still want us to believe that everything is alright when it isn't. That everyone here in this country gets their fair shake when we know good and dayumed well that we don't. If this was the case, we wouldn't STLL be protesting....we wouldn't have to warn our YOUNG BLACK MEN to stay outta trouble because if the cops get ya we may not see ya again! We wouldn't have to tell our Black women to stay smart and get smarter because they are burying us daily and have been doing so since birth because we are marked for prison bars by 4th grade!

That's right Kevin I am calling you out....and to make this clear so that way YOU know exactly where I am coming from...I am NOT CALLING EVERY WHITE PERSON IN AMERICA A RACIST...I am talking to YOU and people LIKE YOU.

See...YOU and people LIKE YOU are the people that messes it up for everyone else.....people like you are the reason WHY others lump IN everyone else.


I am tired.....

I am tired of having to read your crap and having to debate issues that are relevant to me to have someone LIKE YOU tell me thatit's petty BS and let it go simply because it DOES NOT affect you and therefore 'irrelevant'

I cannot and will not and the sooner you realize this and the sooner you realize that folks are UNEQUAL and we aren't protesting over some NONSENSE but protesting that 19th century attitudes still exist in this 21st century US of A then the sooner you will realize my opinions ARE RELEVANT and this sh*t that is happening to me and mine at an ALARMING rate is REAL!

Kevin your prob is....you got the luxury of a keyboard and monitor plus a thousand miles of space to project your idiocy to the world.....I always wonder what folks like you who do this would say and do if we were to ever meet in person.


Interesting thing happened on my way to the Capitol (pics coming later)

This British lady pulled me aside and was genuinely interested in what everything was all about...I told her and also told her where she can get info on the 'net about it....her reactin "What is worng with people in the United States?"

and..."I hope you don't think we all are like that" and no....I don't and after we talked for a few minutes, I was GLAD of her support.


....stomach bug be damned...should gave that girl some pepto!

Sydney.....thank you...your intentions are in the right place.

And so is not-DaemonSeid! :(

Bad joke?

Just like a kid getting a bottle broken over his head then then getting beat up by a group of kids?

considering the victim went to a party later that night...I don't think facing 80 years in jail was a fair shot...now was it?

Sweet, so because injustice occurred in one situation, this violent kid should be celebrated!!! Good call. Lets have a march!

Anywhoooo....the rally in DC was peacful, organized and dignified. At least a 1000 people was there.

A) Thank you!
B) I'm so glad to hear that it went well.

Racist?

That's completely uncalled for. Not even deserving of any more response than the following:

:rolleyes:

Yeah.. you can't even get away with blindsiding a kid and kicking him in the head while he's unconscious anymore.. gee what a shame.

How were these attackers unfairly accused? There are multiple witnesses who say one of them punched the victim in the back of the head. They say that they saw these guys kicking the unconscious victim in the head, body and face multiple times. Were they singled out and incorrectly accused due to the color of their skin?

Yeah.. they are such victims.

It seems you're projecting your racial-victim status onto them. These guys are thugs. Five of the six have prior convictions. The juvenile without the prior is being adjudicated as a minor.

It seems you're buying into the Sharpton/Jackson hype and blowing this up into being something it's not. There are 5 men who will, if guilty, go to prison.

-- where did you come down on the whole Duke thing, btw?

I guess the US Constitution has no merit in this case? So the good ole forefathers wasted their time creating the document. :confused:

I forgot, it protects a certain few...oh and of course, dogs! :smirk:

You got called a racist, so what? You called people thugs and punks. Get over it.

First off, I have to say that I am just heartbroken and shocked at the events going on in Jena. DaemonSeid, you're thread helped me to understand what was going on down there, before any other news organization covered it. I heard the story on NPR but I'm ashamed to say that I didn't think much of it at the time.

I live in a predominately black area outside on New York City. I went to a very diverse elementary and middle school, and moved to attend a predominately white high school. My college was predominately white as well. It always freaked me out.

My family is from the Midwest but I was raised in NY. My family shares the same opinions that some of you on here do. I get just as, if not more, angry with them, in regards to a topic such as this or politics, money, religion, anything. Not that my opinion is necessarily right or that it matters, it's just different. I think there is a grave social injustice in this country (on MANY different levels not just this situation.) I see it everyday, at home, my neighborhood, I see it in the Bronx where I work. I'm in a more "enlightened" state. I feel like I need a damn passport to go south or west.

This whole case disturbs me. On Monday, I went to all of my friends and asked them what they knew. They knew nothing about it, so we talked about it, looked it up. They are wearing black today.
I wish I could go to Jena to show my support, I wish things like this didn't happen.

I just wish people would do what was right. Do I think what the boys did was necessarily right? No. However, I think that the situation was spurred by an already inflamed situation. Who's fault is it?

True, we need to stop letting such communities use the label "racist" as a weapon. White people unfortunately give them this power by cowering in the corner anytime something like this happens.

"But one of my best friends is black!"