Jena 6

BlessedOne04 · #1 10-12-2007, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by ladygreek

At least he is in a juvenile facility and not in an adult jail.

I agree that it may be better but sometimes juvenile facilities are just as bad as adult ones.

ladygreek · #2 10-12-2007, 09:38 PM

Maybe so, but for me the bottom line is he violated his probation and this is where he would have ended up anyway. So I hope this doesn't lead to an extension of the Jena protests.

I guess for me I just don't think the whole thing should have gotten the "status" it did in the first place. For folx to have described it as the most monumental protest since the civil rights movement, to me was ludicrous. There is no comparison. Like the Million Man March, too many people went there for the show and to say they went, rather than for the cause. And many didn't even go to either event but just hung around DC or Jena in nearby hotels partying for the night. But then my view it is probably a generational thing.

smlwonderdst · #3 10-13-2007, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by ladygreek

Maybe so, but for me the bottom line is he violated his probation and this is where he would have ended up anyway.

This is true. I just think that the 10 months he has already done should count toward the 18 month sentence since the adult charges he was orginally held on were thrown out.

But hopefully behind all of this he will learn the importance of self control and thinking before acting.

christiangirl · #4 10-13-2007, 01:26 AM

This is crazy. I agree that if they had just given him this sentence for this reason, none of the hoopla would have happened. It would've made sense and everyone would have moved on. This is like an anticlimactic ending to a bad movie.

mccoyred · #5 10-13-2007, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

This is crazy. I agree that if they had just given him this sentence for this reason, none of the hoopla would have happened. It would've made sense and everyone would have moved on. This is like an anticlimactic ending to a bad movie.

That is exactly the point! The charges and subsequent sentences were out of proportion to the crimes committed. I don't think anyone is saying that the students should not have been punished but it appears that the excessive charges stood in stark contrast against the charges or lack thereof for the white students in this particular string of events.

AKA2D '91 · #6 10-13-2007, 01:30 PM

http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs...WS01/710130334

christiangirl · #7 10-13-2007, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mccoyred

That is exactly the point! The charges and subsequent sentences were out of proportion to the crimes committed. I don't think anyone is saying that the students should not have been punished but it appears that the excessive charges stood in stark contrast against the charges or lack thereof for the white students in this particular string of events.

And this is what makes me glad that I protested. I had no problem protesting on these grounds. All people involoved of all races needed appropriate punishment, and that includes Mychal. But for what it took to get to a sentence that was acceptable and fitting, those 10 months definitely need to count toward Mychal's new sentence. Too much has happened for even a fair sentence like this not to deserve a little lee-way.