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A grass-roots movement is spreading across black America in support of six black high school students charged with attempted murder for beating a white classmate in the small Louisiana town of Jena.
On black radio, black college campuses and websites from YouTube to Facebook, the young men known as the Jena 6 are being held up as symbols of unequal and unfair treatment of blacks in a case that evokes the Deep South's Jim Crow era, complete with nooses hanging from a tree.
"People are fed up," says Esther Iverem, 47, a Washington, D.C., writer who runs a website called Seeingblack.com, which has featured articles about the Jena 6. "It's another case of young black men railroaded unjustly. We do not want to see this happen to young boys who got involved in a school fight."
Are you blind to history? Do you think that today's blacks are blind to the history perpetrated against them in this nation?
Not blind to history at all, but I would expect that if I were to walk around waiving a Nazi Flag and a gang of people beat me within an inch of my life that the perpetrators would serve time......
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Are you blind to history? Do you think that today's blacks are blind to the history perpetrated against them in this nation?
It's history. This is current events. The present. You beat up a guy you go to jail. If they catch the kids that hung the nooses they should also be charged. Simple.
There have been blacks in the past that have beat up whites. Should these six be held accountable for what was done in the past to some white guy?
I think that they should get into trouble for the beating but not the jail time that the city seems to want to impose on them. Bringing up history does nothing except to muddy the water. The white boy who got beat was released from the hospital the same afternoon and even went to some school function that evening. He wasn't beat too badly. The white boys who put the nooses up in the tree should have been disciplined somehow. Cutting down the true showed true immaturity. The tree did nothing.
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I think that they should get into trouble for the beating but not the jail time that the city seems to want to impose on them. Bringing up history does nothing except to muddy the water. The white boy who got beat was released from the hospital the same afternoon and even went to some school function that evening. He wasn't beat too badly. The white boys who put the nooses up in the tree should have been disciplined somehow. Cutting down the true showed true immaturity. The tree did nothing.
I agree with cutting down the tree because it would be a reminder and it seems that "sitting under that tree" was a source of contention/symbol.
The kids made it a source of contention and cutting the tree down was ignorant and will not stop the racism and hatred, especially now that all of this has happened. In fact, I guarnatee that more physical assaults will happen because of all of this.
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