Clinton Praises Jena 6 Reversal

Did she use her phony southern fried chicken accent again?

What has happened to the white children in this case are they all just free while this African American students are facing a ruined future

Why isn’t this being covered in mainstream media? This is a huge issue that we should be focusing on right now, not Britney Spears and her lackluster performances or O.J.’s trial. This is far more important.

Can you recall a time when whites ever had a unfair trial? This would never happen in white-america thats why this issue is so important. Why should anyone have to live in two different Americas? And the fact that it issue didn’t even make the nightly news yesterday is a even more outrage. This is one the biggest civil rights cases in my generation and it doesn’t even make the front page of a newspaper.

Can’t people tell the differance between a rope in a tree and physical contact. The school should have dealt with the boys in the rope ordeal and now the legal system is dealing with the beating by other boys. It is not against the law to hang a rope. Assult is against the law. The school drop the ball in this on. The school should of addressed the rope ordeal and suppended those boys when this first happen. If other boys get a slap on the wrist for beating a person because they felt anger in their civil right being denied, what kind of message will that send?

First of all we are all making these comments, but stop and say a prayer for these kids. For through prayer all things are possible. We are all under one nation one God. People its time to wake up, time is near. Yes the Jena 6 were treated unfairly; attempted second degree murder, come on now. Was anything broken or was any weapons used? I don’t understand this white/black thing in the society today. We all bleed red blood; lack of knowledge have alot to do with what is happening today to our young people. Hell I’m sure someone down the line in my family were slaves, but that don’t make me a slave. I work hard to support me and my family I don’t live for handouts. I am a firm beleiver in discipline, I do not uphold my kids in their wrong doing. right is right and wrong is wrong. My prayers go out to these boys and their family. I also pray for the white kids, because its not their fault, a child live what he/she learn. Below is what I have posted on my ice box at home:
THE BOTTOM LINE
FACE IT!!! Nobody owes you a living. What you achieve or fail to achieve in your lifetime is directly related to what you do or fail to do.
* No one chooses his parents or childhood, but you can choose your own direction.
* Everyone has problems and obstacles to overcome, but that too is relative to each individual.
* NOTHING IS CARVED IN STONE!!! You can change your life if you want to badly enough.
* Excuses are for losers: Those who take responsibility for their actions are the real winners.
* Winners meet life’s challenges head on, knowing there are no guarantees, and give it all they’ve got.
* And never think it is too late or too early to begin, time plays no favorites and will pass whether you act or not.
* TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE!! Dare to dream and takes risk….Compete. If you aren’t willing to work for your goals, don’t expect others to.

Hanging a noose from a tree to send a message that you are not welcomed is a hate crime. regardless if you are Jewish, Irish, Gay or whoever. Anything done against a certain group to show that you are not welcome is wrong. And for those who don’t know the white kids did jump and beat one of the black teens and nothing was done about it. The question then “is our justice system really that off?” The school did nothing. When the blacks were attack. The law did nothing when the blacks were attack. As long as you are white you can hang a noose from a tree and as a group beat a black and nothing happens. But if you are a group of blacks and get into a fight because someone taunts and harasses you, you are charged with attempted murder with the murder weapon being a tennis shoe.
What if the group involved was not black but Jewish or gays, what then.
Again we need to ask the right question. What is wrong with the American justice system?

Where is there information about the white students jumping the black student first? I haven’t seen that in what I’ve read. Just an uproar that white students hung nooses in a tree on school grounds, and that six black students then beat one white student unconscious.
If that, indeed, is the case, then there is definitely an imbalance in the way justice is being carried out.

The ignorance that is being spouted by people saying the hanging of the nooses is “ok” and doesn’t actually mean anything is absolutly ridiculous. Whites do this all the time “It is ok to call blacks colored folk” It is ok to have preference in business and government” I’m here to say no it is not “ok” Whites benefit their kids can hang nooses and parade around in klan outfits all day long. But you let a black man hold up a black fist in this country such as the black panthers and what happens. They are tossed in jail or murdered. People in this country white, black or whatever need to wake up there are two systems of justice and there are two systems for everything when it pertains to race in our nation. And this is written by a black man with a MBA so no I’m not stupid or ignorant and I have an education. The kids should be punished but the attempt to jail them for twenty years is an outrage. So, my question is why are whites focusing on the kids being punished instead of focusing on the fact they are trying to be jailed for twenty years?

If the jena 6 is inocent law will set them free, if justice find them guilty then they have to face it. leave it to justice they are not damn.

For any person to say “I can ruin your life with a stroke of my pen” is wrong.
Google Jena 6 and read the reports. I have been following this for about 2 months and there are a lot of things that are not being talked about that led up to current events. The kid that got beat up by 6 students was wrong. But you can not harassas a group of people and not expect something to happen. I don’t care who or what color you are. The other things is fights happen all the time right or wrong regardless they happen. But unless a weapon is used attemped murder is the last charge that comes to mind. especially when the kid got up and went to a party that same night. The town officials allowed things to go this far. We can all only pray that the right leaders help lead us to a better tomorrow where we as AMERICANS can rise to be a great nation that the world looks up to.
this was taken from one aritcle. We can all comment all each event but the fact is that the issues in this town were going to explode at somepoint. We can only pray that other places wake up and address their own issues before that get to a similar point. Best wishes to everyone involved.
“JACQUIE SOOHEN: A series of incidents followed throughout the fall. In October, a black student was beaten for entering party. Later that month, a white student pulled a gun on a group of black students at a gas station, claiming self-defense. The black students wrestled the gun away and reported the incident to police. They were charged with assault and robbery of the gun. No charges were ever filed against the white students in either incident. Then, in late November, someone tried to burn down the high school, creating even more tension. “

In 2007; America is still such a racist country. First, if we are to be treated equally, the books of law need to be changed. We are still considered less than human, according to the constitution.
Second, black boys under a white tree, in 2007? What are we doing still practicing such sepatism in 2007? The white children parents should be ashamed for still teaching their children such ignorance. Third, a black boy was jumped, nothing happened. A white boy pulled a shotgun on some of the Jena 6 boys – nothing happened. The black boys confiscated the shotgun and were charged with theft of a weapon. Would you give someone back a weapon they were going to use on you? Nothing happened to the white boy for pulling the shotgun. Hanging nooses are like hanging swaztickas (sp)? When are we going to wake up America. This is not about race, it’s about equality. The white boys should have been suspended from school and charges should have been filed because a hate crime was committed. God Bless America, because we need it!

For all of those interested in understanding the FULL story behind the Jena 6 phenomena, go to democracynow and go to the archives section dated July 10, 2007, “The Case of the Jena Six” . Also, if you are still unsure whether or not racism exists, go to September 13, 2007 archive .” Then, make your comment.

Please be aware that there was a beating of a black student by white students that for some reason never gets in the mainstream media. This preceeded the noose hanging and the beating of the white student. But I guess that you wouldn’t know that because as with everything, whites control the media. Maybe you should talk to your “friends” and tell them to stop hating Black people just because they are Black. Like with anything there is good and bad in all things. It just amazes me how whites want to condem all Blacks when one of us does something but when whites do something, they are somehow segregated to a bad group vs. the good group. Stop being hypocrites, it’s disgusting! You’re so busy trying to keep your foot on our necks that your allowing people from outside the US to come in and terrorize the entire country, buy up all the property, and regulate our economy. For the most part, Blacks commit more crime against other Blacks so don’t try to us that as an excuse for being a hater.

Wow, it’s evident based off the replies posted on this form that many of you know just as little about the facts of this case as you do about your own American history. Allow me to spell it out for you:
Last fall in Jena, Louisiana, the day after two Black high school students sat beneath the “white tree” on their campus, nooses were hung from the tree. When the superintendent dismissed the nooses as a “prank,” more Black students sat under the tree in protest. The District Attorney then came to the school accompanied by the town’s police and demanded that the students end their protest, telling them, “I can be your best friend or your worst enemy… I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen.”1
A series of white-on-black incidents of violence followed, and the DA did nothing. But when a white student was beaten up in a schoolyard fight, the DA responded by charging six black students with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
It’s a story that reads like one from the Jim Crow era, when judges, lawyers and all-white juries used the justice system to keep blacks in “their place”–but it’s happening today. The families of these young men are fighting back, but the odds are stacked against them. Together, we can make sure their story is told, that this becomes an issue for the Governor of Louisiana, and that justice is provided for the Jena 6. It starts now. Please add your voice:
The noose-hanging incident and the DA’s visit to the school set the stage for everything that followed. Racial tension escalated over the next couple of months, and on November 30, the main academic building of Jena High School was burned down in an unsolved fire. Later the same weekend, a black student was beaten up by white students at a party. The next day, black students at a convenience store were threatened by a young white man with a shotgun. They wrestled the gun from him and ran away. While no charges were filed against the white man, the students were arrested for the theft of the gun.2
That Monday at school, a white student, who had been a vocal supporter of the students who hung the nooses, taunted the black student who was beaten up at the off-campus party and allegedly called several black students “nigger.” After lunch, he was knocked down, punched and kicked by black students. He was taken to the hospital but was released and was well enough to go to a social event that evening.3
Six Black Jena High students were expelled from school, arrested and charged with second-degree attempted murder. Bail was set so high — between $70,000 and $138,000 — that the boys were left in prison for months as families went deep into debt to release them.4
The first trial ended last month, and Mychal Bell, who has been in prison since December, was convicted of aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery (both felonies) by an all-white jury in a trial where his public defender called no witnesses. During his trial, Mychal’s parents were ordered not to speak to the media and the court prohibited protests from taking place near the courtroom or where the judge could see them.
Mychal is scheduled to be sentenced on July 31st, and could go to jail for 22 years.5 Theo Shaw’s trial is next. He will finally make bail this week.
The Jena Six are lucky to have parents and loved ones who are fighting tooth and nail to free them. They have been threatened but they are standing strong. We know that if the families have to go it alone, their sons will be a long time coming home. They will lose precious years to Jena’s outrageous attempt to maintain a racist status quo.

The report broadcast on ABC Evening News about the Jena, La march today (9/20) was so shallow that even those of limited intellect like Sharpton who wishes to keep ‘his people’ in poverty, must have found this equally useless in defining their cause.

I don’t get it… OJ gets cheered for murdering two people. So why shouldn’t the Jena 6 get a few accolades for beating the Jena 1 to a pulp? After all, wasn’t there a chance he might have dis’d them? Did his forefathers possbly have slaves? The Jena 6 are obviously just misunderstood “heroes”.

Bonnie…if the roles were reversed, the blacks around the country would want to have them tried as adults. These 6 ganged up on one person, regardless of color, they are punks who ganged up on one kid, they could very well have killed him and should be tried as adults. Jackson & Sharpton stop hating and find real jobs LOSERS!!!

Many of you in this blog like to regard and disregard the facts of this case to your own discretion and make backwards generalizations to further separate whites and blacks with venomous rhetoric. There are also subtle and not so subtle references to some very old stereotypes which are used to disregard the validity of the issue at hand. If you are a true American who simply want equality in the judicial system for EVERYONE, please be aware of such trickery and ignore these blatant and malicious separatist remarks.

God Bless America? The last time I checked, He’s done that and then some. God forgive America and help us to turn from our wicked ways is more of what we should be asking. We kicked God out of schools and teach our children all of the wrong things and then expect them to do better. I think that people are misunderstanding our frustration here. People are only ingesting a portion of the facts and accusing us of being unfair. If you check the laws hanging a noose from a tree IS in fact a hate crime. Let’s look at what we are trying to get everyone to see, which is the BIG PICTURE to include all of the events that lead to this. Then if someone can provide an answer as to why these facts are being ignored by everyone then maybe we will have a better understanding of where those who don’t agree are coming from. FACT: One of the white students pulled a shotgun on one of the 6 boys who in turn took the weapon from him and didn’t retaliate. He called the police which was the right thing to do. He then faced charges for attempted murder. FACT: These same boys attended a party and were beaten up by the white students there. All we want to know is why there is a double standard. We are not saying that what these boys did was ok. We are saying why punish them and not the others. Thats the bottom line. Why did this happen so long ago and the media is just broadcasting it. It’s because we as a people began to sign petitions and protest behind the scenes. We didn’t just start protesting because the media got wind of it, this has been an ongoing movement from conception. I dont hate anyone because of where they are from. I educated myself and my children and we work hard for all that we have. In fact, neither of my children would allow me to pay for college as this was something they wanted accomplish for themselves. Stop believing we are all looking for handouts and pats on the back. We just want the law to be more leveled. My little sister was stabbed 13 times with a hunting knife by her husband in front of their 3 children and when white people learn that he is a white man they are more astonished because they automatically assumed he was black. There is bad in all races. When will we embrace that reality? I can’t hate because of “a few bad people”. I hate hate!! I am praying that we learn to see ourselves the way God sees us. Through love and thats it!

This is albout a lack of respect for others.Blacks are human beings just like whites are human beings.This name calling is disrespectfull and inhuman.People are carring M.L.K.signs,they need to go back and read what M.L.K.preached about and what M.L.K.stood for and yes lost his life over.M.L.KING wanted to be treated with respect and have his rights the same as any other human being.He wanted blacks and whites to live together and get along with each other.M.L.K.was not into name calling and putting people down.M.L.KING was not into violence.He sought peace.But even DR.KING would tell you if he was alive today that the only real peace comes from the PRINCE OF PEACE JESU CHRIST.Seek the PRINCE OF PEACE JESUS CHRIST and HE will give you peace in you life and love in you heart for your fellow-man.By Clear Thinker

She is just playing politics and just saying what she thinks everyone wants to here, just like everything else she has said. even when she ran the country in the 90′s.

Those who don’t see the connection between the events (nooses, blacks getting beaten and threatened with riffles and Barker being jumped) To those who dont understand why everyone is hurt and upset by the injustice that the Jena 6 faces are simply in denial of the fact that racism is alive in America; sometimes its covert and sometimes it’s overt. It’s time for a reality check. To those who are offended by others marching for equal rights, the truth hurts. Stop complaining, face the facts, and join the fight!!!!!!!!!
Given the biased racist nature of the DA, Michael Bell prior convictions cannot be held against him. Who knows the legitimacy of the prior convictions?
Justin Barker did not deserve to be jumped but please realize that he wasn’t innocent. He taunted the Black students for only God knows how long.
All of this talk about 6 to 1 is ridiculous. Do you really think that in such a racially charged town that other whites would just sit there and let a white get beat???? Views of this case are so distorted it’s a shame.
The only truth is that there is an unequal justice system exists in this country and it’s about time that a light shines on this unspoken truth. The world watched during the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and saw how Blacks and Whites are treated differently in this country. A double standard exists and a change needs to take place!!!!

It sounds to me like both almost all the white and black teens in this case would all be considered bullies and violent kids even by their own peer groups. This is what the case should be about and not suck in all the good people of either race as even suggesting anyone’s race should used as an excuse for teen violence. These are exceptionally violent kids who have one last chance at getting their act together before they go down that prison lifestyle path. Society should come together, intervene and get these kids back in different schools, supervised with one clear option, graduate with a B or better, get into a career path, college, service, or trade, do a humble useful community service or go to jail. Its either up or out and forget all this race baiting nonsense. These are self destructing young adults, but before we throw them away, give them an adult chance earned by their own proven efforts to save themselves and their parent’s hopes. And all the parents of these kids should be called to account for what is going on in thier homes to produce such senseless hate. These people know too little of life to hate so and we should not excuse such laziness. For cynical groups to use them for their own purposes in this obssessive racial power struggle just reinforces the immaturity of our society and no wonder our children act so badly as they know all too well what the rest of us do. We give them nothing real to believe in.

My grandfather use to say; {If you start off wrong you will end up wrong}. If you look at how this country did with the Indians, Chines when they were in slaved to build the railroad and the 400 years of slavery to the African. This country hands is bloody with hate and hate crimes from long ago. And it will never go away. The only answer to the problems is for Christ to come back.And he will give blessing to the peace makers and judgement to the evil ones.

This is not gotten “out of hand” this needs to be taken by the right hands. I’ve also heard conversations about how hillary ran the white house while Bill was in term. Wether it’s true or not, WHO CARES, I would love it if it were true. I’ve seen Bills attitude towards things and I cant wait until election day to vote in Hillary and Bill. This nation needs out of these past 4 years and let laws be made not only for out troops but also for our very own African Americans.

well, im tired of it. If the school had addressed the rope incident correctly and had not been afraid to stand up and say this is very wrong! you dont hang a noose in a tree, knowing what that means to all black ppl.