Comments on: Jena Six: Racism Still Exist In The South

By: ken

ken — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:21:12 +0000

dont be afraid black woke up and we not taking the foolishness anymore

By: ken

ken — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:17:40 +0000

News flash steve black have woke up from that non violent nightmare Martin had in the 60's .Now remember america was known for terrorist behavior in the pass now they are fighting terror dont make me laugh white power is slipping you guys can even produce anymore you are a dying race black are the strongest race in the world.Now you speak of segregation but I will tell you this let every black person pick up & say they are going bk to Africa america would shut the airport down so we can leave is this a case of dont want us here but hate to see us leave

By: ken

ken — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:58:22 +0000

check your history white boys have been lynching & killing black in & around this country for years guess what
it time to fight back stay tuned the best is yet to come lol

By: ken

ken — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:55:12 +0000

jena is like the rest of the Divided States of America where these so called good oh boys can do what ever they feel
like until they get a taste of their own mistreatment.This is no longer the 60's black will not march and sing peace songs
that time has passed, and look what it got us .Now its eye for an eye you touch me or mine we will dismantle their entire family You burn a cross on my lawn I burn your house down now you will understand how this game is play remember it was brutality that gave us the watts riots & the tone has been set .

By: denise

denise — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:58:16 +0000

Who is responsible for the condition of the black community? City is responsible for streets and fixing potholes, but grass and burnt houses that is the concern of the property owner and the community. Have you heard of community partnership. That is when people form committes and improve their community. People who expect the government to do it for them are asking for socialized government. You will really protest the inequity if that happens. NO BILL OF RIGHTS. no individual rights at all.

By: denise

denise — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:49:48 +0000

Racism isn't a crime. Americans are protected by the constitution to have their own beliefs. Assault is a crime. Punishable by law. Pulling a shotgun should be a crime. but not racism. It is unethical and can be punishable by dislike, ostrization and bad reputation by society but it is not punishable by law.

By: Denise

Denise — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:44:40 +0000

The sentences are harsh for the crime they were tried for. Jurys determine guilt But I believe the judge has made his decission because of the number and types of priors and escelating violence in their records. The judge is trying to prevent a murder charge. Life sentences are usually commuted for good behavior. This may give these kids education, life training to have a better life in possibley 7 years. Murder helps no one.
About welfare, the system isn't a set up, recipients are close to 50% of each race. Worked LA civil service 15 years. Most eligibility workers are black. When you say that the system is in favor of the caucasian you sound predjudce, (I say this because KIDS are taught at an early age to be racist, they aren't born racist) Correct. Both races have racists, are you one?

By: Denise

Denise — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:44:02 +0000

I was the only white person at a wedding shower for a co worker. The hostess's husband came home and said playfully "All you niggers go home." I wasn't offended because it isn't the first time I have heard black friends use that word. I want you to know for a fact that racism goes both ways.
I dont agree with anyone pulling a shotgun when asking someone to leave. He should have call the police. Everyone has the right to Not invite or Not welcome someone If in truth if there were other blacks invited to this party then this isn't a racist act, he didn't want these particular people there. If he did burn down the school, that is still another matter just as you say these kids records shouldn't be brought up into the beating incident. If calling these kids NIGGERS is so wrong why do black people do it to each other ALL THE Time. There are many insults out there, PHAT, UGLY, WHITEY,CHINK, and many others. People need to let them roll off and consider the source. Turning violent doesn't make you right, it makes you guilty.

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By: Freda

Freda — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:03:31 +0000

Krista,

While getting our troops home is important, it would be nice if after going there to all of the havic they had to face that they could come home to equality and justice for ALL. If you didn’t know a large portions of our troops on the front line are minorities and more than that from the south.

But because people like you who want to continue to push the truth under the rug and just not talk about it, that won’t happen any time soon. WILL IT.
BE HONEST WITH YOU!!

By: Freda

Freda — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:02:54 +0000

Krisa,

But because people like you who want to continue to push the truth under the rug and just not talk about it, that won’t happen any time soon. WILL IT.
BE HONEST WITH YOU!!

By: KRISTA ESTEVE

KRISTA ESTEVE — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:52:36 +0000

i just wanted to write and make a comment about all this with the Jena 6 , we are sick to death of the race card always being played and the south always madse to look like they are the onlyu ones that are racists, get over your selves.. i live in Olla and 7 miles from me is where micheal bell is.. we are not all racists and it is unfair to judge us that way.. just because we are from the south, does not we are racists, so get your facts straight before u go running your mouths.. what they did on both sides was very wrong, and it was totally uncalled for.. it is horrible that things like that still exist in thiis present time, but let me tell you something, alll the march and thge trouble that was brought in our towns and parish , all it did wwas caused an explosion of hatred everywhre,, is that wehat that was to be for, no , but that is what happen;;; that night at the end of the march , a racist kid that was more than proud to claim his ties to the kkk was pulled over for havinhg 3 nooses in thew back of his truck, and it just goes on and on from there.. so whatr was their purpose, they say they came to make a difference ,, well that was accomplished…..??/it is time to stop pointing fingers and get over things that we have no control over and stop this playing the racist card every time sometyhing dont go their way…. we have men and women oversees battling for their lives every daqy. EVERYDAY.and getting killed and totured, are you going over here the race card .. I THINK NOT, BUT IF YOU ASK ME , THAT IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE WORRYINHG ABOUT , GETTING OUR TROOPS BACK HOME!!!!!!!!!!!! and leave all this racists remarks and all behind, it is getting old and boring.. if you want to do something then do something that is productive and will mske a change and A merica proud.. because it not all one race , it is a country of many races , and cultures , learn from them , instead of condeming and playing the same old card over and over..

By: SHARON

SHARON — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:19:20 +0000

PLEASE WAKE UP: Any and all of the JENA RESIDENTS that do not attend a local church. At least get your children there on SUNDAYS instead of the movies or skating rinks. That is the place to start with our children. Teaching them right is one of the biggest GIFTS we can give our children. I live near JENA , and Jena is not a very peaceful place to live or shop anymore. What a shame. This just should not be . I belive JESUS CHRIST died for all of us. AT least teach our children LOVE, WOW — what a PRECIOUS GIFT.

By: The Truth

The Truth — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:05:47 +0000

Well, I’ve heard it all now! Now Mychal Bell & his family are claiming that the guards at the prison where he is at are beating on him and mistreating him. Well, I can assure you that they are not. I know a good many of the people that work there both black & white. Many of the people that work there have children and families and would not risk their jobs for someone like him. He’s not worth the energy it would take. They say poor Mychal, well, where was his mother & father when he committed his first offense? No where to be found, only his grandmother. In fact his parents actually didn’t show up till this happened. Where were they when he was kicked out of a school previously and then came to Jena. Where were they when he was urinating in the corner of the classrooms of Jena High School. Yes, this is all true folks, the media & Bells “people” don’t want you to know all of this. They only want you to know that he is black and was charged for helping beat a white guy so badly that he was unconsious.

If you doubt the truth of any of these statements, you can go to the Jena Times online and research them. Some of these things have never been made known to the media but, they should be known. Because, no one outside of Jena knows what this is doing to the other families here besides the families of the Six. Some people here are having to work almost 80 hrs in a week.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:30:16 +0000

Everyone keep talking about what the black kids did. but what abot the twenty two year old white man that hit the black high school student over the head with a bottle.Do you need me to go any further because I will. How about the three white men who stumped a black man to death at the fair in Jena Louisiana. Oh yes Jena has it’s dirty little secrets and I am about to bring them all out. and to Lo Wa you just pointed fingers. Think before you speak . You never lived in Jena so you don’t know the problem. And if you do live in Jena or has in the past you are part of the problem. I can name at least ten black men in prison for crimes they did not committ.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:27:07 +0000

By: DEONDRA

DEONDRA — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:12:56 +0000

I PERSONALLY THINK THIS IS A RACIST SITUATION CONCIDERING THE FACT THAT I AM AN AFRICAN AMERICAN I DON’T THINK THAT ITS FAIR THAT THE BLACK CHILDREN HAVE TO SUFFER WHILE ON THE OTHER HAND THE WHITE KIDS DON’T THAT WHITE KIDS GOT EVERYTHING THAT HE DESERVED ITS WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN YOU SEE SO QUICK TO TALK DOWN OR PUNISH A BLACK PERSON FOR HIS MISTAKE AND NOT TO MENTION WHAT THE WHITE CHILDREN DID HE STARTED THE WHOLE PROUBLEM AND INSTED OF LETTING THEM KNOW WHAT THEY DID WAS WRONG THEY LET THEM CONTINUE AND LOOK WHAT IT TURNED INTO! NOW THEIR TRYNA SEND THE BLACK CHILDREN TO JAIL THIS IS WRONG HOW BOUT THEY SEND THE WHITE KID TO JAIL FOR PULLING OUT THAT DANM GUN THIS GETS ME MAD AS HELL TO SEE AFTER ALL THATS BEEN DONE AFTER MARTIN LUTHER KING AND EVERYONE ELSE THIS IS WHAT ITS HAS COME TO PUNISHING THE BLACK CHILDREN NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE DOING SOMETHING WRONG BUT BECAUSE THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN THIS IS A SHAME BEFORE GOD THAT TOMDAY AND TIME WERE STILL FIGHTING THIS RACISM!!!!!!!!!=(

By: Anisha

Anisha — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:21:56 +0000

i blaim parents for whites hating whites or the orther way around because this world is already fucked up so from their child growing up they should tech them and i dont give a damn wat any one say and if i was thoses boys i would have done the SAME DAMN THING!

By: Lo Wa

Lo Wa — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:45:41 +0000

The real problem isn’t a race issue, it’s an issue of whether people used sound judgement, or are determined to do whatever they want to do.

Hanging nooses in the tree, certainly wasn’t the right thing to do, but the only harm done was to people’s self-esteem, if they chose to let it bother them, instead of seeing it as a stupid childish statement about who should or shouldn’t sit under the tree. These white kids were wrong to behave this way, and should have been suspended for a few days, or better yet, been assigned to work with black students, and get along with them.

The black students’ behavior, on the other hand was both outrageous and illegal; six boys ganging up on a single white student, and beating him to the point where hospitalization was required? What were they thinking, and who is really guilty of racist acts.

I would have thought differently if it had been one black student on a single white student, and would have considered it typical adolescent nonsense. But when six young men get together and conspire to do damage to a single person, that IS a hate crime, and the intention is to do serious harm. They are no difference from a pack of wild animals stalking a single object of prey for dinner, and THAT is behavior that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society.

The only solution to the problems of race in America, is for all this nonsense to stop, and each person pull their own weight and take care of their own as best they can. Then, and only then, will this country truly be an equal one. No more subsidies for the poor, that is forced by taxing the productive hard working class, no more using race as an excuse for bad behavior.

By the way, the prisons are full of black and Hispanic inmates, because they are the ones commiting most of the crimes, not because there’s some major ploy to make them all wards of the state and the taxpayers. And when you have people like Jessie Jackson pointing their fingers at the race card, rather than the illegal and destructive behaviors of his people, that only makes matters worse.

I would like to live in a society where I don’t have to lock my possessions up, or walk the streets at night wondering if I’m going to get mugged or murdered, a society where I can leave my windows open at night for the fresh breezes to blow in, but that isn’t the way it is. When we stop the ciminal behavior and accept responsibility for ourselves, then we will have a chance at a healthy society.

And in keeping with my last statement, those who blatantly ignore the laws, need to be severely punished, so there is a reason to live within the laws, rather than outside of them.

If we want peace, the same laws and rules of behavior have to apply equally to all.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:43:16 +0000

Jena has been exposed to the entire world. It shows that God is very much present. I Know now that justice will be sereved. The jena six will be freed and Walter Reeds will be disbarred and the judge thrown off the bench. That will be true justice. Here I come Jena all the way from California.