By now you should know what’s going on with the Jena 6. Here are my thoughts on the subject.

I don’t know if the white students should have been prosecuted or not for hanging nooses from the tree. It was deplorable and stupid but I am not sure if there is a crime involved. The black students should absolutely be prosecuted for attacking this white student.

Should the charges be attempted murder? Everyone says, “They used their shoes, that’s not trying to kill him” but there is a lot of force in your kicks and if you are kicking someone repeatedly in the head, you could kill them. I have also heard people say attempted murder should not be the charge because the guy was able to attend a school event that night. If I take a shot at someone and they’re only grazed by the bullet, is that not attempted murder?

If the white student had died, no one would be questioning murder charges. All that said, I am not sure if attempted murder charges are justified. I am no lawyer nor am I that well versed on law. But it appears the folks going down there to protest are wanting no charges pressed whatsoever.

No charges or punishment for a beating that was essentially vigilante justice?! Are you smoking crack? First of all, the guy who was beaten was not even the one who hung the nooses from the tree, according to news reports. Secondly, the beating was months after the nooses were hung. Third, nooses hanging from a tree is not justification for mobbing and beating someone.

Finally, those protesting the unequal treatment are really making themselves sound ignorant by comparing the punishment of the students responsible for the noose and the charges against these students. According to the DA there, there aren’t even any laws he could find that would have applied to this situation. So should you make up something to charge the students with because they did something offensive? NO!

One other thing: the media is trying to make this sound as if it’s a new Civil Rights movement. Most of the comments I’ve heard from people protesting this down in Jena show their reasons for protesting are “to be part of history.” They simply want to be able to say they were involved in something.

I am tired of the knee-jerk reaction Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and seemingly the black community as a whole have when a black person is charged with any crime. The black person is immediately deemed an innocent victim of a racist justice system, even when there is NO QUESTION as to the guilt of the perpetrator. When it’s a white on black crime, they don’t even hesitate to assign guilt to the white suspect. Ever heard of innocent until proven guilty? Do you guys remember coming down on the white Duke rape suspects?

I’ve also heard reports, though I haven’t read any yet, that the white student had a gun and the 6 were defending themselves. Once they got the gun from him, they had no need to defend themselves. Punching a man and beating and kicking and stomping him as he lays there unconscious is not self defense.

Here are a couple of quotes from Booker T Washington, who must have been psychic and seen that we would now have race baiters and charlatans like Jesse and Al in our midst:

“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs. Partly because they want sympathy, and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

“There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”