The Jena 6: A Different Take on What Really Happened
From a piece by Kansas City Star sportswriter Jason Whitlock, who is African-American:
Now we love Mychal Bell, the star of the 2006 Jena (La.) High School football team, the teenage boy who has sat in jail since December for his role in a six-on-one beatdown of a fellow student.Thursday, thousands of us, proud African-Americans, expressed our devotion to and desire to see justice for the "Jena Six," the half-dozen black students who knocked unconscious, kicked and stomped a white classmate.
Jesse Jackson compared Thursday's rallies in Jena to the protests and marches that used to take place in cities like Selma, Ala., in the 1960s. Al Sharpton claimed Thursday's peaceful demonstrations were to highlight racial inequities in the criminal justice system.
Jesse and Al, as they're prone to do, served a kernel of truth stacked on a mountain of lies.
Read the rest here ...
Thank you JW and TS for fairly publicizing this charade. Mr Whitlock would be an interesting interview if you both could make it happen. Keep up the Great Work. TS
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wow, if i get 6 white friends to attack a black man will jesse jackson show up and march for my release,
the fact is blacks do not want to be accountable for their actions and black leaders are not leading blacks anywhere, has al sharpton or jesse jackson visited the white victim or are they too busy inciting a riot.
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Gee, did the Observer run this fellow McClatchy columnist column?
If not, why not?
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Thanks, Tara. Can you give us a reference to the other information you had last night - about how the original white students were not suspended for 3 days but were actually given a much more serious punishment? I can't remember exactly what you said and I'd like to have that info as well.
Blog editor replies: The other info came from an article reprinted in the Charlotte Observer. You can find it here http://www.charlotte.com/171/story/289188.html
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Got it, thanks!
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I'd like to see Al Sharpton and/or Jesse Jackson, along with all mainstream media, go to Knoxville, TN., decry the violence imposed upon Channon Christian and Hugh Newsom and also apologize to the parents of these young promising lives. Of course, we cannot say at any time that the acts they were callously subjugated to were in the least motivated by any racial tendencies and prejudices. I'm not buying this contrived "Jena 6" racist subterfuge. Al and Jesse, I think you know where you stand. If you don't, you need to wake up and smell the Java beans.
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