If you believe that Mychel Bell and the rest of the so-called Jena Six deserve to be free, then you have been played for a fool. Don't feel bad, though. Thanks to the efforts of the dynamic race-baiting duo, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and a mass outbreak of race-based herd mentality, the American public has been robbed of the full story of what happened in Jena, Louisiana.
For example, do you know why the students who allegedly hung nooses in the so-called whites-only tree were not charged? It's not, as the protest herd says, because the prosecutor, Reed Walters, is white; it's because racism is not a crime under Louisiana law, much less any other state's criminal code. According to the New York Times, hardly a racist rag, the federal district attorney for the region, who is himself black, could find no federal law that was broken, either. Racism is certainly abhorrent and stupid, but if being abhorrent and stupid was a crime, all of Miami University would be in prison. Did you know that the whites-only tree wasn't even whites-only? The principal of Jena High School said that students could sit wherever they wanted, even under that tree. The students who hung those nooses in response to the Six sitting under the tree ultimately received suspensions, extensive psychological examinations, underwent federal and state investigations, and were not allowed into the school at large for weeks on end. That's hardly letting them off easy because they're white
by any definition of the phrase.
Did you know that the Jena Six are hardly the innocents that we're led to believe they are? The beating of classmate Justin Barker, which started the Six's travels through the American legal system, wasn't fair at all. According to eyewitnesses, the gang jumped Justin unawares, knocking him out cold. They then proceeded to slam his head against the concrete. Barker was one of the students whom the Six suspected were behind the nooses. According to the Times, he's been since released from the hospital, but with $14,400 in hospital bills and blood clots in his eyes. Before Barker's beating, other students at Jena High School were reportedly warned by the Six that they were going to be attacked, thus prompting them to stay out of sight and school until things cooled down. Right is right and wrong is wrong, regardless of how much melanin you have in your skin, and what the Jena Six allegedly did was wrong.
I could go on and on. The problem is that the truth of the Jena situation didn't fit the white man holding the black man down storyline that snake-oil salesmen such as Jackson and Sharpton need in order to make money. In order to make money, Jackson and his ilk require masses of people to believe that we're still stuck in the 1950s, and that state-sponsored racism still exists en masse. And in the case of the Jena Six, not even the truth can stand in the way of a good race-baiting story and a steady paycheck.
Perhaps you think I'm lying, or you're unsure of my interpretations. I encourage you to do your own research on the Jena Six situation, and draw your own conclusions. However, I doubt that anyone who supports the Jena Six will take me up on my challenge to investigate both sides of the story, because facing reality can be a scary thing when one lives on the convenient storylines provided by those who stand to gain from the situation turning out in the favor of those who terrorized the halls of Jena High School.
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