Jena Six Case Shows Black Teens Get Short End of Stick

[Ban Hammer 13,345]

I haven't read this entire thread.

However, knowing that this happened in a rural community in the South, knowing that this happened in a community that had (even if it's informal) a tree for white kids, knowing that a black kid felt the need to ask for permission to sit under said tree, knowing that nooses were hung in the aftermath of their request, knowing all well the use of nooses to intimidate black folk in the deep south at one point in time, knowing that the attempted murder weapon was a sneaker....

I am inclined to believe that Jesse Jackson is right.

you've not read the entire thread! sinner!

while the kids may have called it the white tree, a chainsaw could have solved this entire problem.

but i do wonder if we'd have the same issues if there was only a black tree......

oh yea, cuz white man have suffered as much as black folks. having exclusive black places, oh poor white men.. who is segregated too

not too familiar with the "separate but equal" arguement are you? go sit in the corner

there was never such thing as a separate but equal for black people.. but anyway, that argument of 'what if it had been a black only trees'.. you know racism to whites is not as common as the other way.. doesn't even happen as much, and it happened to black folks for decades.. so i don't think white people can play the victim card..

you really do live in a sheltered world, don't you?

oh please charles.. are you gonna be a discriminated man like booyah? when have you been 'reverse disciminated'? when have a bunch of black cops beat a white boy, when have you seen a bunch of black dudes dressed like the black KKK (if there's one) telling someone to get out of their town?

there's been instances where i've been discriminated against. and if you wonder about black dudes doing something to make someone leave town, how about........

reginald denny?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

...in 1998, a Black man was dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas.

Three white men with suspected ties to the Ku Klux Klan chained James Byrd Jr. (a Black hitchhiker) to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him to his death. His head, neck, and right arm were found about a mile from his mangled torso. A wrench with the name of one of the suspects on it was found near the body. Byrd had been dragged about two miles on a narrow, winding asphalt road.

Lawrence Russell Brewer, 31, Shawn Allen Berry and John William King, both 23, were charged with murder and jailed without bail. Byrd, 49, had been walking home from a niece's bridal shower on a Saturday night and apparently accepted a ride from the defendants. He was last seen riding in the back of the truck, police said. When he was found, he was so badly disfigured that investigators had to use fingerprints to identify him. King and Brewer were covered with tattoos indicating white supremacist beliefs, and all three had spent time in prison, where they apparently had ties to the KKK and the Aryan Nation.

http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american...th_in_Jasper_TX

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

White people do not play the victim card. What happens to white people is that they eventually get sick of others stepping on their toes and do punch back leading to stuff like the Cronulla riot in Sydney.

That would be using racism to to justify racism. None of it is justifiable - whatever the perceived provocation.