It s*cks that people are judged by their race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation,size, gender, and even for being disabled in any way....

And that is how Republican America wants to keep it.
White Males in, everyone else on the fringes..

The only way it will change is if people wake up and realize that freedom of speech and freedom of expression are being curtailed by BUSH and his GOP cronies.

I can not believe that we are so close not far at all removed from sitting our Black behinds in the back of the bus. I have heard of the Jena 6, and knew a little bit about it, but I have not gone and researched massively on the issue as I am now. I think a lot of our youth are bamboozled (not sure how to spell) on this issue. I honestly may not have looked more into it myself if it was not for me choosing this subject for my college freshman research paper. You know how they say that ignorance is bliss, well I am glad that I have found so much information about this incident and so many following incidents but man, my 18 years of experience was not ready for all that I have explored on the internet, let alone all of the on going racism. MY YOUTH, WE REALLY HAVE TO DO SOMETHING NOW!!!! WE ARE SLOWLY BUT SURELY REPEATING HISTORY AND SOME OF US ARE JUST TOO BLIND TO EVEN SEE IT WHEN THESE CRAKERS ARE THROWIN IT RIGHT IN OUR FACES!!! WE ARE NO LONGER INFERIOR TO THESE WHITE PEOPLE, I LOOK AT THEM AND THINK THEY WILL BE WORKING FOR ME ONE DAY!

FREE JENA 6 NOW!!! (AND GIVE US REAL JUSTICE)

lets review: how to conduct yourself in todays society.
Absence of color,
While you seem to be adept in the ills of one particular culture, perhaps you should consider the ills of another culture that relates directly to this message board. Perhaps a study of how they should conduct theirselves in society is also in order.
Let's review shall we:
Do not promote racial hatred by hanging nooses from a tree.

Practice equal treatment for all under the law. Sentence all students in Jena to 20 years for a school fight.

dis iz 2 rebecca ur da dumb bitch sayin all da rasict shyt needa shut da fck up n i want u 2 reply 2 me.i dont noe"da black" gurl but ima have her bak on dis 1 i want u 2 come n say dat 2 a fuckin black person.u fuckin cracker.u noe dat sumone will fck ur shyt up.n la u dont even noe how life iz b cuz were i live u will get ur shyt rocked bicth.ne more comentz or question ask me or "black gurl" kk n if u wanna get ur shyt rocked call 1800-cracker-get dey shyt rocked n he probably cant fite how u n acomma den get up n go 2 a party......-----BULLSHYT--------HEZ A FUCKIN LIER.!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now come on. I know that Rebecca's post was inflammatory; however, there are other ways to address her, and those like her. In this day and time there is a different way to combat this ignorance. You will find most racist fold under just plain intellectual debate, due to the fact their ideals aren't strongly supported by fact or reason. Threats, obscenities, etc. only serve to further their assumptions that we can do no better.

'The Race War Of Black Against White' by Paul Sheehan
The Sydney Morning Herald , Australia, 20 May 1995
The longest war America has ever fought is the Dirty War, and it is not over. It has lasted 30 years so far and claimed more than 25 million victims. It has cost almost as many lives as the Vietnam War. It determined the result of last year's congressional election.

Facts and Data,
It appears as though this "Dirty War" may be a product of your own interest. I dispute your facts and data quite simply due to your opening paragragh.
You stated that the "Dirty War" has claimed 25 million victims in its 30 year course; however, you say that it has killed "almost" as many people as Vietnam.
To correct your facts and data. 25 million casualties would be nearly 5 times greater than the accepted death toll of the Vietnam War, at 5.4 million. So are we to ponder that the rest of your facts and data is likely amiss?

to the girl with the name "A BLACK GURL"
nigga go learn how to spell.and 2nd, no one knew about it a year ago,and just because he cant fight still doesnt change anything!! you give people for lousiana a bad name.and im from la,but thank god i dont go to a high school with a bunch of stupied niggas like yourself!

Rebecca,
Before you wasted your time posting such ignorance, it truly would have been appreciated if you had in fact proofread your own post. How can you proceed to call someone "stupid" when you apparently have difficulty spelling it yourself? (stupied)

As I read all the comments from both black and white I think of one thing, ignorance. Ignorance is for Rebecca from LA referring to any black person as N'word. Ignorance is for the idiots who scream white pride and hide behind sheets and their computers when saying it. Ignorance is for the blacks that scream back dump slurs at the idiots. Go to school, get an education, band to together and make the power of economics speak to America because at the end of the day corporate America doesn't care about white or black it cares about GREEN.

Ignorance is the fact that most of WHITE america and BLACK america only believe what the TV tells them. WHITE would want to believe that this incident happened without an provocation. The problem went on for over a month with both sides beating one another. Please learn all the facts before casting a stone. Also, the JENA 6 consisted of six boys who beat a young white male. The marches, the call for justice was for millions both black, poor whites, woman or whoever is treated without the same equal JUSTICE.
Ignorance is for Frippy and Data Facts. In the community I live in not all blacks want to be in loud cars and they all don't believe in becoming young MILLIONAIRES through sports or hip/hop. They want to be successful. And to all the number fact finders how many whites have gotten off for crimes that they have committed that don't show up in your numbers.

The fact is that most of the people on this site is closed minded, not to any fault of your own. You lack of up bringing by parents or lack of parents. The lack of a true godly spirit in you (even though some of you go to church or have been you present not one ounce of love of god or to your fellow man). Most importantly you lack the intelligence to explore the world and it's differences all of which makes you IGNORANT BLACKS AND WHITES.

dis iz 2 rebecca ur da dumb bitch sayin all da rasict shyt needa shut da fck up n i want u 2 reply 2 me.i dont noe"da black" gurl but ima have her bak on dis 1 i want u 2 come n say dat 2 a fuckin black person.u fuckin cracker.u noe dat sumone will fck ur shyt up.n la u dont even noe how life iz b cuz were i live u will get ur shyt rocked bicth.ne more comentz or question ask me or "black gurl" kk n if u wanna get ur shyt rocked call 1800-cracker-get dey shyt rocked n he probably cant fite how u n acomma den get up n go 2 a party......-----BULLSHYT--------HEZ A FUCKIN LIER.!!!!!!!!!!!!

lets review: how to conduct yourself in todays society.
drop the " inside " Nigga addressing to your contemporarys. Address them with a mutual greeting or Name. Don't blame NFL or Hip Hop for brainwashing, Provide boundries for dress and conduct and communication dialect. There is a time and place for everything. Stop trying to promote group alegence with Do-Rags. That is a time dated statement and has no value unless you are working the kitchen or laying concrete. Dress passive and then dress the way you like at your social evening party. No statement need be made 9-5.
Just a few tips: Stop shoving down my throat The Loud 50,000 watt car stereos that freak out every living thing on this planet down to the whales. You will only be a louder more obnixious Niggas when you are age 62 and stone deaf. Finally: Attire: I love to see a nigga in hot persuit... as you can not run with 2 hands making full strides .... as one hand must keep holding your underwear and Jail denim jeans from falling to your ankels, Just as your untied shoes are still where you turned and started to run from. Oratory eloquence is lost on your daily dialog and will only proceed to isolate you further into your own cell block or ghetto. No one can tolerate Ebonics defiled. Finally... GET OUT OF MY FACE. Hint Hint.

It all boils down to what Reagan did in 1988 bowing to pressure from the right: "Abolishing the Fairness Doctrine". This allowed channels like Fox News and Rush Limbaugh to exist. 92% of radio talk show hosts are right wing persuasion. Public airwaves belong to the public and the fairness doctrine must be restored. Insist that the presidential candidates promise to restore the fairness doctrine and to bust the 5 media monopolies which control our thought process.

Yo, Anon,

You wrote:
Why don't we all just join hands and sing "We Are The World"?::rolls eyes::

So, what would you suggest as a starting place to lessen the tension? Reading a lot of these comments makes it very clear that racism will continue. Very few of the hatemongers here and everywhere will ever change. What I am suggesting is that those of us who want to live in sane, healthy communities, must eclipse the influence of the hatemongers. And this is not done with stump speeches, high horses, and more division. It's done in very simple ways, every day. Has anyone here ever read the New Testament? I don't believe in God, but even I can appreciate the simple and effective council that the Jesus character of the New Testament offered. The Christians are not acting very Christian around these parts! Advise from an atheist: Read Your Bible!

"We need to get together, black and white, Asian, Hispanic, and everyone else and everyone in between. No political speeches, and political agenda. Just the biggest neighborhood party, where we can talk about our lives, our kids, our passions. Love is the only way people."

Why don't we all just join hands and sing "We Are The World"?::rolls eyes::

White LIBERAL democratic leftist politicians have enabled Blacks to blame everyone but themselves thus creating a pathetic lazy and immoral majority within the black community.
Hillary WILL CONTINUE THIS SO BE PREPARED FOR MORE OF THE SAME.
I am white and conservative. Many years ago a hardened Democratic white man reminded me that this was the way Democrats keep the black man down.
Note: Jessie and Al know this but $$$$$$$$$$$$ changes everything.
I can just imagine Hillary patronizing the black vote as she laughs out loud in her mind heart and soul.
As soon as Mexicans are given amnesty the Democrats will not give a damn about blacks.

Justice Department Statistics About Black On White Race Violence
'The Race War Of Black Against White' by Paul Sheehan
The Sydney Morning Herald , Australia, 20 May 1995
The longest war America has ever fought is the Dirty War, and it is not over. It has lasted 30 years so far and claimed more than 25 million victims. It has cost almost as many lives as the Vietnam War. It determined the result of last year's congressional election.

Yet the American news media do not want to talk about the Dirty War, which remains between the lines and unreported. In fact, to even suggest that the war exists is to be discredited. So let's start suggesting, immediately.

No matter how crime figures are massaged by those who want to acknowledge or dispute the existence of a Dirty War, there is nothing ambiguous about what the official statistics portray: for the past 30 years a large segment of black America has waged a war of violent retribution against white America.

And the problem is getting worse, not better. In the past 20 years, violent crime has increased more than four times faster than the population. Young blacks (under 18) are more violent than previous generations and are 12 times more likely to be arrested for murder than young whites.

Nearly all the following figures, which speak for themselves, have not been reported in America:

According to the latest US Department of Justice survey of crime victims, more than 6.6 million violent crimes (murder, rape, assault and robbery) are committed in the US each year, of which about 20 per cent, or 1.3 million, are inter-racial crimes.

Most victims of race crime—about 90 per cent—are white, according to the survey "Highlights from 20 Years of Surveying Crime Victims", published in 1993.

Almost 1 million white Americans were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by black Americans in 1992, compared with about 132,000 blacks who were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by whites, according to the same survey.

Blacks thus committed 7.5 times more violent inter-racial crimes than whites even though the black population is only one-seventh the size of the white population. When these figures are adjusted on a per capita basis, they reveal an extraordinary disparity: blacks are committing more than 50 times the number of violent racial crimes of whites.

According to the latest annual report on murder by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, most inter-racial murders involve black assailants and white victims, with blacks murdering whites at 18 times the rate that whites murder blacks.
These breathtaking disparities began to emerge in the mid-1960's, when there was a sharp increase in black crime against whites, an upsurge which, not coincidentally, corresponds exactly with the beginning of the modern civil rights movement.

Over time, the cumulative effect has been staggering. Justice Department and FBI statistics indicate that between 1964 and 1994 more than 25 million violent inter-racial crimes were committed, overwhelmingly involving black offenders and white victims, and more than 45,000 people were killed in inter-racial murders. By comparisons 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam, and 34,000 were killed in the Korean war.

When non-violent crimes (burglary, larceny, car theft and personal theft) are included, the cumulative totals become prodigious. The Bureau of Justice Statistics says 27 million non-violent crimes were committed in the US in 1992, and the survey found that 31 per cent of the robberies involved black offenders and white victims (while only 2 per cent in the reverse).

When all the crime figures are calculated, it appears that black Americans have committed at least 170 million crimes against white Americans in the past 30 years. It is the great defining disaster of American life and American ideals since World War II.

All these are facts, yet by simply writing this story, by assembling the facts in this way, I would be deemed a racist by the American news media. It prefers to maintain a paternalistic double-standard in its coverage of black America, a lower standard.

While African Americans comprise 12% of the U.S. population, 45% of all murder victims in 2002 were African American, 91% of whom were killed by African Americans. Nationally, homicide is the leading cause of death for black men and second leading cause of death for black women ages 15-24. There have been over 250 homicides reported over the last 5-6 years in Pulaski County. United States spends an average of over $4.5 billion on emergency and physical/occupational therapy associated with crime-related injuries/deaths.

While Blacks make up 13% of the US population, they commit approximately 50% of all rapes, attempted rapes, and sexual assaults in the United States.

Nearly 100% of all Black rape victims are raped by a Black.

Over one third of all White rape victims are raped by a Black. Over half of all White rape victims are raped by a non-White in general.

Another category dominated by Blacks is “Robbery with Injury.” Blacks committed a full two thirds of all robberies with an injury in cases where the race of the offender is

Now don't go confusing the issue with the truth there, Reality.

Everyone knows it was government agents in black helicopters that dropped leaflets infested with HIV in black neighborhoods. I understand they also personally spread open every black girl's legs and forced the brothers filthy hose inside.

Black people make up 12 percent of population but they represent 54 percent of the new AIDS cases in the US.

67% of new AIDS cases in females are black
42% of new AIDS cases in men are black
70% of new AIDS cases in youth (13-21) are black

Stay tuned for more interesting facts about Blacks. You need to be sure that you are sitting down when you read the Crime Statistics.

The only thing that's gonna start to heal the wounds is Love people. The facts of this case are not going away, and there will continue to be a parade of arguments and bad feelings that will multiply and corrupt our souls even more, unless we actively DO something to come together. Most of us just want to live together peacefully. We need to get to KNOW OUT NEIGHBORS. If we get to know one another we will begin to defend one another.
Let's start with an 'anti-protest'. I'm not naive enough to think it will end racism. But it will be something positive, in a world filled too much with hate. Let's raise enough money to put on a major picnic/BBQ for 10,000 people, and invite the people of Jena. We need to get together, black and white, Asian, Hispanic, and everyone else and everyone in between. No political speeches, and political agenda. Just the biggest neighborhood party, where we can talk about our lives, our kids, our passions. Love is the only way people.

This is a really tough issue. There shouldn't have been a white tree, period, unless there was also a black tree and a Hispanic tree and an Asian tree, etc. The kid shouldn't have had to ask permission to sit under the white tree. The tree was made by God, so he should ask God if some trees were made just for one race to enjoy. I think not.

Then, after the one kid threatened the others with a shotgun, that kid should have been arrested for threatening murder. Then, the fight might not have happened. If the kid who was stomped unconscious was hospitalized, as he should have been, then there will be records. If this happened, his parents could sue the attackers and/or their families. HOWEVER, there are so many unfair things that have happened in Jena. There is so much racism underscoring this attack (ON BOTH SIDES, BOTH BLACK AND WHITE are being racist and insisting that their sides are being victimized unfairly). This needs to be tried by a court of Asian and Hispanic people to be more impartial! And we need to just be free and fair for ALL OF GOD'S CHILDREN!!!

400 years....tell me what has changed in 400 years. The masters traded in their whips for gavels. The slaves traded their chains for Social Security numbers. And the nigger of modern day need not be black. This is a classic example of how far we have yet to go as a nation. The fact that this type of racism still exists in this "civilized" nation makes me ill. I am a mixed race man and when I can see my brothers being treated as if they are guilty until proven innocent in these sort of heated racial uprisings I start to go tanning more. I am ashamed of my skin color when I see this happen. My black great great grandmother suffered enough to survive. I thought we left this sort of garbage in the 1800's. My advice to my black brothers and sisters is to get out of the midwest and south. Those places are inherently flawed. Come out west. We treat each other much better. I and I will do everything I can to fight this injustice by showing respect to ALL people and ALL colors notwithstanding. What would JAH do?

to the girl with the name "A BLACK GURL"
nigga go learn how to spell.and 2nd, no one knew about it a year ago,and just because he cant fight still doesnt change anything!! you give people for lousiana a bad name.and im from la,but thank god i dont go to a high school with a bunch of stupied niggas like yourself!

Yeah, let's support teenage violence. Go Jena 6! Kick some ass!

Sorry for the typos below,
"White kid goes to a party with his friends" no kids.

Hey Frippy,
You need to chill and get your facts straight, you racist idiot!
1. Black kid asks principle if he can sit under the tree that only white kids hang out under. (just the fact that he had to ask for permission is messed up.
2. Next day, nooses are hanging from the tree.
3. Black kids protest and the DA comes and threatens the Black kids by saying "With the stroke of a pen, I could write your lives away".
4. One of the black kids gets invited to a party where he gets jumped by adult whites. No one received was sentenced in that.
5. White kid goes to a convenient store where a black kids are hanging out and starts a fight. White kid pulls out a shotgun and threatens black kids with it. Black kid wrestles the gun out of white kids hands and runs. Black kid get charged with stealing. White kid gets nothing not even assault with a deadly weapon,
6. Few days later more tension at school starts a fight in which a white kid get beat up this time by black kids. White kid is knocked out with a Minor concusion. White kid is hurt so bad that he goes out to a party that night with his kids.
Black kids get charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon (shoes), and are tried as adults.
* Now you tell me that there's not something going on down there. So next time you want to open your ignorant racist mouth, why don't you get your facts straight.
Oh by the way.
I'm white.

Hello!
I'm a mother with mixed-race children. I have seen them hurt by my own family and rejected by their father's family. I have seen them hurt by other children at school and encounters with ignorant teachers. I know that it is easier to be white, easier to get a loan, an education, a job, even easier just to get a ride somewhere. It's easier to go on vacation if you're white. Even poor whites have education to pass on to their children. I know that me, my children, their father, that we all have our own brands of internalized hatred for whatever we are. If we are white, we feel guilt, if we are black, we feel inferior, if we are hispanic, we feel hated. We're all just people.

Hello!
I'm sorry for the children who learned about hate from their parents and have been hurt. I'm sorry for the parents who were children once and hurt when they learned hate from their parents. I'm sorry for the cycle that keeps happening and I want to be a part of making a new cycle that includes forgiveness and love. I want all these young people, regardless of their color or the style of their clothes or whatever, to realize that they pain and fear and loneliness they feel sometimes is the same for every other young person. They have that in common. And they each, just like me, have wanted to be welcomed, befriended and safe. We can be that for each other, regardless of our pasts of pain, fear, loneliness and rejection. I want to be a part of that.

Reading through these comments breaks my heart. So much sorrow and turning away, so much pain and suffering being expressed. The common threads running through these comments are fear and separation. If one of us making comments said hello to all the others, if one of us was willing to reach inside and find kindness, how many of us would respond with kindness and how many of us would reject it? There actually are NO races among humans, we haven't been on the planet long enough to have separated into anything other than people with different colors and features and cultures and beliefs and different sized piles of money and privileges. It's not color or race, it's meanness that separates us. Who is willing to listen to the fears and hurts of the others and understand without defending? Who is willing to try kindness?

When black youth stop calling themselves "nigger" they will likely have greater political success. Personally I think black youth need to connect to AFRICA and get real with history and homeland. Africans come to USA and are appalled by nigger-this and nigger-that. So STOP the NBA/NFL greed addiction and get real about who you are. You MIGHT even do some good for your own people back home. HEY. I (white) send more MONEY to AFRICA than any black person I know, who just makes believe the place doesn't exist and instead, let me guess, great grand-daddy was born in the NBA/NFL. Is that it? Have I made my point?

FYI I have very little facts / complete picture of what happened. This is what I have of the incident.
1. white kids hang nooses on tree.
2. next day, fight, and Jena 6 give white teen a concussion.
3. Black people I know go to protest. They don't invite me (white). They do not inform me. They do not include me. The get all "sacred" and clannish and about it like a holy matter, however it is approached in basically a racist way and a part of me wonders if they want to bust my skull or sabotage me to get their revenge on society, since I am not included in their philosophy.
4. So next time you got a political movement, maybe you should invite some people outside of the black race and you wouldn't look so racist. And that's a FACT.
5. I am glad for the political action.

USA black youth are brainwashed by NBA and NFL, that much is certain. Regarding USA young black people, I have to endure the car stereos. I'm really sick of it, mobile aggression noise. The police do NOTHING regarding the noise intrusion into home and business and roadways. It is the new black emancipation! Well it must be necessary since it is happening. It is the power-hour for American black subculture. I completely agree that the excessive prison terms are completely perverse but this applies to non-violent drug offenders too. It would be A LOT BETTER if blacks could stand for social issues on their merit and STOP this OUT TO GET WHITEY BULL-SHITTISM. I have trouble with the Jena 6 issue because all these folks are righteously protesting over breaking a white kid's skull. And THAT's FUCKED UP. So be a man or a woman or adult and suck it up and stand for real issues and quit the race wars. And stop being FOOLS of the Greedy Medi-a. I am SO SICK of meeting 12-16 year old wannabee millionaires. The NFL/NBA/BUTT THROB MEDIA got you BRAINWASHED with UNWHOLESOME IDEAS. They CONTROL YOU, not ME. YOu're CANNON FODDER to them. Take care and locate REAL sources of WEALTH.

WOW...From the "comments" here it looks like racism is really alive and well in the good old USA. Of course what do I expect from uneducated ("Are you smarter than a 5th grader") white Americans whose only intelligent argument is "F You". May you racist morons be the first to the FEMA camps being prepared for your dumb asses.

What is wrong with you i dont owe you anything. You werent a slave dont know shit about your family and for shit dont know about mine. Your a racist. I do not owe you anything. My family has never had any slaves and even if they did do you know that is more than 130 years ago. Why are you asking for free shit. Nobody owes anybody in life. Im italian and follow the history books the first slave owners were black. what comes around goes around so fuck you.

that is the dumbest thing ive ever heard. Its so hard. To be black. We must overcome. WHAT YOURSELVES. YOU ONE IS AGAINST YOU. YOU CANT FIGURE IT OUT. PROPERTY VALUE DOWN NO SHIT. HIGHEST CRIME RATE YES. WHY YOU TELL ME WOULD I WANT TO LIVE NEAR YOU

its this simple. Enough, were all tired of the im black, racism speal. There are 43 races in America and the only one to bitch is the black race. Its simple perceveire, and quit asking for shit. I dont owe anybody a fuckin thing and ill kill someone who says otherwise. Get off your ass you already get jobs because your black taking them from everyone else what the fuck else do you want.

I just want to say that tiffany...You are amazing!!! Everything you said was write on point.You speak the truth,and you speak it well and I admire such compassion and intelligence.

~Stay strong

well you can sure tell that the ghetto asses are out looking at the post you can really tell whot the blacks are. when you black dumbasses dont respect yourselves why should anyone else. You call yourselves NIGGERS and yet no one else can while you hollar racist slurrs at the white race. You descrase the african americans in this country. It is your ghetto trash spilling out all over that makes us look bad and not respected. its time to put the slavery and color down hell the wagon is old roited and turned to ashes by now. You want equality then take equality in its entirty not when its convenant be a man and admit when your wrong and take the punishment.

"HOW ABOUT GET A JOB DUMBASS!"

"Nobody owes you anything Tyrone. Take the money you spent on the TV and buy your baby some furniture. Why is your mother raising your child? Black men especially must take responsibility for our actions. NO excuses"

AMEN! And how about taking the "ice" out of your mouth and the rims off your car, and putting it towards your child's college education?

"YOU Peckerwoods, don't know how hard it is in the HOOD!! MY MAMMA had to let my baby sleep in a wide screen TV BOX because food stamps for some reason that makes crackers laugh won't let BLACKS buy furniture for their baby!!!! HOW DO YOU EXPECT US TO LIVE!!!!!!!!CRACKER!"

Like I said; EXCUSES, EXCUSES

"Racism, injustice, and inequality exist and it's time for a change..."

Melissa, that's nice sweetheart, but let's also understand that change, like everything else, is an individual CHOICE. Before there is external revolution, there first must be internal EVOLUTION.

There are some people in this world who will NEVER get it because they insist on having a "victim mentality". "It's the White man's fault, it's the criminal justice system's fault, it's the government's fault, it's the President's fault, etc;" Rather than to take responsibility for their OWN actions.

If people continue to make the same choices they will continue to get the same results. No one has the right to take the law into their own hands...

Jena 6 should be tried, convicted and punished.

Ok this is to the lady who claims to have been a substitute teacher at Jena High in the past and to whoever feels that this is not an racists issue. What part don't you understand about the general attorney coming to the school posing a threat to the students that he can efeect their lives with the mark of a pen? That alone was a charge. Ok what part don't you understand about the ropes being hung in on a tree located on school grounds where there is only 10 percent of black students? Was this not considered as a terroristic threat or attempted murder? The whole issue about the student being disrespectful in a class where there is a substitute is so irrelevant it shouldn't have even came out of your mouth. Being the fact that it is not rare for students to be disrespectful to substitute teachers, in which I am pretty sure that this hapeens to you often, in fact you had to be at this school, the student happened to be a black one that was involved in this issue. If anything the white boys who hung the ropes up are very disrespectful, prejudice and most likely have very rude attitudes towards black people anyways. I am very sure that these students do not walk around the school silent and just so happened became bold enough to hang up some ropes symbolizing that that is what happens to people of color. I can just imagine the statements that have been made to alot of black students at this school or maybe to only some because they know that some will retaliate. Don't the government think that(well if they are really a government that cares for their community as a whole) that is the wrong atmosphere to play about hangings or to throw racist slures at people, don't they think some psychologicals needs to be done on these boys proving that this was an incident in where the JENA 6 boys got offended to where they could have really done some damage. These white boys I should say, tried to threaten them with ropes ahnging from a tree, a shot gun in which these boys defended theirselves, even took the gun to the police station where they were most likely there to file restraining orders, and the county charged them with theft. WHAT TYPE OF SHIT IS THAT? Ok excuse my language. That right there is when the police, legal authority, general attorney, whoever was suppose to become involved. Until this point no one outside of the school should have been involved. This is the key to the whole racism ordeal. I mean I beleive those students should have been expelled for hanging the ropes, sent off to alternative or incarcerated with probation or something because they had no right to even feel that they were the only ones obligated to sit under that tree. O.k. the JENA 6 kids have a past which hold them liable to be recognized as the students that do not put up with anything, they could have had ancestors from Jena that were treated very badly due to racism and fill fed up, while others are afraid to speak out, can't the kids get credit for going to the school staff and asking what was going on before they realized that something was wrong. Honestly, me, mysel and I.. I would have went and sat wherever THE HELL I wanted to and waited for someone to say something out of the way. Not being a bully but recognozing the TREE as a place of shade and the world being a free. The general attorney is way out of order but, you know I am done with this because it's not my place to judge anybody but just know that I am praying for their families, I hope that the families of Jena 6 are saved and I hope that they realize that They need to get out of that town there is shelters, Dept. of Family and Children Services for assisstance in every state, there is plenty of jobs, better schools WHER is your faith how can you stand being confined to one place where your children have been complaining about things. I know they have. How can you be so settled to where you feel that you have no other choice. I hope that the people that are in the wrong are calling theirselves saved too, because that will make them burn in HELL even longer, I don't wish bad upon anyone because it is sinful too but I do hope that they come to their senses before their time xpires. The lord made evrything.. Gave thepeople the strength to create the material things of this world, so know that you will get all of this blown up in your face, on your eagle of pride and have eternity to burn and think about what you are doing . OH LORD , the KU KLUX KLAN look at yourselves in the mirror, don't your spirit your skin your hair your ways look Drury or are convincing yourselves thatyou are a beautiful creation..HA!!! Get real!1 Juyst know that you don't have to care or you dont have to realize your wrongdoings now, just know that HE will reveal his works and his missions that you had in the life he had planned for you and you will get exactly what you asked for. Especially if you labeled the father of this universe to be as ill as you.. Ohhhh God bless there souls.. I really do feel your pain SIKE it's unimaginable LOL!! So another thing if any of these boys have to spend their lives behind bars because of this, Hopefully they will or have become at peace with the Lord Jesus Christ so that they can have a destiny to look forward too out of this fleshly world that these people believe revolves around one race.. How stupid can you get. And if the whole universe was made up of one race it would stink really bad... thanks I pray for everyone ,and I love everyone including the enem,ies because the LOrd will set a table for me before thine enemies where we will share laughs and wish that you were there to enjoy.. But only saved souls allowed....

IT IS SO FUNNY HOW BACK IN THE DAYS IT WAS K TO HANG A BLACK PERSON AND TREAT THEM LIKE DOGS WHEN YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT. SLAVES WERE THE ONE WHO HELPED YALL GET RICH AND SUPPORT YOUR FAMILY WITH A ROOF OVER YALL HEAD. I REALLY THINK THIS IS CRAZY AND PEOPLE WHO ARE RACIST ARE REALLY JUST SCARE OF WHAT THEY DO NOT KNOW.BECAUSE IF U DO NOT KNOW ME HOW CAN YOU HATE ME. BECAUSE OF MY SKIN COLOR?HOW I DRESS? HOW I WALK"? HOW I TALK? I THINK ITS SAD THAT PEOPLE JUST CANT RESPECT EACH OTHER AND DO SOMETHING FOR THEMSELVES. HAVE RESPECT FOR YOUR FAMILY AND OTHER PEOPLE BUT WHEN IT ALL COMES TO AN END AND WE WILL ALL DIE I WILL HOPE GOD WIILL HAVE MERCY ON MY SOUL AND THOSE WHO ARE RACIST. PEOPLE IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE..'" GROW UP" AND HAVE BETTER RESPECT FOR YOUR FAMILY NAME AND YOUR PEOPLE

IT IS SO FUNNY HOW BACK IN THE DAYS IT WAS K TO HANG A BLACK PERSON AND TREAT THEM LIKE DOGS WHEN YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT. SLAVES WERE THE ONE WHO HELPED YALL GET RICH AND SUPPORT YOUR FAMILY WITH A ROOF OVER YALL HEAD. I REALLY THINK THIS IS CRAZY AND PEOPLE WHO ARE RACIST ARE REALLY JUST SCARE OF WHAT THEY DO NOT KNOW.BECAUSE IF U DO NOT KNOW ME HOW CAN YOU HATE ME. BECAUSE OF MY SKIN COLOR?HOW I DRESS? HOW I WALK"? HOW I TALK? I THINK ITS SAD THAT PEOPLE JUST CANT RESPECT EACH OTHER AND DO SOMETHING FOR THEMSELVES. HAVE RESPECT FOR YOUR FAMILY AND OTHER PEOPLE BUT WHEN IT ALL COMES TO AN END AND WE WILL ALL DIE I WILL HOPE GOD WIILL HAVE MERCY ON MY SOUL AND THOSE WHO ARE RACIST. PEOPLE IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE..'" GROW UP" AND HAVE BETTER RESPECT FOR YOUR FAMILY NAME AND YOUR PEOPLE

JEFF,

The ignorant and hateful nature of those writing such comments as yours is apparent. Please realize that Blacks have been in this country since the beginning preceeded only by Native Americans. Most whites came here via Ellis Island in the 20th Century not through Jamestown and other ethnicities eventually followed (no one saying go back to Europe - most Whites can trace their country of origin). Please study American history and then you'll know whom to pay tribute to. Your Black forefathers. Their contributions can and will not be ignored!!!!!!

Additionally, try learning about Africa. It’s not a country its a continent full of different cultures, languages and people, including White people. There’s the Arab north, Sub Saharan Region, East African nations, South African region.... Asians, Indians, Whites, all call Africa home.

There is more than one boat leaving from the harbor and more than one jet from the airport. If you cant appreciate this nation and its people and the diversity thereof, then theres several means of transportation available to take you where you need to go.

Knowledge is power and easy to get. Books are a plenty.

To those who are offended by others marching for equal rights, the truth hurts. Stop complaining, face the facts, and join the fight!!!!!! Non racists dont get offended or insist on censorship when they witness racist unjust acts. They get compassionate. By taking offense youre making your inner thoughts transparent.

Jeff, youll be so much happier if you got rid of all of that hate it your heart. Just release it...