"The Jena 6" Have you heard?

Howdy,

By now I'm hoping you've heard about the
fucked up situation in Jena, LA. In case you haven't:

http://revcom.us/a/095/free-jena-six-en.html
(the first in a series of articles in Revolution about
the Jena 6)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...LATE=DEFA ULT

The first of the Jena 6 to be convicted, Mychal Bell,
is scheduled to be sentenced on September 20th. I'm
trying to organize a contingent from this area to be
at the courthouse in Jena and stand against this.

Whatever your ideology maybe, and however vehemently you disagree with mine, we can all agree that this is an injustice. The charges against these 6 kids need to be dropped. They need to know in Jena, as well as in the rest of this country, that we will not stand for this blatant racism.

If you want to get involved, let me know. Message me, or email me (iamdoug2k@yahoo.com). And if you aren't in Texas, see if you can't organize something where you are. If you need help, I can give you a place to start.

-Purple

I got the above thing from a friend of mine on Myspace... Me an him and a few of our friends are acctually going to Jena LA, on the 20th to help the ppl... One of the links above is connected to the Revolutionary Communist party asking ppl to come to Jena and protest what is going on. It's wanted to be made clear that should anyone go out in protest you will not be associated with the RCP just for being there. Anyways I figured of all place's someone here might have something to say about this... I think its a bunch of Bullshit... I also have more information on this if you want to find out more you can contact me at www.myspace.com/thequeenofspades4386 ty for reading have a nice day

Ja

(sorry for double posting this... I posted it in the wrong place at first **ducks head** I know I'm a ditz)

Sounds like an article I posted a while back. Lemme find it.. Here

There are still some regions in the south that think they're living in the 60's. This shit honestly makes me sick. I think it's pretty cool that you and some friends are traveling there. I don't know what you can do to help besides protest, but good luck to you guys.

I'm sorry, but whether or not there were racial injustices in the past I do believe they deserve more stern treatment than a slap on the wrist. The opposite is the truth here ...I've seen black guys beat up white kids who were white supremacists, but that doesn't justify their method. What did they get? They didn't even get fucking detention because the white kid used the "n word".

White or black people should be punished for these things. Race shouldn't be an issue only stupidity. Sure, the symbolism of the nooses is horrible and the students should be punished for that, but that certainly does not justify assault and they should be punished. That guy wasn't just roughed up a little, he was savagely beaten. I've gone to a dance with a broken leg before and it didn't mean shit.

Agreed with Willkill.

The only injustice here is that those 6 black students are being glorified as heroes. All of this shit is just widening the gap between whites and blacks.

Did those students really think that attacking a white kid for being a racist would help anything at all? It just gives the white supremists even more to use against them, as they're doing right now, and they deserve what they are getting. People need to learn that violence is a LAST RESORT and not something you do because you feel you're justified, because most likely you AREN'T.

I will agree that there are many imbalances in our country as far as what opportunities the dominant groups have versus the subordinate groups(No, I'm not saying blacks are worse than whites, those are the actual terms used for the different social groups,) but people really need to learn how to handle it better than this. When someone dislikes/hates you, and you attack them for it, or retaliate in any way, you just make them dislike/hate you more. Fuel to the fire. It seems pretty obvious to me.

It all depends on the events after the nooses were hung. You have to agree that that in itself is a moral outrage. It is my understanding that there was a fight involving multiple persons from each party, yet only the "Jena 6" are being charged. I read that the main guy, Mychal Bell, is facing up to 22 years in prison. For assault. People get beat up everyday, why is this case so different? That is where the race card comes into play.

All that needs to be done is the charges lowered for all of the kids, give them all equal punishments for the fights. But who knows, there still may be more shit out there that we don't even know about, and of course the NAACP has to come in and stir up even more shit, so doesn't look like things are going to change any time soon.

The more people join one side or the other, the bigger the fight gets. Give all of the black kids and all of the white kids the same damn charges and tell everyone to STFU, especially that asshat Sharpton.