Given the biased racist nature of the DA, Michael Bell prior convictions cannot be held against him. Who knows the legitimacy of the prior convictions?

Justin Barker did not deserve to be jumped but please realize that he wasn’t innocent. He taunted the Black students for only God knows how long.

All of this talk about 6 to 1 is ridiculous. Do you really think that in such a racially charged town that other whites would just sit there and let a white get beat???? Views of this case are so distorted it’s a shame.

Those who don’t see the connection between the events (nooses, blacks getting beaten and threatened with riffles and Barker being jumped) please see http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/0. To those who dont understand why everyone is hurt and upset by the injustice that the Jena 6 faces are simply in denial of the fact that racism is alive in America; sometimes its covert and sometimes it’s overt. It’s time for a reality check. To those who are offended by others marching for equal rights, the truth hurts. Stop complaining, face the facts, and join the fight!!!!!!!!!

I can’t stand it when people pick and choose, only what’s convenient to them to make their point. Misdemeanor charges for the black youths, yes so they will not do it again, but what about the white youths slap on the wrist, and stop hanging those darn nooses on trees you crazy kids!! people might take your prank the wrong way..

My question is this after the Jena Six are set free… what next? Are we going to sit back revelling in our pious victory? Claiming that at least we won one! Because they will let us have our victory… if we will shut up and go calmly back into the night.

Look at the Imus situation… he’s coming back on the air (now that everything has blown over). And… besides they got M. Vick! No offense to the animal lovers out there but he did not personally kill any of the animals. He made a series of bad decisions and now he is paying for them. But what we are really saying is that a Black man’s life is worth less than a dog’s… come on people, anyone else would have gotten a fine for what he did. People kill dear, bears, rabbits, etc. and gut them and stuff them for entertainment. What’s the difference…

At first the national news media were playing down on the fact that blacks were mostly affected but when the international news media came in with the accurate stories..the national media started telling the true stories.

I believe America is a country living in self denial about its true self.

The Jena 6 affair is sure to cause some people agony on why this affair is generating so much tension. the national media will not be saying much…as usual but others will always be watching the acceptance of racist practices in the name of justice.

No wonder blacks form a disproportionate potion of the US prison population….answer is inbuilt racism endures in a lot of American people’s minds.

We are watching the Jena 6 affair unfold in a country that prides itself as a champion of human rights and democracy.

Both Zionism and Americanism are based upon the respective beliefs that Israel and America are “God’s Chosen People.” For Americans, this fundamentalist belief in American exceptionalism goes back centuries to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where John Winthrop articulated his belief that the first Anglo-American colonies represented a “City on a Hill” that had been uniquely chosen by God to create a holy community on earth.

This belief in America as a nation inspired by God would be used to justify the USA’s colonization of the entire North American continent, including the theft of not only Native Indian but also Mexican lands (i.e. the supposed “American” Southwest and California). Interestingly, this American concept of religious Manifest Destiny would be mirrored by the Zionists in the Middle East a century later.

Though Americans may deny it, this shared belief in the idea of being God’s select is one important cultural/religious bond that unites Israelis and Americans together–and partially helps to explain America’s sponsorship of the Zionist state.

In modern times, this same fundamentalist belief in America’s divine moral goodness has been reflected in Ronald Reagan’s concept of the USA as a “Shining City on a Hill” endowed with a similar divine goodness.

As was evidenced throughout the Cold War and now in the War on Terrorism era, Americans of ALL political strips–including self-styled Progressives and Liberals–deep down pledge allegiance to this messianic creed of America’s divine mission to “liberate” the world, whether in the name of God or Democracy and Freedom.

America is a nation of religious fundamentalists through and through. George W. Bush is only the symptom.

The Jena 6 incident is a good time for anyone that missed Selma AL and Montgomery AL protests to march into Jena, Louisanna on Sept. 20, 2008 and be part of today’s Civil Rights movement.

Rascism is all about insecurity. In whites. Whites have never been so insecure as they are now, thanks to Bush’ “War on Fake Terrorism”. I think that is why the colored people of America are seeing an increase in “officially sanctioned rascism” there.