The Jena 6

Unfortunately racism is still around. I don't think it will ever go away, but what happened with the Jena 6 is something that shocked me. I live in the northern U.S. and that stuff would never happen without an appropriate punishment for the white kids who hung the nooses in the first place. They got 3 days suspension, please. Like that thought them a lesson. And the Barker kid who got beaten up deserved it, and he was out of the hospital within 2 hours, and I don't see how that justifies kids getting locked up and charged with attempted murder. The punishment the Jena 6 are getting is because of their skin color, no doubt about it. Unfortunately though most of the protesters are black themselves, which is making the bigots do their "OMG black people complain so much and blow everything out of proportion" thing... I wish more white people were participating in the protest. I would myself if I could get out of school for it. Anyway I haven't seen the Dr. Phil episodes but I have them saved on my DVR.

Yes, racism is alive and well in the US. As long as we have people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the NAACP keeping it alive then there will be racism. Of course, racism is what keeps them in business.... so they have to keep it alive. Jena was a local problem until the race-mongers arrived and blew it into the national travesty that it now is. If the blacks cared so much, why did they not serve on the jury when they were called to? Why wasn't more done for those defendants before this story broke, and why did the press not be sure of the facts before they reported an inaccurate story? While racism is still around, in Jena's case the story was bigger than the facts were. Race was not the issue that the press and Sharpton and friends made it out to be.

I think it is still around and I am appalled that this is still around. I just don't understand how some people can think that they are better than others. It just gets me sick everytime I see a person looking down at another person. I think that these people have some deep emotional problems and just have fun making fun at other people and looking down at them. But it's funny because if you look down upond others you never know if in the future your going to need one of these people for something. So as the old saying goes do unto others as you would like them to do unto you. Or something like that but you guys get the point.

I know first hand racism is still alive and kicking, especially in the south and very much so in Louisiana! We were pulled over several times driving through there, and each time we were given a hard time, had the car searched twice (of course they found nothing) but it always got pretty bad when they looked at my man's DL. His name is James Leslie Jackson, he looks just like his mother - her parents were born in mexico and came her before she was born - and when he opens his mouth he sounds like a country boy all the way! So we always were accused of him having a fake ID, he stole it from someone, his name couldn't be Jackson, etc. I've seen it many a time as well. I'd be driving along, speeding slightly with three or four other cars, a cop would cruise up and pull over the black driver, or the mexican one, or just let us all go if we were all "white" you could always tell that's what they were doing. So when I heard about the Jena 6, having been through that part of Louisiana before, I knew the whole event was true, that it had it's basis in racism and I feel so terrible for those people involved it makes me sick to think of it! If you think that's bad, look up stuff on Vidor, TX. I myself am only about 1/4 hispanic in heritage, but it is yet another place I WILL NOT GO TO! I won't drive through it, and go around it everytime I have to take I-10 out that way towards Louisiana. Yup, racism is still alive, even though it may not seem as bad as it once was, I think it will always, sadly, be a part of our world.