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dont beat people?
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this is about 6 boys being thrown in jail for sticking up for what they believe look up jena 6 on you tube
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I think it's crap. All of those people deserve some kind of punishment, but the Jena 6 need a lot of help and support.
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I think it was wrong for them to beat him up so badly...but its ridiculous on how it was made out to be. It was a school yard fight and they happen everyday. They were racially wrong basically. There was other stuff that went down and you dont see them doing that to the white kids, because if I recall the boy had started the whole thing.
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ya ok this boy called the jena 6 Nigga who the hell would say that
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The kid who put the noose and said racist things, yes, that was uncalled for and highly disrespectful... But if you look at it from a legal standpoint, he did nothing illegal. That's the beauty of free speach.. But what the Jena 6 did, which was beat up the one kid in an unfair fight, was assault and very violent.
And the white kid "stood up for what he believed in" too, but he did nothing illegal. The 6 should obviously be punished. It's unfair for them not too. That is why we have the laws in place. We can't let them go on account of them feeling "discriminated against".
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Quote: from NatalieMejia at 9:31 am on June 24, 2008
this is about 6 boys being thrown in jail for sticking up for what they believe look up jena 6 on you tube
so that's what they call it these days when you have a racist gang of thugs attack someone 6 on 1 on the basis of that persons race...
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The kid who put the noose and said racist things, yes, that was uncalled for and highly disrespectful... But if you look at it from a legal standpoint, he did nothing illegal. That's the beauty of free speach.. But what the Jena 6 did, which was beat up the one kid in an unfair fight, was assault and very violent.
And the white kid "stood up for what he believed in" too, but he did nothing illegal. The 6 should obviously be punished. It's unfair for them not too. That is why we have the laws in place. We can't let them go on account of them feeling "discriminated against".
Those six bastards deserve to have the full brunt of hate crime legislation dropped down on them, especially the one with the prior record.
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Those six bastards deserve to have the full brunt of hate crime legislation dropped down on them, especially the one with the prior record.
Agreed.
Has the case been settled yet? I haven't heard anything about it in a long while but my interest has been sparked again... Hm, off to go investigate.
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The kid who put the noose and said racist things, yes, that was uncalled for and highly disrespectful... But if you look at it from a legal standpoint, he did nothing illegal. That's the beauty of free speach.. But what the Jena 6 did, which was beat up the one kid in an unfair fight, was assault and very violent.
And the white kid "stood up for what he believed in" too, but he did nothing illegal. The 6 should obviously be punished. It's unfair for them not too. That is why we have the laws in place. We can't let them go on account of them feeling "discriminated against".
Those six bastards deserve to have the full brunt of hate crime legislation dropped down on them, especially the one with the prior record.
why did the punishment have to be so harsh. People get jumped all the time but that town has a history of major racism. There sentence was only that way because they did that added onto the fact that they were black. There was a hate crime that happened earlier and those white students only got 3 day suspensions and satuday detentions. We fight a white boy and get trials and sentences and all that. Im not justifying them at all because that was an unfair fight...but they had everything working against them in that town. Do they really need to be tried like that? Everything happens for a reason...ask your self why did they feel the need to fight him like that? And the boy wasnt too sick and hurt...he went to a ring ceremony later THAT NIGHT! They didnt hurt him too bad.
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Ah, I remember this story. I didn't think it was fair. This may not sound fair but I think that the white guy shouldve been beaten up. Putting nooses on tress..thats horrible. He obviously didn't think that this story would become controversial and he obviously didn't know the treacherous history of the them. I'm not trying to sound biased because of the race and the situation with the slave history and all. Nooses signify death, as in his perspective "if you sit but this tree we're going to hang you".. I think they had every right to beat him up, but I don't think they should have ganged up on ONE guy.
So here is my conclusion: Both should have gone to jail
The white guy for discrimination and yes, I'm going to say for threatening people. (And assault)
The six black guys , battery but give them some type of chance I mean again I think they had every right to beat him up but not gang up on him.
Done.
Post edited at 7:00 pm on June 27, 2008 by Autumndaze
You don't get the life sentence for beating some kid up.
Assault > Murder
Thats fucking racism at its finest. From a legal standpoint, the Jena 6 may not have picked the best decision. But hate speech is unacceptable and hanging a noose from a tree is indictive of a violent threat, especially in the context of African Americana. From a moral standpoint, the fucker who was beaten up fully deserved it. Racism is a sensitive issue and this can be surmised as a crime of passion if taken to the courts.
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