Peach Pit Propaganda

Jena 6: Is this the start of the 21^st centuries Civil Rights Movement?

  “Six black kids indicted as adults for attempted murder, and the weapons charged in the indictment is their sneakers, this is the most blatant example of disparity in the justice system that we’ve seen,” Sharpton said Thursday. “You can’t have two standards of justice. We didn’t bring race in it, those that hung the nooses brought the race into it.”

As you read the caption above, what kind of emotions does it stir within? I mean seriously you have kids being kids, but they so happen to live in a small and clearly un-diversified town where kids think it’s okay to treat other kids w/ such anger, contempt and disrespect. But where do these emotions stem from? Clearly we have to look to the parents of these children. The parents of the white kids who hung the nooses, who beat up the Black kid and made other threats are seemingly rewarded for their behavior while the town officials go after the Black kids for defending themselves against the societal constraints that they have been placed in @ their place of education. While I am aware that nothing in life is really FAIR this is BULL SHIT!!!!! Where is the justice that our government assures us will exist. Where is the protection from the discrimination that these kids underwent because the “TREE” is only for white kids to sit under? I am outraged by the lack of compassion and the lack of concern the system in Jena operates under. Why was there nothing done to rectify this situation from whence it started? Why did the principal not see fit to intervene when the Black students came to inquire whether or not it was okay for them to sit under this tree? Why didn’t an alarm go off saying I should further investigate this situation to make sure it does turn ugly…I guess that would have been too much to ask, right?

 He said he didn’t prosecute the students accused of hanging the nooses because he could find no Louisiana law under which they could be charged. “I cannot overemphasize what a villainous act that was. The people that did it should be ashamed of what they unleashed on this town,” Walters said.

 So, clearly there is probably not a law or a charge to prosecute someone by way of nooses. But was that not a silent threat? Can we not see further into the act and read into what it symbolizes? This was a death threat, right? I terrorist attack even…but while there was nothing found to charge the white kids with under Louisiana law it was shrugged off as no big deal. But is that because white society is so desensitized by such acts that it’s become something like second nature for them to see and even act out this way…? I wonder…

“This case has been portrayed by the news media as being about race,” he said. “And the fact that it takes place in a small southern town lends itself to that portrayal. But it is not and never has been about race. It is about finding justice for an innocent victim and holding people accountable for their actions.”

I have to agree with this statement because the issue has been made about race—while that is probably the reason for which the acts occurred. The problem comes from the social injustices that were created when the White kids acted out the same way the Black kids did but only the Black kids were punished. Come on isn’t enough that as Blacks we have the highest arrest rates, due to the fact that the so-called justice system is finding/search and hell even creating reasons to pull us over, stop us, harass us for no reason and due to a lack of evidence the convictions are overturned—thrown out…but whites, they have the highest conviction rates. Now why is that? Just think about it…

Bell, 16 at the time of the attack, is the only one of the “Jena Six” to be tried so far. He was convicted on an aggravated second-degree battery count that could have sent him to prison for 15 years, but the conviction was overturned last week when a state appeals court said he should not have been tried as an adult.

 These kids are missing out on the things that they are supposed to be experiencing in their adolescent life. Having a crush, dating, hanging out with friends, enjoying their high school careers, all because the “justice” system in their social arena is hypocritical…all because they’ve decided that they are going to make an example out of these Black kids for whatever reason and it’s WRONG!!!! It’s flat out WRONG!!!! I wear Black and I stand in solemn protest w/ all those out in the world who are showing their support for Jena 6!

Here’s a picture video I found on the topic…