Comments on: Jena 6 update: The NAACP finally gets involved, the good old boys have some fun, and whites in Jena say “we’re not like that, that’s them people over there” yadda yadda…

By: Scholars and Rogues » Jena reporting - sound and fury signifying…what?

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:40:36 +0000

[...] folks” the citizens of Jena/LaSalle Parish/Louisiana are – sometimes to the point of ignoring some of their more questionable actions. The most profound realization coming out of those two conversations was how utterly differently [...]

By: Scholars and Rogues » Jena for cave people…and the empire strikes back

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:45:29 +0000

[...] more and more attention has been cast on the town and its somewhat retro approach to race and justice, we’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon. Whether in the form of concerted attacks by people [...]

By: Scholars & Rogues » This just in: Jena school administrators not so keen on 1st amendment…

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:54:11 +0000

[...] at S&R, the case of the students known now as the Jena 6 has revealed a pattern of racism and repression towards the small minority of blacks in this central Louisiana town. There has clearly been a dual [...]

By: me

me — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:58:56 +0000

I am just curious – why is it wrong to prosecute the Jena 6 for beating someone unconsious? i am not in the US, so please tell me what is the big deal?

I know that the white kids hung nooses, and that is wrong and they should be punished for vandalism and threats. but why should violence go unnoticed

By: Nooses: they’re not just for Jena anymore…. « Scholars and Rogues

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:33:08 +0000

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By: Nix C

Nix C — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:58:25 +0000

i think that we need justice to be served the rigtht way and that if it is not served the right than all that our ancestors and Dr. King faught for is becoming non existant. We have to remember that everyday that we walk out of our houses as a Black man or Woman we have a heavy burden on our shoulders to just be seen as real men and women in this country lets try and stop hate with each other and start appreciating each other just because we all go through the same struggle no matter how rich or poor your are or color

By: sunshine

sunshine — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:32:14 +0000

bigg timm you are right when one black person get into trouble every black person is lable. I am up set and it needs to stop, i considrer myself brown so is my 2 brown girls my brown husband and the rest of my family, so stop calling me black , i love who i am will noy change it for the world, what happen to those six young man is worng and they need to let the school deal with it. hats off for the naacp for comming to there rescue they will try jail then for life. racist are still going on but not in my home.

By: thenewg

thenewg — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:36:20 +0000

True, Breath, black people Do do this, fend of assistance from white, whom they view as the ‘perpetual’ enemy. They’ve appropriated the N-word AND Martin Luther King, pissing all over what he really stood for: UNITY

By: bigg timm

bigg timm — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:08:29 +0000

personally , i dont believe that ALL white people are racist; …. i dont believe that all white people want to be racist either . they judge us now adays based upon how we treat each other .not all black people are vulger and violent . the media wants society to see all black people as evil doers and thieves.we love hard just like every other race …..when we do make our mistakes; our entire race has to pay for it in one way or another……sad

By: Breah

Breah — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:22:24 +0000

I agree with NAACP, and supporting blacks. But when a white person wants to get involved don’t make them feel like they aren’t welcomed there. And when things like with the Jean 6 boys, don’t consider all white people racist. Grow up.

By: The Overruling Factor of ‘Culture’ in American Society (a foreigner

The Overruling Factor of ‘Culture’ in American Society (a foreigner — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:07:57 +0000

[...] professor that life would be difficult for me because of my color, he immediately labeled me a trouble maker because of my research. Aside from the code used to identify outsides and the social code of [...]

By: The Overruling Factor of Culture in American Society (a foreigner

The Overruling Factor of Culture in American Society (a foreigner — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:06:16 +0000

By: thenewg

thenewg — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:18:38 +0000

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By: Societal Code « Plantation Life

Societal Code « Plantation Life — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:16:52 +0000

[...] , jena 6 , good ole boys I read this with interest in keeping tabs with the Jena 6 issue:Jena 6 update: The NAACP finally gets involved, the good old boys have some fun, and whites in Jena …What I find interesting is that these men are not from Jena

By: acote001

acote001 — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:22:45 +0000

This is a typical example of reverse racism. Was it wrong to hang nooses from the tree, absolutely. Should those students responsible for hanging those nooses be punished, absolutely and they were. Now to say that 6 black students jumping a white student and kicking him in the face is ok, that is wrong. If it were the opposite, if 6 white students jumped a black student than the NAACP, rev. Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton would have had a 10,000 black people protesting a hate crime, but because it was black on white and the students responsible are being punished appropriately the black students are being treated “unfairly”. Enough is enough, black, white, or purple, 15 or 50 when you jump someone 6 to 1 and you kick them in the face while they are on the ground regardless of the injuries inflicted they should be punished to the full extent of the law. Stop using racism as a blanket to protect black people from being prosecuted from doing things that are clearly wrong.

By: joseph young

joseph young — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:37:00 +0000

An Open Letter To The Jena Six
By Joseph Young
Washington Informer
Dear Mychal,
I keep thinking about you. I also think about the other young men who have fallen prey to racial hatred. Its existence, more than a century after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, makes me fearful for your life, your safety. The freedom that it promised was tenuous.
It was not entirely without strength. In the proclamation, issued three years into the Civil War, Lincoln declared, at the urging of Frederick Douglass, that the former slaves would be accepted into the Union Army and navy, making the liberated the liberator. By the war

By: Sam King

Sam King — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:22:00 +0000

This is an amazing situation for 2007. It has been my experience in cases like this that one side of the story gets told and the other is glossed over or ignored, see the Duke rape case or several of the supposed American atrocities in Iraq as an example. I cannot imagine what could be said on the school board side of this mess, but if anyone has a reasonable explanation for their actions, we would all like to hear it.

By: friendsofjustice

friendsofjustice — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:50:52 +0000

If folks want to get involved with the Jena 6, they can donate to the Friends of Justice, the grassroots organization that brought international publicity onto this travesty. Our website is http://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com
There are links to our donation page on the blog or on the “Get Involved” page.
Thanks! Lydia Bean at friendsofjustice

By: Villager

Villager — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:05:09 +0000

This is my first visit to your blog. I was drawn by your writings on the Jena Six affair. Actually, I wasn’t aware of the NAACP involvement until seeing your post in cyberspace.

Anyhow, I hope that all of us with blogs take a moment to update our readers on the injustice taking place with the young people known as the Jena Six.

peace, Villager

By: Sam Smith

Sam Smith — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:47:57 +0000

Obviously we’ll never know what Marlette would have thought about all this, including your post, but what was always striking about the strip was its humanity. Those who don’t know the South often try and reduce it to The Dukes of Hazzard and the worst of Montgomery during the Civil Rights Movement, and unfortunately a lot of our fellow Southerners make it easy on them.

I’ve been saying lately that there are two ways to stamp out bad stereotypes. First, don’t spread them. Second, don’t reinforce them through your actions.

I think Marlette got this. A lot of folks don’t.