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Post subject: Racism in Jena Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:05 am |
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anyway I know that some of you all have already heard this story so now I'm just here to ask you questions and for those of u who don't know the story here is the link:
[url]http://media.www.dailynebraskan.com/media/storage/paper857/news/2007/08/23/Opinion/Hall-Jena.La.Highlights.ModernDay.Racism-2934673.shtml?refsource=collegeheadlines[\url]
here are the questions:
What will you have done differently?
I think this should have been taken to a higher court. If you ask me it kinda stupid that you would go to a local court with an all white jury.
What do u think needs to be done?
I think that this anti-racism thing needs more support. I think that all the students need to be given a fair trial.
How do you feel about this?
I feel very angry about this. I feel angry that such a thing as racism still exist. But looking at the racial history of this country, not just the south but the whole country, I can't say that I'm surprised.
Where do you stand in this?
I can't really say. But I think at this point my favor is for the black students.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:50 am |
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JENA!
i heard about it on the radio abotu a week ago and couldn't believe it.
This is the kind of shit i try to get ppl to see. My friend will swear up and down that race relations in the US have improved and all that kind of bullshit when stuff like this happens every single Farking day, it just just buried under the carpet somewhere. Finally someones talking about this kind of injustice i hope the NAACP can do something about it the ppl up here are talking about boycotting products from Louisiana and while its a start i don't think it will help in time and it certain won't undo the damage done to those kids futures.
ARG! just hearing about this kinda stuff pisses me off. Starts making me wish black people would quit dicking around and realize the kind of situation we live in....and realize that shit like this wouldn't happen as much if stood together and did something about it instead of focusing our attention on shit like gangs and drugs and trying to get by........
Im gonna stop now cause im already entering a rant that could likely fill several pages but if your against this kind of shit and live in the US the least you could do is also boycott products from Louisiana i'll post a list of the stuff later......make you just want to say **** the system and start blowing shit up cause at least then they'd hear you
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:57 am |
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Racism will never, ever die. Don't fool yourselves.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:11 am |
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thats a stupid thing to say...the belief that racism can and will never end is what gives ppl the excuse to turn the other way when they see it front of them.....it lets them say "it would've happened anyway and i can;t make a difference"....i don't like ppl who look for outs like that its cheap.....i don't expect racism to disappear overnight but ppl seem to think that racism existed since the dawn of time or something....it wasn't really so widely accepted until about the 1400's and if someone can start it then someone else can finish it....eventually all the races will mix anyway and with everyone sharing the same heritage there'd be no one to hate...at least based on race ppl always seem need something to hate but thats a bridge that won't be crossed in this millennium or the next
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:22 am |
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Reise wrote: Racism will never, ever die. Don't fool yourselves.
+1
and lol @ racism practiced by the greeks, and the persecution of jews before 1400. But the victims weren't black, so I guess it doesn't matter anymore.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:24 am |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:26 am |
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dom wrote: Reise wrote: Racism will never, ever die. Don't fool yourselves. +1 and lol @ racism practiced by the greeks, and the persecution of jews before 1400. But the victims weren't black, so I guess it doesn't matter anymore.
I + this matter
Racism will never really die in this world.Even if it may seem that there is a time when the world is at peace there will alway's be that one group that won't like something. Could be anything gay's,race,religion.
Racism will never 100% be gone . But if people really set there mind's to it it could atleast reach a point in where most of earth population won't even care of stuff that seperate us from each other no more.
But hey that's just my opinion
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:28 am |
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1400 is nearing the end of the darkages and the start of humanism, you picked a wrong year to use as an example.
"Racism being widely accepted", in the sense you're thinking, only happened near the start of the darkages. And to clarify, it wasn't the acceptance of racism, it was the white christians becoming the prosecutors instead of the prosecuted.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:41 am |
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Give me an example of racism being used by the greeks who traded and shared recieved most of their knowledge from the Arabs
and Judaism isn't a race its religion...ppl don't choose their race when they're born and even if they did races don't inherently have grudges against other races....religion conflicts with other religions especially Christianity
and i should've said 1400-1700 depending on where from lived
Don't feed me this bullshit about about prosecutors becoming prosecuted how do you go from Black Queens in France married to the WHITE king of france at the time to saying black ppl are sub-humans....christians have been persecuting ever single religions or group that defies their beliefs as soon as they gained the upperhand....I dunno what kind of history you read dom but from the way i learned it the Crusades were started by christians and you can't tell me they were the victims so take your pseudo-historic bullshit and shove it somewhere.
dom wrote: But the victims weren't black, so I guess it doesn't matter anymore.
Thats the one thing you said that pisses me off the most...your so smart when it comes to history and politics and you let this prejudice BS out of your mouth. Those are the kinds of things ppl say when affirmative action comes into play....in my book your no better than the ppl convicting those boy on that jury
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:47 am |
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Reise wrote: Racism will never, ever die. Don't fool yourselves.
Yes, it will, its just a matter of time untill where all some hybrid mix of Chinese and Indian 
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:13 am |
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XemnasXD wrote: Give me an example of racism being used by the greeks...
The word "barbarian" comes from the way Greeks would mock Persian speech by saying "bar bar bar". Similar to the way some comedians today mock asian speech by saying "ching chong". The Greeks (during the "Golden Age" before and after Pericles) felt pretty strongly that non-Greeks were uncultured animals.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:14 am |
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Dystopia wrote: Reise wrote: Racism will never, ever die. Don't fool yourselves. Yes, it will, its just a matter of time untill where all some hybrid mix of Chinese and Indian 
Believe me, people will always find something to hate.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:36 am |
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Yeah, but that would be different. If everyone were the same race none would be racist, i believe your thinking of different types of discrimination such as classicism, sexism, ageism, xenophobia, or religious intolerance..
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:42 am |
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Dystopia wrote: Reise wrote: Racism will never, ever die. Don't fool yourselves. Yes, it will, its just a matter of time untill where all some hybrid mix of Chinese and Indian 
As long as there's a WHITE world leader, blacks will never get supported. Oh sure, if there's a black leader racism won't stop. But at least he'd have something to do with his time.
And yeah @ Reise, racism will never die. As long as there are 2 different colored people and one is better off, there will be racism.
All boils down to jealousy, or small mindedness.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:39 am |
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yea, i read this a week ago, pissed me off so much. i wanted to go down there n rip their ..... spines out. holy shit, got me so pissed, can't even say how much.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:55 am |
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Dystopia wrote: Yeah, but that would be different. If everyone were the same race none would be racist, i believe your thinking of different types of discrimination such as classicism, sexism, ageism, xenophobia, or religious intolerance..
No, I'm talking about racism. Think of what you're saying. Humanity won't exist long enough to interbreed so much that it becomes one singular race.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:15 am |
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you lack faith in humanity reise.....ppl are trained to hate they're not born with it so it can be stopped eventually...
@non ego man
alot of civilization thought that all others were crap compared to theirs its not an uncommon thing and as far as the barbar thing
Wikipedia wrote: The word "Barbarian" comes into English from Medieval Latin barbarinus, from Latin barbaria, from Latin barbarus, from the ancient Greek word βάρβαρος (Bárbaros) which meant a non-Greek, someone whose (first) language was not Greek. The word is onomatopeic, the bar-bar representing the impression of random hubbub produced by hearing a spoken language that one cannot understand, similar to blah blah, babble or rhubarb in modern English. Related imitative forms are found in other Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit barbara-, "stammering" or "curly-haired".
Originally the term was empty of content beyond 'not Greek'. The Greeks encountered scores of different foreign cultures, including the Thracians, Egyptians, Persians, Indians, Celts, Germans, Phoenicians, Etruscans, Romans, and Carthaginians. These cultures varied widely, but all were termed 'barbarians'. It was not the case that Greeks automatically despised all alien cultures. Plato (Statesman 262de) rejected the Greek–barbarian dichotomy as a logical absurdity on just such grounds: dividing the world into Greeks and non-Greeks told one nothing about the second group.
your both right and wrong.....according to this saying bar bar would be more equivalent to ppl saying "Blah blah blah"
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:18 am |
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XemnasXD wrote: you lack faith in humanity reise.....ppl are trained to hate they're not born with it so it can be stopped eventually...
No he is using common sense.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:20 am |
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Crumpets wrote: XemnasXD wrote: you lack faith in humanity reise.....ppl are trained to hate they're not born with it so it can be stopped eventually...
No he is using common sense.
explain whats common sense about believing racism will never die and that humanity would kill itself off before we had the chance to mix.....maybe common sense to you but to me he just sounds like a cynic who is bitter to a world and life he largely hasn't experienced yet....19 years old and already claiming to have given up hope on such things how much experience with them could he actually have had
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:27 am |
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XemnasXD wrote:
explain whats common sense about believing racism will never die and that humanity would kill itself off before we had the chance to mix.....maybe common sense to you but to me he just sounds like a cynic who is bitter to a world and life he largely hasn't experienced yet....19 years old and already claiming to have given up hope on such things how much experience with them could he actually have had
Allright I'm not a racist, that's for sure. And I doubt Resie is too. But we both know there are alot of powerfull racists. Also there are alot of jealous retards who will always resort to racism to 'equal' things out.
Unless everyone becomes 1 color and 1 religon there will always be hate.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:35 am |
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Crumpets wrote: XemnasXD wrote:
explain whats common sense about believing racism will never die and that humanity would kill itself off before we had the chance to mix.....maybe common sense to you but to me he just sounds like a cynic who is bitter to a world and life he largely hasn't experienced yet....19 years old and already claiming to have given up hope on such things how much experience with them could he actually have had
Allright I'm not a racist, that's for sure. And I doubt Resie is too. But we both know there are alot of powerfull racists. Also there are alot of jealous retards who will always resort to racism to 'equal' things out. Unless everyone becomes 1 color and 1 religon there will always be hate.
there was a time in the world when your religion and your race didn't cause others to lash out at you...all im saying is that if it once was it can be again and i don't think im being naive in thinking this i realize its not an over night thing and alot will have to change but eventually its the road we have to end up down or humanity will end up repeating itself and tearing each other apart
BTW i retract what i said about reise's age having anything to do with his views ppl have opinions and age doesn't make them any more right or wrong in alot of cases....
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:41 am |
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XemnasXD wrote: there was a time in the world when your religion and your race didn't cause others to lash out at you...all im saying is that if it once was it can be again and i don't think im being naive in thinking this i realize its not an over night thing and alot will have to change but eventually its the road we have to end up down or humanity will end up repeating itself and tearing each other apart
BTW i retract what i said about reise's age having anything to do with his views people have opinions and age doesn't make them any more right or wrong in a lot of cases....
Oh I agree, way back when no one cared. Cause then it was simply rich and poor. But nowadays people are quite small minded.
I'm totally open minded. I'll it next to the fat white chick in the bus, the ugly black guy , the smelly mexican. Why ? Cuase I don't give a **** about anyone. Yet I see other peopel avoiding certain races like they had some sort of touch sensitive sickness. It's disgracefull, but it's 2007.
Oh that smelly mexican, ugly black guy, fat white chick ... is just to make my story more visuable.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:54 am |
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Im gonna watch this when I come home so we can engage in debate 
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:18 pm |
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MrFudge wrote: if you don't know anything about the Jena 6, watch this: summary starts at 1:25http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za4B4KhIVTE
And what is that supposed to mean? Have you actually heard what the WHITES did to the BLACKS? Incidents involve a WHITE student pulling out a pistol and pointing it at the BLACK student at a convient store over NOTHING!!!! So what was the BLACK student supposed to do? It was either wrestle the gun away or be killed. What would you have done. So after the incident the BLACK student gets charged on 3 charges including theft of a firearm, second-degree robbery and disturbing the peace while that WHITE student doesn't get any charges. What that all about?! Get your facts straight, honey.
@dom and Reise:
I agree with you both, America will never be free of racism. I mean if you look at the racial history of this country you will see it very clearly! Racism, at Native Americans, Racism at Africans, Racism at African Americans, Rasicm at Asians, Racism at Arabs.......I mean when will it ever go away. I think that America is 1 of the most racist countries of ALL TIMES.
and will any1 take the time to answer my questions?
and for ppl like fudge who don't understand the situation here is the full story.
The "white tree"
At Jena High School, students of different races customarily seldom sat together. Black students traditionally sat on bleachers near the auditorium, while white students sat under a large shade tree, referred to as the "white tree," in the center of the school courtyard.[1]
During a school assembly on August 31, 2006, a black male freshman student asked permission from the principal to sit in the shade of the "white tree."[2] According to the recounting of events given by U.S. Attorney Donald Washington, the question was posed in a "jocular fashion."[3] The principal told the students they could "sit wherever they wanted."[2]
The following morning, three nooses were discovered hanging from the tree. Anthony Jackson, one of two black teachers at the high school, recalled, "I jokingly said to another teacher, 'One's for you, one's for me. Who's the other one for?'" Jena's principal learned that three white students were responsible and recommended expulsion. The board of education overruled his recommendation, to which Superintendent Roy Breithaupt agreed. The punishment was reduced to three days of in-school suspension.[1][4] The school superintendent was quoted as saying, "Adolescents play pranks. I don't think it was a threat against anybody."[5] Black residents of Jena claim that this decision stoked racial tensions that led to subsequent events.[4] The school district and parents who were aware of the incident did not report it to the police or any legal authority, though such incidents may be prosecuted as federal hate crimes by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[3]
District Attorney Reed Walters and the "pen statement"
Accounts differ as to what happened afterward. According to some accounts, on September 5, a number of black students organized a peaceful sit-in under the white tree in response to the commuted punishment of the perpetrators. The protest was then dispersed by police.[6][7] U.S. Attorney Washington, speaking in July 2007, stated he could find no confirmation of this protest occurring. He could confirm that police were called to the school several times in the days after the noose incident in response to a rash of interracial fights between students.[3]
The principal called an impromptu assembly on September 6, in which students segregated themselves into white and black sections. The Jena Police Department asked LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters to attend and speak at the assembly. Walters was unhappy with the request because he was busy preparing for a case and, upon arrival, felt that the students were not paying proper attention to him.[3] Walters is alleged to have threatened the protesters if they didn't stop fussing over an "innocent prank" and to have stated, "See this pen? I can end your lives with the stroke of a pen." Black students state that Walters looked specifically at members of the black audience as he said this. Walters and school board member Billy Fowler, also present, deny that the comments were specifically directed at black students.[1] Nevertheless, police began patrolling the halls of Jena High on September 7, and the school was declared to be in total lockdown the day after.[8]
On September 10, several dozen black students attempted to address the school board concerning the recent events but were refused because the board was of the opinion that "the noose issue" had been adequately resolved.[9] Racial tensions and fights continued through the fall but were held in check by the ongoing football season. The high school team was doing unusually well, in large part due to efforts of several star black players, and students were unwilling to do anything to upset the season.[1]
Events prior to the Jena Six assault
On 30 November 2006, the main building of the high school was set on fire. The building was gutted and had to be later demolished. Blacks and whites accused each other of the arson.[1][10]
On Friday, December 1, there was a private party, attended mostly by whites, at the Fair Barn. Five black youths, including 16-year-old Robert Bailey, attempted to enter the party at about 11pm. According to U.S. Attorney Washington, they were told by a woman that they were not allowed inside without an invitation. The five youths persisted, stating that some friends were already in attendance at the party. A white man, who was not a student,[3] then jumped in front of the woman and instigated a fight. After the fight was broken up, the woman told both the white man and five black youths to leave the party. Once outside, the black students were involved in another fight with a group of white men, who also were not students.[3] Police were then called to investigate. Several months later, Justin Sloan, a white male, was charged with simple battery for his role in the fight and was put on probation. Bailey later stated that one of the white men had broken a beer bottle over his head,[4] but there are no records of medical treatment being given.[3]
The following day, an incident apparently stemming from this fight occurred at a local convenience store. A student who had attended the party encountered Bailey and several friends. An argument ensued, after which the white student ran to his pickup truck and produced a pistol-grip shotgun. Bailey ran after the white student and wrestled him for control of the gun. Bailey's friends intervened in the scuffle and took the gun away. Bailey refused to return it and ultimately took it home with him. Local police reported that the accounts of the white student and black students contradicted each other and formed a report based on testimony taken from eyewitnesses. This resulted in Bailey being charged with three counts: theft of a firearm, second-degree robbery and disturbing the peace. The white student who had produced the weapon was not charged.[1][3]
Jena Six assault
The following Monday, December 4, a white student named Justin Barker, aged 17, loudly discussed - "bragged," as characterized by National Public Radio - how Bailey had been beaten up by a white man that Friday night.[1] When Barker walked out of the school gymnasium into the courtyard later that day, he was assaulted by Bailey and five other black students, and was temporarily knocked unconscious. The concussion he suffered has been described in the media as resulting either from a punch to the face or from hitting his head on concrete when thrown to the ground. While on the ground, Barker was kicked repeatedly. Barker was examined by a doctor at the local hospital.[2][1] After two hours of treatment and observation for his concussion and an eye that had swollen shut, Barker was discharged in time to go to the school Ring Ceremony that evening.[4] In the meantime the six black students, eventually dubbed the "Jena Six"[11], were arrested.
Trial, prosecution, and legal proceedings
The six students - Robert Bailey, Mychal Bell, Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis, Theo Shaw, and an unidentified minor[12] - were initially charged with aggravated assault. However, District Attorney Walters increased the charges to attempted second-degree murder, provoking protests from black residents that the charges, which could result in the defendants being imprisoned past age 50, were disproportional to the crime.[4]
On June 26, 2007, the first day of trial for defendant Mychal Bell, Walters agreed to reduce the charges for Bell to aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated second-degree battery.[13] A charge of aggravated battery requires the use of a "deadly weapon". Walters thus argued that the tennis shoes that Bell was wearing and used to kick Barker were deadly weapons, an argument with which the all-white jury agreed. Despite conflicting witness accounts on whether he was even involved in the attack[14], Bell was found guilty and will face the possibility of up to 22 years in prison when he is sentenced on September 20, 2007.
In late July, U.S. Attorney Donald Washington noted the lack of connection between the noose incident and the beating at Jena High school, noting that the more than 40 statements all failed to mention the noose incident.[3]
The case is currently in dispute as the court-appointed public defender did not call a single witness in his attempt to defend Bell.[14] Bell's new defense attorneys, Louis Scott and Carol Powell-Lexing, requested that a new trial be held on the grounds that Bell should not have been tried as an adult and that the trial should have been held in another parish.[15] On September 4, 2007, a judge dismissed the conspiracy charge but let the battery conviction stand, though he agreed that Bell should have been tried as a juvenile.[16]
On September 4, 2007, Carwin Jones and Theo Shaw also had their charges reduced to aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy.[17]
Bell's criminal history
Mychal Bell's juvenile record was recently released, revealing that he had been previously convicted of four other crimes. Bell was put on probation for a battery that occurred December 25, 2005, and he was later convicted of yet another battery charge and two charges of criminal damage to property.[18]
Public outcry
In the wake of these events, numerous groups in support of the "Jena Six" and against the way the cases were and are being handled have appeared on social networking site Facebook,[19] as well as an online petition circulating boasting over 179,162 signatures as of September 7, 2007.[20]
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I don't think people realize the world we live in the the least racist it has ever been. For the first time in history you can be punished for being racist.
Most minorities do have equal rights, the extremists are pushing it so they get more than equal rights.
I know here, you can't fire any minorities because you're automatically labled as a racist, even if their performance is substandard or inaccceptable. You can't make any jokes about blacks or asians, but you can laugh all you want at the heterosexual 20-40 year old white males.
All minorities need to realize, for every racist that hates you, there's one on your side that hates them. The key is to get over it, accept it, and not be confrontational.
I am not white. Technically, I am a minority. I simply avoid KKK members , white extremists, and black racist thugs. It's not about what they do, it's about what you do.
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dom wrote: I simply avoid KKK members
OMG! there are still Ku Klux Klan members in the US? If I had the power I would simply kill off all of them after what they did to the minorities. I especcially resent them for what they did to BLACK WALL STREET in 1921. If they hadn't bombed and burned it to the ground then black might have a model BLACK communities just as good as the upperclass White communities to look up to. That just makes me so angry!
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:06 am |
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dom wrote: I don't think people realize the world we live in the the least racist it has ever been. For the first time in history you can be punished for being racist.
Most minorities do have equal rights, the extremists are pushing it so they get more than equal rights.
I know here, you can't fire any minorities because you're automatically labled as a racist, even if their performance is substandard or inaccceptable. You can't make any jokes about blacks or asians, but you can laugh all you want at the heterosexual 20-40 year old white males.
All minorities need to realize, for every racist that hates you, there's one on your side that hates them. The key is to get over it, accept it, and not be confrontational.
I am not white. Technically, I am a minority. I simply avoid KKK members , white extremists, and black racist thugs. It's not about what they do, it's about what you do. I don't believe racism is over, its just taken a new alias.
I agree that its unfortunate that a minority can make a joke about a white person that has to do with their race but if a white person does the same, he/she gets labeled as a racist. I also agree that some groups are going too far with the "equal" rights thing. StuckUP wrote: OMG! there are still Ku Klux Klan members in the US? If I had the power I would simply kill off all of them after what they did to the minorities. I especcially resent them for what they did to BLACK WALL STREET in 1921. If they hadn't bombed and burned it to the ground then black might have a model BLACK communities just as good as the upperclass White communities to look up to. That just makes me so angry! Yea, they still exist. They're not as mainstream as they use to be.
Being black, I'm aware of the areas of my state that I cannot travel alone in because of this.
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:30 am |
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dom wrote: I don't think people realize the world we live in the the least racist it has ever been. For the first time in history you can be punished for being racist.
Most minorities do have equal rights, the extremists are pushing it so they get more than equal rights.
I know here, you can't fire any minorities because you're automatically labled as a racist, even if their performance is substandard or inaccceptable. You can't make any jokes about blacks or asians, but you can laugh all you want at the heterosexual 20-40 year old white males.
All minorities need to realize, for every racist that hates you, there's one on your side that hates them. The key is to get over it, accept it, and not be confrontational.
I am not white. Technically, I am a minority. I simply avoid KKK members , white extremists, and black racist thugs. It's not about what they do, it's about what you do.
Again dom you sound straight up like a bigot.....You can tell in your post on this page and the kind of things you've said in other topic that you hold a substantial amount of dislike for the black community. You act like affirmative actions is weighing you down and getting in the way of your future.
OMGWTF some black guy got my job even though im a bit more qualified. I'd rather hear you complain about the one job you didn't get while you have plenty of windows open to you. You don't have to walk into office after office after office and know you got sent away just because of the color of your skin. I live in the USA and here if you don't work hard your either rich or you get replaced, unemployment is the backbone of capitalism and its at an all time high so its easy to find someone. If you want to fire a minority for incompetence and they're actually incompetent then do it you shouldn't have anything to be afraid of but more often than not they get layed off for someone whose willing to work for less or to make room for someone whose got connections....
I don't know what kind of minority your claiming to be but i've never heard a single minority (or majority depending where you live) treat racism with such a "Its not that bad we're asking for to much" attitude. How can you say you can get punished for being racist when this topic was STARTED about racist injustice thats taking place.
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:41 am |
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lol When did Dom say he hated blacks?
He's right though. Employers have very good reason to worry when they fire someone of a "minority" because there's always a chance that person might file charges claiming it was based on race.
And Xem it's human nature to hate and be jealous of someone else. There has never once been a period in human history where people didn't hate or dislike another people because of religion or race or whatever else. Conflict fuels progression, the desire to be better than someone else. Without it, we'd all sit around and sing kum-bayah all day around campfires.
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