You might come away with the impression that the "Jena 6" were found to be innocent instead of guilty of beating Justin Barker.
JENA, La. - Five members of the Jena Six pleaded no contest Friday to misdemeanor simple battery and won't serve jail time, ending a case that thrust a small Louisiana town into the national spotlight and sparked a massive ( Read more... )

Speaking of Jena....
In early December the case of the "Jena Six"--the six African-American high school students in Louisiana accused of viciously beating a white classmate in 2006--collapsed dramatically with a felony guilty plea by one of the defendants. As something that was going to trigger "America's next great civil rights movement" (to quote ( Read more... )

Not only did Obama play the race card, he has it backwards when it comes to injustice.
We have a deficit in this country when there is Scooter Libby justice for some and Jena justice for others;
Libby, of course, was convicted of lying to investigators after they came up empty trying to find  someone in the administration who "leaked" information ( Read more... )

Some people, including the kids who are on trial for gang-beating another student, are making out quite well financially from the controversy.

I told you so.

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I told you so!
NEW ORLEANS - A judge ordered a black teenager back to jail, deciding the fight that put him in the national spotlight violated terms of his probation for a previous conviction, his attorney said.

Just as race should not condemn innocent people to jail, it should not keep the guilty out of jail.

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Because it is obvious that this issue is going to be with us for a long, long time I wanted to post another voice of reason.
Shame on the parents of the kids who hung the nooses for hiding behind a seemingly racist and insensitive school board when their kids were inexcusably wrong. Shame on the parents of the "Jena Six" for blaming white racism ( Read more... )

I've been watching the case of violent criminals subject to overzealous prosecution raised to the level of a significant civil rights event.

Excuse me? We're talking about violent criminals, not civil rights activists. Just because they happened to be black and their victim white doesn't doesn't make them heroes, nor does the fact that an ( Read more... )