Six kids jump one kid. That's BS! If you can't whip someone on your own then keep your mouth shut and stay back. Enter the "Jena 6". Six black kids jump a white kid and beat the crap out of him. It's a crime. Had it been the other way around it would be a crime. It doesn't matter who did what to instigate the altercation..It's a crime. The only difference here is that since it was a white kid that was beaten it isn't considered a hate crime, even though it is painfully obvious that it is. Had it been six white kids jumping a black kid, these same people crying for the courts to release and dismiss all charges against these boys would be crying for the harshest possible punishments for the white kids and there would be a media circus culminating in a movie and book deal and who would be there to cry out for teh white kids? Not many people I assure you. Say what you like about us, but we tend to call a spade a spade. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time and we don't care what color you are or what side of the tracks you are from.

This fracas took place in December and no deadly weapons were employed. It was a simple case of racial tension overflowing the cup in a town with a long history of black vs. white problems. Nooses in trees, cross burnings, blacks sitting on one side of the auditorium, whites on the other. City governments and schools can't force people to get along and this place is proof positive. The white kid in question was alleged to have been involved in a cross burning and other disgusting racial behavior, but that is a problem for the law to deal with. It does not make it OK for the black kids to decide to prosecute his crime! If the law doesn't follow through with it's obligation, bring on the marchers and protesters and I'll be on their side. Crowd the steps of the courthouse, police station, City Hall and the State Capitol, but leave justice, in or out of order, to those we have put in the positions to do so.

Vigalante justice sounds sweet to a victim and their family, but anarchy is a bad idea and it only invites more violence on both sides of an issue until, at some point, the original issue is lost in all the background noise. What happened in Jena was a terrible thing and those responsible should be punished, plain and simple. The lawful and legal end of it should have nothing to do with race and I hope the courts stick to their guns. I have said before, and I restate now, Until people on BOTH sides stop pointing at lines of race, they will never fade away.