Where to start? Let's try the very beginning, at least according to the civil rights "leaders". Last year a student at a high school in Jena, Louisiana asked if he could sit under a tree that is predominantly frequented by a group of students that he was not a part of, the vice principal he asked told him that he could sit any where he chose. That's how it started. The student who asked happened to be a black student and he was requesting to sit under a tree that white students sat under. Soon after, 3 nooses were hung from the tree. The students responsible were suspended 3 days for their insensitivity, and that should have been the end of the story.

But, unfortunately for us as Americans, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have not yet been freed of their mortal coil, and according to them their racial shackles. They have chosen to use this story as the starting point for a story that took place 3 months later. The story that occurred 3 months later was this: 6 students decided that they had some simple prey, in form of a lone student, they took that opportunity to let out some aggression by beating the other student until he was unconscious. Again, let's draw up some race lines, as it seems to be the only important feature people have to these race-baiting assholes in nice suits, named Jesse and Al. The 6 students were black, and the lone student was white.

The 6 black students were charged with assault, battery, and attempted murder. Because they didn't get the same punishment as some other white students for placing the grossly offensive nooses in the tree, it is an absolute outrage! Those black students were wronged, because they beat a kid half to death and the white kids only got suspended for a prank in extremely poor taste.

Here is what pisses me off: for 3 months these students did not address the issue with the other student, so clearly the cause and effect link is weakened. Also, Newton's first law of Physics needs to be applied, Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. I don't think that an offensive and possibly threatening symbol in a tree's equal and opposite is a savage beating in a 6 on 1 battle. As a matter of fact, I know it isn't. The opposite and equal reaction is to take your offense to the police and have them brought up on intimidation charges.

The primary issue according to the race-baiters is that the black students are being unfairly treated, since the white students were only suspended for a few days. That's complete bullshit. Comparing a dumbassed prank, even if the intent is to threaten (which we cannot know the intent) to a savage beating that is actually carried out is apples and oranges. Secondly, the school handled the noose incident internally, and if anyone had a problem with the decision, they had every right, nay responsibility, to take it to the civil and criminal authorities. Nobody had the right to beat someone else into the hospital.

The beating was instantaneously a criminal offense, for which charges must be filed, since a kid ended up in a hospital emergency room. Charges had to be filed, and since 6 knocked a kid out and kept beating them, that is attempted murder. If they had stopped, maybe they would have only received aggravated assault and battery, but they didn't.

These charlatans of the civil rights trade only serve to keep a racial divide open, and the wounds of terrible racism fresh and bleeding. They do not need anymore coverage. Even the news outlets are avoiding putting any spin on this, carefully stating the facts as they occur, because they know that saying 6 thugs who beat another person relentlessly deserve to be put on trial and possibly imprisoned will make them the next target of these pieces of shit who use race to profit. They have built extremely lucrative careers off of the race card and white guilt. They need to be ignored, so that a real dialog between those of different racial and ethnic backgrounds can begin.

Racism isn't dead in America, but it could be dying if we would discuss issues instead of instantly jumping into overstatement and broad generalizations when things don't go they way we want. Racial extortion is not the answer. Threatening to protest and cause civil unrest every time the justice system doesn't make you pleased, will never fix the underlying problems. All it does is make crooks in the civil rights trade rich off the backs of the disenfranchised. What everyone needs is someone under the banner of civil rights to want to help both sides of the debate succeed, not jerks like Jesse, Al and the KKK looking for a way to end up on top.


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