Two Wrongs Make a Right

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Berzerker


And they are made equal by hatchet, axe, and saw.......deedle dee deedle dee

Chopping a tree down didn't address the damn problem. It was stupid.

[Berzerker]

thats the moral of the story...or song...

[SlowwHand]

No, I mean they actually chopped down the tree that was supposedly the big deal.
All is fine now, the tree is gone. Real smart on their part.

[Wezil]

Did they turn it into a burning cross?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Guynemer
How else might a black person in the Deep South reasonably construe that?

I wouldn't construe it as a death threat per se becuase there's no specific target.

[Berzerker]

I know they chopped down the tree, thats what happens to all the trees in "The Trees"

C'mon Slow, you're a music afficionado

[Berzerker]

I wouldn't construe it as a death threat per se becuase there's no specific target.

any black student who sits under the tree in the future

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Berzerker
any black student who sits under the tree in the future

specific

Can you read?

[SlowwHand]

Oh, hell. Rush.

[Berzerker]

that is specific kuci, location location location

its like, the first one of ya to cross this line is gonna get it

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


I wouldn't construe it as a death threat per se becuase there's no specific target.

As was said, painting swastikas on a house would not tbe a death threat either, but its definitelly a hateful act, and not just "a prank" as was labelled by the Jena authorities.

Of course, for whites, nooses carry no significance, so they don't get it, unless of course they were the ones putting up nooses, who clearly "got" why they would hang that symbol.

[Kuciwalker]

I'm not excusing it at all.

[Slaughtermeyer]

Originally posted by Shrapnel12
I do need to find the facts to determine if they punishment meets the crime for the "Jenna Six", but as for the white kids who hung nooses from the tree, as racist as it was, it wasn't criminal, and it falls under free speech like burning a flag, so that's why I presume they got off so light (If I was in their class, I'd move to the far side of them however).

Freedom of speech does not apply to terroristic threats. It could be a terroristic threat even if it was not intended as a death threat.

[BeBMan]

We have a town called Jena. OMG Yoorp is full of racism!

[Shrapnel12]

Originally posted by Slaughtermeyer

Freedom of speech does not apply to terroristic threats. It could be a terroristic threat even if it was not intended as a death threat.

Burning the American flag doesn't fall in that same category? Silly liberal.

Anyway, I'd normally let a thread on the 2nd page die, but I've come across new information about some of the other incidents mentioned in this thread.

It seems the white student who pointed a gun at black students because he felt threatened, had a chance to run away. In fact, he left to go get his gun. Instead of getting in his truck and driving away, he took out the gun and went to confront the black students.

It also appears that one of the Jena six may be innocent. One of them was actually a black student just standing by and never even saw the actual attack.

If both are true and without further evidence, I have no reason to believe they are not, then this is a miscarriage of justice. The police, the DA, and the whole system in Jena needs to be investigated and serious measures need to be taken. There is obviously deep seated racism in Jena. This does not change my point however. The student who was beat up by the Jena six (or 5) deserves justice too. The same news show (CNN) that I use as a source for the previous two stories, also said it is not verified that the white victim made any racial comments. He claims he didn't, his family says he's not that kind of person and there are no other witnesses other then the thugs who beat him up that can say he did (according to the news story). I have to give him the same benefit of the doubt that I give the black students.