Comments on: Blacks Don’t Stand a Chance in Jena http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:16:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Michael http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-6532 Michael Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:02:06 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-6532 Why doesn't anyone care what REALLY happened? Six blacks beat a white kid unconscious, then KEPT beating him BECAUSE HE IS WHITE! PERIOD!! If the races were reversed, everyone would be calling the White kids "Nazi's, haters, racists, etc." The black kid would be on all the major talk shows, they would talk to his crying mother, they would interview his distraught friends, etc. But BECAUSE THE VICTIM IS WHITE, he's treated like a 'racist', and the blacks are treated like heroes instead! And the same thing is happening to Damien O'Rourke in Virgina. He was beaten by 7-black kids last Saturday, it was caught on video, and it's being treated the same way! WHEN WILL WHITES GET JUSTICE WHEN WE GET BEATEN?? WHY IS EVERYONE SCARED TO CALL THE BLACKS "RACISTS" WHEN THEY BEAT ON WHITES?? FOR GOD'S SAKE, WAKE UP!! Why doesn’t anyone care what REALLY happened? Six blacks beat a white kid unconscious, then KEPT beating him BECAUSE HE IS WHITE! PERIOD!! If the races were reversed, everyone would be calling the White kids “Nazi’s, haters, racists, etc.” The black kid would be on all the major talk shows, they would talk to his crying mother, they would interview his distraught friends, etc. But BECAUSE THE VICTIM IS WHITE, he’s treated like a ‘racist’, and the blacks are treated like heroes instead!

And the same thing is happening to Damien O’Rourke in Virgina. He was beaten by 7-black kids last Saturday, it was caught on video, and it’s being treated the same way! WHEN WILL WHITES GET JUSTICE WHEN WE GET BEATEN?? WHY IS EVERYONE SCARED TO CALL THE BLACKS “RACISTS” WHEN THEY BEAT ON WHITES?? FOR GOD’S SAKE, WAKE UP!!

]]> By: robert http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-6297 robert Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:32:21 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-6297 Blacks have more chance than anyone in this country. My Scottish Irish ancestors fought to provide you a place to live and prosper and now you are throwing it in the dump by playing these stupid games. I know you will not publish this, but you should consider why you are here. My gun will not backfire. Blacks have more chance than anyone in this country. My Scottish Irish ancestors fought to provide you a place to live and prosper and now you are throwing it in the dump by playing these stupid games. I know you will not publish this, but you should consider why you are here. My gun will not backfire.

]]> By: Dwight Yates http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-5338 Dwight Yates Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:00:16 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-5338 It saddens me to hear,see, and beleive this kind of racism still rages in our back yards while our president continues to play mighty mouse in Iraq. The leader of our country contiues to sent our young men over seas where they lose there lives fighting for the freedom of other countries when right next door our neighbors are still living in racial fear (CLEAN UP YOUR OWN HOUSE BEFORE YOU CLEAN UP SOMEONE ELSES) To the jena six my prayers are with you , be strong God has not forgotten you and neither have we. It saddens me to hear,see, and beleive this kind of racism still rages in our back yards while our president continues to play mighty mouse in Iraq. The leader of our country contiues to sent our young men over seas where they lose there lives fighting for the freedom of other countries when right next door our neighbors are still living in racial fear (CLEAN UP YOUR OWN HOUSE BEFORE YOU CLEAN UP SOMEONE ELSES) To the jena six my prayers are with you , be strong God has not forgotten you and neither have we.

]]> By: S. Howard http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-4351 S. Howard Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:51:23 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-4351 It's amazing how Black Americans will come together to build a church but they won't come together to protect their children. And women for that matter. Black Americans need to come out of the church and stop the injustice. 20 years is a life time for a fight where no one got killed! It’s amazing how Black Americans will come together to build a church but they won’t come together to protect their children. And women for that matter. Black Americans need to come out of the church and stop the injustice. 20 years is a life time for a fight where no one got killed!

]]> By: joseph young http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-4090 joseph young Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:01:26 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-4090 An Open Letter To The Jena Six By Joseph Young Dear Mychal, I keep thinking about you. I also think about the other young men who have fallen prey to racial hatred. Its existence, more than a century after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, makes me fearful for your life, your safety. The freedom that it promised was tenuous. It was not entirely without strength. In the proclamation, issued three years into the Civil War, Lincoln declared, at the urging of Frederick Douglass, that the former slaves would be accepted into the Union Army and navy, making the liberated the liberator. By the war’s end, almost 200,000 black servicemen had fought for freedom and saved the Union. Your generation, like mine, is being denied this freedom our ancestors risked life and limb, so that we may live as free men and women. You can call them heroes, but they were not thinking of themselves when they displayed courage and self-sacrifice on the battlefields of America. Today, then, to guard against the impending doom of American civilization, is not only opposition to racism, but also the determination to secure the civil rights for which many Americans have paid a heavy toll. Of all the civil rights, the right to learn is the surest prevention from ignorance. If at any time, children are instructed with anti-black bias; and they are made to learn what is not true and what the dominate forces in their lives want them to think is true; there’re guilty of impeding the march toward American civilization. Astonishing as it is that those students would hang three nooses from the tree at Jena High School as a racial taunt, including calling the black students ‘niggers’; you would think that America would never again want to see a black person hang from a tree, or behind bars. The nooses show that we, Americans, have not come that far from the cruelties and barbarity of slavery as we think. (Between 1882 and 1968, an estimated 5,000 people, mostly blacks, met their deaths at the hands of lynch mobs.) And this also is an unfortunate comment upon the belief that our schools are the great path to progress, the great equalizer. If our schools are the great path to progress, they must be the freest of our institutions, opposed bitterly to the attempt to indoctrinate our children with racial hatred. Well, Mychal, as you and the others wait behind bars because of a racially biased and an over zealous prosecutor, it is for us on the outside to continue the unfinished work of our fathers, to set you free. All of you were willing to fight racial hatred, and you know people of goodwill are beside you. If the Confederacy couldn’t stop us, the opposition we now face will fail. When history is written your detractors will get little note, but you will be remembered for standing up for what’s best of the American creed. You are part of a legacy in which our slave forebears fought to birth a new nation. You, Mychal, are a child of America’s destiny. It was Martin Luther King who said if a man doesn’t have something worth dying for he is not fit to live. Freedom is worth dying for. Justice is worth dying for. Equality is worth dying for. A child is worth dying for, because our job as parents is to protect children. Mychal, when you feel complete frustration and your narrow jail cell is closing in on your spirit and mind; remember the message of the old slave preacher to his flock whose resistance to oppression might have been completely in vain: “You are created in God’s image. You are not slaves, you are not ‘niggers’; you are God’s children.” Godspeed Mychal, Your brother in the struggle, Joseph An Open Letter To The Jena Six
By Joseph Young
Dear Mychal,
I keep thinking about you. I also think about the other young men who have fallen prey to racial hatred. Its existence, more than a century after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, makes me fearful for your life, your safety. The freedom that it promised was tenuous.
It was not entirely without strength. In the proclamation, issued three years into the Civil War, Lincoln declared, at the urging of Frederick Douglass, that the former slaves would be accepted into the Union Army and navy, making the liberated the liberator. By the war’s end, almost 200,000 black servicemen had fought for freedom and saved the Union.
Your generation, like mine, is being denied this freedom our ancestors risked life and limb, so that we may live as free men and women. You can call them heroes, but they were not thinking of themselves when they displayed courage and self-sacrifice on the battlefields of America.
Today, then, to guard against the impending doom of American civilization, is not only opposition to racism, but also the determination to secure the civil rights for which many Americans have paid a heavy toll. Of all the civil rights, the right to learn is the surest prevention from ignorance. If at any time, children are instructed with anti-black bias; and they are made to learn what is not true and what the dominate forces in their lives want them to think is true; there’re guilty of impeding the march toward American civilization.
Astonishing as it is that those students would hang three nooses from the tree at Jena High School as a racial taunt, including calling the black students ‘niggers’; you would think that America would never again want to see a black person hang from a tree, or behind bars. The nooses show that we, Americans, have not come that far from the cruelties and barbarity of slavery as we think. (Between 1882 and 1968, an estimated 5,000 people, mostly blacks, met their deaths at the hands of lynch mobs.) And this also is an unfortunate comment upon the belief that our schools are the great path to progress, the great equalizer. If our schools are the great path to progress, they must be the freest of our institutions, opposed bitterly to the attempt to indoctrinate our children with racial hatred.
Well, Mychal, as you and the others wait behind bars because of a racially biased and an over zealous prosecutor, it is for us on the outside to continue the unfinished work of our fathers, to set you free. All of you were willing to fight racial hatred, and you know people of goodwill are beside you. If the Confederacy couldn’t stop us, the opposition we now face will fail. When history is written your detractors will get little note, but you will be remembered for standing up for what’s best of the American creed. You are part of a legacy in which our slave forebears fought to birth a new nation. You, Mychal, are a child of America’s destiny.
It was Martin Luther King who said if a man doesn’t have something worth dying for he is not fit to live. Freedom is worth dying for. Justice is worth dying for. Equality is worth dying for. A child is worth dying for, because our job as parents is to protect children.
Mychal, when you feel complete frustration and your narrow jail cell is closing in on your spirit and mind; remember the message of the old slave preacher to his flock whose resistance to oppression might have been completely in vain:
“You are created in God’s image. You are not slaves, you are not ‘niggers’; you are God’s children.”
Godspeed Mychal,
Your brother in the struggle, Joseph

]]> By: jazzman http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-2466 jazzman Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:50:18 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-2466 My reference to Northeast was a bad street justice in New Jersey quip. I certainly didn't mean to imply the northeast or anywhere is racist free, I went to school in downtown Trenton and as a sixty year old white man I was fine but the police were always on the corner. I was an urban homeless guy and the brothers were always the best to be among, when trouble came around we didn't win many fights but we had a good time afterward laughing our ass off at the fools fightin with homeless people. Sorry for the careless remark about something so serious. My reference to Northeast was a bad street justice in New Jersey quip.

I certainly didn’t mean to imply the northeast or anywhere is racist free,
I went to school in downtown Trenton and as a sixty year old white man
I was fine but the police were always on the corner. I was an urban homeless
guy and the brothers were always the best to be among, when trouble came around
we didn’t win many fights but we had a good time afterward laughing our ass off at
the fools fightin with homeless people.

Sorry for the careless remark about something so serious.

]]> By: Deadbeat http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-2458 Deadbeat Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:03:18 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-2458 I guess jassman has never been to Boston. I guess jassman has never been to Boston.

]]> By: Deadbeat http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-2447 Deadbeat Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:35:47 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-2447 While I feel sorry for the soldiers they are breaking the law by their participation in an illegal war of aggression. Until citizen make participating in the military ignoble then all citizens are to blame when they say "support the troops". The left especially such folks as Michael Albert and all the ABB'er engage in such foolish hypocrisies. I don't support the troops as there is no reason for a standing military but for only to advance racist and capitalistic imperialism. While I feel sorry for the soldiers they are breaking the law by their participation in an illegal war of aggression. Until citizen make participating in the military ignoble then all citizens are to blame when they say “support the troops”. The left especially such folks as Michael Albert and all the ABB’er engage in such foolish hypocrisies. I don’t support the troops as there is no reason for a standing military but for only to advance racist and capitalistic imperialism.

]]> By: EVELYN BARKSDALE http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-2441 EVELYN BARKSDALE Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:49:23 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-2441 THIS COUNTRY HAS ALWAYS BEEN RACIST AND ALWAYS WILL BE. THE 4th OF JULY IS JUST A DAY FOR FUN AND BAR B QUES TO ME. I'm NOT SOME FLAG WAVING IDIOT WITH THEIR HEAD IN THE GROUND. I DON'T SALUTE THE FLAG OR SING THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER. I WON'T UNTIL EVERYONE IS TREATED THE SAME. SO I GUESS I'LL NEVER DO IT. BUSH IS AN IDIOT. THERE ARE WARS OF DRUGS AND MURDERS HERE AND HE'S KILLING OUR SOLDIERS OVERSEAS. NOTHING AGAINST THE SOLDIERS , JUST BUSH. ALSO, WHAT LEADER IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD OUT THEIR OWN SPIES. BUSH AND CHENEY AND LIBBY. THIS COUNTRY HAS ALWAYS BEEN RACIST AND ALWAYS WILL BE.
THE 4th OF JULY IS JUST A DAY FOR FUN AND BAR B QUES TO ME.
I’m NOT SOME FLAG WAVING IDIOT WITH THEIR HEAD IN THE
GROUND. I DON’T SALUTE THE FLAG OR SING THE STAR SPANGLED
BANNER. I WON’T UNTIL EVERYONE IS TREATED THE SAME. SO
I GUESS I’LL NEVER DO IT. BUSH IS AN IDIOT. THERE ARE WARS OF
DRUGS AND MURDERS HERE AND HE’S KILLING OUR SOLDIERS
OVERSEAS. NOTHING AGAINST THE SOLDIERS , JUST BUSH. ALSO,
WHAT LEADER IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD OUT THEIR OWN
SPIES. BUSH AND CHENEY AND LIBBY.

]]> By: Chris Crass http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-2432 Chris Crass Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:33:14 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-2432 No racists in the northeast? That would be dandy but it's simply not true. This whole damned nation is racist as hell from all directions and in all locales. I'd guess 30% of the population is actually not ignorant and I'm feeling real generous today. No racists in the northeast? That would be dandy but it’s simply not true. This whole damned nation is racist as hell from all directions and in all locales. I’d guess 30% of the population is actually not ignorant and I’m feeling real generous today.

]]> By: jazzman http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-2421 jazzman Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:31:53 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/blacks-dont-stand-a-change-in-jena/#comment-2421 It would be prudent for white folk to acknowledge they are in the minority and all those guns they're allowed to own are gonna backfire. Do not for a second believe there are white people in the northeast who condone this hypocrisy and are not impassioned to adjust matters to suit more uniformly for all. A little more thought of evolution and less Sunday's professing dominance may be a good place to start. It would be prudent for white folk to acknowledge they are in the minority and all those guns they’re allowed to own are gonna backfire.

Do not for a second believe there are white people in the northeast who condone this hypocrisy and are not impassioned to adjust matters to suit more uniformly for all.

A little more thought of evolution and less Sunday’s professing dominance may be a good place to start.

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