It is amazing that CRAP like this still goes on in today’s society.

We are pretty much removed from it here in the PNW, but it still exists in the south. I’m sure that it exists here too, but not to the great extent it does down south.

I hope that the prosecutors, law enforcement and public officials involved with this AT LEAST lose their jobs. And hopefully be prosecuted and serve jail time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/etan-thomas-and-dave-zirin/racism-hatred-and-south e_b_64160.html

Sadly, it sounds like nobody will lose their jobs if the judge involved promises to make the lives of the "Jana 6" hell.

It'd be nice if these ingrates crawled back into the caves they came from.

This is not at all surprising in the deep south. Where there are a majority of white voters, the criminal justice system does these kinds of bigoted actions, just as was done decades ago.

The same thing went on in reverse in the Duke rape case. There were a majority of black voters and Nafong thought he was going to "cut a fat hog in the ass" as we used to say on the farm. Fortunately, he got his just due for his bad conduct.

You may be far from in in the PNW, but the deep south is still much like it was decades ago.

What these young blacks need now is a good civil rights lawyer to get interested in their situation and go after the DA.

Hmmmm...

Sounds like a job for the ACLU, doesn't it?

I'm actually serious.

Oh, and www.fuckthesouth.com

Interesting article, it leaves out a lot though. For instance the "White Tree", it implies but doesnt state its a tree only whites are allowed at. Other possibilities, its named after a doner, or has other historical signifance. The story implies only whites are allowed to meet at it, but it doesnt say that, possibly its an old fragile tree, and no one is allowed around it.

There are some other inflametery statements, it talkes about a few white on black and white on black crimes. Doesnt say if the police know who the culprit is , but implies no arrests were made in the white on black because of racism, leaves out the possibility, the police dont know who did it, or there is conflicting evidence.

In the black students attack on the white student, it was six on 1, and the police know who did it.

Oh!!
My sides ache!!!

Thanks Missing!

Ummmmm...dude....were you just being sarcastic when you typed that web address or did you know it actually takes you to a real site?

I totally knew it went to a site.

Found it by typing that address in fun though! The parent site, www.annotatedrant.com has several more solid rants, like this one.

One in a million web find on a lark!

This story made me think of it. Found it last year actually. It's not like the address is hard to remember.

LOL...you crack me up sometimes Man!

219 post until history is made!

Trixter is sucking Swamp Water and ain't got a chance to catch ya!

I'm trying but DA and Herr Herb have made it hard for me...... I'm waiting for more of their asinine remarks...

An Update (A good one);

Louisiana Court Overturns Conviction of Black Teen in 'Jena Six' Racial Fight Case
Friday, September 14, 2007

NEW ORLEANS — A state appeals court Friday tossed out the aggravated battery conviction that could have sent a black teenager to prison for 15 years in last year's beating of a white classmate in the racially tense north Louisiana town of Jena.

Mychal Bell, who was 16 at the time of the December beating, should not have been tried as an adult on the battery charge, the state Third Circuit Court of Appeal in Lake Charles ruled late Friday.

Bell is one of six black Jena High School students charged in an attack on fellow student Justin Barker, and one of five originally charged as adults with attempted second-degree murder.

The charges brought widespread criticism that blacks were being treated more harshly than whites after racial altercations at their school.

He was to be sentenced this coming Thursday in a case that has brought international attention to Jena. Civil rights leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, have been planning a rally in support of the teens that same day.

While teenagers can be tried as adults in Louisiana for some violent crimes, including attempted murder, aggravated battery is not one of those crimes. Defense lawyers had argued that the aggravated battery case should not have been tried in adult court once the attempted murder charge was reduced.

"The defendant was not tried on an offense which could have subjected him to the jurisdiction of the criminal court," the three-paragraph ruling said.

The case "remains exclusively in juvenile court," the Third Circuit ruled.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296888,00.html