Reading something in print does not make it true. Reading the same thing from multiple accounts makes it likely to be true.

Post your multiple accounts.

As for your dodge/question, no. Now, tell me how you intend to give the beating victim some justice.

If true, as reported, that the kid was throwing around racial epitaphs, than I stand by my description.

What do you mean, “if true”. You slander a beating victim and then you don’t even know if the source of your slander is true? So much for an open mind.

Well, your quote from a Fox sports columnist has certainly set me straight. It is obvious now that justice in Jena is colorblind.

I’m sorry, did someone give you the impression that the justice system in this country was perfect? Yes, bad things happen, injustice happens and innocent people sometimes get screwed. Welcome to modern civilization.

Now, while you’re wrapping yourself in such rightous indignation maybe you could spare some of that sympathy for the kid that got his ass beat. You remember him right? The one you called a “teenage racist prick?”

I am weighing in on the justice aspect of this case, not the blind racism.
Let’s face it, folks, had these been 5 affluent white boys beating up on a black boy, there is no way in hell of the possibility of 15 years imprisonment. They would have been convicted in a juvenile court and more than likely, handed mandatory probation. End of Story!!!
It’s about fairness. It’s about the same justice for blacks as is for whites. It’s about the same justice for poor as is for rich.
It’s about equality for all, which is still lacking in this great country.

(http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/7170510)

No one mentions that Mychal Bell’s clueless public defender was black. No one mentions that there were no black jurors because of the 50 people who responded to the more than 100 summons, none were black. No one mentions that Bell was already on probation for battery relating to a Christmas day incident in 2005. No one mentions that Bell was adjudicated (convicted) of two other violent crimes in 2006 and one charge of criminal damage to property. No one mentions that Bell’s father acknowledged he moved back to Louisiana in February (after seven years in Dallas) to supervise his son because of the “Jena Six” mess. No one mentions that Bell starred on the Jena High football team while constantly jeopardizing/violating his seemingly flimsy probation.

This was all talked about in open court during a bond hearing for Bell, and a newspaper in Alexandria, La., wrote about it. Just about everybody else has pretty much ignored the “other side” of the story. Including the fact that not one witness — black or white, and there were 40 statements taken — connected the jumping/beatdown of the white student (Dec. 4) to the noose incident (Sept. 1).

No one mentions that a black U.S. Attorney, Donald Washington, investigated the “Jena Six” case and held a town-hall meeting explaining that there was no evidence connecting the jumping/beatdown to the noose incident.

So it seems that the easy to digest story of white racisism gets a bit cloudier the closer you look at it. But why spoil a parade right?

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And finally: Yesterday, Rudy Giuliani was “on the trans-Atlantic campaign trail…bragging about his international credentials. ‘I’m probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world,’ Giuliani told a small group of reporters at a posh London hotel as onlookers gathered in the lobby to gawk at actor Dustin Hoffman, who was on a separate visit.”

These boys were provoked. What they did was wrong. No one deserves to be assaulted (even if they are teenage racist pricks)

And you have proof these boys were “provoked”? And this proof is an excuse for six people to beat up on one person? And further do you have proof that the boy who was beaten was in your words a “teenage racist pricks”?

Just got back from a rally and protest march for The Jena Six in Philadelphia, PA.
It was quite a turnout at least 500 or more people showed up wearing BLACK. We marched down Board St.
Cars were beeping and honking. It was really impowering.
FREE THE JENA SIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Iraq had WMD at one time and used them. RoS agrees with this. Do you deny Saddam used WMD on the Kurds?

I can’t believe we’re still having this conversation. This is beyond stupid.

No, dim wit, I don’t dispute that Saddam had chemical weapons. I don’t dispute that he used them on the Kurds. And I don’t dispute that the U.S. supplied Saddam with these weapons.

HOWEVER, Saddam was required to destroy these (and all other) WMDs after the Gulf War, which he did. Weapons inspectors all reported that Saddam had indeed followed through on his obligation.

So, tell me, just exactly how the hell do you make the jump from “Saddam gassed the Kurds” to “Saddam was a threat to the U.S.”?

The threat Iraq posed to the U.S. was entirely fictional, and even if they had wished us harm, they would have been completely unable to do so.

In short, there is absolutely no comparison between the Jena 6, which were both genuinely threatened and physically assaulted, and the U.S., which was never genuinely threatened by Iraq, and could not have been harmed by them in any event. It is, to use your pithy parlance, a ’shit argument’.

So please explain your point, then, so I can understand where you’re coming from.

I thought I had made my point a while back, but I’ll recap for you, Wilco.

You made the statement that “You don’t get to beat the crap out of someone because they have the same skin color as some other people who hurt some guy you know.”.

Apparently, if you’re the right color, you do get to do just that. Apparently, if you’re the right color, you get to beat the crap out of someone for no other reason than that they have the wrong color skin.

I’m not saying that that’s your position, because it obviously isn’t. I’m just pointing out that recent events have proven your blanket assertion false.

I hope that that makes things a bit clearer.