Jena 6: A Study of Racism and Race Relations

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

For an objective view of the demonstrators that descended on Jena, Louisiana, let’s use a scientific application to reach a fair and accurate comparative analysis. We will use Newton’s Third Law of Motion: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Ensuing is a hypothetically equal and opposite reaction, based on numerical and intrinsic facts mirroring the events of Jena, Louisiana by Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson et al.

An estimated 20,000 protesters swarmed the streets of Jena, Louisiana on Sept. 20, 2007 in protest of 6 black teens, either convicted or indicted, for the violent and brutal racially motivated beating of Justin Barker, a white classmate of the 6. To gain a balanced perspective, contrast it with the Duke rape case in the first few days before the case fell apart. Four white Duke lacrosse players were charged with raping a black female stripper from Durham North Carolina who was hired to entertain at their party.

Three months prior to the beating, there were hangman’s nooses hung from a tree that the white students congregated under. The nooses were hung after blacks students started congregated under the same tree. With a three month span between the nooses and the beating, it would make the two events mutually exclusive. To directly link the two events, as the protesters are attempting to do, through causal analysis, would be a miscarriage of logic.

To keep the numbers and characters in exact relation, assume that 3,000,000 whites march en mass into Durham , consequently shutting down the entire city- the schools, the government offices including the courthouse, the library and private businesses– forcing them to close, thus suspending commerce and the day to day community activity. Assume the organizer is as equally racist as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Malik Shabazz. Include members of the KKK to balance out the militant racism and hate mongering of Malik Shabazz and the New Black Panthers and various other racist organizations and leaders chanting “white power” and “no justice, no peace.” Assume the mob is demanding that the Duke lacrosse players be cleared and released before ever going to trial. That sums up what happened in Jena, La.

A second area of contrast, following the Duke rape case charges, assume white activists charged into the town and, after the prosecutor shared information about the case with the activists, they took to the streets and shouted the exact chants that the New Black Panthers shouted in Durham: “What do we want? Justice! And when do we want it? Now!” Malik Shabazz leads with a lynch mob mentality.

Was this an altruist endeavor by these false prophets? No! If it was, Bell would not be sitting in jail with a $90,000 dollar bail and a court appointed attorney one week after they left Jena. If the protesters collected .50 cents per person, that would be enough to raise the ten percent of the bail to procure a bail bondsman and subsequently the release of Bell. Sharpton, Jackson, Shabazz and company could have also raised enough money from the protesters, only 1-2 dollars per protester, or out of their own racist lined pockets to get Bell a better attorney. Mychal Bell’s conviction in the beating was overturned because he was tried as an adult rather than a juvenile. He remains incarcerated awaiting either a re-trial as a juvenile or the District Attorney to file an appeal of the case being overturned.

The only person who has been tried and convicted to date of the six is Mychal Bell. Mychal Bell is the seraph at the center of the protest who is in need of being rescued. Mychal Bell has an extensive criminal record for someone only sixteen years old. The day of the beating, his record consisted of:

• A battery conviction – 12/25/2005
• Criminal damage to property conviction – 7/25/2006
• A battery conviction – 9/2006
• Criminal damage to property conviction – 9/2006
• An active warrant from another municipality at the time of the beating.

At the time of the beating Bell was on probation for his previous crimes and had an outstanding warrant from the nearby town of Rapides Parish. You will find none of this information in the main stream media–it does not make for a compelling story line. It is the same prejudiced and biased reporting that headlined the Hurricane Katrina and the Duke lacrosse case.

Mychal Bell at best could be described as a malefactor and at worst a murderer in waiting. He has the distinction of being on the fast track to becoming a career criminal. Another anathema not mentioned is– Why would someone of his documented violent criminal past be allowed in school? This is the Patron Saint at the center of this circus.

The protest in Jena was a three ring circus and Al Sharpton was the Ringmaster. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson’s appetite for media attention is pathological. Racism has become an industry and the major stockholders were all gathered in Jena. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are the false prophets of racism. These false prophets have done more damage to the Black community than whites could have conceivably done since Martin Luther King. To continually portray black perpetrators of crime as victims is nothing but a cancer in the black community. Honestly, what have any of them actually accomplished other than perpetuate racism? Nothing!

Case in point:

The Rev. Al Sharpton said in a statement Saturday that some of the families have received “almost around the clock calls of threats and harassment,” and called on Gov. Kathleen Blanco to intervene.

“These people need more than an investigation. They need protection,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said. He said his organization would be in touch with President Bush’s nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey.

Jesse Jackson held his sharpest criticism for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama saying the candidate is, “acting like he’s white.” Jackson was particularly referring to the senator’s lack of response to six black juveniles being arrested on attempted-murder charges in Jena, La.

“If I were a candidate, I’d be all over Jena,” Jackson said after an hour-long speech at Columbia’s historically black Benedict College. Though as a controversy monger Jackson already is “all over” the incident.

To use the concept of causal analysis, these death threats are a direct result of Al Sharpton et al and their venomous racial rhetoric. In all honesty, these families need protection from these Black leaders. This should make manifest, at least in the academic sense, that Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Malik Shabazz are nothing less than domestic terrorist and any actions they take begets terrorism.

The Black Panthers took control of the microphone and made their usual threats: We’re nonviolent when people are nonviolent with us,” one speaker said. “We’re not nonviolent with people that are violent with us.”

Jesse Jackson called the beating a “schoolyard scuffle.” That would be akin to calling the assassination of Martin Luther King a gross mistake. Both statements are blatantly and repulsively inaccurate. Al Sharpton also fails to mention that a black U.S. attorney, Don Washington, investigated the “Jena Six” case and concluded that the attack on Barker had absolutely nothing to do with the noose-hanging incident three months before. Jesse Jackson said the teens should be given probation. The defendants have yet to go to trial and the evidence has yet to be presented and they are crying for probation. Why were they not in Durham in the early days proposing probation for the lacrosse players before their trial? Because they are racist and racism is their cash cow. There is no money or media exposure in publicly defending white people.

In speaking about the ‘Jena 6′ case last week, Jesse Jackson repeated his mind numbing mantra that there are “more blacks in jail than college. The actual statistics are blacks in jail outnumber blacks in college 3 to 1. This is a self incriminating statement from Jackson, unless you want to blame whites for their plight. The first and foremost at blame are the individuals in prison. Second is their family environment that has been eroded by these activist. Third is the false prophets that influence them. These false prophets have perpetuated the massive social breakdown in the Black community. Even though these de facto leaders of the Black community are listed as number three, their culpability should be weighted equally.

Jesse Jackson compared Thursday’s rallies in Jena to the protests and marches that used to take place in cities like Selma, Ala., in the 1960s. Al Sharpton claimed Thursday’s peaceful demonstrations were to highlight racial inequities in the criminal justice system.

To compare the protest in Jena, La and the defending of a black youth with an extensive violent criminal past, and currently in jail for the beating of a white youth, to the civil rights marches led by Martin Luther King, demonstrates the depth of the megalomania that infects Sharpton, Jackson and Shabazz.

Anyone who has not been brainwashed by these pseudo leaders would know that Martin Luther King would not have supported this demonstration or the individuals at the center of it. MLK was an advocate of non-violence and would have distanced himself from the racially motivated brutal beating of six on one. Would he be a supporter of the violent rhetoric of the New Black Panthers? No! Would he approve of the methods of Sharpton and Jackson? No! Would he be getting rich off of the racism industry? No!

To invoke the name of Martin Luther King and calling this assault on Jena the greatest civil rights movement since the 60′s is unadulterated delusions of grandeur.

The hanging of the nooses was not prosecuted because there was not a crime on the books for it. Was it a racially motivated hate crime? Possibly and possibly not. The hangman’s noose is not a racially exclusive method of killing nor is it a hate crime. Where’s the victim? The act of hanging someone with a hangman’s noose has a long history as a form of capital punishment. In contrast it also has a very short history of the lynching of Blacks by lynch mobs. Is it suspect that the nooses where hanging from the very tree that the black students gathered under? Absolutely. Was the punishment of a three day suspension appropriate for their acts? Absolutely not. Hanging a hangman’s noose in those circumstances is an allusion of violence and should have resulted in a more severe punishment from the school board. For the record, the principle wanted a more severe punishment and the school board overruled and handed down the three day suspension.

To call for the prosecution of the students that hung the nooses by the Black community, when there is not a prosecutable law on the books , is no different from the historical mob lynching of blacks void of a valid law or legitimate cause for the lynching other than skin color.

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