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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: clips on September 17, 2007, 10:22:20 AM
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This story is just another reminder that racism is alive and well....and to charge these black kids with attempted murder just for whoopin\' the white kid\'s ass for bragging about the noose is just crazy...just read..i\'ll try to pull out some of the major points of the story....
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTTkgpvu5GqRoAhxzQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjYzZubXM2BHBvcwM4BHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=12p55fu7l/EXP=1190137769/**http%3a//www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl%3f20071707i
"The administrators said that Black students could sit where they liked.
Shortly after the query, several Black students gathered under the tree. The following day, three hangman\'s nooses were looped over one of its boughs. There\'s no mistaking the symbolism of this act. It recalls warnings of impending violence by the Ku Klux Klan and other vicious white terrorist groups permitted to flourish in the South for more than a century. "
"Walters didn\'t help matters by winking at white violence like the beating of a Black student attempting to attend a white Friday night party in December 2006 - the incident was very much related to the school events. The next day a White Jena graduate confronted a group of Black youths at a convenience store with a shotgun. Fortunately, they wrestled the weapon away from him without injury but were arrested for assault and stealing the gun. The gun owner was not charged with a crime. "
"The racial tension in the town came to a head on Monday, December 4, when Justin Barker, a white student who was vocally supportive of the noose hangers and called Black students "niggers," was beaten by some Black students. Barker went to the hospital was released the same day and attended a ring ceremony that evening. The six Black youths involved in the incident were arrested and initially charged with attempted murder. None of the Jena Six has a prior police record."
"In a July trial that turned justice on its head, Mychal Bell was convicted as an adult of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy. He was found guilty by an all-white jury in a trial presided over by a white judge. District Attorney Walters argued that Bell\'s tennis shoes were deadly weapons because they were used to kick Barker"
^^^That white kid was askin\' for it, you better be ready to go to emergency if you\'re gonna say somethin\' like that and to put nooses under a tree just because some black kids are hangin\' out there? it\'s bulls**t!,....but to charge that kid with murder for beatin\' his ass down is insane, when some white youth\'s beat-down a black youth, they recieved lighter punishment....pathetic...those white racist punks need to understand that this isn\'t the 60\'s anymore and if you wanna do somethin\' as ignorant as puttin\' nooses on a tree you better be ready to have a foot put up your ass and your teeth kicked in...black folk,..especially the youth are not gonna take that s**t lyin\' down....
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Six against one?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.......
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bah
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I wish clips was white so he wouldn\'t give a shit :)
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I agree. On that note. I like your new avy.
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you better be ready to go to emergency if you\'re gonna say somethin\' like that
Thats part of the problem.
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meh...i know you guys really don\'t care about this,...and you guys know by now that just because a person is african american, i\'m not just gonna jump to his or her defense...but these kids didn\'t have a record at all.....and they didn\'t even do anything when they found the nooses,...they only responded when some asshole started bragging about it....i know that lately we have been on racial thread/topic overload lately,..;) but it just pisses me off a bit when i see stories like this...
I\'m not gonna drab on with long winded speech, but i\'ve seen alot of interracial couples down here,..and i mean i\'ve seen enough that you would think s**t like the story above wouldn\'t exist....but as with any small town or anywhere for that matter, there will always be people who have that old ignorant mentality way of thinking.....heh and i like how you guys just brush this kind of stuff off of your shoulder...:thumb:,cause in the grand scheme of things this is just a small incident that doesn\'t impact society at all...it just shows the ignorance of a few in that part of the country.
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Fuckin Hispanics.
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I was on a jury one time when a bum was beaten up by a dude. He was charged with 1st degree murder. He didn\'t mean to kill the dude, but oh well. Sucks to be him.
I have never in my life, no mater what anyone has ever said or done to me, thought about fighting someone. But then again I\'m white.
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I\'m a pussy.
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Oh yeah, I\'m white and I\'m smart. FOrgot about that.
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you are smart? how do you if you are smart or not?
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you are smart? how do you if you are smart or not?
Are you white? Or not?
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No, I am not white.
So, basically, you are saying if you are white. then you are automatically smart.
If you are not white, then you are not smart?
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I have never in my life, no mater what anyone has ever said or done to me, thought about fighting someone. But then again I\'m white.
ahhh..that my friend is because you white folk rule the world,....you guys walk around without a worry in the world....you can walk into a store, see somethin\' you like and purchase it with GOOD CREDIT!....go into any high profile dept store, and you don\'t have to worry about the mannequins followin\' you around,.you guys have a free pass to any country club you wanna belong to...and you guys just typically walk around giving a thumbs up to everybody you see, with the trademark smile mind you,:D and if you\'re really tryin to be hip, you wave you fists in the air, and give a Roo! Roo!...back in tha day like Arsenio Hall!...:p...must be beautiful to do whatever you damn well please!...:thumb:...:bow:
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No, I am not white.
So, basically, you are saying if you are white. then you are automatically smart.
If you are not white, then you are not smart?
Obviously you are not white, otherwise you would not ask this question, because it is a dumb question.
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Everyone just watch this and STFU
http://www.porkolt.com/other-48992.html
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I didn\'t click it.
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Obviously you are not white, otherwise you would not ask this question, because it is a dumb question.
I hate to break it to you LIC, but you\'re the one who\'s not making any sense.
Stop rattling cages. You\'re supposed to be on probation or something.
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ahhh..that my friend is because you white folk rule the world,....you guys walk around without a worry in the world....you can walk into a store, see somethin\' you like and purchase it with GOOD CREDIT!....go into any high profile dept store, and you don\'t have to worry about the mannequins followin\' you around,.you guys have a free pass to any country club you wanna belong to...and you guys just typically walk around giving a thumbs up to everybody you see, with the trademark smile mind you,:D and if you\'re really tryin to be hip, you wave you fists in the air, and give a Roo! Roo!...back in tha day like Arsenio Hall!...:p...must be beautiful to do whatever you damn well please!...:thumb:...:bow:
Wow.. you have a very whacked sense of reality.
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I can\'t tell if clips is being serious or not, if so, wow.
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*slaps boz & Vid*...c\'mon man,...of course i was jokin\',... i mean there are some truth\'s to those stereotypes but the smilies should\'ve shown i was just jokin\'...:)
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ahhh..that my friend is because you white folk rule the world,....you guys walk around without a worry in the world....you can walk into a store, see somethin\' you like and purchase it with GOOD CREDIT!....go into any high profile dept store, and you don\'t have to worry about the mannequins followin\' you around,.you guys have a free pass to any country club you wanna belong to...and you guys just typically walk around giving a thumbs up to everybody you see, with the trademark smile mind you,:D and if you\'re really tryin to be hip, you wave you fists in the air, and give a Roo! Roo!...back in tha day like Arsenio Hall!...:p...must be beautiful to do whatever you damn well please!...:thumb:...:bow:
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^^^^uhm...i did say i was joking..:stick:...lighten up gentlemen...
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:confused:
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hmmm,...so everytime somebody says something about black folks stereo-typically speaking, i should step back and wonder if that person is bein\' serious or not?...:rolleyes:,..c\'mon we do it all the time in here...don\'t get all double standardary...*<----is that even a word?*....on me...;)
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People over use smilies so I never know. :) haha That and I stepped into this thread with a negative opinion since I feel the truth is being stretched greatly with this whole story. Frankly, I\'m tired of hearing about it.
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I hate to break it to you LIC, but you\'re the one who\'s not making any sense.
Stop rattling cages. You\'re supposed to be on probation or something.
Good idea. Point out that I\'m the only one not taking this thread serious.
Clips knows I\'m not serious. Fact is, racism is everywhere for every color.
And "probation"? What is this jail?
Give me a break. Glad to see you still have not removed the stick from your ass.
;)
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uh oh, are you leaving again? could you tell us your next name, so we can now when you\'re back? ;)
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hmmm,...so everytime somebody says something about black folks stereo-typically speaking, i should step back and wonder if that person is bein\' serious or not?...:rolleyes:,..c\'mon we do it all the time in here...don\'t get all double standardary...*<----is that even a word?*....on me...;)
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;)
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Good idea. Point out that I\'m the only one not taking this thread serious.
Clips knows I\'m not serious. Fact is, racism is everywhere for every color.
Dork: This is not about Clips. This is about your vague questions to Paul2 linking skin color with intelligence. You\'re not funny.
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I think there are all kind of intelligence and everybody have different kind of talents, and some are even multi-talented especially on stuffs they love to do.
Me personally, personality is more important than intelligent. If they have both, better.
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Love how these threads always turn out the same.
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Love how these threads always turn out the same.
They do don\'t they? At the beginning of every racially charged thread...i\'m pissed about the injustice of the situation..*i still feel that s**t is wrong with what went down*....and to me it\'s still troubling that these types of acts are still being practiced in 2007.....but by the 10 or 15th post we\'re already lightheartedly joking about it,..:fro:..and realizing how silly these types of stories that involve these types of ignorant people really are....those type of people will be here till the end of time...
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People suck. The end.
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BLACK people suck. The end.
there, I fixed it for you ;)
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Dork: This is not about Clips. This is about your vague questions to Paul2 linking skin color with intelligence. You\'re not funny.
Dork, no one needs you being the internet police.
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there, I fixed it for you ;)
Samwise I can\'t believe you\'re so racist :(
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/19/jena.six.link/index.html
Surprise surprise, funny how all this shit got spun.
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I admit i\'d be paranoid in stores if i were a black person. Whenever I walk out of best buy and I hadn\'t bought anything, I always get a mini panick attack and think theyre going to think I jacked something and start chasing me. then ill run out of reaction and end up getting tackled...and im quite white...
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/19/jena.six.link/index.html
Surprise surprise, funny how all this shit got spun.
hmmm...a three month gap....so why was initial reports sayin that the beating was in direct connection with the nooses? Meh even if this is just some minor spat between teenagers, i still feel it was wrong to intially charge them with attempted murder....from what i understand he went to the hospital, was treated and released...i\'ll reserve my judgement on the rest of this story until ALL of the facts come out,...cause if this beating wasn\'t related to the nooses at all,...then this is just a case of teenagers bein teenagers...and if that is the case then suspensions should be in order for the perps,...but certainly not attempted murder...
Again it seems it\'s a case of one word against another,..one side states he was provoked, while the other states he did nothing,...i\'ll just wait to see how this whole thing unfolds...thank you Boz for your investigative journalism...:thumb:
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Samwise I can\'t believe you\'re so racist :(
lol
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The media spins everything to make it a big story. Never for a second did I believe all of this shit. It makes me sad that people bought into it so much and made groups on facebook and such. The guys should be thrown in jail for the beating.
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The media spins everything to make it a big story. Never for a second did I believe all of this shit. It makes me sad that people bought into it so much and made groups on facebook and such. The guys should be thrown in jail for the beating.
i agree with everything you stated except that these guys shouldn\'t be thrown in jail...it was a schoolyard fight,...they all should get suspensions,.. nothing more...whenever i got into a fight in my school (well it was only once) but when i did i was suspended from school for a few days,...never was there the thought of locking up any kids that got into a fight....and i guess that\'s the part that everybody is protestin\' because they were locked up and recieved harsher treatment than the teens that hung the nooses. And if that is indeed the case then i have to agree at least in that aspect it is unfair...
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This guy breaks everything down nicely....:thumb:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/20/roland.martin.jena6/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
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clips, that was a good breakdown. he summed it up nicely.
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Sorry, when I saw what dude it was I stopped watching. I\'ve seen him before and can\'t stand him. As for being sent back to school, I can remember multiple kids being arrested for fights when I was in high school. The fact that the kid was knocked unconscious and kicked and punched after this equates to criminal charges to me. Not to mention the fact that one of the people involved in the beating, the one still in jail, has a prior record.
The original charges were definitely bogus and how this has been handled is terrible as well, but these kids aren\'t saints like they\'ve been made out to be. And don\'t even get me started on jackson or sharpton
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Sorry, when I saw what dude it was I stopped watching. I\'ve seen him before and can\'t stand him. As for being sent back to school, I can remember multiple kids being arrested for fights when I was in high school. The fact that the kid was knocked unconscious and kicked and punched after this equates to criminal charges to me. Not to mention the fact that one of the people involved in the beating, the one still in jail, has a prior record.
The original charges were definitely bogus and how this has been handled is terrible as well, but these kids aren\'t saints like they\'ve been made out to be. And don\'t even get me started on jackson or sharpton
you should\'ve finished watching the vid,...he breaks the whole situation right down the middle. There was another incident that happened within the same time frame...*within that three month period* where a group of white teens jumped and busted a bottle over a black teen\'s head at a school party. No-one knows the outcome of that event, but clearly i feel the perps for that assault should be suspended as well. i guess what i\'m sayin\' is that any altercation that happens on school grounds, the student should be suspended.
So i\'ll have to respectively disagree with you on the suspension/jailtime issue, but sharpton and jesse? I told my wife i knew they would be down there, but i hear these other stories everyday locally where just recently an african-american man came up to his ex-girlfriends house and shot the ex-girlfriends step father then shot her in the head with a shotgun, but right before he did that, his ex-girlfriends daughter said "why are you doing this?" and he stated that she wouldn\'t let him see his kids....then after shooting his ex, he ran off somewhere and shot himself.
Now where is sharpton and jesse when these types of black on black crimes occur?....they are MIA...so i\'m not surprised that they show up for these black/white events, cause i do feel it\'s justified to an extent, but i think alot of it is just so they can grandstand....if they came out to speak out against the black on black crimes a bit,..maybe i can stand behind them a little bit more....it was just funny how when this story came out, i was tellin\' my wife,.."you know sharpton and jesse are not that far behind right?"...they are so predictable.
But i don\'t want to turn the issue into raggin\' on those two because it\'s not about them,..at the end of the day it was wrong to charge those kids with attempted murder...that is just ridiculous....just suspend the kids involved and be done with it.
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I was thinking about this a bit more and honestly, I see similar stuff happen at my college. There are a lot of white/black groups around my college. Sometimes when fights break out, it happens between a group of white kids and black kids. I somethings think that it is just dumb luck that it happens to be a black group of friends pitted against a white group of friends, which causes racial slurs to break out. I kinda want to look at this situation more or less on a personal level within the two groups of kids who were feuding. Like, what if the white kids actually had black friends? Maybe it was racially motivated. I dunno. I want to learn all I can about this particular case before I make judgements.
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Meh...
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what?
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:fro: Finally Chizz is back with his views on the subject. :fro:
WOOHOOO!!!
Fucking Racist. :thumb:
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welcome back chizzy.
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Yeah jena 6 happens all over ameerica and its a shame how this stuff will never change.
I found myself in a simular situation at one of my jobs. I tried not to let it bother me but when I ended up being let go thats when I realize how things really were. Some people did not like me and it was only because the color of my skin. I have seen some people get pissed and retaliate. Thats not my style but when it happens to you everyone reacts differently.
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Yeah jena 6 happens all over ameerica and its a shame how this stuff will never change.
I found myself in a simular situation at one of my jobs. I tried not to let it bother me but when I ended up being let go thats when I realize how things really were. Some people did not like me and it was only because the color of my skin. I have seen some people get pissed and retaliate. Thats not my style but when it happens to you everyone reacts differently.
can you elaborate on this? you got my curiosity
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Those protests were stupid...like tens of thousands of black folks need ANOTHER excuse not to go to work!
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(note the wink)
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Chizzy\'s back? Yay!