– Rev. Al Sharpton on CBS s The Early Show before arriving in Jena According to the aforementioned activists, it was all about racism. It was a white town persecuting young black boys.
It was a white school committee that overturned the expulsion of the white kids who hung the nooses. It was about a white kid who justifiably got his ass kicked for calling the young boys nigger . It was about a racist white D.
A. who railroaded the young black boys, once again calling into question the fairness and integrity of the criminal justice system. Once again, according to the Goodmans, Jacksons, and Sharptons of the world, it was all about racism.
Again I asked, if these acclaimed activists know these kids were set up with one being in jail for months, why wasn t bailed out? What didn t we know? It is not and never has been about race.
It is about finding justice for an innocent victim and holding people accountable for their actions. As it turns out, a bond hearing revealed that Mychal Bell has a history of juvenile scrapes with the law, one of which involved him punching out a 17-year-old girl. I know this will come off as piling on the victim, but as I wrote in my first piece on this subject, it s the choices these boys made that put them in this situation.
The little dickheads who put the nooses on the tree in the first place would have to live with their prank, and walk around with their heads on a swivel, for the rest of their lives. The expulsions-turned-suspensions would be something in their academic record they d have to answer for. The tree where the nooses were white kids hung out and the nooses were hung was cut down.
This was an ugly incident, but the town of Jena, Louisiana could have moved on. Instead Amy Goodman, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the thousands they enraged descended on this small town, implied every white there is a racist and every black is a victim. When the ends justify the means, the truth can be a victim as well.
According to the Louisiana Weekly , The Rev. Al Sharpton told the Associated Press Thursday that he and Reps. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
, Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and William Jefferson, D-La., will press the House Judiciary Committee this week to summon Jena district attorney Reed Walters to explain his actions before Congress. Should those hearing happen, it may be more embarrassing to those seeking justice as there are facts associated with this case they either ignorant of or just plain ignored.
In the future when these people are involved in their next cause, I would hope people would be cautious as to their motives. For them, the truth may be an inconvenience, so we may not hear it at first, if at all. If it creates a thick tension in the air that the residents they visit have to live with long after they re gone, so be it.
This is why I m a cynic when it comes to these people and their motives. I called this a classic example of blaxploitation . I rest my case.
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