Tapsearch Com EditorA quick word on the Jena 6
September 21st 2007 00:20
By all means, it appears the school did a horrendous job handling anti-black racism. And if the allegation that the victim "taunted black students on campus continuously" is true, he could have used an ass-kicking.
But six kids ganged up on one and knocked him unconscious. He ended up in the hospital, albeit briefly. I think "aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery" pretty much sums up what they did.
If you want to protest the racist incidents at the school, fine. If you want to say the kids who hung nooses on a tree outside deserved more than three days' suspension, fine. If you want to argue for some modest leniency -- dropping the "aggravated" if the white student was asking for it, perhaps -- fine.
But were the tables reversed -- and some white kids, picked on at a mostly black school, ganged up on a cracker-hating bully and knocked him out -- we all know what side liberals would be on. They certainly wouldn't be clamoring to drop the charges.
But six kids ganged up on one and knocked him unconscious. He ended up in the hospital, albeit briefly. I think "aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery" pretty much sums up what they did.
If you want to protest the racist incidents at the school, fine. If you want to say the kids who hung nooses on a tree outside deserved more than three days' suspension, fine. If you want to argue for some modest leniency -- dropping the "aggravated" if the white student was asking for it, perhaps -- fine.
But were the tables reversed -- and some white kids, picked on at a mostly black school, ganged up on a cracker-hating bully and knocked him out -- we all know what side liberals would be on. They certainly wouldn't be clamoring to drop the charges.
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