By now everyone knows about the debacle of the law that is the Jena 6 situation. Fortunately, the little braggards aren't off the hook yet, but with a little help from the media, something as trivial as beating a white kid into a concussion will be overlooked in no time.
Here's what one Louisiana resident has to say on the matter, credit entirely goes to her:
Why is it that when Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton deem something as racist, it suddenly is? Why have so many entrusted them as the final word on racism? Does anyone but me notice that they clearly create racism? I won’t sit here and kid myself and say that racism doesn’t exist, because it does, but to create issues where there truly aren’t any is ridiculous and it makes so many people roll their eyes when you hear one or both of them deciding to jump in on something. There are real issues they could be tackling, but they make their livings off of keeping racism alive. What prompts me to start ranting about this? The whole “Jena 6” issue. This issue has recently been receiving national attention and has become blown way out of proportion. This isn’t just my opinion, or the “white” persons opinion, this is the opinion of the local’s… black and white who find it ridiculous that their small town was invaded with rallies and public outcry over teenage battles going on. All of the facts I have been reading online are so far off and full of assumptions; it is laughable. I have seen people boasting their research skills and contacting everyone they can to get the real facts. If they wanted real facts, why go to sources outside of Jena? Why not contact family members and students who are the real sources to this issue? I guarantee you they will tell you a story that doesn’t match what you all have been writing. When you keep following media sources and others that have written about it, all you are doing is mimicking nonsense that has already been written. Remember when we were kids and rumors would start out by one person telling another a quick gossipy story and then that person tells another person, then another person, and so on? By the time it reached the end of the chain, the entire story was twisted around, inside out, and characters and events that never took place were now the focus of the story. Everyone considers that gossip, but when it comes to this Jena 6 issue, everyone calls it “facts.” The issue going on in Jena is nothing new. Our public news has been discussing the goings on there for many, many months, along with other teenage fights or other acts of “crime” in other surrounding towns. Why is everyone only jumping on it now? Why is it that when a black kid happens to get into a fight with a white boy, it’s a fight usually caused by attitudes, bullies, or some other issue that has built up tension. When a white kid initiates a fight with a black kid, it suddenly becomes racially motivated. Come on! The kids we’re are talking about here, including their parents, never saw it as a racial issue. It became a racial issue when Al Sharpton decided to make it one.
Jena is a small town. We have lots of small towns here in Louisiana and they are all very, very community oriented. Sometimes we have fights, very seldom we have crime, but that’s okay. We wake up, see our neighbors we fought with and move on with life, probably speaking to the very person you fought with last week. It’s obvious that the media and other rabble rousing racial police don’t want it to die down because then their efforts in building a cause is wasted and they look silly. I have a newsflash for you, those of you going crazy with your so-called facts already do look silly to those that are from here and do know the facts. Granted, you are making your bits of cash here and there by writing about it and causing a stir, but in the process, there are real families whose lives have been turned upside down in this small town because of people like you. I’m saddened to see that the problem that is really going on their now is overshadowed by your “cause” and may never be handled the way it should have in the first place. Do you realize how many business owner’s in that small town lost money because their town was invaded? Did anyone decide to take their money they raised to help them recover from it? It’s not easy to bring in a lot of money in a small town to begin with and then to have to shut down completely because of everything going on is sad. Why not take some of this money you have been selling t-shirts and other money you have made, it split it up to the small business owner’s there. I guess that cause isn’t newsworthy enough.
I would also like to know why the Jena town has more exposure than the poor young woman who was held hostage by 6 whites, beat, raped, and tortured. I saw one quick news story about her. Her story is burned in my mind because my heart went out to her and I hope that those that hurt her pay the maximum penalties possible for it. I kept wondering why we aren’t hearing more about her, though. I don’t know what the real motivation behind those sick minds that did this to her, but why isn’t Al Sharpton or anyone else rallying around her? Or are they? I wouldn’t know since it isn’t hitting the news waves…
