Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Put Them Back in Jail
Posted by Bossip Staff
This is why the smart folks over here at Bossip don’t support Negro causes “just because” we are told to. Here is a picture of Robert Bailey Jr., a member of the Jena 6. According to a video on Youtube, he was braggin’ about thuggin’ on his Myspace and was caught showing off what looks to be Jena 6 Defense Fund stacks. SMH.
This is worse than Blood Diamond Russ’ partner Ben Chavis spending NAACP donations to keep a sex deal quiet or Blood Diamond Russ defending blood diamonds in Africa while being on the payroll of the diamond industry.
The video with more disturbing pics is under the hood, check it out
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And to think I actually brought two T-shirts to support their defense..damn shame!
That is truly a shame…. now we have these dumb*****es acting like they just stepped off a damn plantation.
Come on black folks…
Dissapointing at BEST!!!
There are no words for this. This needs to get out to the public; to the people who fought for this fool who has chosen to coon and bufoon.
Jus ignorant!!!
SMH
Jus ignorant!!! I blame the parents.
Shame. Shame. Blacks need to quit this herd mentality quick.
I take back everything i ever said in there defense.
THESE *****S AIN’T *****!!!
Sad very sad
Dumb Kneegrows! Glad I kept my money in my pocket!!
WOW – all the people that defended their honor, and rallyed for them. . . that is a shame.
All the protesting . . .
Very upsetting taking a stereotypical photo! this could screw up his case! Well maybe that mught humble his dumb*****!
They have never seen money like that before? Sad, cause it’s not a lot. Boo on them.
The black community has got too stop defending black men/boys/athletes/entertainers without asking questions. Am I suprised. Hell no. As a matter of fact most black womeon will come to these kids defense and defend this ignorance. You know how we love to throw blind support around ignorant black folk. Especially if that person has some *****s.
THIS IS A F-KING DISGRACE. And too think I sent a lil’ bit of money to these fools. Black mothers I blame you for this ish’. Stop putting your sons on a pedestal and raise them to be men. Responsible men. The black mothers of these young fools who showed up at the BET awards and now this fool braggin’ about this ish on his my*****e site is unbelievable.
Disgusted in DC
PS After seeing this, I’m glad one of them went back to jail. Hopefully, the other 5 will follow. No, I won’t be supportin’ this movement anymore. I’m done!!!!
People are soooooo stupid sometimes! I just don’t know what to say. I was SMH when two of them were on the HipHop awards looking like they were apart of some rappers entourage.
While ignorance and immaturity will defintely come to mind, his current behavior does de-value the equal rights afforded to him by the constitution. We may not appreciate everything that some one says or does, but that doesn’t change the rights that should be provided to that individual.
What are they thinking? All the people that pulled together to help these guys and this is the gratitude they get. I guess that white kid got his ***** beat for nothing
First those two fools go to the BET awards now this one is on YouTube basically making every single black person who supported the Jena 6 look like *****ing fools.
I GUESS IT PAYS TO BE A BLACK CRIMINAL IN AMERICA.
AND TO THINK THAT WE HAVE NOT MADE ANY PROGRESS……………I’M IN THE WRONG LINE OF WORK.I’M FIXING TO GO BEAT UP SOME WHITE PEOPLE SO I CAN GET STACKS OF CASH AND DIAMOND CHAINS.
IT WORKED FOR THEM SO WHY NOT ME?
See how ignorant SOME black people make and entire race look ignorant. ( drug dealers, Jena 6, superhead) I know this is going to be all on FOX news. See people that is why you should support people like Barak Obama and Hill Harper. Black people who are out to send a positive black message. Instead of this plantation garbage. They need to lock his ***** up and put him underneath the jail, and make him and his family pay back that money some how some way. SMDH.
DAMN! DAMN! DAMN! Say it aint so Sambo…..
I dont feel as stupid for supporting the cause as I do for believing these Bucket-heads were really decent dudes. Rev Al didnt advise these clowns to lay low and be easy??!! Besides, they still have to go back to court, RIGHT??? SMH to the 10th power on this nonsense…..
However the issue for the Jena 6 should not be lost which is the lack of equal punishment for different groups of people.
IN THE WORDS OF DAVE CHAPPELLE/RICK JAMES…..”THEY SHOULD’VE NEVER GAVE YOU *****S MONEY!!!!!
We should hide this QUICK before YT sees it!!!! (I’ve been saying we need more facts from the beginning, check my site) I actually heard young blacks saying they were PROUD to be a part of AL Sharptons “New” Black revolution. Another blow to the potency of REAL racial injustice claims in America. Thanks Jesse and Al.
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@ JAO
Oh hell yeah… Fox Noise is gonna be all up in their ***** about this. Stupid *****.. WTF?? What the hell are people thinking? This is a *****in’ slap in the face to all those people who supported them. I’m glad I held off on jumpin’ on the bandwagon until all the facts were out. This is foolishness at its best. And people were taking shots at Obama for not reacting fast enough.. This is why..**SMDH**
Thank you miss thang.
*Off topic* I’m not trying to start no ish but it’s the truth, say something about Jay-z and his street cred hustle and you will hear it from stans which is BS in itself. Mostly from WOMEN which is ironic. As nasty as Khia is that heffa had a point, “stop supporting hood ignorance ***** this and “let women unite, hell you done swallowed enough d**k and you still in the same predicament.” Basically women stop supporting ***** like this and start supporting real men and women.
THAT’S THAT BULL ***** RIGHT THERE!
THIS YET ANOTHER REASON WHY EVERY RACE ON THE PLANET ALWAYS, ALWAYS HAVE SOMETHING *****ED UP TO SAY ABOUT BLACK FOLKS!
AND THE PARENTS NEED TO GET A *****IN’ GRIP ON THEIR KIDS….!
DID YOU KNOW THESE STUPID ***** NEGROS WAS AT THE BET AWARDS SHOW AND GOT ON STAGE AND SAID THEY WANTED TO THANK THEIR “FANS”
WHAT *****IN FANS!?
TO THEM THE WHOLE JENA 6 MOVEMENT WAS A *****IN’ JOKE!
I BET THEY WAS SAYING TO EACH OTHER LIKE……
“YO! YOU ALL THOSE PEOPLE OUT THERE ARE FOR US!”
HAAAAAAAAAAA! THAT ***** IS FUNNY AS HELL YO”
***** THAT WHEN WE GET THAT DONATION MONEY I’M GONNA GET ME A *****IN CHAIN!
I WISH I COULD SEE THEM FACE TO FACE SO I CAN SPIT RIGHT IN IT!
Miss Thang,
This is why women, especially black women shouldnt be allowed to raise boys on their own. NO to single parenthood except under extreme cir*****stances. It aint cute.
Ok, now I will put on my bullet proof vest. I see the gats coming out…
disgraceful..
You all can’t be that STUPID. The parents are not even able to get their hand on the donations that money is going straight to their defense attorneys. He is just a kid doing kid things. You all knock it off even if you are just joking around.
By the way everyone including Jesse Jackson disclosed the amounts they were receiving. You all need to try to read something other than BOSSIP(which I like). Peace
Come on ppl! Just becuz these kids are acting a fool doesn’t mean we agree they should go to jail. As I recall we were fighting against the unfair bargain these kids were getting from the justice system, a fact which still remains true!!!!!
Yvonne– Where do you suppose he got the kind of cash??
Good point gemini62065. It’s important we don’t forget your point regardless of this kid’s actions.
WOW! I can’t even say I’m suprised, just disappointed as a *****.
Thanks Jena 6, now ya’ll n*ggas can go make a ***** as cd and really go big time!
this is so sad… the state of black youth
Sorry Kigali:
Black women raising boys on their own has NOTHING to do with this *****ed up mess, especially if the man in the house is just as igorant as his son…..this is about damage control; the Rev Al’s an ‘em made Jena, LA a national issue-where were they to do spin control and manage what they do since they now look just as stooopid as we do for supporting them….these negroids are what they are!
If that money didn’t come from Black supporters, where the ***** did they get all those stacks, not in that broke ***** Jena town.
Stop defending stupid ***** because it’s Black and call it like it is.
regardless of their negroidian actions (as seen here) the blatant racism that lead to their arrest, and continued there after is still a travesty. we should not allow such ignorance to deter us from supporting equality or fighting racism in the future.
*side bar: there parents should whip their *****es.
quickly.
I’ve always thought the kids involved in the fight should be held responsible for their actions. I think sometimes people react with emotions rather than logic whenever race is involved. Instead of stepping back and looking at all of the factors involved.
We all know that racism, and bigotry is alive in well in America. We know that the justice system isn’t fair to the minorities, the poor, and the mentally ill.
Therefore, why would someone with so may strikes against them, put themselves in a situation where they’re going to be thrown into an unjust legal system?
I don’t find this surprising at all. I am a minority too and I hate to hear people pull out the black/hispanic card when they are trying to defend themselves. I think it is a total shame and a lack or respect and remorse that is being shown from these individuals. They clearly act like thugs and deserve to be punished as such.
Enough is enough!!! It’s time for them to be held liable for their actions and be locked up. It’s time for people to stop supporting this type of behavior and encouraging this type of foolishness and disrespect. As a society, we have a responsibility to our kids, neighbors, country to make sure that those who commit a crime are held responsible for it. As parents, we have it in our hands to teach our kids right from wrong. We need to be more responsible and teach our kids to stand up for the mistakes and learn from them. Where are these kids’ mothers? Still pulling out the black card? It’s a shame!!! They should all be locked up!!! They could have killed someone. If they are allowed to continue to behave this way, someone will die as a result!!!
As the public, let’s stick to the facts and not be biased about this case. All we have to do is look at the pictures and see that these individuals clearly do not hold any type of respect for human life. So why should we care for them?
Bless his dumb***** heart….and his parents too –smh:(
Wow… 2,000 dollars in 100s. BALLIN
oooh god!
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this is everybody’s fault. It goes to show you can’t just throw money at a problem. The Jena 6 cause was just but that doesn’t mean that those involved shouldn’t have seen some sort of reprimand. The parents should have warned them that the scope will always be on them and as such should stay under the radar and on their best behavior.
At any rate the families should have been prepped to keep humble.
You can’t expect these kids to act right when noone is teaching them the correct way.
Why are you guys even surprised? When I saw two of the Jena six at the BET awards dressed like “rap stars”…I knew where this one was heading. Where are the parents? In defense of young fools, there are still teens. But, somebody in their family….an Uncle, a mother, a sister, a father, a auntie, a pastor….somebody had to sit them down and say to the young fools that flaunting legal defense money is not a smart move.
Ya’ll are stupid because you are
1.) Late, this was elsewhere a month ago.
2.) The legal and racial injustice of black kids getting excessive punishment (i.e. getting tried for attempted murder for a stupid school fight) is there, regardless of whether Robert Bailey and crew decide to act like 16 year olds or not. The punishment is still unwarranted and is still racial in impact, just like the Shaquanda Cotton case.
3.) You actually try to justify and validate why (you think) that every race hate Black people. Please trust that stupid comes in every color! And I’m not even black, but I’m disgusted at your self hatred.
4.) These kids did not consent to becoming heroes or take part in strategic planning to carry out a Black Agenda (like Rosa Parks and others did). They were victims and they will still be kids. There is no proof that money is from the fund. Calm down.
If you read about this case to begin with, you’d have suspicions. The sentencing was extreme, and smacked of racism, but these boys basically jumped a white boy, and beat his *****, THEN blamed the nooses.
Would I want to beat someone’s ***** if they hung a noose. Hell yeah, would I be justified under the law? Hell no. A noose doesn’t give you the right to be “FREED” by the people.
This is why even the most liberal hearted of white folks are just ignoring us when it comes to issues like this, too many Duke lax and Tawana Brawly cases.
There IS REAL RACISM in the world. Too bad that when you cry wolf too many times, and make a mountain out of a molehill, you get ignored when it’s REAL RACISM.
Maybe brother Obama knew a thing or two when he didn’t attach himselves to these coons.
This is just the point I was trying to prove in the previous Jena6 post!
“Oh, let them be kids, let them have their fun..someone said”.
I was afraid of this….
Now what?????????????????
These “children” made us look like fools! And where are the parents?
I’m so *****ed right now!…….
UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“You can’t expect these kids to act right when noone is teaching them the correct way.”
We’re not talking about 9 and 10 year olds. We’re talking about teenagers. Regardless if their parents taught them values, they still should know right from wrong.
I’m really tired of people blaming rap music, the schools, teachers etc. It’s about damn time that these teens took responsibility for their actions. Yes, the parents could have done a better job, but prisons are full of people who had bad parents. It’s up to the individual when they’re becoming young men and women to decide which path they would like to go down.
I’m not even sure if I’m surprised by this! I do know that I am disgusted and embarr*****ed by the behavior of this a**hole who has not even learned anything from his experience. Who’s to even say that he is posing with his “defense money” , but it sure leaves me scratching my head trying to figure out a whole lot of other things…Damn shame! I wonder has Michael Baisden seen this?
Kim, I dont know how your life was as a teenager but I always worked. If I wasn’t at a job I did things for people around my neighborhood. It’s only Two-thousand. And Dulce, you sound dumb as hell for real. You too should start reading more.
This is way no other blacks folks want to support each othe because of dummies like this. I can not believe he would do this but what do you expect from some of this children today. Bill Cosby said it best”Come on People”
African Americans are living in situations where we have to move differently than the rest of the population. Africans in American’s have to work three times as hard as anyone else in the world to achieve the same goal.
We have to examine the situation realistically. Our children don’t have the luxury of being children in the traditional sense because the world is trying to kill them, rape them or both; literally.
The world is trying to systematically destroy the African, while scientifically proving the African’s inferiority to all other human races on the planet on a genetic level.
When are people going to wake up and smell the systematic genocide? This is not just in the United States, this is world wide. Africans as a people are in last place.
Too many Africans are playing when it’s time to work; making speeches when it’s time to fight.
As a race we can no longer afford act as if the world isn’t planning our destruction.
We, the supporters need to be careful… Lord already knows the devil be working overtime. That most times a person in trouble over a mistake. Just cause we rallied for them, don’t mean they get it. Those that are against them may have posted this, who knows. Maybe this ain’t the young man we think it is — may it is — either way, his momma need to open a can of whoop azz… and teach him to be humble
I wonder when his My*****e page was created??
I know. I know….I’m reaching…..
oochdie you calm down! People have a right to be bothered; like it or not-they represent a movement (lay low if you dont want the “FANS” and the attention) they went on BET fpr gods sake like starts, it is what it is and people ahouldnt give up on the cause, just train our youth to act accordingly-these boys needed support not to be thrown out to the wolves without being properly trained.
Ya know, it reminds me of when Sharpton, Bill Cosby, Mike Tyson and a bunch of folks in NY got up in arms over Tawana Brawley and her allegations that she was kidnapped, raped and smeared in feces by white police officers in Wappingers Falls. It turned out to be a bunch of B.S. The stupid trick ran away from home, was smoking crack somewhere and needed to give her parents and excuse for being gone. Let me tell you, she had issues. Went to Howard, walked around looking like a ho and from what I hear from a friend who dated her (his stupid ***** didn’t know who she was), she acted like one too.
Lesson being, just because it looks like a case of injustice and everyone is crying foul, do your own research and carefully examine the facts and “characters” involved before jumping on the bandwagon!!
It is interesting how everyone keeps asking where are the MOTHERS? The REAL question is where are the FATHERS?
The breakdown of the black family and the absence of paternal guidance and discipline is the cause of MOST of the ills in the black community.
Until women get GOD in their lives and develop standards for men based on the biblical requirements of a man, then we will continue our downward spiral in the black community.
QUALITY parenting and two-parent households are the solutions to most of our problems. Until we change our values and stop the baby momma/baby daddy syndrome in our communitiies (it is NOT cute), we will continue to regress as a race and a community. Additionally, we will continue to birth black male babies whose only future is to become a STATISTIC.
I think the wrong dude is in jail
they don’t have too much money…I saw that same sheet set on sale at Walmart. Roll back prices…
I have several comments to make regarding this *****:
1. The justice system is unjust toward minorities, therefore I DO NOT regret my support the the boys.
2. The boy is young and ignorant, “so he needs education, NOT put him back in jail.
3. Jackson and Sharpton DID NOT create the Jena Six, they merely joined later into the whole thing.
4. Bossip DID support them one way or the other, since you fools put up up the thread about John McWhorter calling the noose incident an “innocent prank”.
And how did the funds get into his hands?
Ok..let’s put this in perspective. You have many more fake cases i.e. white folks saying a black person did it than the reverse.
Tawana Brawley was almost 20 years ago. I’m sorry but those racist white duke boys did do something wrong. They just had the money to fight it. Besides, how many white women and men have falsely accused black folks for some ish’. Remember Susan Smith in North Carolina years ago. She said a black man carjacked and kidnapped her kids. Truth came out , she drowned them herself. I could go on but I’ll stop!
Just Sit & Be Pretty – NUFF SAID!
Wow Bossip is really POWERFUL, almost FOX News powerful….Bossip can say these kids are spending legal defense funds and 9 out of 10 people comment saying how they knew they shouldn’t have supported them, how they really never believed in Jesse or Al and those. Oh and people even started talking about the kids mommas and they character of black women as single parents. WOW! only like TWO, or THREE people as intelligent questions about WHEN the Pic might have been taken. As soon as I saw the PICTURE (no date, no source) and the title and understood that I was ON BLACK GOSSIP, I didn’t believe what I read. WhY because you’re not SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE everything you read. Your supposed to go find out…So that’s what I’m gonna do B4 I comment on anything that was written by BOSSIP. Because every MEDIA has an agenda, and that’s to get you to watch/listen to them. From FOX to BOSSIP to Al’s radio show to the evening news. I would advise the rest of you to read more and get more information to paint a more full picture before you go jumping on the band wagon. Now that is what I would call BLACK.
Just Me
However the issue for the Jena 6 should not be lost which is the lack of equal punishment for different groups of people.
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Exactly… I agree 100%
We give up on each other so easy, Being continually negative and pointer fingerish is easy,our race is always in a fight w/ each other b/c we so embarr*****ed by each other, help once for the movement, when it requires more, we are out of ideas, done, and disgusted! instead of CONTINUALLY stepping in and being positive AFTER the fact, they’re kids, do you give up on your kids when they do something foolish? let them know your dissapointed yes, b/c this is dissapointing, but this can be rectified with positive examples and mentors for these boys which no one seems to send those, but they sending money OK…show them, teach them, why it’s wrong, as adults of course we understand how much this affects us as a race yknow how much maturity that takes to be completely atoned from this?? they need to get there, Most adults aint even there, and you can’t expect these boys to be the pivotal turning point in our race issues, we got a long way to go folks, they teenage boys who got into a fight over ignorance to begin with, they have to be made to understand not just once, not twice, but with continual POSITIVE reinforcment from SOMEBODY, somebody gotta care to show them better, it’s too many quitters on the team as is, YES and a slap in the side of the head for a bad move, but teach their obvious young minds..positively..nothing gained by this but more separatism..not a thing.
@ Just Sit and Be Pretty
Yup. Ditto. You’re right!
Calm down yall. You know people are ignorant regardless. Cash cannot buy dignity or cl*****.
The movement is much bigger than these 6 boys, remember that. It is about intolerance and injustice that has been going down for too long and not being addressed. Those boys are getting paid and getting the help they need. Don’t put them down, continue to prop them up. And please, don’t chastise them in public. United we stand, divided we fall.
Jena is America and we cannot tolerate intolerance.
If this type of ***** continues, our cries for justice will continue to be ignored.
@miss thang, I normally would agree, but I’d rather go case by case than keep a tally of white vs. black did this or that? that gets petty and doesn’t show a real picture of what is important. Whats important is the individuals and the justice gotten in each case. if justice wasn’t gained then, there is not point to go tic for tat. No one wins when no justice is reached and each side will always point the finger to the other side until the truth is reach in each case.
Thank you Bossip- I agree with you as to why I don’t support a majority of Black causes just because they are Black. Just tell me who to write to so that I can voice my opinion about this madness. Some of the guys actually we on the carpet of the Bet awards or on of the Black awards show. This is so shameful but this most also be slammed. Thank you again Bossip just provide a name or an outlet to report this stupid behavoir as well as thankless behavior
Seriously ya’ll. One can only speculate that this money is that of donations. Hell his moms could have borrowed against his policy or his grandma could have hit 8,000 credits on the quarter slot and cashed it in at the casino. LOL
I’m Louisana girl and I went down to Jena to support these guys…This is sad….And they wonder why the white man do what he do to them….My brothas get it together being a thug is not cool….
Again I ask, Who ownes this site? 90% of the stuff posted for us to argue over is stereotypical or underlining racist. When was this video done? Obviously if the Bossip “writers” new they would have posted it for effect. You guys are not slick. You will not make a monkey out of me. Just because you think you are a media outlet doesn’t make you one. I can go to other peoples site and copy and paste too but that does not make me a legitimate source.
@baby Please, no disrespect but that pic scares the SHIZZ out of me err time I see it who is that? Betty Davis? perfect for halloween…cuz boo! scares the shizz out of the GAMMARAY
*correction*
knew they …
Oh boy, here goes the “God will solve everything” mantra.
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Bossip:
YOU DON’T SUPPORT THE NEGRO CAUSE? BUT I HEAR YOU GUYS AIN’T NEGROS?!?!?!?!
I don’t know if I’ll co-sign anything else he/she says, but I do know this, Buju Driva just said a mouthful
@Miss Thang
I’ve studied the Duke case a good bit, and I’ll say that other than bad taste and ugly comments, those Duke boys did nothing wrong. You can hate what they stand for, I feel you, but even old girl’s stripping partner said she was full of *****.
She also said one of them thanked her for “my cotten shirt,” so I think she’s keeping it real. I think they were s*****bags. They remind me of some guys I went to school with who also played Lax, but they didn’t rape that girl. So I am curious by what you mean, “did something wrong.” We can’t attach ourselves to every situation in which some white punk calls someone a name or acts offensive. So unless you think they actually *****aulted her (no proof anywhere), I think you’d agree that we need to choose our battles better.
We’re wasting whatever capital we have left in the this racial equality battle on trash like the Duke stripper and these boys.
We need to start fighting only for the black children who really are about something. We need to make sure those who want to learn are supported (there’s a reason Oprah went to Africa to build a school). We need to stop trying to save those that don’t deserve it, namely black criminals. Whether it be OJ, Vick, TI or these boys.
Did yall forget that the Jena 6 are 6 kids????? WTF do yall expect them to act like? That ***** aint nothing any other teeneagers their age wouldn’t do. Yall act like they suppose to be acting like a bunch of choir boys…They could be the biggest *****holes in the world but that doesn’t mean they should receive un equal justice…
@Bossip:
Aint yall a bunch of white folks up there? Yall are really pushing it.
Sorry Miss Thang – Duke stripper was a liar (admittedly)…..
Like some people said on here, please calm down.
Those boys need a heavy dose of education and not punishment. Seriously, is it a suprise that they’re acting like “thugs”? Apparently, being “thuggish” is what society says is acceptable for young black men.
The fact is they WERE victims of this injust system. And while I support punishment for beating the white boy, advocating more jail time for them won’t solve much.
The juvenile law in this country should apply to all.
Well let’s be careful to make *****umptions both about this video and about the case in general.
There simply aren’t enough facts.
The one fact that is preeminent in the whole situation is that these men recieved unfair, uneven sentencing because they were black. That I do not agree with.
I also don’t agree with them beating anyone for any reason so I did not give money to their defense fund.
Also, the money that is being sent in care of the family towards the defense fund should have been directly sent to a defense fund after the family recieved it. If it is not being sent there these men are guilty of fraud.
However there is the possibility that there is some other means in which they obtained this money. Again let’s get the facts before we *****ume.
what does this have to do with the charges??
also remember that these KIDS are under 18.
women can’t raise boys into men.
Above, Black Friday shows the low expectations that continue to breed this level of coonery and underachivement. “They jus kids” “don’t *****ody get a second chance?”
There’s too many second chances in our community, and we give our children way too many excuses. In that sense, we are like white people and there children with the “time outs.” We want to keep excusing poor behavior because we think it’s uplifting.
Teaching self-respect, dignity, and responsibility is what uplifts.
A man like Medgar Evers would probably puke in his mouth to think that this behavior has followed in his footsteps. He died just so he could vote; others died just to go to school and eat in the same place; and this is how our youth repays them.
SO WHAT???? It’s a crime to post pics of you with money on my*****e?????? it’s a shame how black people tear eachother down.
And also I don’t think we need to go into a sociological discussion of why people, low income particuliar low income blacks may feel the intense desire to flaunt wealth as a defense mechanism. There’s a whole story here, and this video is but one chapter.
Now we know what a back ground check will do for you. Pretrial knew this but the whole Afro American community did not. We all want a cause to follow how about our sisters in prisons with no hope.
Black people wake up!! Most of us have lost our common sense. If you are in the mist of a high profile case where you could do some serious time, would you post some ish’ like this on youtube/my*****e. If you thought for more than 1 second, you need to go to jail along with Michael Bell.
For those of you who are delusional and typical of MOST black people who are in DEEP denial. These pics and video are RECENT. This fool is rolling around in $100 bills and “FREE THE JENNA 6″ t-shirt. He’s also braggin’ about the money he’s been getting from industry *****s.
Black folks…I’m done. I’m turnin’ in my black activist card. *****, I’m see if I sell it for a $1 on ebay.
What is the purpose of Bossip posting this in the first place? Has anyone determined where this money came from. Divide and conquer and all of your Kneegrows fall for the okie doke.
Yes, the young man is displaying some ignorance. I blame Rev. Al and Michael Baisden and the others for not sitting him down and outlining the protocol for behavior in a civil rights movement. I’m sure no one has told him.
But to say lock them up and throw them all in jail. Yeah, ya’ll some backward kneegrows and Bossip is irresponsible for even printing this like it is the sure nuff truth. Watch it be all over white media in a day or two. And you better believe white folks are reading your ignorant responses and blowing it up as the sentiments of all of us.
Sad. The majority of all of you are really sad.
I am tired of you inferior feeling slave negroes always being scared of what white folks may say. You are playing the inferior position without knowing it.
The “making Black people look bad” comment is a sign of a modern day inferior thinking slave. Why should you have to carry around the burden of what foolish Black people do?
*****s aren’t going anywhere, people are going to continue to do stupid *****, this not effect the way you feel as a human being. If some people want to judge a race by flawed examples, ***** them and their ignorance!
The Duke stripper was a professional liar who accused other men of raping her. She was a crazy (literally) gogo dancer who was looking to make money, not make a racial case out of anything.
And I had no sympathy for the boys because they were a bunch of priveledged racists who got upset because a black stripper “ruined” their party.
Call me crazy but this is simply racist purveyors getting a dose of their own medicine. It’s called backfire. It’s sad but true.
They are so STUPID! See why it’s hard for us to get *****? They think they are *****in celebrities SMH
Haahha….this is gonna be on the next boondocks!! yeah yeah!!!
You people up here really are a bunch of *****ing coons…Why in the hell are you dumb ***** people trying to hold these kids to a higher standard than every other kid in America? Please log your old *****es onto my*****e and see how many kids you see doing the same exact ***** as the boy in the video…White kids, Black kids, Asian kids, Pakistani kids etc…What did yall expect to go on their pages and see them rocking turbins, talking about quests for knowledge and have the “I have a dream” speech posted up??????? They are TEENAGERS!!!!You aint gonna see that.
So because these boys are acting like the kids that they are, you coons wanna with draw your support for the cause of equal justice across race lines? Are you greezy head monkeys *****ing kidding? All it took was for some blogger(who could be the head of the KKK as far yall know) to post a dumb ***** comment to make yall turn on your own kind…No wonder we’re on the bottom. *****s are idiots. I hate you people.
@rebel
i bet they get a lot of black girls just for being at the bet awards…
WHAT YALL EXPECT WHY WAS THEY AT THA BET AWARDS
DUDE BETTA LAY LOW UNTILL COURT
http://WWW.MY*****E.COM/THAGRINDAHOLIC
NUTHIN BUT SLAPS
Nah nah,
I feel you, and trust me, if my personal experience serves me as well as I think, they dserved a little of what they got.
But the fact that “Al and Jesse” attached themselvs to this woman and some blacks (including the NAACP) got all behind this case further dilutes our case when real ***** actually goes down. Makes me just say “aww dayum.”
Yes, dumb ***** you’ve got millions of kids with dumb ***** bull***** on their my*****e pages. But are these kids in the mist of a highprofile case. Make a distinction.
People stop blaming Rev Al and all the other good people for these ignorant fools. Maybe someone DID talk to these fools. And these knuckleheads just decided not to listen. I’m tired of black people with low exceptation and a boat load of excuses for ignorant black folks. ***** black people, common sense is NOT dead. People just CHOOSE not to use it. At 16 years old, you SHOULD have some common sense. If you can’t see that, this discussion is DEAD.
Although i still believe that justice was finally served, this picture ish is ignorant…but how do we really kno this is not his mentality from the get-go? I mean come on he probably was thuggin before the jena 6 crap and then after it was all over wit it was back to “thuggin”. If u really think about it, whut guy u kno is on my*****e not tryna perpetrate….ummmm not many…and i’m talkin bout all guys
@Common Sense:
How about you just throw up in your own mouth right now…If you have advice, give it to your kids. If they’re on my*****e I’m sure they’re doing similar things if not worse. Are you idiots posting up the page of the white boy who got jumped? Are in media outlets reporting that he dropped out of school a couple of months later? NO! Because it has nothing to do with the case. Why are you idiots trying to hold these kids to a higher standard than that of every other kid in America?…
@Black Friday:
That may be true, you’ll see plenty of whities acting like fools on My*****e, of course, those white boys and girls aren’t ignorantly(you call us coons? Did you know what a coon is?)flaunting their defense fund, in front of the world.
Hell, f-ing mobsters know to “lay-low” while on trial. So to compare this COON (this is what a coon is. An ignorant buffoon who embar*****ed black people) to stupid white kids is wrong. Its wrong first and foremost because if we choose to measure ourselves against the ABSOLUTE WORST of whites and asians, than we deserved to be treated like the worst of them.
What whitey’s trailer trash do should not concern us, we should only concern ourselves with our own pride
i know its *****ed up…but just because they dumb ***** kids from a country ***** town DOES NOT mean they deserved to be imprisoned unjustly so ***** what u heard, rally for your people against the wrongs done to them not cuz u like them or something shallow…problem is our people so quick to jump on a damn bandwagon before checkin to see who drivin the *****
The “bufoonery” is not the issue, note they already exhibited “thugging” behavior (e.g., the white boy beat down) in which they need to be JUSTLY penalized. Again, their not acting like we want tois not the issue. The issue is JUST punishment, in which the court system was not doing!! FREE JENA 6 FROM UNJUST PUNISHMENT…but penalize justly.
@Miss thang:
You are an idiot too. What type of people these kids are has nothing to do with the issue. *****ody ever said they were saints in the first place. Most people believe they should be punished for what they did. But the punishment has to fit the crime. That is the issue. Not whether or not they are good kids.
They can run across my*****e butt naked for all I care, that doesn’t change the facts in the case stupid. The white boy quit high school and is now a drunk but that doesn’t matter either. None of these kids are angels. Stop making fools out of yourselves and just worry about the issues coons.
YOU ARE ALL STUPID!!!!!
This was all about Black people that had nothing to do with the situation trying to step in and Rally some ***** up. What you all can’t seem to realize is that when people (not refering to any race) do stupid *****…..Its because they are *****ING Stupid. If A White Person Did Some Stupid *****… I’m Not Going to be all “Man, We White Folks Got To Rally this Up.” ***** that! That white guy has a mind of his own! Stop jumping on a party wagon just because you want to stop RACISIM. By Jumpin on board your PROMOTING Racisim. I Love The Fact That this kids are living like celebrities….. BECAUSE YOU *****ING IDIOTS MADE THEM OUT TO BE. SO SIT BACK AND ENJOY WATCHING THEM SPEND YOUR MONEY ON HOES, DRUGS AND BEER! AND OF COURSE… NEW BLING! lololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol AT YOU!
I wish people would get off this “breakdown” of the Black family business like the ish happened 20 minutes ago.
As long as Black/Africans have been in America, the “black family” always had the woman has the head of the household due to the fact that our Black men were constantly being sold off to other plantations. I’m not saying that it’s okay to have absentee fathers–but the ish ain’t new.
Secondly, you know, I’ve always been skeptical about these Jena 6 boys. Like someone else said before, the ish has been sketch from jump. Also, these boys committed crimes–they weren’t wrongfully convicted of anything. Only ONE spent ridiculous time in jail and that fool already had a criminal record BEFORE ish popped off with the noose. Please. I’m supposed to feel sorry for these kids? Where else could they have gotten the money from? Ain’t *****ody ballin in Jena! They’re up on the internet flashing more money than some people who make an honest living have in their pockets or bank accounts. Excusing this as “kids being kids” is BS, they’re NOT kids, they’re 1-2 yrs away from being allowed to VOTE and SERVE in the army.
To say that they didn’t “ask” to be thrown into the whole “Jena 6″ ordeal is outrageous. They sure weren’t turning down any money from it, and these kids *****aulted somebody. I mean, really…come on y’all.
I am SO GLAD I did not jump on this Jena 6 bandwagon. Didn’t write about them in my blog, didn’t hop on a bus to ride across the country for these fools. Didn’t lose sleep.
I say lock all they *****es up just on GP!
Yes, I giveth and I CAN TAKETH AWAY. I don’t believe in blindly supporting anything. I’m going to support you until you give me reason to withdraw my support. You must be a George Bush supporter. Do you know we should have been out of Iraq along time ago?! Get off his ***** and change course.
Back to these fools, those boys showing up at award shows like celebrities, braggin’ about the money they received from the Jenna 6 fund is proof to me that their heads and actions are not in the right place. I wouldn’t be suprised if someone does something REALLY stupid/criminal.
Black folks stop actin’ like white people judge us on an individual basis. Racial profiling. Driving while black. Being followed around like criminals in stores. I could go on! Black men and women we need a mainstream media make over. This ish’ doesn’t help.
Well the real issue here is not about the boys, its about Blacks being discriminated by our justice system. Yes, it shows that he is ungrateful for what we have done for them. But at the end of the day we’re talking about one group of Black kids that were treated like animals.
Yes, they should have got punished, but 22 years is unreasonable! So if these kids got together and made a video about how they love to beat up white kids, then yes our efforts would have been defeated because that would prove that they DO like beating up people and they were NOT enticed to do so…
I feel you, and trust me, if my personal experience serves me as well as I think, they dserved a little of what they got.
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Who are you telling? I didn’t to sound too harsh, so I refrained from using the word ‘deserve’, but I agree.
see? that’s why you can’t be running across the country protesting stuff you don’t know about. i’m glad i didn’t send no money, didn’t buy no t-shirt and went to work like i always do.
i believe its ENOUGH of all this RACISM goin on…i can understand why those jena boys did what they did..not all but most white ppl will provke you until you snap and those jena boys are experiencing extreme racism and probably close to snappin……lets stop blaming the real victims here
I wonder if all of the people who were so quick to march and support this idiot would do the same thing after seeing this.
I felt from the beginning the whole Jena incident could have been avoided if someone had been adult enough to put a stop to it. Kids are going to fight and do stupid things. But for people who are supposed to be adults to get involved and take sides, especially along color lines was ridiculous. They looked just as stupid as the kids.
Everyone is quick to say something negative but that straight looks fake, i believe if any of that were true it would have been all over the news, and the pics with the money i can bet you they were taken some time before all this me nah believe d hype
I would like to know the source of this story because I dont belive Robert even have a my*****e page anymore after Jena 6 became known nationaly, because of racial threats. And if this is true, just because he doesnt have any home training doesnt excuse racism in this country.
@Black Friday.
Their behavoir could have a dramatic impact on the case. How you conduct yourself while going through a high profile criminal case is important?! I HATE those RACIST, RAPING DUKE boys but they did lay low. You got white, trailer trash inbreds WHO know to do that. Do you see those white rapists in W. Virginia with myspages?
How are you going to argue for equal justice when you’ve got folks doing things that make them look suspect?
so glad i never supported the jena 6 movement…lmfao, i can’t wait to hear what al sharpton has to say about this.
c-gabi:
I agree with your comment regarding black families. A lot of people fail to look at the issue in a radical sense. Every situation has a history, and the only way we can fix it is to understand where it came from.
Black people have been brainwashed to supress the effects of slavery. During slavery, black families were seperated at the will of the white masters.
The only way we can work toward fixing a problem is to understand it to the fullest.
Ya’ll should have known this was coming from the way they were ’stuntin” at the BET awards and then the dumb as negros in the audience actually gave them a standing ovation. Don’t get me wrong, I think the march in Jena was much needed but some people seem to ignore the fact that the fight was about fair punishment under the law. And it seems these ignorant boys and their parents are among those who have forgotten
So all you guys who are saying ‘I’m glad I didn’t support them’, are you accepting the injustice legal system as it is?
THIS YOUNG MAN HAS TO BE ONE OF THE DUMBEST NEGROS ON THE PLANT.You are ready to get crusafied for being in a situation now you going to make yourself an other black folk look DUMB. How stupid can he be this is straight up ingornace at it’s best. I feel really sorry for the other young men that have nothing to do with this stupid sh-t.
The point of my posts was not to say that this young man should be thrown back in jail. My point is, people need to take personal responsibility for their actions.
There are plenty of people who have had hard lives, far worse than some of us could imagine, but they’ve made it through.
It’s all about perception, it doesn’t matter how people on this site views this young man, what matters is how the people who are going to sent in judgment of him views him.
Think of it this way, suppose a child is kidnapped, and then the next day the mother is on the news crying about it. A few days later she’s photographed partying. People are going to become suspicious of that mother. By nature we’re judgmental, right or wrong that’s the way it is.
SEND THAT TO YOUR LOCAL NEWS STATIONS. STUPID KIDS.
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When I heard that Mychael Bell had a prior juvie record which was violence related, I knew this was the wrong band wagon to get on. The so called black community leaders have gone on record saying this case was one of the most significant civil rights cases in modern history. It’s going to end up Tawana Brawly-ish with its real significance of being more a pop culture event. I hate to say it, but the whole dirty south mentality seems to rear it’s ignorant head.
One step forward, two steps back…
GOOGLE Roe V Wade + Norma McCorvey(the secret plantiff, Roe). This woman was not a model citizen, mother, or anything else. No one is trying to downplay the legal precedent because of her character.
This is the O.J. syndrome. If true those craKKKas will get back.
@ Sexykels3304
I do agree with you but your argumnent does lose a bit of credibility when you start by calling someone else dumb and misspell “planet”, “crusafied” and “ingornace”. That was just too funny to resist.
They had that money from before the jena mess.
Can not wait for all the families to get sued by those that helped them for misrepresentation. Karma. Now all black have to pay the price for this. Great.
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nahnah,
People can’t be defined by the past. If people keep looking back, they’ll never mood forward. With each day there are going to be new challenges, but people must try to stay on the right path and be prepared to face those challenges.
HEATHER PLEASE SHUT THE HELL UP
The picture was posted at least one month ago. The facts still remain the same that the sentence was extreme; they deserved to be punished for what they have done. RUMORS are spreading that Bailey’s mother purchased a Jag and Bell’s father purchased an Escalade and his mother has a BMW. Again this is just a rumor, but I was confused when Bell’s father did not know where the money would come from to pay for court expenses. Thousands of dollars have been donated and I did not Rev Al or Jesse step up to pay this; just as they did pay the bail.
There is more to this story than some innocent kids being railroaded; according to accounts from members of Jena’s Black community the Jena 6 are not choir boys by any stretch of the imagination. The fact that they all played football or basketbal (gotta entertain the MASTA!!)and played it well, gave them a few perks.
What they need is our support, which includes repreimanding bad behavior and not a community turning their back on them.
I think the positive effect of this video is that Black folks will now focus on the only issue here, unfair sentencing, and stop praising these losers and saying “Free the Jena 6″ like they are Nelson f-ing Mandela or somthing.
If you dress, talk, and conduct yourself like a “thug,” then you’re an idiot for complaining when you get treated like a thug or criminal. If a black man in a suit coming home from work gets har*****ed, then I’ll lend my support, but these fools just got spanked too hard by the system, we supported them, their punishment is reduced. But now we look foolish in the process.
You can’t brag about being a thug, then want to be treated otherwise, can you.
@Miss Thang,
Did you not just read what I said the white boy who got stomped is doing now? He is apart of this high profile case too you know…
I am really embarr*****ed to be black right now, and it’s not because of the Jena 6 kids…It’s because you people on this blog…We are really hopeless.
T YOU THE ONLY ***** MAKING SINCE UP IN HERE, EVERYONE ELSE SEEMS SO UNEDUCATDED
BLACK FRIDAY YOUR HOPELESS SO SHUT THE ***** UP
The real question is who put this video up. I thought Bossip was cool, look like yall jus bunch of Uncle Toms (or white, or asian, middle eastern or sumptin) trying to bring attention to subversive information. If this ***** is all true, the point of supporting Jena Six is the racism that was still happening in America in 2007.
***** BOSSip,
What a bunch of *****ing coons they need their *****’s beat!! I blame the parents!! all the work put into freeing their black *****’s and now all this *****ery and buffoonery. SMH they are a disgrace no humility taking ***** for granted. damn they need a ***** whupping.
According to Black Friday:
Black people just need to represent themselvs as well as the worst white people. And if we get caught acting like *****holes, well, didn’t you see, a white person acted up too.
@ miss thang
well said.
i knew they were triffling when i saw the “stunning” at thehip hop awards. they had a forum to speak about the incident, and did not even use it or say anything intelligent! this is what’s representing black america. i’m not proud.
I have come back to read some of the opposing comments. No matter the case, I still think these boys need some media training now that they are in the public eye. Don’t they know how to act during a court case?
I would NOT be taking a silly picture like this while on trial. Yes they are kids, but in the court system they are being treated as adults, and should act as such.
Damn Bossip.This is SO old.Yea he had this posted on his My*****e but he was told to remove it and he has spoken about it.I cant even remember what was said…yea it was that long ago.I’m not defending him but damn dont bring the ***** back up.It had already been dealt with!As a race we are quick to dig up and point out the dirt even once the dust has settled.I know this is probably new to a lot of you so I will carry on and let you all vent.Good Day!
rainlillie,
i don’t regard the effects of slavery to be a thing of the past. they are alive and very current.
i respect your views but i would have to disagree with you because i think our past determines our future.
- i’m sure bill gate’s next of kin is going to want to hold on to their past if they want to continue the legacy of success.
- a recovering alcoholic will look at his past to determine his future.
acknowleding slavery and its affects is not a matter of holding to the past, but a matter of aknowleding it for what it is in order to progress to a positive future for black people worldwide.
legislations did not and will not solve our community and self esteem problems.
Well Common Sense i see you have none
People shouldn’t be tricked into being overly upset at the Jena 6. The support for the Jena 6 was about supporting equality so it was bigger then these guys. And no matter what this guy did on the net the justice system was not treating them fairly and that’s the bottom line I wonder is Bossip owned by Rupert Murdoch?
@Black Friday
Has this white boy misappropriated funds sent in by hard working white folks. Some of which, probably, didn’t even have it to give. You do realize that there has been a huge WHITE BACKLASH. White folks have also sent in their support for TEAM WHITE.
Has this white boy set up a my*****e page braggin’ about how he set these stupid *****s up?
Is this white boy at a Nascar event or the local fair braggin’ about this ish’.
So, what if he’s a drop out and a drunk. This is the first I’ve heard of this, please list a source. You know you’ve got black folks down their waitin’ for YT to slip up too. How come their isn’t any video or pics of his drunkinness. Secondly at least that white inbred fool has managed to keep his drunk ***** out of the public eye. If you gonna be a fool, don’t be so visible!
Besides, WE have more to loose than TEAM WHITE. Just so you know.
Mocha318
Damn Bossip.This is SO old.Yea he had this posted on his My*****e but he was told to remove it and he has spoken about it.I cant even remember what was said…yea it was that long ago.I’m not defending him but damn dont bring the ***** back up.It had already been dealt with!As a race we are quick to dig up and point out the dirt even once the dust has settled.I know this is probably new to a lot of you so I will carry on and let you all vent.Good Day!
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Thanks for the info I hope all those that were ready to start making nooses read your post.
Miss Thang give it up honey before you get a cyber beatdown
Ms. Thang
Coons don’t care about owning up, they care about making sure you know it wasn’t their fault, or that they weren’t the only one doing it.
I used to have this mentality as a little boy. Apparently, these people keep it well beyond puberty.
It’s funny to me that some of you are calling out Bossip for posting this. IT AIN’T BOSSIP’S FAULT THSI FOOL ACTED LIKE THIS. Whether he knew he was going to be seen or not. He said and did it, and we should be as ashamed and upset as we are…
Bossip posts are giving me heartburn. Increasingly this is becoming a “Balck Hate” blog.
The little guy was stupid if indeed this is him. We are all a little to quick to call the movement a bust because of one ignorant individual.
I equate it with calling God a sham because you pastor is stealing funds.
@ miss thang
suggesting that the jenna six has “misappropriated funds” is a serious accusation. we can’t date these photos nor can we prove if that money came from thier defense fund.
i do agree that thier behavior (these photos, thier unnecessary appearance at an award show, etc) is inappropriate.
though i think the punishment is unfair and racially charged, you cannot simply forget the fact that they did *****ult someone, 6 on 1.
Common Sense said: If you dress, talk, and conduct yourself like a “thug,” then you’re an idiot for complaining when you get treated like a thug or criminal. If a black man in a suit coming home from work gets har*****ed, then I’ll lend my support, but these fools just got spanked too hard by the system, we supported them, their punishment is reduced. But now we look foolish in the process.
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What if the black man in the suit got harr*****ed because he was involved in some sort of drug dealing? I think we all know that a suit does not define a person.
The fact is, these boys are young, and there’s still time to educate them. I don’t know who will take that responsibility, but we must stop looking at these young thug imposters as menaces to society, because they are not.
They’re ignorant and misguided, so they need education, not prison time.
The most dangerous men in the world are in suits and ties on a daily basis, not baggy jeans and long white t-shirts, and wave caps.
@Richard
Good point I think that black people are being tricked into bashing their own. It’s almost a form of reverse psychology.
Richard:
I equate it with calling God a sham because you pastor is stealing funds.
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Well said!
DEAD THE RACISM~~
DEAD THE RACISM~~
THE N WORD HAD A FUNERAL NOW ITS TIME TO BURY RACISM!
2007
@purple friday
no source? lol… please be sure to continue to send your hard earned money to these fools. I will not.
Karma is a ***** thats all i gotta say
No ***** your mother is purple dont get it confused
Coop:
Good point I think that black people are being tricked into bashing their own. It’s almost a form of reverse psychology.
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Yep! It’s pretty apparent, actually. Is it a concidence that all the the recent mobilizations have gone “bad”. Look at Trent Benefield who was shot by police with his friend Sean Bell(R.I.P)? The guy was accused of beating his girlfriend (or was it his wife?), which people used to justify him being shot at.
Bossip, who are you people? Show your faces, please!
I think I’m going to lay off on this site. Seriously, who owns bossip and why are we always talking about black/white stuff on here?
These kids are innocent, I am sending all my money to the Jena 6 boys who were thuggin at the BET Awards.
Since civil rights leaders and others say this is a Black thing to do and is good, I am going to fall in line with permed up corrupt preachers and under-educated well meaning Black people.
Please take my money so you can go buy some gold chains and the Jena thugs can use my money when they are charged with another felony.
I really think we should support Black people, even when they are doing stupid *****. We should keep being reactionary and support things that white people are against.
I love being ignorant, how do you think our people got into this mess, supporting the wrong leaders and causes. Jena 6 is one of them.
Guess I will just keep doing the same Jesse Jackson, Jena 6 BET bling, Rev Al Sharpton *****, just keep doing the same *****, this will get us somewhere.
It’s sad to see such a thing, but it comes to a point where acts like this don’t even shock me anymore…so sad but true.
@God
Why does this have to be an issue on single mothers??? I myself am a single mother, an educated one at that, I did not want to be single, but God had another path for me, so don’t sit there and say that I blame all single mothers for this mess, true enough it does not “look good” but we cannot choose some things for ourselves, it takes spending time, trying to connect with your childs father, even if he is a low-life, and sometimes the child is better off without the fathers , so don’t sit there and blame single mothers for every situation. If you were “god” you would know these things!!!
Nahnah,
See, I personally am will not hold marches and give money to support thugs. There are black people and causes which deserve my funds and time, defending a black man who beat his wife from harsh/deadly police brutality is not amongst them.
I remember black folks wanted to march and rally in Cinncinati over some fool who was shot by police. Turns about they shot him for stealing a pen, AFTER HE TRIED TO STEAL AN OFFICER’S HANDGUN.
There is real racism that needs to be fought, but why are we wasting out time trying to defend black criminals? That’s all they are, criminals. Why do Blacks more than any other race have such support for our criminals?
Instead of fighting for Mycah’s sentence to be reduced for a crime he DID commmit. I am going to put my money towards little Alicia’s scholarship, she’s the one who’s worth saving.
Defending criminals does noting but make us look bad in the end.
@Miss Thang,
There is a difference between what Susan Smith did. She didnt put the blame on an individual but on a black suspect who could have been anyone. Had they “found” a suspect, then he could have been defended against false charges.
@nahnah
It’s the new form of black on black crime but now it “intelligent” people doing it in a verbal form so it’s vogue. It in some way started with Don Imus he’s 70 something years old and blames hip hop for his actions as if he’s a Pac fan. It’s not acceptable when a young thug says he shot someone because of Ice-T, but it is when it’s a 70 year old white man? Well I guess so because everyone put their tail between their legs and went to war on Hip Hop.
WILDFIRES = KARMA…KEEP DEFENDING RACISM BIGOTRY INJUSTICE & UNJUST WARS AND SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES
the self-proclaimed “highy” educated crack me up.
Well here’s the deal. The Jena 6 were victims of a racist local government and town when they were given such severe sentences while the white kids got off scott free. That was wrong. But they still committed a crime and should have been punished FAIRLY for it. Because their sentence was so severe in relation to the crime, it produced a backlash and everybody started jumping out in support of them and giving them money like they were a bunch of bible students being wrongly persecuted. Its like everybody had to be on one extreme or the other, ppl just don’t have common sense anymore. They SHOULD have been punished for what they did, but that punishment should have fit the crime, and the white kids who did the same thing should get the same punishment. Everybody who jumped on this cause thinking they were saints are probably feeling really stupid right now
The problem that I have with my community is this blind faith bullish’. Guess what? Some of us are cat fish stankin’ triflin’. (Please medidate on the truth). We as a community support black folks that can’t handle NOR appreciate our support.
Am I missing something? Are these boys severly autistic or mentally handicapped? If this is the case, than it explains everything and I’ll go before Jesus and repent. But if this AIN’T the case, than my support will cease. I’m not gonna support black people who don’t know how to act. Yeah, yall must be some George Bush supporters on here.
Blindly supporting a black person because you’re soo mad at YT without questioning ‘questionable’ behavoir IS STUPID! Your headed for an embarr*****ment. You got too many HONEST black folks that are being jipped by the system that need our support. Not these fools.
@nahnah
Bossip, who are you people? Show your faces, please!
I think I’m going to lay off on this site. Seriously, who owns bossip and why are we always talking about black/white stuff on here?
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It does seem like a plot?
Bossip does seem to be affiliated with all these other sites.
Evil Beet, Celebslam, F-Listed, Lossip (Bossip’s Latino cousin?)
, Sick Hop, Hollyscoop, Cele*****y, The Blemish, I’m Not Obsessed, Dlisted, and etc.
This is propoganda. The boy been through enough leave him alone
@Miss Thang…
So even if they are treat unfairly by the legal system we should turn our backs on them/
They are children……….young adults, we can not expect them to act and behave like an adult would, but regardless if they are ignorant, idiots, stupid, black, or white, children, or adults they were still served an injustice by the judicial system.
Many times we go through situations in our own lives where our family members and friends come to our defense, yet we turn around and go back to the same ole’ situations that brought about their need for our defense.
…and how many times has Our Father God pulled us out of some of the worse situations in our lives and we successfully bounce back, but we have a spirit of ungratefulness and ungratitude, but He still comes to our rescue time and time again.
The Jena 6 situation is bigger than the 6 young men involved, its about racism, prejudiceness, and injustice.
…………wouldn’t it be funny if we found out that while everyone was parti*****ting in the bus boycott after the Rosa Parks (God rest her soul) incident, the very next day Ms. Parks rides by on a bus waving to the boycotters, some would argue what are we boycotting for and she back on the bus, but like the Jena 6, it is not about the person, but the injustice and unfair treatment that could one day affect my children, my children’s children, and the generations to come, that is why we protested and marched, and will continue to fight for.
Common Sense,
If you believe a 14 years old who steals a pair of shoes from Foot Locker should be tried with Armed Robbery, then I suggest you evaluate your sense of justice.
Too many young black men are falling victim to the thug mentality/life style, and if you believe jail time is the solution, then I feel sorry for you.
@kigali,
Susan Smith that lyin’ racist pig caused a racial tornado. You see when she made that accusation, ALL BLACK MEN WERE SUSPECT. Black men were rounded up and aggressively harr*****ed BASED ON HER DESCRIPTION. Racial tensions were at a all time high down there. Had she continued the f*****, they WOULD have convicted some innocent black man for this WHITE inbred’s bull*****.
Yes, you must be white. Let me explain something to you. The justice system DOES NOT WORK FOR US. (Read that twice and write that down somewhere). You have many black men who are in prison and have recieved death sentences based off of testimony from a lying white heffa. So, please save the “Justice System” would have caught that bull***** arguement. Save that post for the O’Reilly blog.
That’s real talk!
Okay, I have to retrack my steps, how do we know this them for real??? Can this be an uncle Tom hatin’ on them, Can this be someone who made a page up and are deframing them? Let’s look at all the facts first. I would like to believe this is the case….. I HOPE this is the case or it’s going to be a sad day in hell.
Wow there are no words. I still think it was a good idea to protest unfair sentencing in Jena but these boys are a bunch of f*ckheads. They need some real PR training.
New Happy Nappy Head POST!!! Bill Cosby and More!
I just realized that was posted on you tube by racist.
I just realized that was posted on you tube by racist.
Grain of salt anyone????
Coop,
Kinda like blackplanet and migente — all owned by non blacks.
Then Africana.com and Blackvoices.com was brought by Time Warner, which *****ed me off because I LOVED Africana.com. It’s like we own nothing these days.
Damn. I’ve heard some say that they think black people were better off during the Jim Crow Era b/c even though we had waaaay less rights … at least we knew what we were up against and as a result we stuck 2gether more, valued education more and didn’t sh*t 4 granted like some of these wanna be thugs, black women hatiin’ athletes and various rappers gettin’ caught w/ guns, weed … u name it. I tend 2 agree. In some instances 2day it seems like we’re regressing instead of PROgressing.
Back then it was “Us Against The World“. Nowadays black people wanna act like ni**as [i.e ignorant] and keep it real. Sad, sad, sad.
Big Jim said:
HEATHER PLEASE SHUT THE HELL UP
Of all the people, I am the one who is gone too far. Suuuure….
Coop,
This is the reason why you’ve got soo many corrupt religous leaders flyin’ in private jets and eatin’ scrimps while their parishoners are shoppin’ at Dots. Blind support is dangerous. We must always question those in a leadership positions or roles. No, these boys did not ask for this but they have no problems reaping the money, attention and fame. If you have no problems spending my hard earned donations, showing up at award shows, making internet videos surrounded by $100 dollar bills than I have EVERY RIGHT to question your behavoir and withdraw my support.
While it is a great disapointment that these young men chose to use the support of thousands who ralied in their defense for their own ignorant gains. It is also very unitelliigent to place the entire blame on black mothers as “Miss Thang” wrote, saying Black mothers I blame you for this ish’. Stop putting your sons on a pedestal and raise them to be men. Responsible men.” If we are throwing out blame, lets also ask our black men to step up to the plate and teach there sons to be men through example. To except the challange of fatherhood, and not leave out black woman with the sole responsibilty of teaching their sons to be men.
What these young men did was tasteless and ignorant, but it is our responsibility as a BLACK PEOPLE to set the bar high for our black men.
Notice that the free the Jena 6 shirt pics are simply placed inbetween pics of them with the hundred dollar bills.
There is no proof that this money was after the Jena incident nor that the money is from the defense fund. Nor that the money is even real. I do not believe people were sending 100 dollar bills. If money was given to the actual fund then they would not be able to touch it and they would not be able to dispense it in 100 dollar bills. Farthermore these boys are too young to open a bank account.
I think we have to be careful not to jump to conclusions here.
I’m not suprise; these kids are thugs and need to go to prison.
See this is the problem…we don’t realize that they are children. These children were not GOLDEN before they were caught up in this incident…thus, I am not surprised by these turn of events. They are children infected by the Fooly***** of new school rap…bling and *****es. We have to yet embrace these children, teach and love them. They are teenagers. Children who make stupid and senseless mistakes like we did. Don’t discard them b/c they do not fit your profile. Essentially, they’re no Rosa Parks. They are teen-agers in our materialistic and self-centered serviced oriented society.
This isn’t about single parents or what whites do on my*****e. It’s about using common sense. When you are in a situation like this, you stay out of the public light. You don’t keep running to it that’s what our people need to learn.
In my state we have had writer warn kids about posting stupid things that do on my*****e. White schools have kicked kids off of teams and banned them from events for doing stupid things like smoking, being naked, fighting and other things and posting them on my*****e.
Now our kids are just stupid. We had a boy get killed at a party. The police got the killers. You know how? The killers bragged about it on my*****e and even showed the gun that killed the boy. I have seen students from my school pose with guns, drugs and even in sex acts. And they are the first ones to yell why can’t they get a job. Dummy-someone has tipped them off about what you do and provided pictures.
@Miss Thang…
I agree about the ministers (Al, TD Jakes and others) but the question was “even if they are treat unfairly by the legal system we should turn our backs on them?”, wouldn’t turning our back on them be a injustice? Isn’t it funny how this self hate is the new form of black on black crime. This is one reason why I am appalled by Bill Cosby and Harpo because instead of their actions helping to fix the issues it is fueling self hate. And do you figure that money came from donations the money for Katrina could not even get to the people so how could all the money get to those boys.
I KNEW SOMETHING WAS UP WHEN THEY WERE SHOWING OFF AT THE RED CARPET FOR THE BET AWARDS.. such a shame
WHEN, WHEN, will young black men ever learn?? Peaple we are in serious need of some bible study here!!!!
@Stacy
I like what you said but you are getting a little to close to blaming Hip Hop.
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How do people know where the money came from? This video is just to convenient.
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All I have to say is, “This is a very bad move on their part.” This may be used against them. They should be acting more remorseful even if they don’t mean it. It’s called acting!!! I still believe that they were treated unfairly and shouldn’t be charged with anything more than *****ault and battery. I truly believe that they’re using donations for personal gain. These are teenagers so where in the hell would they get that kind of money? They don’t have careers. Hello People!!! For all of the ignorant people who really believe that the money is counterfeit, get a clue. As a fellow African-American, does it look like they would put fake money in their mouths and floss fake chains? No way!!! This isn’t the 80’s!!! All you generous people out there, just bought these fools a new lifestyle. Thank goodness, I didn’t donate my hard earned money to these fools. I’d rather give it to St. Jude’s or Covenant House!!!
I told people….everyone wanted to jump on the bandwagon without realizing that a lesson was being lost in this. You don’t go donkey stop another human being down…Although I do not know their hearts, I would venture to say that these boys have learned nothing. I was appalled that people think Bell should be released from jail…he had 4 (count them) FOUR prior incidences…two of which were battery…get real my black people. Bill Cosby is so right…
And what about them being at the BET Hip Hop Awards? Are they celebrities now? omg…smh…I can’t even take it
this is why i hate *****s there a bunch of big nose *****s..WHITE POWER
Al Sharpton was here in Greensboro last night at A&T. He spoke about Jena6 during his “sermon”. I don’t think he knows about the My*****e and the flashing money and all of that. In Al’s defense, I believe that he chose to support the cause just like he did with Twanna Brawley.
Another thought–
I commented in the last Jena6 post about the way they dressed? Well, I wonder if they wore the same type clothes to court? I know I’ve seen a lot of court TV and no matter what the person’s crime is, they’re always sharper than a “mosquita’s peeta!”
Lol!!!!
dixie boy–
Go ***** your ***** down! Lol!!
I’m disappointed in Bossip and most of the followers negatively responding to this bull*****e. How do they know these pictures are real or post-Jena 6’s national recognition? They are posted to Youtube by a person who, through his narrative, is anti-Jena 6. He provides a link to the supposed My*****e page THAT DOESN’T WORK. BOSSIP twisted the narrative provided and said the kid was flossing DEFENSE FUND money. The narrative states they’re flossing DONATIONS. Everyone should know that DEFENSE FUND MONIES DO NOT GOT TO THE FRICKIN’ CLIENTS! IT GOES TO THE ATTORNEYS. If nothing else, this really shows how self-depreciating Black people are and we wonder why we’re so unfocused. The focus is revamping the legal system, not creating saints! Know your flucking history *****s and start with “COINTELPRO”. You’re supporting a people, a generation, and your rights, don’t get it twisted.
J
I mean this ***** has been up on My*****e for a Month and it took BOSSIP to “bring it to light”? Right.
Wow! I have never seen this before… Pics of some kids on My*****e flashin money…I missed the pic where they had a sign sayin “this money is from our defense fund and we are spending it on shoes”.
I dont even care if this is money from their jobs or granny or whatever…please allow me to blindly jump on the bandwagon…”I knew racism didnt still exist in America, especially in the south”.
*gently releases sarcasm button*
BOSSIP doesn’t support NEGRO causes? Are they white? How are you Black and don’t support cause that affect Black People. What kind of divisive mentality is that. Bottom line is Black people who don’t march and do not support Black people and Black causes are the CAUSE of the problem. You can’t express APATHY and sit on your fat ***** wondering why society doesn’t change. But change ain’t easy so people prefer to point their fingers at people they feel are beneath them so they can feel like they’re a “different” sort of *****. Yall still *****s. We’re all still *****s, but you’re a sorry ***** if you’re afraid to fight.
@Coop,
Please read this slowly.
I will support you until you ***** up.
Yes, the system *****ed them but you don’t turn around and ***** your supporters. Their behavoir shows a complete lack of respect and appreciation. Does that not matter to you? Probably cause you didn’t give or do *****. But post on this board.
–(Re-read that part..make sure you really sound out everything.)
Do you realize that there are others in the system that deserve our support and won’t act like fools? I’d rather be behind them.
Do you know you can change your mind about something? You don’t have too stay the course. Sometimes IT’S BEST to retreat because there are more important battles to fight. Our collective resources (i.e. support) are few. We all live busy lives and can’t have rally’s everyday. So, it’s important that we choose wisely. Supporting negroes who are self-destructive is a complete waste.
I’ll help you but you must help yourself!
I’m out – “Dancing with the Stars” is on. Night *****es!
As the saying goes… “this right here is exactly why we cannot get anywhere as a people”.
Coop,
Apparently, Bossip is owned by a company called the MogulDom Group. http://moguldom.com/
They also own Lossip.com and Mingxingyao.com, F-Listed, and some others.
Since I have never heard of that company, I will *****ume they are owned by WHITE PEOPLE.
The funny thing is I contacted them last week and asked them if they were white owned, and they said they were black owned.
Either Bossip hired some black punk to create these threads or white people are calling us *****s and negroes and advocating for the jena 6 to go back to prison.
Isn’t funny how we have other people pulling our strings and we don’t even know it?
And I used to like BOSSIP. When it’s about celebrity gossip and bull*****, that’s one thing. But when it’s about race and equality, we all have a responsibility to represent. Anytime a white boy goes down for something, ALL WHITE MEDIA OUTLETS represent that murdering psychopath like he was some poor, misunderstood saint who needs sympathy, prozac and therapy. Why? They’ve got the memo. They do not use the media as a tool to create stereotypes of their own people only ours. So what do we do, the same. *smh* ***** BOSSIP and Bill Cosby.
IN OTHER WORDS, BOSSIP, WE’RE STARTING TO SEE RIGHT THROUGH U. dixieboy MIGHT JUST BE AN AFFILIATE OF UR COMPANY
You all said what I wanted to! And I’m dissapoined but I don’t see this as a representation of black people, they represent themselves. And I REPRESENT MYSELF!
Boochie
Ya’ll are stupid because you are
1.) Late, this was elsewhere a month ago.
2.) The legal and racial injustice of black kids getting excessive punishment (i.e. getting tried for attempted murder for a stupid school fight) is there, regardless of whether Robert Bailey and crew decide to act like 16 year olds or not. The punishment is still unwarranted and is still racial in impact, just like the Shaquanda Cotton case.
3.) You actually try to justify and validate why (you think) that every race hate Black people. Please trust that stupid comes in every color! And I’m not even black, but I’m disgusted at your self hatred.
4.) These kids did not consent to becoming heroes or take part in strategic planning to carry out a Black Agenda (like Rosa Parks and others did). They were victims and they will still be kids. There is no proof that money is from the fund. Calm down.
BRAVO!
PERSONALLY I WOULD LIKE SOMEONE FROM THIS COMPANY,(OR MAYBE EVEN THE PERSON WHO POSTED THIS SECTION), TO TAKE UP FOR THEMSELVES IF WE ARE MISTAKEN. ITS JUST MAKEN ME IFFY ABOUT EVERY THING YOU POST ON UR SITE. I MEAN UR VIEWERS DONT SEEM HAPPY AT ALL. SPEAK UP IF YOU CARE. I KNOW UR READING THESE COMMENTS.
It’s really sad that everyone is up in arms about how that kid is acting. Who cares? The whole point of the march was to support a group of black young men who’s punishment did not fit their crime. That’s what this whole thing should be about. Injustice in the legal system! Come on people, they were some bad ***** kids before this whole mess and they’re probably gonna stay some lil bad*****es. But does that mean they need to be charged with attempted MURDER because of a ***** whuppin? I don’t think so. What we need to be angry about is Megan Williams. Bossip ain’t said ***** about her and brutal attack that she faced. And to MissThang, you keep saying read and check your facts, what makes you think that Bossip is a reliable source? What facts are you referring to? Because you jumped on the “Free Jena 6″ knowing what? That they were being treated unfairly and unjust. That’s the issue. And Mystic, I agree with you fully. We need to be focused on making this an EQUAL rights legal system. We have to stop making it so easy for them to divide and conquer. Grow up people
P.S. If there’s something you want to stop supporting, try BET. It’s killing our community
NuAgenda, FANTASTIC point.
The truth is kids will be kids…including ignorant, foolish ones. You would think, though, they would be a bit more conscious of their (in this case, Bailey’s) actions after all the press and attention garnered after this scandal.
Clearly there is a sense of awareness and urgency missing. 16 is young, but old enough not to embarr***** yourself and community after being involved in such a divisive case.
nahnah
Essence, Black Voices, Blackplanet, and of course Bossip. What do Black people own? And I like it how they’re making (most likely) millions of dollars off of our issues.
Thanks for the heads up.
I must say, Bossip, y’all are doing the damn thing…So many posts in one day.
First off, never jumped on the “oh, I have to stick up for my people Jena 6 bull*****” from the gate. That’s what’s wrong with the black community today, always tryna jump behind someone just because we’re black. Get the ***** over that bull*****. If MLK was here today, he would have not supported Jena 6, I gaurantee it. Al Sharpton was problely paid by “THE WHITE MAN” to emphasize a racial controversy during Obamas run for presidency to start some type of racial divide, (Saying he’s acting white) therefore making it harder for Senator Obama to win. (my opinion)When six people jump 1 person how is that not attempted murder? Dude was unconcious and they sitll kept beating home boy. What where they attempting to do? Knock some sense into ol’ boy or where they attempted to beat him back conscious? No ok then attempted murder. Home boy was on probation for 4 or 5 prior *****ult charges, lock that ***** the ***** up.
***** Jena 6.
Oh well, stupid is as stupid does. This has nothing to do with the fact that their being raised by a single mother, like one other person said, the dad could be in the household and be just as stupid as the son. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. It might be harmless what they think their doing, but with anything why do it. Why do rappist tape their victims, or people make sex tapes only for them to be made public. Any logically person wouldn’t even consider this. Where is the Parental Control. It is sad 2 say 2 more young black boys lost.
This is not BET’s fault, music videos, hip hop, Karrine Steffans, the educational system, poverty, America, President Bush or the Worlds fault.
NEWS FLASH *****ES:
IT’S THE *****ING PARENTS FAULT.
Parents should take responsiblily for they’re children and raise em right.
ELANAEL
THOSE CHARGES WERE FROM PREVIOUS RACIAL ACTIVIES.
SECONDLY WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE NOOSE.
THIRDLY, DO YOU LIVE IN JENA. DO YOU KNOW HOW IT IS TO BE BLACK IN JENA. I DONT THINK SO. BABES YOU DONT KNOW WHAT MLK JR WOULD HAVE SAID. IT BLACK FOLKS LIKE YOU THAT DISGRACES OUR COMMUNITY. YOU CAN SAY GET OVER IT ALL YOU WANT TO BUT I GUARANTEE YOU IF WE DID GET OVER IT AND WE DID JUST NOT WORRY ABOUT SLAVERY WOULD BE RIGHT BACK IN ACTION. DID YOU KNOW THAT EVERY 13 YEARS WE HAVE TO GET OUR RIGHTS TO VOTE RENEWED?????????///
And quit saying’ “Look how this is making US look”
That ***** don’t make me look like *****.
What one individual does has nothing to do with me or BLACK people as a whole.
Stop worrying about what white people think about us.
Haven’t we learned nothing from the Boondocks?
Sorry, I support people who deserve my support. I don’t get bothered by the police and have nver been arrested. Probably because I am educated and conduct myself like a civilized human. So I have no beef with the justice system, it only seems to hurt those who ain’t ***** anyway.
I will lend my support to those trying to become educated and those attempting to make our race proud. These boys are garbage. It seems we are helping fund the lives of some future baby-daddies, drug-dealers, or gas station attendants.
No delay in the *****e shuttle launch due to the potential loss of these boys. No cure for cancer lost.
Just cause your skin is a similiar color as mine does not mean I share anything else with you. My interest ends there……
DONT KNOW WHY I EVEN COMMENTED TO UR DUMB *****. U MUST BE YOUNG.
Ok, if someone calls you a ***** is it ok to attack them? The answer to that will always be no. If you commit a crime, it’s still a crime, regardless if its racially motivated or not. Who gives a *****? *****, *****, *****, *****. Ok I’m still alive and I’m still black, that ***** don’t even matter.
Black men get it together your always *****ing up the world.You guys bring your own people down that’s so sad if you stop chasing White women and stick to your own you’ll be in a better place.
Black men are always trying to thug out, get a real job and stop putting down your own race and stand up and be a real man stop being a looser to the world.
You black men are sad people get your life back on track if you have kids by your own race (Black Women) stay with them and raise your kids stop running away.
Every time you run to a white women and have mixed kids they turn out darker than any kid on this earth you thought just because you have a kid by a white women your kid is going to be pretty well the joke is on you.
You black men have brown, and dark black kids with these white women and thats said. Black on black kids looks some much better than a white/dark chocolate kid.
This world is going to become a all black race with all these half and half kids running around. Stop This Sick *****……
Black men be a man stop messing up the world, Black women stay strong leave these black men if they are not treating you right your worth more than that. Black women are the strongest women I know.
This world is being trashed by all black men
we need to take a stand against them. Black men find “God”
Stop running to us (White Women)you only want to be with us because most of you are BI and you know a white women will stand by there BI Black Men.
Wrote By:
White Women
See that’s exactally what I’m talking about. Eve just because we don’t share the same view of situation doesn’t mean you have to resort to calling me a dumb *****, and you’re saying I’m young ok if I was does that not make me have an opinion. Black people are always being put agianst black people that’s what’s sad.
you know white folks lovin’ this. Damn kids, they don’t get that this show of “I got cash” makes us all look bad. You can’t flash other peoples money like you a hustler when those people were donating to keep yo’ black ***** outta jail.
Oh, and that every 13 years we have to get our right to vote renewed thing….Complete urban myth. Jesus, you really think America can pull that off in 2007 with all world looking at us.
I swear some of y’ll love the thought of being victim of racism. Like you feel your life is missing purpose because no one’s fire hosing you down in Birmingham. The real brothers who had to put up with real racism would be ashamed at what our youth have become.
Still missing the point I see. History People. I blame you superficial Black Apathetic *****imilationists for the ignorance found in today’s youth, because you are continually perpertuating IGNORANCE in your speech. Most of you sound like sound bites on the nightly news. Mimicking PC adages only shows your sheep mentality. Being a Black Apologist does not make you more civilized it makes you weak! There is nothing wrong with the Jena 6 because they had enough of a sense of pride to stand up for the ANCESTORS. They are better than you because they were grateful, to those that came before them, to defend their memories. They have more integrity in one of their diamond encrusted teeh, than most of you Step and Fetchit Needgrows have in your entire weak-*****ed beings! THAT is why they’re in trouble. Because they stood up. All the while you all bend over backwards trying to please the man. Learn your history, stand up for something or fall for anything. Silly. Really. Do you think Rosa Parks just happened to get tired on the bus one day and garnered national attention? It’s the cause chickeheads. Concentrate on THE CAUSE.
It’s a FAKE picture. That’s not Michael! He didn’t set up the My*****e page!
WELL PUT Silence the ignorance. THANK YOU.
Right….6 coons with the combined vocabulary of a retarded 6th grader beat up an even more retarded drunk cracker. THAT’S STANDING UP FOR OUR ANCESTORS??!!! I don’t say the word, but N-please!!!!!
These boys wanted an excuse to beat up a white boy. They no more have a clue of what my ancestors (all proud educated black men) achieved in America against REAL RACISM.
You are a joke. Beating up some white boy 6-1 is REALLY UP THERE WITH MARTIN AND MALCOLM.
Just like Medgar Evers losing his life for his right to vote.
YOU ARE AN IGNORANT DISGRACE TO THOSE OF US TRYING TO MAKE THE RACE PROUD.
Instead of fighting they could have came about it in another way. Is all I’m saying. Stand up in a different way. A more effective appropriate way. Or maybe everybody in Jena should move to California, because “WE’s FREE NOW.” Stop pulling the Black card, please.
Preach on Silence the Ingnorance.
If this is true, then that’s when Al, Michael, and Warren should go directly to these guys and their families and blast them for being idiots.
It still does not alleviate the fact that an injustice did take place and these guys are a product of their environment.
“Wrote By:
White Women”
^^Ladies, I believe that should be: “Written By: White Women”
I’m sure it wasn’t, but regardless- get your grammar together before you start preaching; it makes your message more convincing.
ALL LOT OF U TALK LIKE UR MINDS ARE BLURRY. LIKE ALL THESE COMMENTS HERE. WE ARE ALL GOING AT ONE ANOTHER. MY SISTA I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT REMARK. BUT REALITY IS REALITY. TO END MY RAGE. I JUST WANT TO SAY BLACK FOLKS LIVE UR LIFE THAT’S ALL U CAN DO. DONT WORRY BOUT THEN AND LATER STAY FOCUSED ON NOW. THIS WORLD ISNT GOING TO BE HERE FOREVER AND IT’S TIME TO TAKE IT AND RUN WITH IT. THROUGH ALL THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OUR SOCIETYGO THROUGH REMEMBER THERE IS ONLY ONE WHO DETERMINES YOUR FATE. I LOVE ALL MY BLACK PEOPLE. LET’S NOT BRING EACH OTHER DOWN.
Brenda
If this is true, then that’s when Al, Michael, and Warren should go directly to these guys and their families and blast them for being idiots.
It still does not alleviate the fact that an injustice did take place and these guys are a product of their environment.
^^^Very true.
Oh no darling, don’t twist my words or the facts. This entire thing started because these kids PROTESTED. Whether it was broken English they were speaking or friggin’ piglatin THEY PROTESTED a bit of segretation they were STILL TO THIS DAY EXPERIENCING! THEY WERE THREATENED BY THE CHIEF OF POLICE FOR PROTESTING and they were summarily HARR*****ED BY many members of the until they beat someone’s *****. Not a boy, a grown *****ed man. Like I said, SHEEP. Repeating misinformation like a trained circus trick.
yea boy, 6-1 sure is brave. TAKE A STAND. Tomorrow, me and the boys gonna go beat up a white lady. It’ll only be 3 of us vs. 1 of her, but HEY, that’s better than 6-1 right?
That white ***** probably called someone a n–ga in here life, so she deserves it. HELL, my boss’ last name is Johnson, f-ing cracker, p*****ed me up for a promotion, and he probably owned slaves since I know lots of black Johnsons. Me and the boys gonna kick his ***** two, but he’s a man, we’ll make it 4-1. BRAVE BLACK MEN STANDING UP TO THE MAN!!!
MLK would definitely be proud. Hell, the Black Panthers never beat up a white boy 6-1. They were weak in comparison..
FREE THE JENA 6!!!!!!!!!
People, read carefully. There are at least three white folks on this board just trying to provoke you. You notice how certain names all in the mix fall off after a while? ‘Cause they gotta report to their Klan leaders how they’re doing on Operation Black Blog. Don’t be fooled…
Don’t get it twisted. There were people who didn’t want to march with Malcolm, Martin, SNICC, or the Black Panthers. Most of you wouldn’t have made a difference back then either. There were Black people at that time that saw no reason to protest because “things were good” or they didn’t like the representatives; a myriad of reasons. Your apathy isn’t new, your self-hate isn’t new, and speaking on behalf of whites isn’t new either. It’s been done, that’s why it’s so easy to recognize. Knowing your history keeps you from being used.
Black Men please get it together.
“White Girl”
Silence grow up. You were wrong, are wrong and will always be wrong. You can’t dispute the truth so make jokes. Those kids stood up. were attacked, defended themselves and were jailed while the people they fought were sent home and charge light. There were guns pulled out on them for standing under a tree. That’s what this is about. You’ve got to white or dumb deaf and blind to even begin to debate this.
I know someone asked this on a previous Jena 6 post (when they were stuntin’ at the awards show…SMH), but where are these peoples’ parents? If they’re out on bail, as minors, they were released into their parents custody, right? If they were my sons, they’d need my permission to go to the bathroom. Don’t you think that prosecutors (and private investigators which the prosecution uses) look on My*****e and other social networking sites? I know for a fact that they do. I wouldn’t be surprised if their own testimony (postings on their pages or other friends’ pages) were used against them to show premediation, intent and lack of remorse.
It’s a shame, but the greatest responsibilities lie with the young men; to show that they are capable of being rehabilitated and with their parents: to show that they as the adults in their child’s life are capable of providing the guidance and support that will direct these young men to positive and productive citizenship.
From what I’ve seen, both the parents and the boys have failed and it’s a damn shame!
History 101
Deacons For Defense were Black Men who went after the KKK and defended they homes, women and children against tyranny.
BLACK Power came out of SNICC which MLK was a part of later used by the Black Panthers. The Black Panthers carried guns and had no problem using them if provoked. Malcolm would hurt ‘by any means necessary’ anyone would laid a hand on him. MLK, in the end, could no longer tell ‘little black boys to march peacefully, when they’re country was sending them to war to kill little brown boys in Vietnam.
Stop being sheep and find out the truth about your history. Sometimes you’ve got to throw down.
Stupid clown, I know my family’s history and I know my people’s history. These criminals are not a part of that history in my book.
There’s too much to be proud of as a Black man to depress myself with these disgracful clowns. Brothas had a hell of a lot more to deal with in the 50’s 60’s and 70’s, and they conducted themselves with dignity and cl*****.
White people are crying out for the shaved monkey those boys beat up, so why should I give a ***** about these criminals. I identify with those as educated and civilized as I am. That means I share noting in common with these young men. Criminals don’t deserve my support. There are plenty of motivated, articulate and proud brothas who need and deserve my money, time, and efforts.
Just Sit And Be Pretty:
I wonder the same thing.
Do you see the recent threads lately? Apparently the company is looking to increase their revenue by posting a bunch of racially charged threads because they know kneegrowz love to go down each other’s throats.
I did email him and he replied stating that they are a black owened company. I don’t know if it’s true, but I wonder.
Silence. You don’t have to give a rat’s ***** about those boys, but what about the injustice?
Sure mystic. They are brave for beating up a white boy 6-1.
If I called a latino a sp*c and bunch of other racist names, and then 6 of them kick my *****. Real brave stuff huh….
Black Panthers, MLK, Malcolm…and now…..
The Jena 6, when 1 whiteboy opresses 6 of you at once, stand up and take what’s yours!!!!!
That doesn’t even look like the guy. This is obviously propaganda to the fullest.
I’m out of here!
There was indeed injustice in the sentencing. You bet your ***** there was. But they are thugs. There’s a hell of a lot of injustice. It’s an injustice that young black children who actually want to learn are in poor schools and in neighborhoods where they are attacked for “acting white.”
It’s an injustice that thousands die in the Sudan while Europeans don’t stop it.
There’s a hell of a lot of injustice to pay attention to. Too much for me to dedicate all my time, so I will reserve my concern for those who deserve it.
Just like you don’t have to care about people only you and yours. Where would we be today if MLK, Martin, Garvey, Dubois, Douglas, etc., talked and thought the same as you? Nothing would have been accomplished. It would all be a bunch of finger point, talking and separation by cl*****.
Silence we’re not talking about any of thoses things right now. Stay FOCUSED. That’s the problem. The point is that injustice in Jena 6 had nothing to do with these boys personalities; however you may wish to describe them–that’s all relative.
Marv, the Moguldom Group CEO as mentioned in the press release did the Kim Kardashian interview, she is obviously Black. Listen to the Kim K interview: http://www.bossip.com/3487/exclusive-kim-kardashian-interview/
Concrete Loop sends jealous *****s over to Bossip to spread lies that Bossip is owned by crackers because they saw Bossip blow up so fast. They even got jealous and took Bossip off their blogroll.
Bossip is Black owned and the hottest blog right now, jealous *****s can’t take it so they hate.
yes the issue is bigger than those dummies. but it sure would make the injustices look much more wrong if these werent a bunch of dummies who are going to land in jail anyways. we are also contributing to the demise of our own dignity and respect. these boys are a waste of time and will eat up and swallow any attention they can grab and will expect standing ovations wherever they show their faces and they are actually just a damn embarr*****ment.
Somewhere along the lines, the same mu*****s who garnered the theory that people who use their fists to fight back are uncivilized just happen to be in support of or the instigators of an illegal war Iraq.
Remember, while we were fighting civil rights in America, they were in Guatelmala and Vietnam providing peasants with guns. Same people bashing your head with a night stick expects you to be too “big” to return the favor. It’s like *****ing on your head and telling you it is raining.
ron g, are you a bossip editor?
And you believe it.
RonG, ain’t a damned soul come from CL and put the words “that’s why we don’t support Negro Causes” on this site. As unnecessary and ignorant as this site is, at least when you look at the larger scheme of things, if it is indeed Black-owned, who do they think are supporting them? Do they really think they are any different than Perez, Media or Wendy W. They’re un necessary and frivolous. No substance here! They are a treat! Here today, gone tomorrow, the world will revolve. They provide nothing to the ether but negativity and ridicule. And the so-called civilized think they’re “protecting” something. *SMH*
I think that you guys are being really rough on Jena 6. These guys are 16, 17 and 18 year old kids. Children do stupid things. I think that it is ridiculous to think that just because the kids are young and black that their money came from illegal means or from their defense funds. Maybe they have jobs!!! If the bills are 10’s, 20’s or 30’s then its not that much money. The defense money would have went straight to the lawyers. Bossip sucks!!!
For the slow people, negroes is a term to describe a slave mindset, not a Black mindset, The Nation of Islam uses that term.
@Miss Thang…
1st. “Please read this slowly”
If we are to get anywhere the first thing we must do is stop the mud slinging (self hate)
Now onto the issue at hand
The battle that you fight is bigger then the Jena 6 the battle that is fought today is to win tomorrows war.
I guess there’s no wonder why we lose focus so easily.
@ohplease
while going through the posts I’m thinking the same thing.
‘There are at least three white folks on this board just trying to provoke you. You notice how certain names all in the mix fall off after a while?’
Especially the racist and antagonistic comments that follow the pictures.
Show your faces Bossip.
Plz dont condemn these young men yet. Like TJ and others said those pics can be fake.
If I ever got into some sticky mess I’d be up the SOL if some of yall determined my fate.
*I’d be SOL if some of yall determined my fate.
Awww hell to the naw.. I always suspected bossip was owned by some white people. They doing their best to get us to keep fighting with each other. Stay focus on the issue people, this is not about thes boys’ characters but about the issue. Injustice. Now can we all just get along?
cd
regardless of their negroidian actions (as seen here) the blatant racism that lead to their arrest, and continued there after is still a travesty. we should not allow such ignorance to deter us from supporting equality or fighting racism in the future.
*side bar: there parents should whip their *****es.
quickly.
THANK U. WHILE WHAT THEY’RE DOIN IS STUPID. WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH WAS INHUMANE. AND OUR SUPPORT FOR THAT CAUSE SHOULD NOT WAIVER, THIS IS 2 TOTALLY DIFFERENT ISSUES. THEY ARE SILLY KIDS GIVE THEM A BREAK. OR BETTER YET BLACKMEN STAND UP AND MENTOR THESE BOYS, SHOW THEM HOW GRACIOUS THEY SHOULD BE. BLACK PEOPLE LETS STOP ALWAYS LOOKIN FOR A REASON TO DIVIDE.
@nahnah
It does seem that they rarely have anything good to say about any black celebrity.
I don’t have the time it takes to read all of the comments, but a few of them are from the same standpoint that I take.
First off…..what he’s flashing about a grand or so? BIG WHOO!
Second…..pics not dated
Third…..DARK SUNGL*****ES and a hat, I don’t see that as proof positive that he is actually one of the Jena 6.
Fourth….we all pretty much grew up with images of MLK on the living room wall, but none of us are willing to stand up and actually do anything to get Bush out of office, reverse global warming, force our government to be a government of the people instead of a government for the people.
How come we get all up in arms about such insignificant issues, and just post comments about this type of thing? If he floss’n leave him be, if you cant actually prove that’s it him, shut up. Can u actually justify all the negative comments just from an image?! to quote spike lee in do the right thing…..WAKE UP!!!
I don’t have the time it takes to read all of the comments, but a few of them are from the same standpoint that I take.
First off…..what he’s flashing about a grand or so? BIG WHOO!
Second…..pics not dated
Third…..DARK SUNGL*****ES and a hat, I don’t see that as proof positive that he is actually one of the Jena 6.
Fourth….we all pretty much grew up with images of MLK on the living room wall, but none of us are willing to stand up and actually do anything to get Bush out of office, reverse global warming, force our government to be a government of the people instead of a government for the people.
How come we get all up in arms about such insignificant issues, and just post comments about this type of thing? If he floss’n leave him be, if you cant actually prove that’s it him, shut up. Can u actually justify all the negative comments just from an image?! to quote spike lee in do the right thing…..WAKE UP!!!
IM STARTING TO THINK EITHER BOSSIP IS RUN BY WHITES, OR SOME SELF HATING OREO ***** UNCLE TOMS.
AND GOOD POINT GROWN UP HOW DO WE KNOW THIS IS ANY OF THOSE KIDS? BELIEVE EVERYTHING ON BOSSIP YEAH RIGHT. THIS SITE SHOULD NOT BE PEOPLES CENTRAL GO TO SPOT FOR ACCURATE INFO. THIS SITE IS PURE ENTERTAINMENT AND TOM FOOLERY BUT ONLY @ BLACKS EXPENSE
Who gives a ***** about racism. That ***** aint going no where a right. And I’m still black. Ok. Do we really want to change our black community? We don’t. So stop giving a ***** about what some people did. Or what some people been through. Ok some people were slaves at one point. Ok but not anymore. You can only control you. You change.
You guys since the Jena 6 has come along we all have failed to look at the bigger picture and the lesson in all of this.Yea we all came together and supported them and took a stand.But now that this kid is flashing money on My*****e and Youtube we become divided once again.We as a society are in big trouble if a blog post (which is old news as I previously stated) can get us to go against our own thoughts and turn our backs on each other.We didnt support these kids because they were perfect gentlemen…we supported them because they were treated unjust.I kind of hate the fact that it got this big now because these boys will be living under a microscope and broken apart for the next couple of months by their own people.~SMH~
White media are always attacking a Black Man’s character and have some Black people believing that the Brother ’set himself’ up. These people never seem to realize that the propaganda machine just fails to release information demeaning whites. We didn’t find out about George Bush’s *****e habit and alchoholic binges until after 911 started smelling a bit fishy–Reagan is now revered as the great communicator when he was responsible for the crack epidemic and reaganomics, I could go on and on. We need to stop being so gullible.
hmmm..I wonder where that got this behavior from?
um Rappers. Them n*ggas is ruining it for everyone
EVERONE HERE HAS A GOOD POINT, BUT ONE QUESYION, MAYBE 2: ARE WE WAITING FOR THE WORLD TO CHANGE OR ARE WE GOING TO DO SOMETHING?
I’m so sorry so many black people view these men as thugs and not teenagers who are in need of education, love, and support. The fact that they are products of their environment does not matter to many of you.
So how do we expect to progress as a community when we’ve turned into our worst enemies?
@say2
elaborate plz
First of all, yes it is wrong for 6 individuals to beat up 1 person, but that doesn’t mean they deserve to be tried for murder. So I will never regret supporting the Jena 6. Second of all why didn’t anyone hold the school officials responsible for allowing this situation to escalate? 2007 and someone had the nerve to say the nooses hanging from a tree is a prank. Black people do not lose focus. Do not be upset about the behaviour of children or young adults when the adults have created this mess.
It’s funny because when a young white boy commit a crime, he’s regarded as an anti-social victim who was under the influence of anti-depressants.
But when a young black boy commit a crime, he’s regarded as a “thug” even by the members of his own ethnicity.
The real thugs are those who are in power, setting us up to kill each other and other minorities, and making life harder for the average American.
To all the mothers out there who struggle to raise your sons and daughters, bless your souls. Because I know the glorification of the thuggish/gangsta life does not come from the households.
Tsk.Tsk,how quick some us are to judge. Instead of trying to understand what the deal is with the situation we go and attack the kid….SMH
We really need a modern day drop squad — some of these people need de-programming with the quickness. Mychal Bell was college bound, a scholarship in hand…*SMH*
Say2 Doing something was support the Jena 6 Now folks feel guilty they supported supposed “thugs” because one misinformed website posted un substantiated photos on the internet.
ON TOPIC…..I JUST SEE WHAT THEY ARE, KIDS!!! OTHER KIDS ON MY *****E DO THA SAME THING. THESE KIDS ARE HUMAN. I DONT BELIEVE THAT THAT’S DONATED MONEY, BUT THEY GOT MONEY FROM DOING INTERVIEW AND WHAT NOT. I SEE IF THEY WERE REPPIN LIKE YEAH IM ROBERT BAILEY JR. THA KID WHO BEAT UP THA WHITE BOY IN JENA. NO, THEY ARE DOING NORMAL ***** KIDS DO. JUST CAUSE THEY HAVE THIS SITUATION DOESN’T MEAN THEY GOTTA STOP WHO THEY ARE. IF IT WERE ANY OTHER KIDS IT WOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM, AND STILL THAT MIGHT NOT EVEN BE HIS MONEY. CAUSE PEOPLE LIKE TO STUNT!!!! MAYBE IM NOT TRYING TO BE NEGATIVE ABOUT THIS LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE!!!
1ST OF ALL MY BLACK PEOPLE THEM BOYS DIDNT HAVE *****..NOW U SEEM THEM SHOWIN A FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS YALL GETTIN ALL MAD U SHOULD THANK THEM THEY KICK DAT WHITE BOYS ***** FOR RACIAL COMMENTS ABOUT THEM DONT 4 GET THAT,GOD!!! I CANT BELIEVE THE BLACK PEOPLE MAD CUZ THE BOY SHOWIN A LIL MONEY HE AINT HAVE ANYTHING..BUT NEXT TIME I SEE ON THE NEWS A WHITE PERSON HANG ANOTHER NOOSE I AINT EVEN GONNA GET MAD ANYMORE CUZ U GOIN AFTER THE WRONG *****IN PEOPLE AND DATS NOT RITE ***** IT IM TIRED OF TAKIN UP FOR MY BLACK PEOPLE IM OUT!!!!!!!!!!!
http://moguldom.com/this-is-tmg/ says the site is black owned… I really hope so
I HAVE 2 SAY HOW STUPID BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTIN SAYIN THE BOYS SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN JAIL THAT PROBABLY WASNT EVEN HIS MONEY,THE DUDE IS YOUNG WAT YALL *****IN EXPECT *****…AM I THE ONLY ONE FEEL LIKE THIS THEY TRYIN 2 JUDGE THEM AND THE BOY JUST GETTIN OUT WHEN WHITE PEOPLE START HANGIN NOOSES AGAIN YALL GONNA LOOK STUPID,YALL ATTACKIN THE WRONG PEOPLE IF YALL GONNA BE THAT STUPID YOU ALL MIGHT AS WELL BE WHITE!!! IF THE BOYS GET IN TROUBLE CUZ OF SOME PICTURES I SWEAR ILL NEVA SUPPORT ANYTHING ELSE FROM MY BLACK PEOPLE AND I LUV YALL 2 DEATH BUT I DONT LIKR WAT YOU ALL TRYNA TO DO THE YOUNG BLACK GENERATION WAKE UP R WE WILL LOOSE THE BATTLE KEEP BLACK POWER ALIVE
Whites are dumber, deafer and blinder than any Black person on Earth. A great many of them live in trailers or in abject poverty. Their sons and daughters are also dying and becoming maimed in Iraq. The are subject to the same constitutional violations everyone else suffers such as the illegal tax. They are on the drugs our goverment allow onto our s*****s and the drugs prescribed to them in droves. Yet they believe the propaganda as well and hang nooses ’cause years ago, someone came up with the concept of race and told them they were better than Blacks. Nothing but a weapon of distraction.
niggras…
I must say I find this very disturbing – where was is “crying mama” when he posted this? I don’t understand why parents are not on their kids my*****e pages everyday to see what is new there. I never jumped on the Jena-6 band wagon simply because I know that there is always more to the story than what is gleaned by today’s types of drive-thru journalism, however, this does go to prove what I believed to be true all along – the shouldn’t have been charged with attempted murder because these A**HOLES were not smart enough to premeditate or form intent. They are also proving why they should not be tried as adults. These were six immature and infantile young boys who did a stupid thing. Meanwhile, we should all be asking ourselves—do his actions make the office of prosecuting attorney right in claiming he could end their lives with the stroke of a pen and then without hesitation, trying to do just that? If you still believe that a tennis shoe is not a deadly weapon, and that those charges, however applicable, were made recklessly without any regard for what the crime actually was (IMHO-a schoolyard brawl that dangerously out of hand), please don’t be upset with yourself for supporting the boys. This is happening all over the country, not just in Jena, and until someone steps up to make sentencing guidelines mandatory, African Americans will ALWAYS be faced with stiffer penalties for lesser crimes than white counterparts. This does not make them guilty of attempted murder and warrant a jail sentence… this makes them guilty of being young, dumb, and unsupervised. For the record… I’m very happy that is not my money they are playing with-what David Bowie must be thinking now…
I cut and pasted this information from pursuingholiness.com along with the moderator’s comments about Mychal Bell of the Jena 6. I agree that school officials had a duty to handle the situation in a fashion that de-escalated the racial problems on campus. However, when dealing with racial complaints (which can also be considered a type of hate crime), these may be required to be reported not just to school police, but local law enforcement. (At least in Los Angeles public schools. Maybe in Louisiana or Jena, too.)
In my opinion, no matter how you look at it these young men, particularly Bell have had behavior problems for some time. Parental supervision and involvement was needed before now. Unfortunately, they have fallen into the hands of justice system…which isn’t always just! But, as black people, we’ve always know this! Why do we continue to allow our children to grow up unrestrained and cry “foul” at the consequences.
Growing up in the COGIC, we always said, “A child saved is a soul saved, plus a life.” and “A child brought up in church is seldom brought up in court.” JMHO
Quoted from pursuingholiness.com, “While it’s undisputed that Mychal Bell was an honor roll student, it is now also proved that he had a criminal record, including violent crimes, starting two years before the Justin Barker beating.
Battery – 12/25/2005
Criminal damage to property – 7/25/2006
Battery – 9/2006
Criminal damage to property – 9/2006″
Black Americans are the most mental enslaved people walking the face of this earth. Somebody can’t act a certain way when they have been victims because of what white people may say…or because it gives a reason to be to a victim. He has money in his mouth today, OH WELL!!! He is young. LET HIM BE!! AND as far him braggin….PROVE IT!!! He was him before Jenna 6 and his is gonna be him after. THe point of Jenna 6 was the unfairness of the sentencing. REMEMBER THAT!!
The majority of Black men are fingerprinted and charged with some crap. What else is new. Considering the charges against him now are bogus, wouldn’t stand to reason that past charges against him we most likely trumped up? Mychal Bell IS an honor roll student–a college bound football champion, seems to me that whatever he was two years ago no longer applies since he changed his life around. They had no behavioural problems when they were being attacked and held at gunpoint by grown-*****ed men in their town. They were right to beat that MAN’s ***** when provoked, especially since he was well enough to find himself at a keger hours after being released from the hospital. The court’s were WRONG for OVERCHARGING them, WRONG for charging them as adults AND THEY ARE WRONG for returning Mychal Bell to prison for a violation of probation in a case they haven’t been found guilty of.
ANd it is Subconscious so many of yall don’t even know when you are so mentally postioned that its sad. Don’t skip the point. I predicted this when the JEna 6 thing first happened. Watch them dig for a criminal record, watch them watch their every move…if they dress like this, and if they talk like this…WHEN THE POINT IS RACISM!!!!
And NO! WHITE people are the most mentally enslaved people on Earth. They’re completely unaware that the Establishment means them no good whatsoever. They worry about dogs when their kids are killing their themselves taking ecstacy, meth and prescription drugs.
LOL!!! We agree to disagree. That one went over my head totally hun.
OK…
1) Who and the hell made Al Sharpton and Jessy Jackson the representaion of leadership for the black race??? I think they are both corrupt…besides you can’t trust a grown ***** man with a perm and an adulterer
2) I blame the environment for his ignorance. Coming from a small town then moving to Los Angeles…the education and value system is totally different.
3) Even though he made a mockery of himself…the truth remains…the sentencing was unfair and unjust
I can go on and on..but I’m tired of talking about this *****…its time for all of us to come together and take back what we built!!! America damnit!!! We built this *****!!! But we are the exterminators of our own race…
Ok I’m done…
I DON’T KNOW IF SOME OF YOU PEOPLE ARE SELLOUTS OR JUST HAVE YOUR HEADS IN THE SAND. THESE BOYS ARE KIDS. THE JENA SIX SITUATION IS ABOUT EQUAL PUNISHMENT FOR THE CRIMES COMMITTED. I DON’T CONDONE THIS BEHAIVIOR OR THE BEATDOWN BUT IF YOU’D READ, YOU’D MANY RACIST UNFAIR SITUATIONS LED UP TO IT. THESE ARE KIDS AND I EXPECT THEM TO BEHAVE AS SO. IF BOSSIP IS TO GOOD TO SUPPORT THE JENA 6 SITUATION THEN ***** ‘EM THEY’RE NOT NEEDED BUT I THINK IT’S A *****ING SHAME YOU’D LOOK AT THE IGNORANT ACTS OF SOME KIDS AND DECIDE THAT NO INJUSTICE WAS DONE IN JENA. MAYBE YOU NEVER CARED IN THE FIRST PLACE. I’M FINISHED WITH BOSSIP.
“This is why the smart folks over here at Bossip don’t support Negro causes “just because” we are told to.”
What the ***** is this suppose to mean?
@Black Barbie
Do you not understand that no one is saying that these young men were angels? People are asking that they be treated fairly. Just because you do something’s wrong does not mean that you should be treat unjustly. A fight where the victim was barely bruised does not equal attempted murder.
It means dont be no follower, specially when you no the cause is bull*****, sides bossip be jurnalist, meanin they got to be imparshul or in this case callin a turd a turd thats the reason they hard on some these rappers.
@nahnah
Coop,
Apparently, Bossip is owned by a company called the MogulDom Group. http://moguldom.com/
They also own Lossip.com and Mingxingyao.com, F-Listed, and some others.
Since I have never heard of that company, I will *****ume they are owned by WHITE PEOPLE.
The funny thing is I contacted them last week and asked them if they were white owned, and they said they were black owned.
Either Bossip hired some black punk to create these threads or white people are calling us *****s and negroes and advocating for the jena 6 to go back to prison.
Isn’t funny how we have other people pulling our strings and we don’t even know it?
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Great work
@Muff Diver
Come on Muff they are not IMPARTIAL they go out of their way to bash blacks.
gemini62065
While ignorance and immaturity will defintely come to mind, his current behavior does de-value the equal rights afforded to him by the constitution. We may not appreciate everything that some one says or does, but that doesn’t change the rights that should be provided to that individual.
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Thank You.
Black folks – DON’T BE FOOLED!!
Don’t lose sight of the real purpose of the protests in Louisiana.
Members of the Jena 6 acting stupid DOESN’T JUSTIFY RACIST TREATMENT TOWARDS BLACKS IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM.
When Rodney King was getting the pulp beat out of him by those racist cops in L.A. back in 1991, the only way the racists could even attempt to jusify the unfair horrible way the white officers mistreated him was to:
1.) dig for criminal records on him in an attempt to make him look bad,
2.) lie and say he “resisted arrest” so the cops had to keep hitting him, and
3.) hold up Reginald Denny – the unfortunate white guy who was pulled from his truck and beaten in the streets by black gang members during the 1992 riots – as an example of “reverse racism”.
What those bigots in the Jena legal system intended to do to those six boys was WRONG. If those young men break the law they must be punished just like everyone else. But THE PUNISHMENT(s) MUST FIT THE CRIME(s). The Jena 6 movement wasn’t about those six boys. It was about killing off the old Jim Crow laws that are still being practiced today in some towns in the deep South.
once again the WHITE media has us fighting among ourselves so we can’t see the forest for the trees read the Willie Lynch letter people
@ coop
Aw c’mon coop they bash us because we as black people are so BASHABLE.
@ coop
It depends on who you believe about the extent of Justin Barker’s injuries. Some reports say that he wasn’t severely beaten, others say that he was unconscious, with bruising to his face and eyes.
At any rate, how many cases of battery (2005, 2006, and now 2007) does Bell have to catch before he learns his lesson? Before his parents (and his co-signers’ parents) figure out that their sons are out of control?
Yup put em back
This still deos not take from the injustice that was done to them. The white boy they supposed beat up so bad was at a party the night he got out the hospital. They should have never been charged with aggravated battery in the first place. Everybody so quick to judge the black boys but the white boys were NEVER judged. Make it equal that’s all.
*****s will always be *****s!
Once again, we keep buying into the foolishness. Young black teenagers are not afforded the luxury of acting like white teens. They will be black listed for life because of this foolishness.
Disproportionate sentencing laws don’t serve anyone well. Equal time for crime.
kigali said:
“Miss Thang,
This is why women, especially black women shouldnt be allowed to raise boys on their own. NO to single parenthood except under extreme cir*****stances. It aint cute.
Ok, now I will put on my bullet proof vest. I see the gats coming out…
”
I say:
***** you.
How dare you disrespect the Black Woman.
At least most of these mothers are actually raising their children. Where are the fathers?
What an ignorant statement. You should be ashamed.
gravatar lexdiamonz:
“once again the WHITE media has us fighting among ourselves so we can’t see the forest for the trees read the Willie Lynch letter people
”
Amen.
Unequal justice is still a problem. It is still a worthy cause. But I don’t understand how this could have happened. The lawyers must have briefed them on the gravity of their actions while the case is pending.
Unfortunate.
It’s time to start loving our community more than we do.
Period. The roots of our issues starts with the lack of self love. We have to rebuild that. Once you have self love you’re able to have comp*****ion for your brother, sisters and strangers.
this is sickening..put their *****es back in jail
I’m not at all surprised by any of this. I guess I’m one of few people that didn’t really give two *****s abut the Jena 6. Their charges didnt fit their crime, but who hasn’t seen that happen before, if you’re in a black community? Theses Fools didn’t deserve the publicity that they got, and I seen it from the begining! If it wasn’t for the whole noose situation coming into paly this would have went down under wraps like millions of other cases in America we never hear about unless in our community. If Equal Rights will ever be practiced fairly, it will NEVER be because of the Jena 6! Now because these idiots are in the public eye, they’re putting themselves out to be some type of celebrity, and they will do nothing but make the black community look like a bunch of jack*****es!
I’m sure theres much more foolishness to come from these moreons…damn shame
And to think that people traveled halfway across the country to protest in support of them… not to mention the churches that raised thousands of dollars for their cause.
What a disgrace.
What up people, had to come out of retirement to comment on this one. They need to throw Jr. dumb ***** far under the jail, for being such a DUMB ***** to put hisself out there like that. Many people of all races stood up for him and his boys, and he thinks this is what he should do??? SMH. His dad need to slam the ***** out of him and maybe that will get his mind right.
Peace.
Yes he is very ignorant. But don’t lose sight of the BIGGER PICTURE. Justice in this country is larger than just one little boy. Our people are imperfect, but this is not really about him. Its about the unequalities in our justice system.
This is a trap black people wake uppp! Please, somebody, wake the hell up!
We must have forgotten that these kids were KIDS – they are apt to doing the same dumb ***** that REGULAR kids do. And who in the hell knows if this is NAACP money? The parents MUST be more involved but these are still kids. My parents kept a tight hold on me and still did ***** on top of ***** so there is high horse condemnation from me.
Nothing but a bunch of country bumpkins shuckin and jivin as usual. Go on and keep giving “your” oppressors ammo to kill you… then turn around and ask the civilized black community for help. It’s like welfare b/c that’s what they are used to… always asking for something.
And for those of you that didn’t care…your *****es better start caring b/c ***** like this can easily happen to you. I know too many ex-inmates that are free after spending 5, 10, 15 years behind bars for doing NOTHING!!! Racism is just like AIDS – everyone thinks they are immune to it so they could give ***** about the next man unless the next man is them!
cmongood.blogspot.com,
I very much agree with you that we shouldn’t lose sight of the real issue here…yes this boy is being very ignorant and I’m not trying to justify his stupidity. Right now black people need to focus on the issues of equal justice. Why did the white boys that jumped the black boy only get suspension and why was Justin Barker, the one who brought a gun to school, still allowed to come back as well as receive sympathy? Now with all these school shootings they didn’t feel threatened enough by him having a gun to charge him with possession of a weapon on school grounds. Thats actually a felony nowadays. None of the white boys were charged with anything. The woman raped in west virginia…why were the people even allowed bail? That was proven torture and suddenly its becoming hard to charge them with somethin serious because the woman dated the son. Please lets not lose sight of the real problem because the media is definitely going to have a field day with these pictures. Besides that I feel that the parents of these boys need to step in and put their foot down. This is not no celebrity status issue and instead of being on tv with your tears, put ya foot in their behinds for being so stupid! I’m sorry if I were their parent my*****e wouldn’t be something they are on at the moment…They would be laying low and keeping their images nuetral because the charges are still pending and I’m sure their lawyers have told this to them…then again some people are just not fit to be parents or just plain suckers.
This is very complicated, but I think it’s irresponsible for Bossip to call for the imprisonment of this teen.
Isn’t that what we have a legal system for?
Although flawed, it’s the only thing we have as of now.
We can work and try to fix it, so that justice will be rendered fairly. In the case of the video from a legal stand point no crime has been committed.
If being stupid were a crime the majority of the people in this country would be convicted.
@KSH
You must be gangsta to know that many people who went to jail for nothing.
@Black Barbie
So that justifies us being treated injustice fully.
A lot people on here are one of two things someone that has been planted in order to be disrupt critical thinking and to enable people to except what’s put on the plate of information in front of them as the whole and nothing but the truth or people that don’t understand that everyone is not at the same level and the one that are not need help to improve.
You also still refuse to answer the question which is does any of what you have said justify unfair treatment under the legal system for example the cousin of one of the witness against you on the jury?
We know the boy are not angels and must pay for thier crimes but the constitution say the following excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
These “kids” are 17-18 (one 16), you are suppose to have a mind of your own and think for yourself. These peoples are thugs and everybody who march for them got fooled.
These so-called educated people are the easiest to fool…Look how easy it was to pull their attention away from the real issue at hand and make them turn on a bunch of kids. I never said the Jena 6 kids were acting like the ‘worst’ white people in our society. I said they were acting like the average teenage in kid of every race in our society. It’s not like they raped an elderly woman or something. The kid has a dumb my*****e page. BIG *****ING DEAL. Like I said, 90% of any teenagers you talk to have dumb ***** on their my*****e pages. That doesn’t mean they deserve to be put into prison.
Miss Thang and Common Sense are both modern day house *****s. Period. Quick to judge their own race and side with m*****a. You people are an embar*****ment.
And Miss Thang, You really are an idiot. It’s a fact that the white kid who was jumped dropped out of school about a month later. And it was reported in every article I’ve read about him. But the point is *****ody cares because it has nothing to do with the facts of the case. How the hell would I know if he has a my*****e account? Who the hell cares? What does that have to do with the 6 black kids receiving unequal justice? Only YOU DUMB ***** BLACK PEOPLE go around looking for reasons to turn on your own. *****ody else. Die house *****s!
Just like a lot of people here said, you can’t just jump up and support a cause, black or any other these days. Supporting causes is a good thing, but you have to take evaluations first. Although these are “kids”, and kids to foolish things like this, they’re still mature and intelligent enough to at know they shouldn’t pose with the defense funds. That was FOOLISH. There is absolutely no excuse for this.
@Buckwheat
You maybe right but for all the wrong reason’s. We are so quick turn our backs on each other. And I’m beginning to think that the power that be know this. Look at Barry Bonds, Michael Vick, T.I. and others get in trouble and it’s the top story on CNN. What happen to NBA referee scandal, in the last few week several baseball player been link to HGH one even said that he received it from a dentist $25,000 in HGH from a dentist!!!!! And what about the pro wrestlers that are killing people on roid rage?
I’m late to this, but most of y’all criticizing this misguided fool will still run out and buy T.I. and R. Kelly’s next cd. What’s the difference?
BTW, I blame his parents and I still support the cause of justice for all including dumb ***** criminals.
People wake up their turning us on each other by highlighting the bad and none of the good. Please read the following
I saw this in the news it made me wonder if AI had of been doing something illegal this would have made the news ASAP but instead he did something to help someone else in AUGUST I repeat AUGUST and it finally gets in the news in OCTOBER. And the media doesn’t have issues? Yeah sure. I bet if he had been illegally fighting gold fish it would have been the top story on CNN no matter what our dear President was doing
Samaritan Iverson aids crash victims
Nuggets guard, friends drove past Virginia accident
By Aaron J. Lopez, Rocky Mountain News
October 2, 2007
Along a busy highway in southeastern Virginia, Nuggets guard Allen Iverson delivered an *****ist that never will be included in his impressive NBA stat line.
Imagine the surprise of two women as Iverson crouched down in the median to find out if they were injured when their car flipped over along Interstate 64 near Hampton, Va.
“I remember looking in there and asking them, ‘Are you sure you’re all right? Is anything broken or anything like that?’ ” Iverson said Monday. “One of them looked up and said, ‘Oh, my God, are you Allen Iverson?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, but don’t worry about that. We’re trying to get you all out and make sure you’re all right.’ ”
An eight-time All-Star and one of the league’s most recognizable – and sometimes polarizing – players, Iverson has received plenty of negative publicity during his 11 NBA seasons.
He hardly was thinking about his image when he and a group of friends approached the accident on that August night.
In addition to being upside down, the car was smoking. Iverson told his friend who was driving to slow down so they could see if anyone was in the car.
“It didn’t look good,” Iverson said. “I looked and seen them upside down. I said, ‘Pull over. We got to see if those people are all right.’ It was the right thing to do.”
The police and paramedics soon arrived and Iverson and his traveling party continued down the road. Later that night, they stopped at the hospital to check on the women.
Iverson said he has not heard from the women since, but another woman who knew about the accident wrote a letter to the Philadelphia Daily News to commend Iverson for being a good Samaritan.
“We, the public, seem to hear only the negative stories, but never the small acts of kindness he performs,” wrote April Snoparsky, of Boston. “This story reaffirms my belief that just because he’s ’street’ doesn’t mean he isn’t one of the good guys.”
I never supported jena 6. People should support any crime really and just saw them on bet hip hop awards sounded country as hell.
Excuse should not support any crime sorry for the grammar!
The media manipulation continues.
This is a TRUE and REAL problem…..the media that we can’t get away from.
So many news stations to warp and mold our psyche and send subliminal messages.
That’s the devil.
The President gives an address and it shows on how many stations???
I read an article in a newspaper, mag, newsletter…et al and have to remind myself @ times even now that this a still a person’s opionion.
Some facts but still someone’s opinion.
We have to form our own.
If we stand for nothing…………U know the rest.
JAIL IS NOT THE ANSWER. EDUCATION IS!!!!!
@van
So his country sound makes it all ok?????????? Do you know how that sounds?
That post shows how lost we are.
READ THIS PLEEEEEASE!!!! I’m definitely NOT defending them and the pictures ARE definitely lame/ignorant and maybe I missed something in the pictures, but HOW HAS IT BEEN DETERMINED THAT THE MONEY IN THESE PHOTOS CAME FROM THE DEFENSE FUND?????? If you look at most black kids on my*****e these days, E V E R Y O N E takes pictures with MONEY!!!!! It’s a stupid a– move and everybody wants to be hard or “look like a criminal”!!! I still say the pictures are foolish and ridiculous but can someone please tell me where it is stated that the money is “from the defense fund”?? Who made this ridiculous “do*****entary”? True these fools made the photos but who made this mess? Could be the KKK….. THINK ABOUT IT! Everyone is quick to back out and regret giving money (if they did) but if you know where this came from or if this has been do*****ented in the news, please tell me……
These idiots just *****umed that because the kid had money that it had to be the donated defense money. These house *****s up here couldn’t think up any other way that a young black kid would have money so that’s what they came up with. It was actually BOSSIP who put that idea into these house *****s heads and they ran with it without even questioning it. there are some real coons on this site.
“According to a video on Youtube, he was braggin’ about thuggin’ on his My*****e and was caught showing off what looks to be Jena 6 Defense Fund stacks. SMH.”
***** BOSSIP.
Coonery and Bafoonery
If this story is true then these guys are *****in disgusting.
DAMN I WENT TO THE RALLY AND EVERYTHING…I WOKE UP AT 3 AM TO GET THERE, IT WAS HOT AS HELL, MY FEET HURT, NOTHING WAS ORGANIZED, BUT I DEALT WITH THAT CUZ OF THESE TWO???? LAWD SOMETIMES U JUST WANNA MOVE FAR FAR AWAY FROM LOUISIANA AND NEVER COME BACK. HAVE MERCY ON YO SOULS!!!!
PEOPLE, PEOPLE….YOU’RE STILL DOUBTING!!!! I STILL ASK……….WHO SAYS THE MONEY HAD TO COME FROM THE DEFENSE FUND????? BOSSIP….SINCE YOU POSTED, LET’S NOT “*****UME” AND START VICIOUS RUMORS….PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOU WRITING IS AND PROVIDE SOME HARD FACTS ABOUT THIS STUPID ***** STORY!!!
DAMN @SSHOLISH IDIOTIC NINNIES!!!!!!!!!!
I ALWAYS thought it was wrong for six boys to beat on one. I never supported them being made civil rights icons. And this behavior is typical of those unfortunate enough to idolize rap and hip hop. All those who still see nothing wrong with Nas’ upcoming ‘*****’ album say YO! Because you’re idiots, and I wanna stay away from you.
Co-Sign w/KSH
I agree, We as black people are so quick to p***** judge about each other. Like I said in a early blog, we dont know where tha money came from. We need to STOP being so damn quick to p***** judgement because of what tha dumb ***** headline reads. Come on BLACK people we have got to do better then this. This is not WZUP how yall on this website talking about throw there black ***** back in jail, and *****s will be *****s. THATS *****ED UP WHEN U DONT EVEN HAVE THA SUPPORT FROM UR OWN PEOPLE. Thats why its so hard for us to get ahead because where steady tearing our own kind down, instead of helping to build each other up. You dont never see white people tearing each other down, even if they are in ah *****ed up situation, they are going to back them. Yall p*****ing judge off some photos yall seen and what tha headline read. U say he’s ignorant, but he’s just being what he is “A TEENAGER”., AND WE DONT EVEN KNOW IF THIS IS THAT YOUNG MAN, WIT THESE BLURRY PICS AND GL*****ES. WE have got to do better people!!
FIRST OFF, HOW DO WE KNOW IT’S HIM IN THE PHOTOS-
HOW COME WE HAVEN’T SEEN THESE PICS ON CNN OR FOX-
as sensational as the media is they would have been all over this-
I am going to wait and see how this thing pans out before I form an opinion-
DOES ANYONE HAVE THE LINK TO HIS MY*****E PAGE?
that would be better proor.
FIRST OFF, HOW DO WE KNOW IT’S HIM IN THE PHOTOS-
HOW COME WE HAVEN’T SEEN THESE PICS ON CNN OR FOX-
as sensational as the media is they would have been all over this-
I am going to wait and see how this thing pans out before I form an opinion-
DOES ANYONE HAVE THE LINK TO HIS MY*****E PAGE?
that would be better proof.
Did anyone ever stop and think that Bossip was sensationalizing the video and the headline like they do with practically every other headline? You know, like, Rihanna gets photographed with someone and they’re automatically dating? But then again, that wouldn’t have been any fun, cause then you wouldn’t have been able to indulge in conspiracy theories. Isn’t it funny that no one seems to care whether or not the site is white owned (as if it matters) when Bossip openly endorses Obama, but the minute Bossip throws up a headline about black men caught up in the legal system, all the feaux black revolutionary wannabees come out and play. And why not, right? It’s not everyday, you get the chance to rant about YT and call people house *****s.
Yes, their initial sentences were too harsh. And No, we don’t know where that money came from. No, those pictures are not dated, and people shouldn’t rush to judgment because of the video, but it’s not unusal for people to be skeptical about throwing their full support behind six boys who got into the mess they’re in by jumping someone. It’s not unusual for them to be uncomfortable with the idea of several of the boys being rewarded for *****ault by getting to mingle with rap stars at an award show. What did the boy who got beat up get?
NO ONE is making anyone turn on them, THEY are doing this to themselves. COMMON SENSE was not used and next time don’t jump on the bandwagon without finding out the facts first.
ummm how do we know these are pics after the trial? and why are these pictures labeled “ghetto”?
the white man has yall minds warped!
Who is BOSSIP? A website that perpetuates negative images of the African American Community. While amusing – why believe – they are not the Pittsburgh Courier. It’s ashamed our News has deteriorated into this. Why and how did this young man obtain the defense money? Bossip is not more then a mistral show.
No more then a mistral show
these kids forget that they did do something wrong. the only argument is that the punishment was too severe not that they dint commit a crime. So showing up on red carpets and flashing money is going to rub a lot of people the wrong way and gives the impression that they’re profiting from beating a kid up.
I’m done with the Jenna stuff. This is what I’ve been trying to explain to people about the “quick to march mentally” of our people in this country. We’re too emotional, why run when you can walk and examine the situation. When Rodney King was beaten which was a horrible injustice granted but everyone went crazy; a few weeks later he was arrested for drunk driving; then attempts to start a record company with his settlement money. After that everyone felt stupid like oh well.
These people are average everyday idiots. When you march and riot you place regular dummies one a pedal stool; then try to hold them to some standard that’s impossible for them to uphold. In all actuality we shouldn’t be surprised when the original dummy resurfaces.
As a people we should focus on education, economic empowerment, and policy.
We can not afford to focus on the people because most people are idiots; but the laws that protect the people, the education uplifts the people, and the economy that sustains the people are much more worth wile focal points.
Dig me.
The thug hip hop culture… We embrace it, we buy it, we defend it…. And our actions reflect it. Im embarrased and ashamed(:(
I dig you Lanski. It’s very painful to watch.
YALL CAN’T GET MAD AT HIM FOR DOING HIM. THIS IS WHAT THE PARENTS THE HIP HOP ARTIST AND THE MEDIA ARE TEACHING OUR YOUTH. BOSSIP SHOULD STILL SUPPORT AND STAND UP FOR RACISM. YOU SHOULDN’T SAY THAT THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T SUPPORT BLACK PEOPLE.BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO BE EDUCATED AND YES THEY DO NEED SUPPORT. RACISM IS WRONG AND HATE CRIMES AGAINST ANYONE SHOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE IN THIS SOCIETY. BOSSIP YOU NEED TO BE EDUCATING BLACKS NOT DISCOURAGING AND DISOWNING THEM BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY ARE TAUGHT. SHAME ON IT ALL. HOT ***** MESS…………
@Lanski:
You’re an idiot. You obviously never understood what the protest were about. You have to atleast understand the problem before you try to think up ways to solve it. Again, I say you’re an idiot. Please do some research into WHAT we were protesting in the Rodney King case as well as the Jena 6 before you put your support behind it. Their individual characters has nothing to with the justice system being administered equally.
Why Jesus? Why?
I’ve said before on this blog that the country kids scare me more than the city kids. The country kids imitate everything they see on TV. City kids exercise a little better judgment.
His mama and daddy need to get on his *****, majorly!
For those of us who don’t know, BOSSIP is owned by whites. @ Bujudriver, I agree with you 100%… we are so easy to sway. Some don’t know how to make a firm stand for or against something and stick with it. The fact remains that the sentencing in this case was unjust. Regardless of what these stupid teenage boys did after the fact, hell if they were supposed to be so smart they would not have been in the situation in the 1st place, why now do we expect them to have all the sense?
@Blah
Does that change the fact that the punishment was to outrages?
“that’s why the smart people here at Bossip don’t support NEGRO causes” and you guys still think this site is owned by blacks, yea a few black writers on staff but the powers that be are WHITE. Please people lets not be so quick to jump on everything, the same way some of you are questioning your support for them, start questioning the authenticity of this video, when it was taken, and why now its on the Internet- also on a lot of the “hate” websites that was created just for this case.
lmao @ these negroes.
bossip is making tons of money off of your stupidity.
1. that’s not even him.
2. the video was promoted by anti jena 6 idiots.
3. the march was well overdue because blacks continue to receive unequal treatment under the law.
5. a thuggish honors student is an oxymoron. calling him a thug is doing nothing but accepting the roles this eurocentric society has forced upon our young black men.
for the person who posted his criminal record history:
if bell received such harsh punishment for giving that white boy an ***** whipping, what makes you think those charges are actually valid? regardless, he should not have spent nearly a year in jail for attempted murder.
so many of you are so worried about what white people have to say about your dumb *****es, that you can’t see the bigger picture.
I’m sorry but even the title of this post “put them back in jail” for what? Yes this video is stupid but do you really believe this is deserving of jail? What upstanding citizen would want to see young, black men that are not criminals back in jail? Parti*****ting in a high school fight is wrong but that does not make them criminals. How about put them in somebody’s college or technical school, or put them on somebody’s payroll, but jail? That’s harsh. And only racist whites de-values the lives of young black men to the point that they think the should be put back in jail.
@frenzy
This is the new form of black on black crime but now it “intelligent” people doing it in a verbal form so it’s vogue. It in some way started with Don Imus he’s 70 something years old and blames hip hop for his actions as if he’s a Pac fan. It’s not acceptable when a young thug says he shot someone because of Ice-T, but it is when it’s a 70 year old white man? Well I guess so because everyone put their tail between their legs and went to war on Hip Hop.
Stop falling into the trap and blaming Hip Hop. This whole “Self responsibility Move” is being used to in order to get us to close our eyes to the complete picture. Yes we need to be “Self Responsible” but not let others off the hook by hating ourselves and others of our race.
@ Not You
that was someonewhat of a prejudice statemenr
“I’ve said before on this blog that the country kids scare me more than the city kids. The country kids imitate everything they see on TV. City kids exercise a little better judgment.”
Foolish kids are foolish kids no matter what region they are from here in America or elsewhere;-)
Okay well here’s my comment and I feel that from reading everyone’s comment, we are very divided which is not a surprise we have our liberal and conservative thinkers and in between which I am placed in..lol;..That photo of the boy is one of boys from Jena 6 lets make that clear. IF this is the money from Jena’s 6 defense fund, then that is very sad that he flaunts people’s money like that. The parents should’ve been very active in this. They should’ve had the money stored in bank account for their sons for education. I saw them on BET and they were actually well spoken a little countrified but hey they from the south..lol..I think as parents they should’ve had their sons lay low awhile unitl this blows over because I know if I had any sons that were in a high profile case then I wouldn’t want to overexpose them. It kinda does look bad though that one of the boys had a a previous violent encounter though..lol.but it’s all good I hope thee young men stay outta trouble;-)
@nahnah
lmao @ these negroes.
bossip is making tons of money off of your stupidity.
1. that’s not even him.
2. the video was promoted by anti jena 6 idiots.
3. the march was well overdue because blacks continue to receive unequal treatment under the law.
5. a thuggish honors student is an oxymoron. calling him a thug is doing nothing but accepting the roles this eurocentric society has forced upon our young black men.
for the person who posted his criminal record history:
if bell received such harsh punishment for giving that white boy an ***** whipping, what makes you think those charges are actually valid? regardless, he should not have spent nearly a year in jail for attempted murder.
so many of you are so worried about what white people have to say about your dumb *****es, that you can’t see the bigger picture.
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So now how do all of you that joined the Jena 6 lynch mob feel?
I agree Coop
Alot of older people particularly blames Hip-Hop it’s not just whites..and the ones that blame hip-hop that are white wre older people..such as old black people…lol..I love my people no matter what but we as people should not sit here and get mad over this situation
Their individual character has nothing to with the justice system being administered equally.
If that were the case this kid acting like an idiot wouldn’t be an issue, but it is an issue. Is it not?
I agree; let us focus on the justice system not the characters.
Peace to Black Friday and Moe.
@nahnah – well said.
@Lashun – that’s exactly what I was thinking also.
@House *****s – Don’t be so quick to eat whatever somebody feeds you. You people obviously never had a problem with the 6 young black men facing attempted murder charges for a fight in the first place. You people are so far removed from the black community that you don’t care what happens to black youth(as long as it isn’t one of your kids). This video is just giving you house *****s an excuse to express how you REALLY felt from the begining. A bunch of ‘Imitation of Life’ ***** *****s. I pray that either you or your kids get into a similar situation so we can turn our backs on you.
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I agree
Its a damn shame. Al refused to support black wome. We allowed the lady in W. Va. to be brutally raped and attacked, and didn’t support her. Now her attackers were able to get off. We let the Dunbar Village lady and her son lives to be changed forever, and we didn’t support them. But, we jump at the opportunity to support these trifflin’ black boys. We can’t help out the positive, law-abiding members of the black community… but we help holligans. Damn shame! Carry on, black people. Keep arguing about how IRR are distroying the community…
Like we didn’t destroy it ourselves.
I knew out of all the urban black blog sites that this would end up on Bossip. Bossip loves to throw black celebrities under the bus but will support a non-black hoe in a minute. And to say that’s why you didn’t support the Jena 6 cause, that is truly sad.
BUT, in his defense, dude did have a job that paid pretty good money, and those pictures were up WAY before the “Jena 6″ was the cause du jour and everyone started donating money, and he himself also told me that he hasn’t touched any of the money that’s been donated to him or nothing like that, the money he had in those pictures was his that he worked for….
How easy are we to label them as thugs who belong in jail, then to examine the issue and realize the fact that every city in America exist young black men like Mychal Bell and his buddies.
While society label them as criminals and thugs, smart people see them as lost and misguided souls who are in need of a lot of love and support.
If troubled white teens can get the support and sympathy from society, then why can’t these poor young black boys and men? Why must we always advocate for more jail time for them?
White people are willing to try counseling, medication, or whatever is possible to save their troubled children, but we’re willing to lock them up and throw away the keys because we’ve accepted American’s notion that our poor kids are thugs. We diagnose them so young that they quickly accept their role.
It’s a shame, especially for the women who love to ***** and moan about the shortage of good black men in America. How could there ever be if we’re willfully contibuting to them rotting in jail.
I often wonder if black people truly believe they’re inferiority, because a lot of you act like you do.
….and someone should tell him how dirty money actually is…
I need BOSSIP to prove to me that they’re not WHITE OWNEED.
THANK YOU, NAHNAH! I am so glad to see that someone else isn’t buying into the white man’s propaganda! Mrs. Bailey has already spoken on and discredited this video, and now we have our own sites posting this mess? Please Bossip, I love this site, but do your research and take this hurtful post down. This is only helping the whites spread their message of hate.
Give him time, im sure he will be back in no time at all……sad that he is braggin like that, they should take the money back and donate it to a good cause, what an idiot
@nahnah
Whether they are black or white does not really matter because the way the attack black people is unacceptable they go way beyond gossip, They act as if what they says is factual news.
Marci
THANK YOU, NAHNAH! I am so glad to see that someone else isn’t buying into the white man’s propaganda! Mrs. Bailey has already spoken on and discredited this video, and now we have our own sites posting this mess? Please Bossip, I love this site, but do your research and take this hurtful post down. This is only helping the whites spread their message of hate.
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I agree with you both. It is funny that the issue of constitutional rights for young men of color can easily get clouded by a picture that has no truth to it what so ever. So my question is…how many people do believe that we deserve equal rights that are afforded to us by the consitution.
an u see y i aint give a ***** bout dat ***** in the first place. u cant help a motha*****a out witout them takin advantage of the ***** u try to do for em….shm
@dani
It like almost as if when you older you forget about what you have done in your past. Nas want to name his next album “*****” now people are upset but they seem to forget that ***** Gregory wrote a book titled “*****” I even heard Al Sharpton speak of a conversation he had with James Brown about Hip Hop but never once did he mention how James has songs about beating his girlfriend and not liking snitching.
@king
Don’t fall for the porpaganda.
I think black people do view them selves as inferior but on a subconscious level. With that said you have to consider the amount of propaganda that’s been feed to the black population in such a short period of time when you consider life span. From early childhood children are fed images of white superheroes (i.e. G.I. Joe, Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, etc.) and white beauty (i.e. Bratz, Barbie, Polly Pocket, etc.) all the while in a completely Eurocentric education system created to solidify the notion of white superiority. I think black people think of themselves as inferior and don’t realize the physiological manipulation that’s happened to their subconscious.
Look at television with a critical eye and an intelligent open mind and you can see the manipulation in real time. Its subliminal messages being fed to the subconscious telling you are in fact inferior.
I wonder if some black people really understand why they hate other black people so much. But it’s all physiological and it’s killing us; it’s been killing us.
“Who are you? You don’t know. Don’t tell me “Negro.” That’s nothing. What were you before the white man named you a Negro? And where were you? And what did you have? What was yours? What language did you speak then? What was your name? It couldn’t have been Smith or Jones or Burch or Powell. That wasn’t your name. They don’t have those kinds of names where you and I came from. No, what was your name? And why don’t you now know what your name was then? Where did it go? Where did you lose it? Who took it? And how did he take it? What tongue did you speak? How did the man take your tongue? Where is your history? How did the man wipe out your history? How did you get as dumb as you are right now?”
© El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
. . . ignore the man, work the plan . . .
“Put them back in Jail” WTF? This site is just as lost as the nitwits who simply believe anything and everything they read! Who’s to say where those few little hundred dollar bills came from because the families never claimed to be broke? Who’s to say the young man actually receieved 1 dime from supporters and spent it buying clothes and acting crazy because no one has ever seen how the boy dressed or acted prior to the case. People need to think for themselves and just because someone put a collage of pictures on youtube doesn’t mean that the boy is misspending donated funds!
@ LANSKI
You know what to do if you dont like it here….
Just go back to africa and speak your f**king monkey language…
… and no i’m not white!
And for the Eurocentric education, i suppose education is much better in Africa!
Al Sharpton ran his ***** down there to Jena BEFORE checking ALL the facts again. Yes, they were given a very harsh sentence. But, what kind of track record do these kids have? The parenting is indeed lacking here. A kid that was raised better probably would not have made a video like this. Al and their lawyers should have spoken with these people and told them what to expect and given them instructions on what NOT to do to spoil their case and credibility. What a bunch of IDIOTS!
Somebody needs to cut that damn tree down, let everybody go and get the hell outta Jena!
We gotta kill the “coon” mentality that is suffocating our society. Life is not all about party and bull*****. You cannot live your life like the people you see on TV. Most of them dont live their lives the way they portray it on TV. We have to find a way to make living and doing right a cool thing to do. Im no saint by a long shot but some people mature and some people dont. How many young black couple do you know of that have healthy relationships in a sense of what it should be and are on a road to marriage and a fruitful life? The young black family is endangered. We gotta fix it. Fella’s wanna be ballers, players, and gangters; while our women wanna be diggers, hoes, and prima donna’s. We goota fix it.
Megan Williams the CHARLESTON, W.Va. woman who was kidnapped, raped, stabbed, beaten and forced to eat rat, dog and human feces by 6 white people was once convicted of check fraud; however, her past nor her future acts do not excuse the torture …the act …the crime that was performed on her.
The Jena 6 were unfairly charged …the majority facing life in prison… and that is why there were so many people that came to their defense. I do not believe that fighting was the resolution to the situation the young men were dealing handling. I do believe that many of the people who marched for the group believe that there should be some kind of punishment but the unjust sentence that they were about to receive was totally unacceptable. In spite of this young man “acting” very foolish in this video…the sentencing they were facing was not fair.
I’m glad so many supporters, white and black, took a STAND for fairness …even if Bossip doesn’t stand behind anything…Stick to gossip – real life issues are out your realm.
Everybody else jump off the band wagon.
Just read the F-ing message. Read this with and open mind, then ask yourself why Obama and others in the mainstream stayed away from this:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1024/p09s01-coop.html
Roni,
Just as any person being charged for a crime, their past actions do not pertain to the case at hand. I am curious to know why you so quickly forget that these children were charged with an excessive charge (which is against the constitution) and easy to believe that this so-called tape is indeed this child? There is a much bigger issue involved than how these kids were or were not raised that many on this site have seemed to forget about. If the courts can succeed in charging a minor excessively in a racially motivated case, what do you think will happen to the average african american?
These are pics before the incident and before the defense fund. Bossip this was so last month,wtf?
These fools will end up in jail again before they are 21!!! I’m just glad I kept my money even though the movement was necessary.
I don’t blame the guy. He’s no different than he was last year – a ***** criminal. I blame all the idiots across America who were charmed by the snake oil salesmen Sharpton and Jackson. Foolish people everywhere were up in arms without reading the facts. 6 young men with criminal records beat the hell out of a kid whose parents sent him to what they thought was a safe learning environment. Their only defense was that he didn’t die. People actually believed that an *****ault that took place in December was related to racist prank that took place in August. People actually mobilized and marched on Jena to defend these derelicts. Where were all of you when the nooses were hung? The true meaning of community is not only defending your own, but being strong enough to tell your own when they are doing wrong. Not black people. They rush to defend people who don’t help lift the image and reputation of the group. Well good luck! Continue to defend the Jena 6, OJ Simpson, Michael Vick, Michael Jackson, Rodney King, etc. Continue to be duped by liars who claim to be upstanding, righteous men of God, like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Ben Chavis, while they secretly hide their pasts, including illegitimate children, drugs and prostitution. Go on and believe people like Russell Simmons who tell you that it’s ok to bury yourselves in diamonds, when he has never been to an African diamond mine. Be fooled by his new stance on removing profanity from rap music, now that hip-hop sales are dropping exponentially. The man has personally financed the proliferation of the filthiest words in the English language and NOW he wants to hear cleaner music? Go ahead, believe the hype and see where the Black race in America ends up… Eat, drink and be merry!!! But like I said before, don’t blame the Jena kid. At least the little ***** is being true to himself – a worthless burden on society. Blame the system that allowed him freedom…
Why do we always SCRUTINIZE blacks for acting a certain way,Like there wrong.look these kids are emotional,Society is always pointing the finger at african americans,with an archaic view of black face.We should still be talking about( WHITE SUPREMACY) and the affect of the effect it still has on our society today.To say put them back in jail is pure idiotic.
@ kelechi
You read my mind.
This looks very fabricated if you look at the hats, and the difference in statute. Someone clipped these together to give this impression. BLACK FOLKS DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING THAT DESTROYS US. INVESTIGATE… THE ISSUE IS STILL THE SAME WE MUST FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS!!!
this is reverse propaganda, meant to divide the african american support.
We don’t know where that money comes from, it could be gains from something illegal.
Keep in mind, none of the Jena 6 guys are/were angels. So, him being a thug or having stacks is/was irrelevant!
The issue is, how african americans are being unfairly punished within our own legal system!
How quickly we as a people sway with the wind, it saddens me to see how little faith we have in ourselves and how easily we accept injustice. Why do we feel that we do not deserve fair treatment? We all know that the legal system is biased especially when it comes to black males. Regardless if these photos are true or not, the fact of the matter is that they should not have recieved the treatment that they did. It should be about justice and equal treatment. If we are honest, regardless if this behavior is true or not, the punishment was not justified. The movement is not in vain!!! I am more concerned about the people who are in favor of this type of injustice.
It seems neither Bossip nor its readers bothered to research this story!
This is apparently not a new story. A quick Google search led me to an October 1st news article regarding these pictures. These pictures were removed, from My*****e, BEFORE the protest. However, a NEO ***** site is furthering the story and has posted this nonsense on its site and accused the boys of using defense funds.
According to mother, checks and money orders come into a P.O. Box and are used for the defense fund only. I also read an article which said their defense is exceeding the amount of donations. So I would seriously question these allegations before jumping to conclusions! http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=7134753
I’m not saying these guys are saints…these pictures, if authentic, are troublesome. Seeing them at the hip-hop awards – given the recent controversy – was troublesome. They are certainly not “performing” well. But you know what? I swear I see celebrities and rappers doing much of the same…on Bossip…on a daily basis. So I’m not sure why it is so shocking that our kids would be doing nonsense like this.
I didn’t realize equal justice was limited to perfect angels! It was a known fact that Mychal Bell had previous convictions. I never supported them under any illusions. I supported them because no matter what *I* think about a person’s choices, intelligence level, race, cl*****, etc., EVERYONE deserves equal justice and those boys didn’t get it!!
I am an avid reader of this site and today I must say I am disappointed and downright disgusted with this posting.
First of all this video is very old and second it has already been discredited. Those pictures were posted before the Jena six case and was not money from the defense fund. Funds have not been sent directly to the families.
That Youtube video was created by a p*****ive aggressive bigot with an obvious racist agenda and now you have helped this bigot spread his destructive message far and wide.
Why would you not do research before you post items that are destructive, detrimental and disrespectful to our community and our movement.
I am appalled by your remarks of “Put them in jail” and “This is why the smart folks over here at Bossip don’t support Negro causes just because we are told to”.
I am glad to know where this web site stands when it comes to uplifting and advancing the plight of the Black community.
I guess this web site also would not have supported the Civil Right Movement because of reports that Dr. King was a womanizer and a communist. If someone would have made a negative Youtube video about Rosa Parks would this site have suggested she should sit her black butt on the back of the bus and stop complaining.
I am begging the Black Community to Wake up!!!!! We can not continue to fall for the same tricks that have been pulled for over 400 years. We must get smarter and more critical of the information we trust.
Don’t forget who told you that there were only 15,00 people at the march in Jena when if you were there you know there were over 60,000+. Don’t forget who labeled Katrina survivors as refugees and told you that there was wide spread rapes, murder and mayhem going on. To date there have been no confirmed cases or credible reports of any of this. Don’t forget who told you that pumping over 40 bullets into Sean Bell was self defense, or that hanging a noose is just a prank and not a hate crime.
Black People our community is in crisis!!!!! We can not continue to fall for the OOKY Dook over and over again. This keep us Unfocused, Confused, and thus Ineffective and Inactive.
Bossip I think it is your responsibility to print a retraction to this erroneous post. This is disrespectful to the people who rode on busses or drove all day and night to march for justice. It is disrespectful to those who gave unselfishly to the defense fund. It is disrespectful to the hundreds of thousand people and their families who are lost in the system. Most of all it is disrespectful to our forefathers who left it to us to advance the movement.
Because of this irresponsible reporting many people who had joined the movement to bring about change in the Black community have been discouraged, disillusioned and disheartened.
Bossip I understand that you have the right not to stand up for equal justice and join the movement to uplift and advance the plight of black people, but
I Beg you, if you are not willing to join and work for the movement please do not work against it by undermining, discrediting, or hindering it.
This is actually funny! When I first saw this I immediatly knew this was propeganda by some one trying to discredit the march and I am white.
I don’t understand why Blacks have not wised up and learned that your community is stronger together than seperated. I work in law enforcement,It seems as if you’ll do not realize what you’ll are up against. Blacks are being locked up left and right, often without probable cause or due process. Wise up and Don’t believe everything you Read!!
Thank you Kemi, your comments are right on point!!!
Our community continues to fall for the Ooky Dook. Why is our community so ready to believe the worst and so easily lead astray. To everyone who posted negative comments please ask yourselves where your self-hatred stems from?
This negativity is really toxic to the cause
Kemi you are 100% right. I can’t belive a youtube video created by a neo-*****,to undermine and destroy our spirit is being presented as fact on a website targted to blacks. Damn!! Did our forfathers die in vain? This why our community can not get anything done we would rather tear each other down then build each other up. The Black race is in trouble we must work together.
I agree it is very disrespectful to say This is why the smart folks over here at Bossip don’t support Negro causes. That is hand down the most ignorant statement I have heard in a longtime.
Thank you, Kemi! WTF why would you post a video created by a neo-*****, I am really disgusted with Bossip and the idiots who so easily and foolishly believe it. Bossip what was your intention for posting this.
I agree with Kemi, Bossip should post a retraction, why is this still up here if it has been called to your attention that this video has been discredited and was traced back to a neo-***** website. I have to question your intentions bossip!! We should stop supporting those that do not support us!!
Kemi you told it like it is.
Our people need to wake up. We slept through them flooding our neighborhood with drugs and guns, we slept when they took away jobs, we slept as they miseducate our children, we slept through Katrina. What the hell is it going to take for our people to wake the hell up!!!!!!!!!!
It seems as if our own people hate our young black men even more than the system does!!
You know Fox would have been all over this if it were authentic, but obviously they have more intergrity and care more about black people than bossip. Show that you do not support the neo-***** who created the video by printing a retraction.
@Coop
Why when a situation come up, the first thing out of our mouths is, well, white people do it too? My concern is blacks. I can care less about a Don Imus. What I care about is our kids walking around immitating these idiots. In all do respect, if you dont see the harm in the music and the culture, then I have no idea what world you live in.
Right on Kemi!!!! Bossip you should definitly print a retraction.
wow Kemi. before i read your post i was about to go on an angry rant.
I am right with you Kemi, Bossip you must post a retraction!!!!!! If you do not post a retraction you are just as dispicable as the bigot who created the video!!!
Kemi, Thank you so much for your post.I am sad to say I am one of the black people who would have fallen for the OOky Dook, if I did not read your post. I am sad that most people will not be able to read your poignant and much needed message. Bossip you either need to print a retreaction or move Kemi’s post to the first one so everyone can read it!!
Thank you Kemi for setting us straight and telling us exactly what we needed to hear.
Kemi, you have told nothing but the truth!!
Thank you Kemi……
Kemi thank you for standing up for our people when many of us are too ignorant to stand for ourselves. This is my last time visiting this site, I hope others will do the same.
You are all wrong, what about that picture with the jena 6 t-shirt and the money, that picture is NOT from the past. Y’all been fool and your too stupid to realize it.
Now if you excuse me, i got to go jump 6 vs 1 (cause im a *****ing coward) a white (as if it matters) dude over something that happened 3 monts ago and claim i was responding to racisim.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1024/p09s01-coop.html
Kemi,
I admire your p*****ion and your concern for the Black Community. But I must ask: How long will you fight for people who fight against their own cause? How can you defend people who make our community worse? I for one cannot afford to end up with egg on my face, supporting criminals.
No one is denying that there aren’t loads of cases where Blacks have seemingly received harsher punishments than Whites. There has never been a truly level playing field in this country. But guess what? There isn’t a level playing field anywhere in the world. There will always be the haves and have-nots. That is not to say we should give up the fight. In fact that should be the driving force behind making our fight a stronger, smarter one.
You cannot deny a habitual tendency on the part of our majority to instinctively side with the Black defendant in any case where the plaintiff is not Black. I ask, why is this??? Subtract color from the situation. Suppose Justin Barker was your son. What would you do if you dropped your son off at school in the morning, and had to pick him up later that day from the hospital? What then, would you do, if you learned that he was attacked by SIX other people at once, with no way to defend himself? I would endeavor to have the book thrown at them!!! Why is it so ridiculous that the tennis shoe was registered in the case as a deadly weapon? Do you believe it isn’t possible to die from getting your head stomped on?
Yes Jena had/has racial tensions. Tell me, what city doesn’t? These tensions are not an excuse for violence. Please don’t bring up the question about why there exists a spot where White children sit at Jena High School. Anyone who went to a diverse school in America can attest to the fact that overwhelmingly, birds of a feather flock together. *****ody is condemning the fact that the Black students hang out at the bleachers at Jena high. I have attended public, private secular and private Catholic schools and have witnessed this same trend. Of course there are many exceptions. This is not necessarily a bad thing.
The civil rights movement was not fought to force integration. It was fought to give us choices. I have the right, therefore to have more Black friends than white, whereas before I wouldn’t have been able to have any white friends at all. And people of the same race usually have other things in common as well, which also accounts for social segregation.
I obviously do not condone the hanging of the nooses. It was outright wrong. I doubt the offenders completely understand the gravity of their actions, but I wouldn’t recommend jail time for it. And the laws of the United States don’t recommend jail time for them either. In the end, you can hang a hundred nooses on my front door. I HAVE NO RIGHT TO PHYSICALLY *****AULT ANYONE IN AMERICA.
Yes, some people made the trek to Jena to make a stand for their beliefs. But look at the message that was created. The image alone – the noose hanging from the tree, with the inscription “free the jena six” is itself misleading.
The designer of the t-shirt has automatically sent a message to the country that it is ok to fight in a school setting if someone has offended you. We forget, or choose to ignore, first and foremost, that the nooses were hung FOUR MONTHS before the *****ault incident. They are unrelated. Even if both incidents took place in the same hour, one would still not warrant or excuse the other.
That aside, since most of us agree that punishment for Blacks and Whites are unequal, why then, can we not find a more deserving case to defend, and mobilize for? Why must those who claim to be our leaders, and those with respectable names continue to humiliate themselves in vouching for and defending those who continue to make our case a difficult one? Can we not find honorable men and women to defend? What about people we believe to innocent of their crimes? Why are we defending people who cannot be absolved of their heinous sins?
This begs yet another question: Why is it that we as a community are so reactive, and not PROACTIVE in life? Why do we wait for our children to commit crimes and then defend them? Why don’t we first defend them from elements in the world that drive them to crime? We should be fighting for our fair share of the good things in life – education, access to wealth, information, health, and political power. Instead we fight for a smaller share of the negative things – sanctions, repossession, foreclosure and other legislative actions.
We don’t even take advantage of the little victories won by those who fought for us. For instance, affirmative action was created with Black Americans in particular in mind. Today we are the group that benefits least from it. The beneficiaries of that legislation are by far INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS. We have access to all sorts of opportunities, but we choose to ignore them. Then we complain AFTER others have scooped them up.
We make $100. We spend $200. On diamonds. Diamonds that people who look just like us, on the other side of the world, are dying for. At the end of the day, we don’t have the $100. We owe another $100 and we are still in the same barrel with all the other crabs. Meanwhile, we’ve made the creditor AND the diamond vendor both rich.
Please don’t take my statements as a sign of hatred for Black people. If I didn’t love you I wouldn’t point our areas for improvement. I would instead endeavor to capitalize on your failure.
I agree with you, Kemi, that we need to wake up. Only I’m referring to waking up to reality, not another dream….
I’m so mad that I don’t know what to say. I just hope this whole my*****e thing has been taking out of context completely.
Kelechi,
I understand some of you points, I am about to leave for a meeting I will respond to your post later
Take of you sheet that is funny, Thanks for taking it to them again. It is so clear that those pictures were taken out of context. I am disappointed to see a so called black website help to distrbute it, it really makes me wonder. I guess Bossip is just like BET, FUBU etc.
I didn’t understand one word of that…
Why are we the only group that has to worry about “having egg on our face”? Why are we the only group that will discard anyone who’s not meeting our standards? You better believe White America (or any other group) would fight for thier children if the tables were turned.
The point is this case was not handled properly.Are their more “presentable” cases of injustice? I’m sure there are. But even our most embarrasing folk DESERVE proper treatment. I cannot get with the notion that there were more “deserving” cases. ANY case of injustice is a problem in my book. The protests were not about THOSE boys per se. They were about fighting for equality…something we are far from having.
In a weird way, these boys not being pristine straight-A kids helps to drive home the point. We cannot discard ANYONE. We are all human and we should consider EVERYONE to be a part of our community. And everyone deserves equal treatment.
To “them” every Black boy is a thug-in-training. So, again, while I agree these pictures aren’t a good look, I still believe in equal justice for all. Jena Six today, my child tomorrow. It’s not about condoning violence, violence should be prosecuted. But let’s make sure it’s done equally and fairly, and if not let’s make sure we fight! That’s the bottom line.
Injustice is the issue at hand.
We don’t know for sure where the money came from.
->For all we know they emptied out there whole savings to take those picture. That money could be money earned for something else. Do we have to *****ume that their taking advantage of their supporters? Do we have to think that we are a bunch of individuals fighting for a cause vs. a group fighting for the same cause supporting each other? We are quick to accuse are own.
Regardless of what the pictures look like or what impression it gives us of this young man it doesn’t change the fact. We are fighting for justice. Are we like everybody else deciding who deserves to be treated fairly?
Kelechi said “How can you defend people who make our community worse? I for one cannot afford to end up with egg on my face, supporting criminals.”
Are they not worthy of our support because they aren’t conscious of what their actions may look like to those of us outside looking in? Are they not worthy of our support because they are still trying to keep up w/ this image portrayed in music videos?
I mean really he had on sungl*****es in what looked like a bedroom. What does that tell you? Its all for an image…let his words do the talking not some picture that he is hoping a million females will look at and hopefully become immediately interested in him for the simple fact that he has money to wave around.
Who’s to say that part of their supporters didn’t issue out funds to each boy in particular we don’t know what the break down is. And if they wasted all the money supporters gave them to fund lawyers and in the end their broke and cannot afford help they would have learned a valuable lesson. So let’s not *****ume!!!
So what they wore jewels and loud clothes who were they around. Their idols and they were dressed like everyone else in there so why are we singling them out?
YOU cannot end up w/ egg on YOUR face this isn’t about anyone of us in particular. This is about US as a race of people. These young men are going through a form of injustice and if we don’t speak up and stand behind them. Tomorrow we will be the ones dealing w/ that same injustice because today we don’t think their worth supporting. And when it comes to someone supporting YOU or standing by your side when you have been treated wrong you’ll be evaluated too. Will you be worth our support? Do you have a past will we find out about?
Everyone has a record or past that wouldn’t be too pretty if publicized. If we say that these boys our “suspect” and have a record of violence so we shouldn’t support…then were saying we don’t believe in people changing or we don’t believe they were provoked. Were saying that there 100% at fault.
You wouldn’t recommend jail time for hanging nooses? Wow!!! What dose the nooses represent? Read your history & ACCEPT your history. Our ancestors fought for it. Died trying to obtain it & some were killed because they wouldn’t give up the fight. And you say that someone mocking them and mocking our progress isn’t something to punish for your blind. So your saying that the rest of America should be able to walk around wearing KKK attire and those of us who have history of the KKK wronging us should sit back and keep our tempers. Know one has a right to disrespect or to provoke anyone. Supporting Jena Six is to acknowledge that racism that is still happening in America in 2007
and to think, my church took up a collection for these fools – i put a $1 for each of those *****s! I want my money back!! no really, I want my *****ken money back!!
Kemi you really express yourself well I agree with you 100%.
You are one smart sister, you will touch many with your gift for words
“Everyone has a record or past that wouldn’t be too pretty if publicized. If we say that these boys our “suspect” and have a record of violence so we shouldn’t support…then were saying we don’t believe in people changing or we don’t believe they were provoked. Were saying that there 100% at fault.”
@Tykia
Actually, most black people don’t have criminal records. They experience racism on a daily basis and still manage not to commit violent crimes. And let’s get this straight, the Jena 6 were 100% at fault for what happened. No they shouldn’t have been charged with attempted murder, but they put themselves in a position to be tried by the judicial system. All of this could have easily been avoided had they not gotten themselves into trouble. Several of the boys were quite familiar with the justice system, and not even the threat of a parole violation deterred Bell.
“Yes, some people made the trek to Jena to make a stand for their beliefs. But look at the message that was created. The image alone – the noose hanging from the tree, with the inscription “free the jena six” is itself misleading.”
@Kelichi
Exactly, because even the US District Attorney, that was sent to investigate the matter, a black man BTW, found no direct link between the Barker attack and the noose hanging that happened months earlier, especially given the fact that Barker wasn’t one of the teens involved in the initial hanging of the nooses. The only way we’ll truely know why those boys *****aulted Barker is if their court testimony is made public (if it hasn’t been released already), or if they tell us on 60 Minutes, and even then, they might not be telling the truth, but the noose hanging incident has been the single biggest propogandist tool used to rally public opinion in favor of the 6, when in reality, it probably had little to nothing to do with the *****ault whatsoever.
Do I hope they’ll change? Of course I hope they’ll change, and I’m glad that their sentences were overturned, but I don’t think they deserve the Rosa Parks treatment either. This is something that black people are going to have to take on the chin, because these aren’t innocents who were wrongly framed or anything *****le or warm and fuzzy like that. These are violent offenders that perputuated the same “thug” stereotype that all black men are judged under.
Did you not read Kemi’s post alot of the facts you are stating are not true go to the website she listed we do not know if any of those boys actually threw a punch. Her post is long but so true and full of good information. It was only one punch that knock Justin Barker out. Even if we disregard the noose incident the boys were still over charged, and white students were not charged when they committed similar crimes. It is unequal justice no matter how you look at it.
http://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/ineffective-*****istance-of-counsel-what-blane-williams-should-have-known/
Kemi, thank you so much for breaking this down, that is really deep! Our community really needs to educate itself. I think if people were truly educated things would be alot different. Why does you comment keep disappearing. Why does Bossip feel the need to censor it
I think my post may be too long I will break it up
Kelechi,
You asked “How long will I fight for people who fight against their own cause? How can you defend people who make our community worse?”
For me that is exactly what a movement is about helping those that can not help themselves, standing for those who do not know how to stand. Having strength for those who have not found theirs.
Do you think Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat just because her feet were tired? No she refused to give up her seat so each and every one of us would not have to. That day when she took a stand many of those around her, told her she should just get up and give up her seat. But she did not move because she had the strength to stand when those around her were either too scared or too ignorant to stand on their own.
During the bus boycotts I am sure there were those that fought against the cause by riding the bus anyway, but our forfatrthers walked for them also.
Dr. King died not only for those who marched but also for the snitches that reported his every move to the FBI, he died for those that were content sitting on the back of the bus, drinking out of the same water fountain as the white man’s dogs, cleaning white folks houses and shucking and jiving for the white man. He died for everyone to have equal rights. So you ask how long I will fight for OUR people, UNTIL THE DAY I DIE!!!
You claim that Blacks have an instinctive tendency to side with black defendants. I believe that is because in most high profile cases the black person is treated unfairly, the case is handled poorly, the person is overcharged, or the person is pathologized.
The Vick case is prime example, I agree that he did something wrong but the way they dehumanized, and pathologized him really made me sick. I watch as these white people call him despicable, disgusting and persecute him for drowning electrocuting and killing dogs, when many of these same people either parti*****ted in, watched, or sat back and did nothing while our people were electrocuted, drowned and killed. They can kill and torture people and animals for sport and it is o.k.
During Katrina I remember seeing planes rescuing dogs and cats while people were left to die. After the Katrina evacuees realized no one was coming to rescue them many began walking across the bridge to the neighboring town in search of food and shelter. The police force led by the chief of the neighboring town threatened them with guns. This chief died recently and he was given a hero’s burial they shut down the bridge for his funeral procession. The same bridge that many black people died on because he denied them food and shelter. And you want me to believe Mike Vick is pathological.
Kemi thank you once again for dropping this knowledge on us. I have bookmarked all the useful sites you posted. I did not know much of this stuff, I live in NC and I never heard of the coup that took place.
I hope they do not remove your comments, I would keep posting them if they do, our community needs this information
Man this is deep, I thought I had a grasp on black history but alot of what you posted I never heard of thanks for the education
Kelechi
We support black people because they are usually treated unjustly. Also I do not see white people apologizing for supporting their own under much worse and more blatant cir*****stances. Did you here about the case where a young black man was killed by 5 white officers and a nurse within one hour of him entering boot camp. In 90 minutes an all white jury acquitted all 6 of the murders despite video.
There are lots of Rodney king’s, Amadou Diallo’s, Johnny Gammage’s, Patrick Dorismond, and countless others who were brutalized or killed by the police and were set free by all white juries. So no I would not say our community has a more habitual tendency toward this.
As for the question what if I was Justine Barker’s mom. First I would teach my son not to start a battle he is not prepared to fight. Second I would urge him to tell and seek the truth in this case. And finally I would want equal treatment for all. It is not fair that when white student fight and no charges are filled and when black students fight they face 22 years in prison.
As for the merits in this case I do not agree with your misguided version of events.
1) There was a teacher who saw what happened who was not called to testify in the first trial. The teacher gave two statements immediately after the school incident in which he clearly states that Justin Barker was facing him when Malcolm Shaw (not Mychal Bell) struck Barker. Most witnesses agree that a single punch knocked Barker out cold. The only adult who witnessed the punch says Mychal Bell didn’t throw it.
2) Justin Cooper was the only witness at trial to testify that Mychal Bell kicked Justin Barker as the victim lay unconscious on the ground.
Justin Cooper was one of the boys who admitted to hanging the nooses at Jena High School at the beginning of the school year.
3) Two female students testified that the person who knocked Justin Barker cold was wearing a green jacket. Mychal Bell’s statement, given immediately after the incident, state that he was initially cleared of responsibility because he was wearing a black jacket.
Her is a site with more info
http://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/ineffective-*****istance-of-counsel-what-blane-williams-should-have-known/
Becasuse of these and countless other inconsistencies, I know that Michael, regardless of his criminal record did not recieve a fair trail and did not deserve to spend 22 years of his life in an adult penitentiary. Ask yourself why parents are not allowed to discipline their kids but the prison system is?
Do you really believe that if six black football players attempted to kill a white boy, the white boy would really be able to go to a school function later that night? Is it not surprising that the same boys who lead a peaceful sit in after the noose incidents are the same ones indicted in this incident?
Here is a case of another athlete that was almost struck down before his prime http://www.jockbio.com/Bios/Iverson/Iverson_bio.
html
Wow, I can’t believe that hanging a noose is not a crime to you, maybe it is you that does not understand the gravity of the noose. Obviously the boys who hung them did or they would not have hung them after the black student sat under the tree.
Even if the noose incident never happened these boys were not treated fairly.
In case you are unclear on the significance of the noose and what it means here are some postcards that white people sold as souvenirs of the lynchings that took place all across America.
http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html
We do not have time to wait for what you consider to be a more “deserving” case. I believe from the most honorable to the least honorable all of my people deserve equal justice and I will fight equally for each of them, just as our forfathers did.
We need to be SOLUTION focused. That is all we need to be focused on what can we DO. Not who did what, why and how.
If you do not agree with the merits of of the Jena six case pick another cause in the movement to champion such as: the murder of the young boy in boot camp, or the school shooting that received minimal coverage, or the CIA flooding our communities with drugs and guns, or getting black history integrated into the public school curriculum, or gang violence, teenage pregnancy, or Revamping BET or removing it from the air. There are so many causes to take up that we do not have time to pick apart the merits of the Jena six case.
This is a time of ACTION.
Kelechi, I challenge you to please move from being a naysayer of the Jena six case to a Champion of a cause you do believe in.
We have been quiet, inactive and p*****ive for too long. We do not have time for negativity; all it does is drain energy and resources. I am sure we all agree that there are problems in our community we do not all have to agree on the specifics. We all agree we need solutions so let’s start there and put the negativity aside and start working toward solutions.
And as for egg on our face, I do not care what any white person thinks about how I choose to support or uplift my community!
O.K. I am off my soap box now
Kemi I hope you do not mind I broke your post into smaller sections so they are not removed, I think you share some really important informaion EVERYONE should be aware of.
Keep dropping knowledge
“Did you not read Kemi’s post alot of the facts you are stating are not true”
Yes, I did read Kemi’s post. Care to tell me which facts I stated were untrue?
“go to the website she listed we do not know if any of those boys actually threw a punch”
Bell’s lawyer has given interviews, even made an appearance on Dr. Phil, and didn’t deny her client’s role in the Barker *****ault. Even Al Sharpton hasn’t gone that far. He’s gone on record saying that what was he thought was unfair was that the boys were being charged as adults in a beating case, while the (black)USDA decided not to charge the white boys who hung the nooses with a hate crime because they were juveniles, not that the Barker beating didn’t actually occur.
“Even if we disregard the noose incident the boys were still over charged, and white students were not charged when they committed similar crimes.”
There’s a problem with that *****ertion though.
Those other fights didn’t rise to the severity of the Barker *****ault. The other incidents were run of the mill school yard fights with both sides throwing punches, not multiple people against one, where the victim was sent to the emergency room, but I guess Barker really didn’t have any reason to go to the hospital, cause none of the Jena 6 boys ever threw a punch (LOL). If one of the black boys involved in other fights had been hospitalized and their *****ailants never charged, then you could make that argument.
Look no one’s denying that these kids shouldn’t have been charged with attempted murder, and that’s where the focus should be, equal justice. You want to be able to sleep at knowing that should your kid violently *****ault someone, and put them in the hospital by mistake, that they won’t be charged with attempted murder.
@well-j
You are so brain washed it’s not even funny.
Regardless of your racial cl*****ification; can’t you see how you’ve been manipulated to think a certain way? Do you really know anything about Africa; its languages or its education system? You’ve been conditioned to think Africa is synonymous with stupidity. You’re just regurgitating subliminal messages?
Do the research; ask the questions; then come to your own conclusion about an issue.
It’s called independent thought.
@everyone else
Injustice is the issue.
Regardless, the unjust laws in Jena Louisiana remain. There has to be legislation put in place to protect individuals from inequality. Jena’s city hall has to be presented with a bill that will ensure the implementation of a law that will make sure this doesn’t happen again? This has to be bigger that the 6 kids; this has to be about laws put in place to protect our kids from tyranny.
Can anyone offer an intelligent solution?
“Nothing in the entire world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
© MLK2
DAMN YO…THIS VIDEO REALLY *****ED ME OFF. WE GET CRITICIZED FOR SO MANY THINGS…AND THIS IS THE TYPE OF SHYT THAT MAKES ALL THE STEREOTYPES ABOUT US ACCURATE.
to those who say injustice is the issue:
Why has there been no action until this case? why do we not fight the daily fight in our own local communities. I read regional newspapers everyday and see nothing regarding any gr*****roots movements in the top 10 cities that Black people live in. The truth is people were drawn to a publicized case by loads of propaganda. Be honest with yourselves. If the big names weren’t on the news circuit yapping about it, you wouldn’t care.
To those who believe we should defend criminals:
Would you be on your soapboxes if your son was Justin Barker? Again, remove race from this scenario. Your child goes to school and is attacked and hospitalized. Would you seek out the aggressors and begin a dialogue? Would you embrace social healing and forgiveness? Be honest with yourselves.
Yes, it is true I don’t want to end up with egg on MY face. Don’t be upset that I am thinking for myself. If I don’t make sure I am personally in order, how can I help others in my community? If I ruin MY good name in defense of someone who will throw it back in my face, what will my good name be worth when I use it to defend the next person? The mistake many of you make is that people of the same color are automatically in the same community. WRONG! People choose the communities to which they belong. Some choose to be upright citizens, while others opt for counterculture and subculture allegiances. I won’t be naive and say that there aren’t extenuating cir*****stances and environmental influences.
As far as I know, these boys have not been deemed mentally incompetent. They are not innocent lambs, either. Be wise in your defense. Our legal system is all about precedents. If those of you who claim you are for the cause knew better, you would see that these boys are the worst case for the fight for fair treatment. The legally viable solution is to present those cases that cannot be defeated and use those to win our argument and therefore dictate how the law will be interpreted in future cases. Doesn’t that make sense?
Those who think I am being cold-hearted must realize that what makes system good and just is its emphasis on the institutions, not on the personalities. The Jena 6 are not important. Their names will be forgotten tomorrow. The institutions, the greater community is important. We lose when we paint faces of individuals (especially those with easily attackable flaws) over our issues and parade on main street.
I won’t deny that we have a responsibility for our youth. That is where it starts. Where are all of you who seem to love these boys, BEFORE they end up on the six o’clock news????? Sharpton and Jackson and their band of sheep (YOU) put on suits and ties, and purchase t-shirts with neat logos ($$$) and trek down for the “cause”. Where are you before it becomes a cause? Who was there to guide these kids and teach them right from wrong? So don’t tell me about not supporting my people. I’m not the one waiting until the apple is rotten before I decide to polish it.
Please, I beg you, PLEASE, stop comparing these kids to historical civil rights figures. They did not fight for a cause or stand up against any injustice. They committed a horrible crime. Even our civil rights heroes weren’t perfect. And even though it’s not that important, I must correct the person who made the remark about Rosa Parks. She HERSELF even stated that she did not refuse to move from her seat because she knew it would result in the bus boycott and the repeal of the racist public transport laws. She refused to get up because she was weak and tired and didn’t think she should have to. Had it been the day before or the day after, she might have gotten up. Though I know we are all glad she did stay put, we have to understand how little things we do can affect others and the future.
If you nurse and coddle bad behavior, it will grow up and be cemented in that lifestyle. If you strike at it early on, you will cast it away from our youth, who will learn and practice proper behavior.
Stop your complacency! Stop your blind allegiances! Think for yourselves! Why did you donate to the Jena Six legal defense fund? Their lawyers were not arguing that they should be freed because the noose hangers were not punished. Their lawyers were arguing that their crime was not a grave crime because their victim was thankfully able to walk out of the hospital alive the same day. What message does that send? “Go out and knock the hell out of those you don’t like, as long as you don’t kill them?”
Again, BE HONEST WITH YOURSELVES! Don’t find fault with me because I am completely sure about what I am saying. Don’t sheepishly follow what others around you are harping about. Read for yourselves! Reach your own conclusions. Practice empathy. Put yourselves in the shoes of all parties involved. Seek ye the truth!
90% of you need to get off your soapbox! These are just kids being kids. Trust me I interact with them everyday… and I don’t care if my kids sag their pants down to their shoe laces the constitution reads “Justice for all” not justice for some depending upon the situation/ethnicity others may receive a severe punishment. AND read the GD facts while you are at it! OMG I hope none of you self-hating SOBs never help me. Benedict Arnolds! U don’t know when these pictures were taken. That’s good they beat the ***** out of those racist *****s. Got what they deserved…We will not regress!
“That’s good they beat the ***** out of those racist *****s. Got what they deserved…We will not regress!”
@young educator
You work with kids, huh? Teaching them that Jena 6 art of conflict resolution, I hope. Yeah, that Justin kid sure got his ***** whipped. And look who wound up in jail. But then again, Justin didn’t get to go to the BET Hip Hop Awards or anything, so score one for the Jena 6.
And keep your dumb ***** out of fights and *****, and you won’t need our help.
Folks, come on catch up.. this video was announced as a scam by some klan supporting idiots over a month ago.. if you know anything about the law and legal defense funds, the money goes into escrow for use only for legal defense purposes.. even if it there is an abundance of money, it still can only be used for the defense fund.. the defendants never see a penny of it.. stop buying into the propaganda.. FREE THE JENA SIX AND DROP ALL CHARGES NOW!
ah hell kids will be kids however they need to know how to manage money. its ovious that they neva seen that lump sum of money befor. so since we are so concern why dont we teach or show our young one’s the value of it insteat of putting them back in jail where they wont learn nothing but gang banging and killing ther own or themself.
My only point for bring up Rosa and Dr. King was to say whether they choose to or not their actions, with the outpouring of support and dedication from others, they created monumental change not just for themselves, not just for the most “honorable” of us but also for the most “un honorable” of us.
@ Kelechi and Others
You seem to have thought of this alot and are true to your convictions. Regardless of what you believe about the Jena case (we may have to agree to disagree)what are we going to DO!
I am not trying to be rude but it seems that alot of your thinking seems to be centered around what White people think
“Yes, it is true I don’t want to end up with egg on MY face.”
“If I ruin MY good name in defense of someone who will throw it back in my face, what will my good name be worth when I use it to defend the next person?”
“The mistake many of you make is that people of the same color are automatically in the same community.”
“Some choose to be upright citizens, while others opt for counterculture and subculture allegiances.”
“Our legal system is all about precedents.”
“If those of you who claim you are for the cause knew better, you would see that these boys are the worst case for the fight for fair treatment.”
“The legally viable solution is to present those cases that cannot be defeated and use those to win our argument and therefore dictate how the law will be interpreted in future cases. ”
“We lose when we paint faces of individuals (especially those with easily attackable flaws) over our issues and parade on main street.”
I use to have many similar views, I know many of people in the black community agree with you. I use to think like this before I really started to read and learn black history and the current state of Black America way beyond what is available in the mainstream or is taught in school.(Did you know that the prison industry makes $40 billions a year, and 3rd grade achievement test of young minority men are how they decide how many prisons to build, instead of planning what interventions to implement. Black males are over 6X more likely to be sent to a juvenile facility than white males who commit the same offense)
I now see that alot of my former way of thinking is remnant of the slave mentality of believing that we can not do or achieve anything with out the white man’s approval. It is very hard to recognize and overcome the deep ingrained bias, miseducation,and self hatred that is imbedded in our subconscious. Many things that are happening in our community are all by design (our communities were flooded with guns and drugs, our leaders were neutralized or killed form both out said and within, our communities were terrorized this all occurred through the CIA’s COINTELPRO counter intelligence program (most active 1960’s-1980’s). There are so many examples.
One thing I think we agree on is that the solution must come from within. We can not wait, and hope and try to prove to the white man that he should support us. Remember these are the same people who not to long ago made postcards of our people being lynched.
http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html
I say again for any one who does not agree with the merits of of the Jena six case PLEASE pick another cause in our community to champion such as: the murder of the young boy in boot camp, or the school shooting that received minimal coverage, or the CIA flooding our communities with drugs and guns, or getting black history integrated into the public school curriculum, or gang violence, teenage pregnancy, or Revamping BET or removing it from the air.
Dr. King was just a man just like each of us. You can be the leader you want to see in others.
We have to be SOLUTION focused. Lets agree to put the negativity aside and start working toward solutions. Because the negativity kills creativity and drains emotions and resources.
A movement does not need complete consensus, it only needs dedicated individual determined to implement multifaceted solutions by any means necessary!!! Despite who agrees and who does not agree, despite who joins , or who sits idly by, despite who is for us or against us THE MOVEMENT MUST ROLL ON!!!!
It saddens me to read alot of people not wanting to support the movement behind this. Has anyone even stoped to ask questions about this? Like, when was this picture taken, is that really one of the Jena 6, how did they get there hands on donated money? Did ANY of you band wagon jumpers stop to think if this was a trick. Read the news, with all the increased racial tension hate crimes have been on the rise. You think racist are above taking an old picture some one gave them with a person holding money and trying to use it to divide people. For those that say they no longer support the Jena 6 I pray that it does not take you being jailed for you to change your minds again
“I now see that alot of my former way of thinking is remnant of the slave mentality of believing that we can not do or achieve anything with out the white man’s approval. It is very hard to recognize and overcome the deep ingrained bias, miseducation,and self hatred that is imbedded in our subconscious.”
@kemi
Yeah, I think Mike Vick shared your view about not caring about what the white man or anyone else thought when he was running his dog fighting ring despite knowing that it was illegal. Maybe he felt that way because he didn’t have a slave mentality? By the way, how did that work out for him? Maybe you’re right. Maybe black women shouldn’t concern themselves with their portrayal in m***** media, particularly music videos, or worry about how that portrayal affects their profile in public opinion? Black men shouldn’t concern themselves with their profile in the media either or how that affects people who clutch their purses or cross the street when they see them approaching. The last thing that Barak Obama should be concerned about in his campaign is what non-blacks think, less he have the mindset of a slave. You know when Seung Hui-Cho murdered all of those people at VA Tech, the President of South Korea not only offered condolences, but also apologized on behalf of all South Koreans. Why? Because even though such a gesture was unnece*****ry, he was concerned about public opinion and didn’t want Cho’s crimes to reflect poorly upon all Koreans. Do you think upstanding, law abiding people of Middle Eastern descent want to be lumped together with terrorists? The truth is that we all want to be respected and highly regarded, even you, and it has nothing to do with having a “slave mentality.”
@Kelichi,
I understand what you’re saying, believe me, I do. You’re tired of being lumped together in negative stereotype about blacks, but like I said before, black people are going to have to swollow the lump that is the Jena 6, because you want to be able to rest at ease knowing that should your child violently *****ault and accidentally send someone to the hospital that race isn’t going to influence their trial and sentencing. Of course, you can prevent your kid from committing violent offenses with proper home training, and if the Jena 6 hadn’t committed any crimes, they wouldn’t have been in court, but in this case, you have to turn a blind eye to the obvious. What’s done is done, and the best that anyone can do at this point is ensure that they are tried fairly, in spite of their prior convictions and bad bevior. But you’re right. The last thing black people need is for those kids to be turned into folk heroes.
All you really see here is a picture of a black kid throwing around some dollars, wearing a hat, shades, and a t-shirt. The true identity of this kid with the money is not reveiled. Don’t believe everything you see. We are in a new era of a Civil Rights Movement regardless of what anyone personally thinks on the Jena 6. Their misfortune is not the only one. Several of us have faced unjust punishmments. Read a book, do some research on your own and stop waiting for the MEDIA to tell you what’s going on in your own communitites because their views will never be the whole truth and will definately be skewed, IF they ever even decide to report on it. Don’t be so quick to jump to conclusions – read and research. Don’t be so gullible.
I am my Brother’s AND My Sister’s Keeper and regardless of how you look at it and think on it, so are you my brothers and sisters. We are all apart of this movement and my hope is that someday soon, we will all act like it.
Support the Blackout Day on Nov 2, 2007 – Do not spend any black dollars on that day because our dollars do make a difference. It’s not about race. It’s about cl***** and respect. Respect yourselves!
My luv
~Ms. Liberia
@ ilish,
If you really read the sites Kemi, provided you would know exactly what is not true. We do not know who if any of these boys were involved in beating up Justin Baker. There was alot of Key evidence left out of Mychal’s original trial. His public defender did not call anyone to the stand not even the teacher who wrote a written statement that he saw someone other than Mychal throw the punch that knocked Justin Barker out. Also that after the incident Mychal was cleared because his clothing did not fit the description of the perpetrator. Inconsistencies between what the witness said at trial and initial statements made 10 months earlier after the fight were not pointed out. I do not have to rehash it read the info for yourself.
I disagree with your *****ertion that Al Sharpton has never mentioned this, I have heard him and others on several occasions say that he did not receive a fair trial and lots of key evidence was not considered. That is how I found out. I listen to Michael Baisden which Al Sharpton is on regularly, he has stated clearly that when the case goes to trial in juvenile court once he has adequate representation and all facts are considered he will be found not guilty.
You are going to quote the Dr. Phil show where a Klan member is given a spot on the set of the show to spread his hateful message to his supporters, and Al Sharpton and the lawyers are given a five minute spot via satellite in which Al is questioned about being a race monger, which is not really relevant to the merits of this case. The Barkers were given two days on the show and were able to say many things un challenged and with no follow up questions. The families of the accused were featured via satellite for about 10 minutes. I am happy Dr. Phil choose to do a show on this important case, but I do not feel it was conducive for learning true untainted facts about the case, which should have been the purpose.
As for the lawyers everyone directly involved with the case are under gag orders so they can not discuss any specifics of the case or original trial.
One of the Jena six boys I believe it is Pervis has maintained this entire time that he was no where near the fight, but feels his name was called because he was apart of the peaceful sit in that Mychal and the others led.
I find it strange that the same boys who led a peaceful demonstration would be later be indicted in an “unprovoked savage beating of an innocent white boy” I don’t think so.
It seems you are choosing to miss the point no one is denying Barker was beat it just was not six on one and Mychal may not have been the perpetrator just a convenient target. Either way it goes they were overcharged and a miscarriage of justice that took place. Even with no other cases, no noose incident, no situation where whites were not convicted, this was still a miscarriage of justice. It is no way 6 high school boys should possibly face 22 years in prison and be tried as adults for attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder of someone who was well enough to go to a school party later that night.
Did you read Kemi’s post about Allen Iverson, who was in a similar situation where in high school he was implicated and convicted for parti*****tion in a fight with some white boys where he left once someone through the first punch. He was the star football player with scholarships he was sentenced to five years in prison an attorney took up his case and got him freed. When he got out he could no longer use his football scholarships that is when he made the shift to basketball
Have you heard of the Megan Williams case in VA please research it, if you have not. What was done to her was 100 times worse than what happened to Barker. Her perpetrators had over 99 prior offenses between them but yet their bail was basically the same as Mychal’s original bail of $90,000 also the charges are almost the same accept for the addition of kidnapping.
You say the other beatings in the Jena case were not as severe. A black student was beat by a group of whites and hit in the back of the head with a bottle. Two of the black kids get a gun pulled on them they wrestle the gun away they are charged with theft of a firearm. One could say that Barkers injuries were not that severe since he was able to attend a party later that night.
It is interesting how you choose to disregard and make light of the facts you were presented. Everyone should be critical of what they read and sound bites they listen to. Most news is for entertainment not growth. Please look a little further than the entertaining details the mainstream media provides.
@critical reading
First of all, we’re not talking about Allen Iverson, Megan Williams, or even Mike Vick, and not once did I suggest that Barker was an angel or a choir boy, but no one has yet to tell me what he did to provoke what happened to him other than perhaps shout racial slurs. And how many times do I have to say that I believe in equal justice, and that while I do not think that the boys should have been tried for attempted murder, I don’t think they should be upheld as civil rights heroes like they’re the Little Rock 9 or something.
Just because I’m not taking information from a link to “The Friends of Justice” at face value, doesn’t mean that I didn’t read Kemi’s post critically. If you noticed, the only articles that “The Friends of Justice” posted on Donald Washington’s ( the black US Attorney for the Western Disctrict of La. sent to investigate the matter) findings revolve around the “pen incident” and his not charging the noose hangers with a hate crime. If the FOJ coverage of the Jena 6 scenario is as comprehensive and irrefutable as you say, then why is the only coverage on Washington, who for all intents and purposes is impartial, limited to how he labeled the noose hanging and the pen incident and not the Jena 6 trial itself? The reason why you’re doubting my reading comprehension skills is because I don’t necessarily agree with you. So, kindly find another argument to lob at me besides “read critically,” if you please.
I actually applaud Dr. Phil’s coverage of the case because his was one of, if not the, only show on network television show to let the Barkers present their side of the story. The vast majority of the media has been pro-Jena 6, and please don’t give the impression that Jena 6 advocates weren’t present. There were relatives and spokespersons from the Jena 6 families, Sharpton, another minister, and Bell’s lawyer, that were allowed to speak and were heard. There were more Jena 6 people present than Barker family spokes people, and the “white supremacist” lawyer was equally denounced by Dr. Phil and the Barker family alike. So please stop trying to discredit the show because Dr. Phil allowed the supremacist lawyer to speak or try to align the lawyer with the Barker family. If you had seen the episode, the Barkers shunned any *****istance that he offered. The quote of Sharpton’s that I was paraphrasing was taken from an AP article as well as transcripts covering the Congressional panel hearings on the Jena 6 case not the Dr. Phil show, where the black USDA first stated on record that the noose hanging was a hate crime. And while Barker’s lawyer did not go into details about the case on the show, she didn’t give any impression of Bell’s innocence in the Barker attack. Her grievances were directed at the severity of the sentence, not that her client shouldn’t have been charged in the beating. In fact, as I recall, when she did address the severity of the sentence, it was during a debate about what punishment, the boys should face for the attack, and she said something to the affect that they shouldn’t have been charged with attempted murder. Am I not entitled to believe that while Bell shouldn’t have been charged with attempted murder that he was still involved in the *****ault?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-17-jena-six-hearing_N.htm?csp=34
“You say the other beatings in the Jena case were not as severe. A black student was beaten by a group of whites and hit in the back of the head with a bottle. Two of the black kids get a gun pulled on them they wrestle the gun away they are charged with theft of a firearm. One could say that Barkers injuries were not that severe since he was able to attend a party later that night.”
@Critical
Barker didn’t attend a party. He attended his cl***** ring ceremony that he was looking forward to attending for years. He also left the ceremony early after getting his ring because of the beat down he received earlier that day. So no, he didn’t leave his hospital bed to go clubbing or anything sinister like you’re trying to suggest.
The black student you’re talking about, involved in the gun incident, was later identified as Robert Bailey, who caused a melee the night before. And that fight wasn’t as severe because Bailey, unlike Barker, wasn’t knocked unconscious nor was he hospitalized. On Dec. 1 2006, Bailey tried to crash a predominantly white party. The girl at the party wouldn’t let him in cause it was a private party, and he didn’t have an invitation. Then, another white person got involved, and a brawl broke out between he and Bailey. So the girl throwing the party threw them both out, and after the police got involved, Bailey wasn’t charged with anything. However, the white person fighting Bailey was charged with battery and got probation.
So the next day (Dec. 2) Bailey and his friends were at the convenience store and they encountered another white person, who he claimed was involved in the fight at the party the night before (though only one white man was charged). The way Bailey and his friends tell it, the white person met them at the store with a shotgun (cause if you’re gonna shoot someone, you’re gonna do it in front of people at the Quik-e-Mart), and they bravely wrestled the gun away from their white *****ailant. The way the white person tells it, Bailey and friends chased after him, and he ran and got his gun from his truck to fend them off. Bailey and friends wrestled the gun away from him, and Bailey took the gun and fled. Now think about it, what sounds more plausible to you. Guy A looking to gun down Guy B who he may have already jumped the night before or Guy B who recognizes Guy A from last night’s fight and wants to retaliate now that he has his boys with him? And if the white guy had a permit for that gun, then it wasn’t illegal for him to carry it. So, why should he have been charged? He didn’t walk into the store with it. He brandished it after he thought it would be necessary. And if the white guy didn’t initiate the fight, then why should he be charged for defending himself? Maybe you need to do a little independent thinking of your own.
The police charged Bailey and friends with offenses after hearing testimony from other witnesses, but despite being charged with firearm theft, robbery, and disturbing the piece, he was walking freely two days later on Dec. 4 when the Barker *****ault went down. And as for Bailey being hit in the head with a bottle, he didn’t disclose that fact in the police report after the incident occurred. Some even speculate that the reason why Barker was targeted was because he had something to do with or knew someone who had something to do with the party incident and the convenience store incident, and was attacked as some form of retribution. I don’t know. If you want to believe in their being inconsistencies in the trial, that’s your business and your opinion and you’re entitled to it, as I am mine.
Just a word of advice that everything is not always what it seems. I think this site is biased, or ‘whitewashed’ … just dont believe everything you see or read. Obviously you guys have something against black people, latent or not … Really sad
… Could be the KKK planting this information …
I am with you 100% girl, Kemi please do not waste your time on these people who are happy to languish in the slave mentality instead of working to recognize and overcome it.
Set your sets on people who are ready and willing to do what is needed to advance the movement!!
@ Kemi
Are you a motivational speaker because you explain your stance very well. I can tell that you are very p*****ionate about uplifting the black community. You seem to have good insight
I like what you said about “For any one who does not agree with the merits of the Jena six case PLEASE pick another cause in our community to champion such as: the murder of the young boy in boot camp, or the school shooting that received minimal coverage, or the CIA flooding our communities with drugs and guns, or getting black history integrated into the public school curriculum, or gang violence, teenage pregnancy, or Revamping BET or removing it from the air.”
Who can argue with that!!
I do not agree with all the facts in the Jena case, but I do fully support getting blck history taught in school. I am going to focus on getting that done instead of debating the facts of the Jena case.
I want to be apart of the solution instead of the problem.
I do not understand your application of linking Mike Vicks mentality to commit a crime to what I said.
The slave mentality applies to the people who agree with the harsh punishment of Vick possibly losing his freedom and livelihood for similar crimes that white people commit every day and go unpunished. For cosigning on the demonization and dehumanization of Mike Vick by the media. Those that agree with whatever the media presents without critically questioning it.
A few years ago in my hometown a dog fighting ring was uncovered in a poor rural white community they found over 30 mutilated dead dogs buried in his back yard and he was given probation.
They are allowed to hunt for sport in which there are hundreds of accidents a year where people are injured or killed.
They are allowed to save dogs during hurricane Katrina while people are left to die.
The united States is the number one importer of illegal wildlife. America helps to fuel and fund illegal poaching all over the world.
The slave mentality does not allow one to question these and other inconsistencies because of the fear “M*****a might get upset”
The fact that so many of us are so easily duped and led astray because of piece of youtube propaganda created by a neo ***** shows that not only is the slave mentality alive and well, they know it and are using it to their advantage, which was how they knew they could count on us to help them accomplish their goal.
@ illish
Please do not take things out of context and exaggerate them. The slave mentality is trusting everything the white man, the media, the system, the oppressors, what ever you want to call it, trusting everything they present as facts to be true and being afraid to question.To blame the victims without given any thought or blame to the PUPPETMASTER pulling all the strings.
They control our money (they control most businesses, banks, corporations etc), Our education (most of our children attend public school who’s curriculum is controlled by the government) Our freedom (they make up most judges, lawmakers, juries and lobbyist) and thus our destiny.
I am disgusted with Bossip for giving the neo-*****’s exactly what they want
Like I said in the previous post, I wish more though had gone into deciding who would become the faces of the new civil rights movement. It is time to grow up. The Jena 6 stopped being kids when they were charged with very adult crimes. They lost their “I’m just a stupid kid” p***** when they asked for and received national attention for their case. If the money shots were taken before the incident, they had no need to solicit donations for their defense fund. If I was on a jury, and had to see these images, and hear about their actions, I would find it hard to be sympathetic towards them.
THESE *****ING IDIOTS CAN’T JUST CHILL AND LAYLOW.THEM BOYS BETTER NOT GET SENTENCED CAUSE I’M SURE THEM GOOD OLE BOYS IN TEAXS IS GONNA PUT THEM VERY CLOSE TO THE ARYAN BROTHERS.DAMN, STUPID START PACKING YA ***** WITH VASELINE.
@Kemi
Am I really taking what you wrote out of context? You wrote a lengthy post in response to Kelechi’s concern about how elevating the status of the Jena 6 would impact public opinion of us. The only reason why I took a segment of that post rather than cut and paste the entire post was because I thought it would be too long. The second sentence in your Oct. 27 2:29 pm post to “Kelichi and others” begins with, “I am not trying to be rude but it seems that a lot of your thinking seems to be centered around what White people think” and then you pick out phrases that Kelechi typed to illustrate your point. Then you go on to talk about how you had similar views and attribute that rationale to having remnants of a slave mentality. My response to you was in light of what you wrote in the post. You’re not the first to suggest that particular logic, that to care about how and what non blacks think of us is unreasonable, and to want to be well respected by those unlike us is a sign of weakness. You’re just the latest to phrase it eloquently. That line of reasoning is slippery, and you’re basically two steps away from calling Kelechi a sell-out or implying that he/she’s “acting white” for not jumping on the Jena 6 bandwagon, just like “Critical reading’s” oh so clever *****umption that if I don’t necessarily agree with the FOJ, then I must not be able to read critically (rolling eyes). It’s a slippery slope that’s becoming a tired cliche.
@Kemi
I brought up Vick because you alluded to him before when discussing blacks tendency to side with black defendants regardless of their crimes. The reason why you think it doesn’t apply is because you’re uncertain about the Jena 6’s role in the Barker *****ault, and I respect that. But, for the sake of argument, if you *****ume that the 6 did commit the *****ault, then you can see how this whole thing would feel like déjà vu all over again, with black people rallying to the defense of those who put themselves in the law’s way. And you can’t compare hunting and dog fighting. When you hunt a dear, you shoot it and it dies shortly thereafter. I’ve been dear hunting. I know. Vick used everything from electro shock torture, to rape, to drowning, to whatever the hell else “train” his dogs. There’s difference. I don’t even like dogs, and I can make the distinction between legalized hunting and what he did. Vick’s not going to lose his freedom for life. He’s only going to do a few years. The reason why he pled out the charges was because the case that the prosecution had against him and his *****ociates (who squealed) was so airtight that not even Billy Martin could get him off. Don’t blame the media for that. And how much of Vick’s media crucifixion had to do with his being black, and how much of it had to do with Vick being a well respected celebrity athlete, who thought he was above the law, and risked his career for the sake of financing a dog-fighting operation mere miles away from PETA’s National headquarters? You could just as easily argue that the reason why the dog fighting convict in your town didn’t get as much media attention was because he wasn’t a celebrity, not because he was white. Did the man in your town traffic his dogs in fights across state lines like Vick? Did the prosecution have as good a case against him as Vick’s? What are the laws regarding dog fighting in your state? Vick’s not the only celeb who’s sentence may or may not be harsher than a non-celeb’s case. Look at Paris Hilton. She got more jail time because of her celebrity status mainly because of public opinion. I swear, people are always like, “Oh Vick would’ve gotten away with it had he been white.” But the thing about that is that Vick was black, and he was getting away with it. He was getting away with it for as long as anyone can hope to get away with anything illegal, and you know how long that is? Until you get caught. Vick’s boys were running that outfit for years. The police stumbled upon the operation when they were arresting one of his *****ociates on a drug charge. No one was targeting him. The cops didn’t even know the house was his, until they found out.
Looks like we’re on the same page regarding “agreeing to disagree”… Thanks for the good debate. It always helps to sharpen one’s ideas and ability to convey them clearly and succinctly.
One note though: I am not at all worried about the general majority (white Americans) think personally about black people. I am however worried about our understanding of the connection between how we are perceived and how we are treated. The perception could be that of whites, blacks, Asians, Amerindians or anyone else. I am worried primarily about how we view ourselves, the expectations we have for ourselves, and the confidence we have in each other.
I am worried about our priorities. I watched this morning, footage of Genarlow Wilson being given a standing ovation at Ebenezer Baptist Church. This goes back to our habit of pedestalling those who come home from jail while ignoring those who come home from the university (unless they come home with deep pockets). I am deeply worried about how jail has become a rite of p*****age for black Americans.
When I talk about embarrasment and having “egg on my face”, I am referring to the younger generations of our community, before whom I make efforts to carry myself with a certain degree of pride and decorum. I don’t want to teach and preach about certain values, only to turn on a thin dime and defend those who not only go against those values but embody a set of values that are precisely contrary to my own to those of decent society.
As I said, these individuals are not important. What is important is what we take from these cases. What are our children taking from this? Who do they look up to? Go to any school with majority black enrollment in any major city and ask them to list 10 black public figures. How many will be rappers? How many will be congressmen? How many will be 18 year old NBA rookies? How many will be university presidents?
I feel no shame for my people before a white man. I do, however, feel great shame for the black community, not only before its children who look to us for guidance, but also before the spirit of those ancestors the names of which we love to invoke conveniently during February and the last week of December.
Time to wipe the egg from our faces…
@illish,
I understand your argument about Vick, I agree what he did was illegal. My problem was how the media crucified him as if this was the worst crime ever when many of these same people either parti*****ted in, watched, sat back and did nothing, or bought post cards of our people being raped,hung, tortured, electrocuted and much worse.
I agree with what you said about hunting when everything goes correctly. Sometimes animals are not hit with a direct shot and are able to run away to go die a slow agonizing death in the woods. How about when they miss the animal and accidentally shoot a person who then suffers? More PEOPLE are hurt or killed every year in hunting accidents than in dog fights. How about in fishing where the fish suffocate to death when removed from the water. Or when they use animals for clothing I am sure we have all seen the PETA videos where those animals are electrocuted, or how about all the do*****ented cases of animals in the circus being abused. It just seems like the only thing Mike Vick did wrong was not giving the White man his cut, it seem as like as long as they benefit from it it is ALL GOOD!
I am sure Vick was not directly responsible for torturing the dogs with the various methods you described, the same way America does not directly poach animals that are almost extinct or harvest animal parts for souvenirs (I am sure this is not done in a human way), but yet America is the number 1 importer of the illegal wild life trade, we single handily keep it in business. When we created most of the laws that make it illegal. I do not hear anyone losing their lively hood or freedom over that. I am just saying this country is very hypocritical that is why I can’t jump on the bandwagon to crucify Mike Vick.
I in no way want to imply that anyone who does not support the Jena six or other black causes are acting white, Uncle Tom or anything like that. Because that only brings division in a time when we need unity the most. We do not have to have unity in everything we think we only need unity in the willingness to work toward solutions. My only goal was to bring enlightenment and suggest a different way to view things. It is just important that we do not focus on doing something or not doing something because of what White America may think, this has led us astray sooo many times. We should be concerned with what WE think.
Once again my only concern is that our community comes together and continue the revolution that has been stalled since the civil rights act was signed.
Once again I am begging Any one who does not agree with the merits of of the Jena six case please do not work to tear it down, Simply pick another cause in our community to champion that you do agree with such as: the murder of the young boy in boot camp, or the CIA flooding our communities with drugs and guns, or getting black history integrated into the public school curriculum, or gang violence, teenage pregnancy, or Revamping BET or removing it from the air, or moving the voting act to voting rights (yes we do not have the right to vote in this country we only have temporary permission that someone has to be signed off on every 25 yrs.
These were Kem’s comments that somehow were censored
We do not have time to wait for what you consider to be a more “deserving” case. I believe from the most honorable to the least honorable all of my people deserve equal justice and I will fight equally for each of them, just as our for fathers did.
You ask why our community is reactive rather than proactive you act as if we have not done this before countless times.We have built and rebuilt our community and thrived sooooo many times and everytime they find a way to undermine, destroy and kill our efforts.
Learn about
Rosewood FL
http://www.displaysforschools.com/rosewood.html
Wilmington NC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilming…ection_of_1898
Tulsa Oklahoma
http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/
How they flooded our communities with drugs and guns
http://www.finalcall.com/features/cia-dope.html
http://www.blackcommentator.com/amendment.html
We have been here before. Once again we must rebuild our community but this time we must learn the lesson history has tried to teach us. Rebuilding our community without addressing and stamping out racism is pointless. We must take control of our destiny.
We need to be SOLUTION focused. That is all we need to be focused on what can we DO . Not who did what, why and how.
If you do not agree with the merits of of the Jena six case pick another cause in the movement to champion such as: the murder of the young boy in boot camp, or the school shooting that received minimal coverage, or the CIA flooding our communities with drugs and guns, or getting black history intergrated into the public school cirriculum, or gang violance, teenage pregnancy, or Revamping BET or removing it from the air. There are so many causes to take up that we do not have time to pick apart the merits of the Jena six case.
This is a time of ACTION.
Kelechi I challange you to Please move from being a naysayer of the Jena six case to a Champion of a cause you do believe in.
We have been quiet, inactive and p*****ive for too long. We do not have time for negativity, all it does is drain energy and resources. I am sure we all agree that there are problems in our community we do not all have to agree on the specifics. We all agree we need solutions so lets start there and put the negativity aside and start working toward solutions.
And as for egg on our face, I do not care what any white person thinks about how I choose to support my community!
Yes, I have noticed that much of what I have posted is censored or removed.Everything I post I try to site the sources so everyone know it is not just my opinion, I notice many of the sources are removed.
I just want everyone to recognize the root cause for everything that is going on and who is making money off of our people not advancing. Please try to move away from blaming the victim. What is going on in our community is a manifestation of 400 years of oppression. I do not use this as an excuse it is just the facts. Yes, there are things we can do to overcome it, but it requires EACH and every one of us to fight like hell to get it done.
They have been undermining and trying to destroy us since the day they brought us here. Yes we need to take responsibility and uplift our community but uplifting our community without effectively combating racial oppression will only get us right back here. History tell us, we have done this soo many times. I will not post examples b/c I know it will be removed. Just do a google search
Systamatic, institutionalized racism is REAL!!!!
The prison system profits 40 billion dollar YEAR! They are using the school system to divert our children on a path to prison, black children are 6X more likely to be sent to a juvenile detention facility by the school district than whites who commit the the same crime.
If you go to some of the public schools in the inner city you would think you were in a third world country. Not the richest country in the world and surly not the same country that has billions to start a war in IRAQ
Black men have been systematically removed from the home (please google this)
So many guidance counselors and teachers are holding our kids to low standards, many are discouraging our children from going to college they are encouraging them to take easy cl*****es (please google this)
Who really makes the most money off of rap music, who makes the most money off of the disparaging images shown all day on BET?
Many rappers make positive songs but it is white executives that have final say so on what is put out, it takes money and sponsorship to get songs on the radio.
Most rims, jewelry, expensive car dealers, expensive alcohol most of the bling lifestyle makes white companies rich that is why they use us to do their advertising through music videos etc.
These things were not created or owned by us. I know many will hate this but it is the slave mentality that causes us to measure our worth in material things.
We must all wake up and join together recognize what is going on and REJECT it. In order to do this we must first educate ourselves recognize what is really going on and move from blaming the victim to empowering the victim.
Thank you girl for setting these fools straight. Why is there so much censorship when speaking the truth.
This is a disgrace
THIS KID IS STUPID AND DESERVES A LITTLE VACATION IN PRISON TO CLEAR HIS SENSES.
Luckily,the T-shirt was my only contribution.
How can you all be so ignorant. You all are falling for clear propaganda. The youtube video was created by a neo *****. Why do African Americans fall for the same tricks over and over again.I am white and I recognize this video is propaganda. Further more it is old, his parents have already confirmed that this is not defense fund money and was taken before the march. One lady explained things very well, please read Kem’s posts
@PHKatz
When they come for you and your’s a t-shirt will be my only contribution!
This is very sad!
This is a great disappointment.
How can money “…look to be…” Jena 6 Defense Fund money? Do you have concrete proof, or are you just speculating? Last I checked, money doesn’t come labeled. This money could have come from some other source. Blogs are cool, at times. However, other times you guys tend to sensationalize stories, just because. Issues that shouldn’t be important are considered to be just that. Why? The real issue here is this: so what the Jena 6 boys claim to be thugs, and/or, to hell with anything they might have done in their past. Were they being treated fairly concerning the issue that made them well known?
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