"We should have a government program that actually PAYS young black men to travel the country to put the whup-ass on honky skulls."

We already have such a program, Harvey, but it's privately funded. It's called the NBA.

I couldn't agree more. I see nothing wrong with six black kids beating the *%#t out of a white kid just because he's white and because someone else did something that hurt thier feelings. I know when me and my friend get our feelings hurt, we find the nearest black man and beat him unconsious!!!

OK, in all seriousness... I've never considered myself to be a racist, but when I see this kind of outrageous double standard its makes my skin crawl. The three white kids who hung the nooses from that tree should be punished, as should the six black kids who beat up the white kid. Attempted murder charges is a bit much, aggravated assult sounds good. They should be tried as adults and with a hate crimes. You can bet your ass if six white studends beat up a black kid because some other black kids called them crackers they would be charged with hate crimes. If the so called black leaders went to Jena to protest the proscuter filing excessive charges, I would agree with them, but instead they went there in support of six black kids who beat down a white kid because thier feelings were hurt.

Do you want to know why there is racism against blacks in this country, because they have earned it. Its OK to be black and proud, just not white and proud. Miss Black America, The Black Grammy's, B.E.T., the list goes on and on. If white people did the same thing the world would stop spinning. You know, we have are share of stupid white folks too, we just do have rallies to support them when they act stupid. Heres a tip for blacks to end racism, stop being racist!!

Harvey, I feel so sorry for you. Did those big bullies (the white jocks) beat you up in school and give you wedgies? Did they steal your lunch money? Did the cheerleaders laugh in your face? Did you cry in your pillow at night? Did you swear revenge along with the rest of your chess team?

I would think someone in your circumstances would be more liberal instead of ridiculing serious issues. Your last poster sounds a little scary with his "because they earned it" comment. Was he part of your chess club in High School?

You should be happy. You can laugh at those cheerleaders and jocks who have their puny salaries and live in their trailer parks with their dozen kiddies all on welfare.

I guess that´s why you write this column, right? He who laffs last??

Face it Dee. Your just happy as hell he wasn't discussing the border jumping scumbags. You know who they are, don't you? I can almost smell 'em from here.

In retrospect, It's "mighty White" of Sharpton to take yet another opportunity justify racism towards Whites & compare himself to MLK, Jr- which is an insult to the memory & legacy of MLK, Jr.- and all the while saying, "This is not about race. This is not about politics. It's not about black and white. It's about equal justice for all."

That's odd: I noticed he didn't run to demand justice for the white kid who was brutalized by six black goons with a chip on their collective shoulders...
No, no, white boy's justice can wait; we've got civil rights to think about, folks! (Is 'not getting your head kicked in by a bunch of thugs just because you're not black' considered a civil right? Mmmmm-no.)

It's just like this nonsense about "reverse racism", as though phrasing it as such somehow justifies it.

If I go to Mexico and plunder any & every resource I can find while committing crimes against the citizenry, does that make me a "reverse guest worker"?

BTW, if this had been six white guys pummeling a black, gay, or Jewish guy, then forget the regular assault charges; they'd all be charged with hate crimes right off the bat.

So if "it's about equal justice for all", would Big Al & Li'l Jesse be OK with the Jana 6 being treated the same?

After all, we wouldn't want to deprive them of the same opportunities.

[Ignorant, racist, off-topic, anonymous troll-dropping moved to The Museum of Stupid Comments]

WTF was that!

There's absolutely no need for that. If you feel that strongly about it, why not leave a name? Or better yet, why not just leave & not come back?

For the record, I am white. I have a strong Irish ancestry. However, my wife is black, and therefore, so are my children. Are you going to call me a race traitor now?

You want to shoot blacks? Come talk to ME. I'll set your ass STRAIGHT.

come on poster #7, tell us how you really feel.
One more thing... if you shot them before you sent them out to pick cotton, wouldn't all our T-Shirts be pink?? That would suck-ass, I don't want pink t-shirts.

I think beating up white people should be legal also. All of the people that make me want to beat them are white. Of course so am I, but hey, a laws a law.

Oops, check that, sometimes I want beat up my wife, who's Asian. I would too except she does that Crouching Tiger thing and throws knives and plates. And that's just when she's cooking.

Hey poster #7, great example of the white folks that poster #2 was making a reference to.

Taking any bets on whether #7 was from Dee so he/she/it could show La Raza how racist "we" gringos are?

Master Shake, I don't think so. I think it was just a lame attempt at humor, I was going to say something along those lines but realized it was in bad taste, though *mine* would have been far better!

If #7 was trying to use biting satire to make a wry statement about race relations, then he missed by several miles. If it was a drive-by monkeyface poo flinging incident, 'nuff said.

Here's the thing. There is a mighty gulf between hanging nooses on a tree and beating someone unconscious. The first is stupid, hateful and moronic, the second is vicious, dangerous and probably deadly.

While everyone in this debacle needs to be punished, I wonder if those calling equality would sign on to this idea: (pardon Mr. Swift)
Let's let the punishment fit the crime. String up the three white bullies with their own nooses and beat the Jena 6 to death. After all we want equal justice under the law, every body being dead sounds pretty equal to me. The truth is Sharp-Jack and company don't really care about the actual people involved. Like all Liberals they are only interested in the "concept". That's what really counts.

I agree the beating shouldn't go unpunished, but 20 years in prison? This isn't the first fight between these kids. Apparently, a black kid was jumped at a party the night before. This was payback. The white kid who apparently got beaten within an inch of his life, was well enough to be out of the hospital and at a rally later that night, so its not like this kid was beaten into a coma. Also, apparently, one of the white kids pulled a shotgun on one of the black kids. His punishment was suspension, a reprimand and a "what do you expect, the black kids were threatening him". Also, Ive read what some of the white parents said about the nooses, and some actually thought it was a joke, as in funny. Like, "why are these black kids so uptight about nooses, I mean that was so, like, 1789 to 1965".

This whole thing isn't passing the smell test. That doesn't make it rotten, but I'd certainly like to know more.

Does continuing retaliation justify any of it? If any of them had been assaulted, then they should have said something to the police or their parents, anyone before this. Is hanging an empty noose illegal, or as illegal as, let's say, assault & battery? Or is it just a tasteless act of contempt? I experience tasteless acts of contempt against me just about every time I watch TV.

You see, the funny thing about this society's current attitude towards racism is that as long as it's not being perpetuated by white folks, then it's really not racism; rather it's just minorities "expressing their frustration" at "the system", or at whitey, or "Amerikkka", or whatever candy-coats an act that is actually just racial hatred.

So by that standard, the Jena 6 merely "expressed" that kid into the hospital. Had it been the other way around, those so-called civil rights leaders, who only want "equal justice for all" would be screaming for blood, lawsuits, prison time, apologies to no end, and all under the ever-watchful eyes of the media. And the MSM plays into this nonsense willingly, because ratings & agendas mean more than presenting a fairly balanced story from both sides. Instead, we get:

Michael Richards makes a slew of racial comments against black loudmouths during one act & it's big news. Paul Rodriguez, Martin Lawrence, Chris Rock, Margaret Cho, etc. make racial comments about whites as staple material during their acts & it's "funny".

Don Imus makes what amounts to nothing more than an insensitive remark about a mixed-race girls basketball team during a radio show, and he out the door. Rosie O'Donnell makes insensitive remarks about the Chinese language on The View, and all you hear is laughter.

Several well-to-do white boys on a lacrosse team at Duke get accused of raping a black exotic dancer, and the whole black civil rights community goes completely apeshit about it, but when the same boys are totally cleared of the charges, the same civil rights community can't even manage a private apology to the boys whose lives they have essentially just stigmatized FOR LIFE. (The same CR community that demanded never ending apologies from Michael Richards...)

O.J Simpson kills his white ex-wife & her white boyfriend, and it's America who is just being racist towards O.J. who, incidentally, was found not guilty. A group of rioting blacks beat a truck driver nearly to death with a brick at around the same time, but if they're found guilty, the riots will continue. And concerning the riots, it wasn't about destruction & looting; it was them "expressing their frustration", yet again.

19 Middle-eastern men turn 4 large airplanes into cruise missiles & kill thousands, but profiling and screening Middle-eastern men after 9/11 is racist.

Call it what you want. I call it pandering to madness.

Ahhhh... Please, Hammer, don't hurt 'em!

All those protesters down in Jena need to take the show on the road.
There are blacks fighting for their right to kill and sodomize white folks up in Knoxville.
http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=6057763

And of course there is the beloved OJ fighting for his right to rob whitey at gunpoint.

Plenty of upcoming rallies.

See, Harvey, I know you're being sarcastic and I can read through that

but then you draw out commenters who are f'ing insane

(The six guys should face a punishment, but the DA here looked the other way when a black guy was beat up and then turned around and charged the black guys with attempted murder for what was essentially a school beating; I'm all for hard-nosed DAs, but don't do it selectively)

I really hate white people.

I hate Frank.

I'm not racist; I have an even hand when it comes to hating all you miserable people.

Alan ABQ, your post #18 is so right on, this country is its own worst enemy!

Face it, all white people are guilty of something for which they need that beating they so richly deserve. And that's because white people are lazy, shiftless, dishonest, lecherous and unlucky.

But damn, they sure can clog dance and they damn sure can play some wicked hockey! It's because they were bred for it, way back when.

If the tables were turned, yada, yada, yada . . . That's all well and good, but let's face it, as soon as JJ gets involved you can bet your life J Stalin is speaking from the grave. The issue is gone and the attack begins. Whatever happens, BE A PATRIOT. Viva Paul Revere, (A little diversity there.)
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