[quote]however, given the old penchant for lynching "Negroes" in the South, if some good ol' boys displayed a hangman's noose directed at me, I just might be inclined to take that as a death threat and react accordingly. Some of you guys seem to think nothing of it since "It ain't against the law to hang a rope from a tree" and you may find it difficult to relate to the impact that such a gesture may have on a person of the , ah, "colored" persuasion; but to some people that may be akin to pointing a gun and to others it's just a bunch of good ol' boys doin' what good ol' boys do.
Never said I condoned any of this, just tried to present the facts and not what the media wanted to tell the world....The white boy that was beaten had nothing to do with the noose hanging event at the school days earlier, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time!!!!!! The Jena 6 were not the ones that wanted to share the tree with the whites and not the ones the noose incident was directed towards, they are nothing more than a bunch of thug wanna-bees.
I agree, and my personal opinion is the people that did these horrible things to that women SHOULD HANG for their offences!!!!!!!!!, but, where was Jesse and Al??????
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It's interesting how these issues polarize everyone into different camps based on each person's particular point of view. I've never lived in the Southern states, but It's obvious racial tension and division persists deeply to this day. I don't condone any gang beating anyone to death regardless of who happens to be what color - however, given the old penchant for lynching "Negroes" in the South
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I was born and raised in the south and probably will live out my life here...When I started school in 1961, we still had segregated schools, in my area intergration came about in my freshman year in high school...... The four years prior, we had "freedon of choice", anyone could attend any school in the district, in those four years we had a total of three blacks come to the white schools!!!!!!!!!!We had ZERO problems all thru my four years in high school....had many black friends then and still do today, but one thing I found interesting then and even today is that when asked, a very large majority of blacks prefer segregated schools,in fact some groups of blacks have asked the federal judges in charge of the segregation laws to reverse the laws so that black only schools can be re-opened.......
Yes, in some areas racial tensions still do exist,unfortunately.......Go to Jena and ask both black and white residents what they think about the NAACP/Jesse/Al coming to their town numerous times when things seemed to be getting back to normal and stirring the pot some more....You wil be surprised at the answers......
While in grade school as well as high school we read in the history books and were taught about the same "lynchings" you speak of, I'd bet I know more about them than you'll ever know due to what we were taught in school and to this day I'm sorry those things ever happened....but if my memory is correct, those things took place about 100 years ago......
I think the "events" in Jena were handled with the interest of the community in mind and according to the law, considering the violent criminal history of some of the participants....
David