The initial charges against the 6 were out of line, that much is obvious, but many protests are calling for a full pardon of the 6…all I can say is “huh?” These charges aren’t bogus, like the initial ones, and the national protests to further, or purify Civil Rights are really doing more harm than good. The movement has moved far away from the days of MLK and into the dark days, where promoting white guilt seems to be the cause.

And as for missing the “crucial context” of the issue, how many young blacks or whites even have the knowledge to successfully identify the context? The younger generation is polluted with a new black mentaility that attempts to strike fear into whites (the hypocritical stance on the N-word being the defining tool), promote violence and drugs, and degrade women. So, how can the younger generations have any sympathy for the slavery-bitten African-Americans? They can’t, because there is no real lingering hangover from slavery, except that self-loathing which resides in the minds of far too many blacks.

Reparations should never and will never be the answer to the problems that blacks believe they face. Although, blacks do collect their fair share already, we call them “welfare checks.” People can go on and on about how the vast majority of our prisons are filled with blacks, and how that’s because a racist judge and jury injustly put each and every one behind bars, or that reparations will solve all the problems, well, that along with an apology. If, in fact, either of those things would end the misplaced enmity that is popular amongst blacks today, then I would be the first to support it, but the reality is that nothing that any white person, nothing that any Government, and nothing that any tax dollar can do will help. It’s up to them to stop crying racist every time a black is criminally charged. I’d like to thank OJ again for distracting us from yet another situation where blacks wrongfully rally in the name of racial injustice…wait…why is this so familiar? Oh, that’s right, the Simpson Trial proved that an innocent black man was seemingly condemned, but blacks everywhere were exalted when the civilly just verdict pronounced him innocent, now I remember…oh, but then he wrote a book about it. Nevermind.

“The public defender never challenged the all-white jury pool, put on no evidence, and didn’t call a single defense witness. The law of aggravated assault requires the use of a deadly weapon. What was the weapon? Tennis shoes.”

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He even opens up the article with a reference to “Jenin”

Your analysis of the Jena situation is largely very good, with one critical failing — you identify a dividing line based on skin color, between black and white, as the primary line on the moral question here.

Historically, this hasn’t been the case. Those on the vanguard of civil rights movements have always been a diverse group, such as those who founded the NAACP.

There is no reason a white person would default to viewing the completely lopsided punishments meted out in Jena as just. The vast majority of people of all colors would condemn what happened there.