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Black Racism and The Jena Six
« on: September 27, 2007, 12:59:21 PM »
Black Racism and ?The Jena Six?

By John Perazzo
FrontPageMagazine.com | 9/27/2007

Because they generally consider it bad manners to draw attention to obvious examples of black racism, the media -- in concert with contemporary America?s self-anointed champions of ?civil rights? and ?civil liberties? -- have recently put on a spectacular exhibition in the art of depicting black racism not as what it is, but rather as the unfortunate by-product of an allegedly underlying white racism. At issue is the case of the so-called ?Jena Six? -- the half-dozen black Louisiana youths who brutally beat an apparently loudmouthed white youth named Justin Barker last December. In the wake of that incident, the American Civil Liberties Union complained -- as did the political Left at large -- that the local district attorney was unjustified in having initially charged the defendants with attempted murder in this case of ?questionable circumstances.?

Those circumstances were as follows: Last December 4 at Louisiana?s Jena High School, football player Mychal Bell led a gang of eight to ten fellow black students in pummeling Barker into unconsciousness in what the Jena Times called ?one of the most violent attacks in Jena High School?s history.? Witnesses would later report that Barker?s attackers had ?stomped him badly,? ?stepped on his face? while he was ?knocked out cold on the ground,? and ?slammed his head on the concrete beam.? The media focused heavily on the notion that three white Jena students had provoked the attack by having hung nooses -- evoking images of lynchings -- from a tree (on campus) in whose vicinity blacks allegedly were unwelcome. Quite apart from the question of whether a dumb (non-violent) prank by a bunch of teenage idiots is grounds for a violent assault, the fact is that Barker was not even involved in the prank.

Though the charges against Barker?s assailants were later reduced, the ACLU has solemnly stated that ?the Jena Six case raises serious questions about a possible double standard for whites and blacks in the criminal justice system -- and in our schools.? Dennis Parker, Director of the ACLU?s Racial Justice Project, laments: ?Possible differences in treatment between students of different races, the apparent overcharging of students by law enforcement and questions about the possibility of discrimination generally in the school are emblematic of the ?school-to-prison pipeline? cases that we are seeing nationwide.?

Members of the ACLU are schooled enough to know that many studies over the years have examined racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and that in the final analysis, when we compare black and white defendants who are charged with equivalent offenses and who have similar criminal records, we find that they are treated quite similarly by the justice system. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, who led a massive protest in defense of the Jena Six a few days ago, might secretly understand this too, as might the NAACP, which expressed its solid ?support? for the rally in honor of the black assailants. But unfortunately the hordes of protesters -- tens of thousands were bussed to Jena from all over the United States -- didn?t know any better.

Nor did they seem at all cognizant of the fact that there are mountains of evidence which entirely contradict their contention that black youngsters routinely get a raw deal from the juvenile justice system. To cite just one example: A mere five weeks before the Jena incident, a gang of perhaps 30 black teenagers brutally assaulted three white women -- 21-year-old Laura Schneider, 19-year-old Michelle Smith, and 19-year-old Loren Hyman -- in the Bixby Knolls section of Long Beach, California. Hyman suffered 13 facial fractures that required extensive facial reconstruction surgery. Schneider suffered a concussion after one of the attackers yelled a racial slur at her, smashed a skateboard against her head, and continued beating her after she was already unconscious. In February 2007 the four main perpetrators, all of whom were aged 16 to 17 at the time of the attack, were each sentenced to serve a mere 60 days of house arrest -- which they were permitted to break in order to attend school and church -- and 250 hours of community service. The judge also ordered the lead attacker to attend an eight-week racial tolerance program at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Not much of a penalty for crimes that could easily have resulted in a death or two. And of course the ACLU, NAACP, Sharpton, and Jackson were nowhere to be seen or heard.

There is a larger issue at play, however, apart from whatever penalties the juvenile justice system metes out. That is the issue of black racism, a disturbingly widespread phenomenon in contemporary America. This phenomenon explains why tens of thousands of protesters willingly traveled long distances to stage a show of support for a pack of thugs who had indisputably perpetrated a brutally violent attack against a white person. It explains why they focused exclusively on defending the ?rights? of those attackers, rather than on condemning the wrong they had done. And it explains why they chose to portray a group of raging predators as the innocent, misunderstood victims of modern America?s allegedly boundless bigotry.

Black racism also accounts for the fact that the vast majority of interracial violent crimes are of the black-on-white variety, and that statistically the ?average? black is many times more likely to attack a white, than vice versa. While not all interracial crimes are motivated by racial animosities, many of them -- like this recently videotaped gang assault in Viriginia -- certainly are.

But why should black racism be prevalent in America at this comparatively late stage in our nation?s evolution -- long after the rise of equal-opportunity mandates, affirmative action policies, civil rights advances, and the stigmatization of racism to the point where ?racist? is by far the epithet most feared by whites, be they political figures, business leaders, clergy, academics, or social commentators?

It?s actually quite simple. Black racism remains a dynamic phenomenon because African Americans have been told, ad nauseum, by ?civil rights leaders? and by leftist whites in influential organizations like the ACLU, to look outside of themselves for the roots of every ill that plagues their community; to reflexively blame white society for their problems rather than to take responsibility for their own lives; and to view themselves as the oppressed and powerless victims of a white ?power structure,? a status they are led to believe renders them somehow incapable of being genuine racists themselves -- no matter how much they may detest the white people they perceive to be their tormenters. Moreover, they have been taught to angrily reject astute observations like those of Bill Cosby, who has publicly lamented how illegitimacy, parental neglect, lack of educational effort, and bad behavior have decimated black life.

Only the victim mentality fostered by the ?civil rights? champions of our day could have prompted tens of thousands of people to think that rallying on behalf of the Jena Six was a worthwhile use of their time. Having listened for so long to the ?civil rights? establishment?s incessant depictions of the United States as a land of racial inequity, many black Americans have become angry, embittered racists themselves. They are among the legions who, in the words of black columnist Michael Meyers, zealously ?transform themselves into the apostles of their own delusions.?


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John Perazzo is the author of The Myths That Divide Us: How Lies Have Poisoned American Race Relations. For more information on his book, click here. E-mail him at wsbooks25@hotmail.com

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« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2007, 03:02:29 PM »
We should all take notice of the fact that the delusional libtards in this room take no notice of this. They prefer their Black folk stupid and voting for liberals. Failing that, they prefer them dead.

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« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2007, 03:08:46 PM »
We should all take notice of the fact that the delusional libtards in this room take no notice of this. They prefer their Black folk stupid and voting for liberals. Failing that, they prefer them dead.

Wow.

I'm the one who gets berated for alleged anti-semitism?

Nice.
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« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2007, 03:10:06 PM »
Could you try and expalin yourself?

Without lying, if you can.

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« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2007, 03:16:23 PM »
Could you try and expalin yourself?

Without lying, if you can.

Explain myself to you, my brother? No.
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« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2007, 03:20:46 PM »
Okay, so you do prefer your Black folk on the plantation or dead.

Thanks for Clarifying JS.

Perhaps you should talk to your priest. I'm sure he'll have a lot to say about your racist attitude.

Four Hail Mary's and five Our Father's.

Just a suggestion dirtbag.

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« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2007, 03:26:02 PM »
Okay, so you do prefer your Black folk on the plantation or dead.

Thanks for Clarifying JS.

Perhaps you should talk to your priest. I'm sure he'll have a lot to say about your racist attitude.

Four Hail Mary's and five Our Father's.

Just a suggestion dirtbag.

Whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, or wilful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind, attempts to coerce the will itself; whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where people are treated as mere instruments of gain rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others like them are infamies indeed. They poison human society, and they do more harm to those who practise them than to those who suffer from the injury. Moreover, they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.
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« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2007, 04:43:11 PM »
That is an amazingly stupid article.
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« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2007, 04:47:59 PM »
It shows how old i am
remember shaker heights?
when blacks and jews started attacking each other
I remember the qoute hitler didn`t finnish the job.

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« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2007, 04:37:21 AM »
Jena 6: Another case of unequal justice for blacks?

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About the so-called Jena 6, reasonable people can disagree about whether or not prosecutors initially charged the Jena, La., defendants too harshly. The black teenage defendants stand accused of beating a white teenager unconscious.

Authorities, at first, charged five of the six with attempted murder, although now none of them faces attempted murder charges. Supporters of the Jena 6 claim that whites hung nooses on a tree, thus provoking a series of interracial clashes.

Revs. Sharpton and Jackson claim that harsh treatment of the Jena 6 serves as a metaphor for the continued unequal justice for blacks in America. Really?

Jackson, speaking in Jena, claimed that more blacks sit in jail than in college. Irrelevant as to the issue at hand, and false.

According to the 2000 census, there were over 2.2 million blacks in college. By mid-year 2006, according to the Justice Department, 905,600 blacks were in state or federal prisons and local jails. Even if Jackson meant black men, his assertion is still debatable. The Justice Policy Institute found that at the time of the 2000 census, 603,000 black men were in college, while 791,000 were in jail. Yet only 179,000 of incarcerated blacks were between 18 and 24 years old, the customary "college age."

Jackson, in Jena, cited the unequal treatment in prosecuting crack versus powder drug violations as evidence of racial discrimination. This calls for an explanation. Crack violators, the ones subject to the harshest punishment, are often black. But members of the Black Congressional Caucus, in the '80s, pushed for stiff sentences against those peddling crack, given the violence ? mostly in urban areas ? associated with it. Nearly half of the members of the Black Congressional Caucus voted for the 1986 anti-drug bill, which provided stiff sentences for crack. The federal Sentencing Commission, during the Clinton administration, recommended equalizing the penalty for crack and powder. Clinton signed legislation to block the recommendations.

Jackson and Sharpton suggest that the disproportionate number of blacks under the criminal justice system stems from racism.

But black defendants are more likely to be acquitted than white defendants. A study in the '90s found blacks convicted less frequently than whites in all but two of 14 categories of felony crimes, including murder, rape, burglary, felony theft, drug trafficking and other crimes against people. The only two types of felonies where blacks were not convicted at a lower rate than whites were felony traffic offenses and miscellaneous felonies. Cases that went to juries (only 2.8 percent of those examined) had a similar pattern, although juries convicted blacks more than whites for robbery, assault and property offenses.

What about the assertion that a black defendant, with the same record, is likely to serve more time than a white defendant? Many legal experts blame the results on economics ? white defendants are more likely to hire a private counselor who can get them a better deal in the courtroom. Other factors that can sway judges include family support, job security and the ability to make bail ? with white defendants more likely than blacks to fit this description. And black judges are more likely than white judges to give black defendants harsher sentences than white defendants.

What about DWB, Driving While Black? Many big-city police departments now record stops by race. But the compiled information tells you nothing about why police stop drivers. George Mason University professor Matthew Zingraff, who studied racial profiling, says, "Why a police officer makes a stop of an individual, we'll never know that. We'll never know the number of people who have not been stopped. It doesn't tell us motivation. It doesn't tell us what caught the police officer's eye."

Supporters of the Jena 6 say their actions were sparked by the "hate crime" of the hanging of three ? later reported as two ? nooses on a high school campus tree. This, activists say, shows a prevalence of hate crimes against blacks in America. But economist Walter Williams notes that when hate crime statistics are adjusted for blacks' lower population numbers, proportionally, blacks commit more than twice as many hate crimes as whites.

Rev. Sharpton calls Jena the "Selma of its day." Let's revisit. In Selma, Ala., in 1965, 500 to 600 civil rights protesters tried to march in support of black voter registration. Local authorities attacked the marchers with whips and tear gas and billy clubs, leaving 17 people in the hospital.

For what it's worth, an Associated Press-AOL Black Voices survey asked blacks to name the "most important black leader." More blacks named "nobody" than anybody else. Jackson was named by 15 percent of respondents; 2 percent named Rev. Sharpton; and Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, an organization also active in supporting the Jena 6, was named by 4 percent.

Maybe that's the real lesson of Jena.


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« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2007, 06:22:12 AM »
<<But black defendants are more likely to be acquitted than white defendants.>>

Conviction rates are only one measure of systemic racism.  Probably the reason blacks would have a higher acquittal rate than whites (if in fact they do - - we have no details at all about a [no-name] study in the 90s on which the article bases this assertion, other than very approximately when it was done, which in itself makes this data highly suspect in my mind) - -  would be that cops and prosecutors rush to lay a lot of bullshit charges on blacks which just won't stand up in court, part of Whitey's on-going campaign of harassment and intimidation fueled by innate racial prejudice.

The rest of the article is just ludicrous:  "What about DWB?  I dunno, nobody knows" is how the author deals with the problem of DWB, one of the most painfully obvious racist components of the American (and unfortunately Canadian as well) justice system.  Why do blacks spend more time in jail than whites?  "Oh, it's just that the whites have better lawyers."  Hilarious.  WHY do the whites have better lawyers?  (Not even addressed, but if the author HAD addressed it, his or her answer in all likelihood: "I dunno, nobody knows.")

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« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2007, 06:43:06 AM »
The article Sirs posted has the same basic problem as the one Richpo posted. It not only seems to imply all the racism is from the African-American students, but it also ignores everything that happened between the nooses and the beating. Both articles also seem to conveniently leave out that on the same day the white student got beat up, he later went to a party. I'm willing to admit my initial posts on this issue were terribly biased, but these articles are biased in the opposite direction. Okay, the Jena 6 ought to be punished for ganging up on the white guy. But let's not act like there was no provocation or that there was no racism from pale-skinned folks during time between the nooses and the beatings, And please, can we stop talking as if the nooses were just a harmless prank? That no one was physically assaulted does not make them harmless or just a prank. Whether there were three nooses, two nooses or one noose, it was racist and inexcusable. I understand that some folks are suggesting this whole thing has been blown out of proportion. Maybe it has. But a move to gloss over events to make this some sort of noose vs. beating event isn't going to bring this case into proper perspective.
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« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2007, 06:54:07 AM »
What is interesting about both articles is not just the obvious racism but the outright stupidity  of them.  Any 12-year-old can shoot 'em down, but it's kind of disturbing that they're out there at all.  It's like there's this underlying current of racist sentiment just waiting to be galvanized by an American Hitler if one ever appears.

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« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2007, 07:19:50 AM »

What is interesting about both articles is not just the obvious racism but the outright stupidity  of them.  Any 12-year-old can shoot 'em down, but it's kind of disturbing that they're out there at all.


I am inclined to agree with you on that. I'm a little surprised that they are out there, but there is a little voice in the back of my head saying "Remember Dubai Ports World?" I watched what seemed at times like my whole country react in xenophobic outrage to that issue, and now I'm watching people try to excuse hanging nooses in a tree by saying basically "yeah, but it didn't hurt anybody." It almost makes me wish I was the out-of-touch idealist some people seem to think I am. Then maybe I could go back to thinking America is this amazingly tolerant society that, except for a few fringe exceptions, is largely free of racism and the like. I really did think that once, years ago. But as I have examined the world with less innocent eyes, I learned that America is not like that and never has been. Don't get me wrong, I still love my country. I just know it better now.


It's like there's this underlying current of racist sentiment just waiting to be galvanized by an American Hitler if one ever appears.


I wish you hadn't said that. It's set off a chain of thought that is going to bug me for a while.
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« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2007, 09:34:44 AM »
I wholeheartedly agree with Michael and Prince.

Both of these articles are meritless and blatantly racist as well.

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I watched what seemed at times like my whole country react in xenophobic outrage to that issue, and now I'm watching people try to excuse hanging nooses in a tree by saying basically "yeah, but it didn't hurt anybody."

Amen. It has been really disturbing to watch these little exercises in passing off racism as acceptable behavior.

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They're only dropping peppermints and daisy-chains
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   Tell me lies about Vietnam.