[lbo-talk] [Fwd: Jena Ignites a Movement: Report from Yesterday's Demonstration in Jena, Louisiana]

W. Kiernan wkiernan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 19:31:48 PDT 2007


Joseph Catron wrote:

>

> More like chickenshit cowards, who come in

> all colors, apparently including whatever

> yours is.

Why don't you stop acting like you're unaware of what the issue is in this case? A white kid pulls a shotgun on a black kid and he doesn't get charged with anything at all, not even a firearms violation; a black kid pounds on a white kid with his bare hands and gets charged, as an adult, with attempted second degree murder. Nobody is saying that it is laudable or even legally permissible to beat people up; everybody is freaking out because the penalty inflicted on the black kids is greater by a factor of a hundred to one, or even a hundred to zero, than the penalty inflicted on comparably guilty white kids.

You yourself admit that you've participated in moronic teenage fist fights. Do you think justice would have been served by you serving ten or fifteen years in prison?

Yours WDK - WKiernan at ij.net



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