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Obama Hopes Could Rest on Jena Case

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How can anybody charge the african Americans and not the white kids i think this is terrible that the white... [MORE]

Olivia 

Sep 23, 2007 16:40

It is really simple. Bust the black kids for the outrageous violence. Then sue their parents to recover the cost... [MORE]

John House 

Sep 20, 2007 23:48

So sad that these boys are in jail and even sadder that it is being turned into a presidential rat... [MORE]

Venus 

Sep 20, 2007 15:55

U.S. statistics say that 87% of racial crime is black on white. It has gone to far, we need to... [MORE]

rpielh 

Sep 20, 2007 15:01

Racial crime? Just exactly what is racial crime? I have heard of "hate crime" but I would think all crime... [MORE]

John House 

Sep 20, 2007 23:38

I am a white male. I think that they deserved the punishment they got. I know from something like that... [MORE]

bob 

Sep 21, 2007 11:36

The stats for black on white crime are from the FBI. I don't if 87% is accurate, but the figure... [MORE]

Char 

Sep 27, 2007 11:06

Mr. House needs to face reality and read up on the statistics. [MORE]

Selene 

Sep 27, 2007 12:09

Yes indeed the jena 6 has taken national attention especially in the south. I live in southwest Georgia right above... [MORE]

Antwan graham 

Sep 20, 2007 14:53

The students should not be charged or jailed. They should be suspened from school, that is how fights were handled... [MORE]

My point of view 

Sep 20, 2007 14:30

Yep fights were handled with suspension,but when you killed somebody...then thats a whole different ball game [MORE]

bob jones 

Sep 21, 2007 11:38

I have lived in the south all my life. I went through integration and all the changes back in Elem.... [MORE]

Greg Williams 

Sep 20, 2007 14:10

Did anyone see the fight firsthand? I would put a million dollars on a bet that 99% of the "civil... [MORE]

Bobbie Stewart 

Sep 20, 2007 13:59

This is not true and I beg to differ. This case in no way does it define his candidacy. He... [MORE]

Antony 

Sep 20, 2007 13:19

Being arrested for sitting at a lunch counter and firmly demonstrating equality in the segregated Sixties is far different than... [MORE]

David 

Sep 20, 2007 12:56

I will agree that the act of hanging a noose in a tree is an inexcusable act of racist provocation,... [MORE]

Tom Evans 

Sep 20, 2007 11:12

But there were violent acts perpetrated against black students too. Several black students were beaten up too--there wasn't just the... [MORE]

Jena 

Sep 20, 2007 13:24

The media really needs to stop trying to find ways to make Barack Obama look vunerable in the eyes of... [MORE]

Leslie Jones 

Sep 20, 2007 10:58

This is a sad day in America when these black activist men draw and single out Senator Obama and slam... [MORE]

RuthieM 

Sep 20, 2007 10:30

This is not a racial issue at all, this is an act(s) of people not being punished for the wrong... [MORE]

And so it goes 

Sep 20, 2007 17:33

Another prominent black man said something relevant to the physical assault in Jena. Malcolm X: "If he wasn't a coward, he... [MORE]

Richard 

Sep 20, 2007 08:16

Ummm ... Alan Keyes? (OK, maybe if they said "viable"...) [MORE]

Colby Kinser 

Sep 20, 2007 06:49

It's call, he called him? At the bottom of page two you're missing a word ass. [MORE]

Khari Johnson 

Sep 20, 2007 03:16

Since when does it take six to guys against one, sounds a little cowardly to me. When I was a... [MORE]

Ben 

Sep 20, 2007 14:02

It would be impossible to educate the Tom Evans' of the world. They are truly hateful at heart, unfeeling, steadfast... [MORE]

T. Garner 

Sep 20, 2007 14:19