Posted by
David Smith on Friday, September 21, 2007 2:21:49 PM
I should probably preface this by stating that, yes, I am white. For those of you PC'ers in the crowd, that is English for "Anglo." Deal with it.
I'm in kind of a daze over this whole Jenna, Louisiana business going on right now. The fact that it has even become an incident it pretty ridiculous in my estimation. Hate crimes? Racism??
Gimmee a break. We've got teenagers hanging nooses in a high school campus oak tree, teenagers beating each other up, and now, teenagers driving drunk through a crowd in a pick up truck with two nooses hanging from the rear of the truck.
And if you've seen the pictures, those were brake lights lit on the back of the truck, which I took to mean, "Yeah, we're just gonna drive real slow-like down this street so all you black (African-Americans in PC talk) people see us in our full stupidity!" I didn't see anybody around the truck or under the truck, which would allude to having driven the truck through the crowd. And with brake lights on, they couldn't have been moving terribly fast.
This is, if anything, a case-study in how to not raise your children. The fact that Jesse "Jehova" Jackson and Al "Gore Wannabe" Sharpton are involved just makes it a three-ring circus!
Can a circus reference be construed as racist when discussing blacks? Wouldn't want the NAACP looking me up.
And speaking of the good old boys (and girls) at the NAACP, isn't it interesting to note that they still go by the term "Colored People" in their title? I wonder what would happen to me if I showed up in Jenna and started calling all blacks present "Colored." We see what happened when a couple white boys hung a noose in a tree. I would be afraid for my life.
So much for freedom of speech. Show up, call people a name to elicit a reaction to make a point, get your teeth kicked in, get charged with a hate crime. Something doesn't sound right about that.
And that is the whole point in this matter, isn't it? What is right and what is wrong? At least, that's what the good people at the NAACP are trying to make it out to be, hmm??? I wonder how much giving has spiked at the Church of Black this week?
White kids hang a noose in a tree, as opposed to hanging a black kid from that noose, and some black kid with a prior record decides to go vigilante. Shouldn't surprise anybody--including blacks. After all, the key term in that phrase is "prior record."
I'd like to point out that neither teenagers who hung the noose from the tree, nor the teens who so wisely drove down the street, popping a couple brewskies back with nooses hung from their tailgate, were terribly wise, nor tremendously smart, as often teenagers are accused of being.
But, as the DA or the AG put it (sorry, I don't recall which), the kids who hung the noose from the tree did not violate any apparent laws, therefore none were arrested. Makes sense!
The kids who did, however, commit physical violence against the other kid(s) did commit a crime, hence they were arrested. And rightly so.
Now, this thing has kind of blossomed out of control since then, which is why the Reverand's Jackson and Sharpton decided to get involved. Notice: News Cameras and the Reverands--no surprise there!
Actually, a funny Evolution joke comes to mind: What came first? The News Cameras? Or the Reverands??
Now, the kids who were boozing it up in their pick up truck should be slapped with the broad side of the harshest penalties under the law as far as under-age drinking, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and probably several other offenses go.
As for hate crimes, the only hate that I have yet heard have occurred have been at the hands of black perpetrators beating white victims. End of discussion.
Do we really believe in this nation that only whites hate blacks? Please.
Have you seen the crime statistics lately? What is the percentage of black-on-black crime versus overall crime? Don't you think that that vitriolic hatred would spill over onto whites at some point? Although the media doesn't highlight that fact for us, one national radio host went over just a brief log of black-on-white crimes that didn't make the national news.
Yet a couple punk white kids in Louisiana hang a noose in a tree, get their butts handed to them, the white kids go free, the black kids go to jail, and one of them remains there because he can't afford bail? And we're supposed to care about this because...Jesse Jackson shows up?
Grow up, people--all of you. Starting with Jackson, Sharpton, and the broader black (African-American) community, then right on down to all the idiot white people who apparently forgot to tell their children that under-age drinking is illegal, and the use of nooses is stupid!
We're not talking about the Louisiana Klan marching through the streets, burning crosses on the courthouse square, stringing blacks up in trees with real nooses. The noose I saw on the back of that pick-up truck couldn't even be used to rope a calf--give me a break!
We're talking about teenagers. And some of them sound a bit smarter than their parents, from what I've heard. Wise? No. Smarter?
Quite frankly, I think the whole thing is pretty hilarious. Want to gain some attention in the deep South? Hang a noose from a tree.
Thee whole black nation shows up to protest? Drive down the street with a noose hanging from the back end of your pick up.
Actually, had I been in charge of the event, I would have had about 85 pick up trucks, each with about 40 nooses hanging from their tailgates. Maybe even some Bubba sitting on a bail of hay in the back end of each one of them giving "noose-tying lessons."
My attitude is, if you want to make a political statement--black or white--make sure you're not in violation of any laws, first (drinking laws, physical assault, et al). And then make a political statement that nobody will forget in the near future.
Teenagers hanging nooses? I see why this didn't make the nightly news--it's not newsworthy! Teenagers beating each other up? It's not newsworthy.
The Al and Jesse Show? News Flash: Not newsworthy, either. Hang it up (pun intended) and go home. Let tiny little Jenna fade back into anonymity--this ain't Selma, people!
Charge those with crimes who deserve, sit all of these teens down with the County Sherrif's Deputy, because nobody any higher than that should be troubled with this matter, and give them a good, old-fashioned, Southern talking-to, then send them home!
By the way, the one black kid's bail was set at $90,000, meaning that he had to pay $9,000 to be released. Which means that Al and Jesse visited the kid in jail and he's still sitting there. If these two Defenders of the People had any concern for this criminal (prior record, after all), they would have ponied up the $9,000 themselves. If they had any talent between them, they would have magically raised this paltry sum from the masses already.
But once again, we see blacks using blacks to benefit themselves. This is the true 20th-Century slavery!! And opposing it should be the true 21st-Century Civil Rights Movement!!
But the problem is that this form of slavery is self-imposed by blacks ON blacks who are more impressed with the celebrity of opportunistic masters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton than with that true freedom that their predecessor in the ministry, MLK Jr, often spoke about.
We have a Presidential candidate who is black. A "supreme Court" Justice who is black. Mayors, Governors, and city, State, and Federal Representatives across the nation who are black.
The best athletes in the nation are black. Even more importantly, kids' favorite athletes, whether good examples of outstanding people like Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, or miserable low-life's like OJ Simpson and Barry Bonds, are also black.
You want to talk about Reparation?? Here's Reparation for you: That the "sons and daughters of former slave-owners" would sit in the stands cheering wildly for "the sons and daughters of formere slaves" being paid millions and millions of dollars to do what they do.
Amazing. Simply amazing. That we even hear the idea of reparations spoken of in political circles is asinine--the market has taken care of it for us already! It is simply a topic that gains significant press for the Sharpton's and Jackson's, more concerened with their "cause" than with those whom they are supposedly there to benefit.
Kind of like that black teenager who continues to sit in jail while the Al and Jesse show broadcasts on the steps of the jail house.
21st-Century Civil Rights Movement, indeed!