Resident in the USA? Help these schoolkids.
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Resident in the USA? Help these schoolkids.
Please consider petitioning the Governor of Louisiana to intervene in this case.
http://jenasix.org/
Long story short: A school yard fight in a Louisiana high school has resulted in six kids under 18 facing 22+ years in jail on charges of aggravated battery/attempted murder. No prizes for guessing that the defendants are all poor black kids.
In case I oversimplified - the catalyst for months of racial tension was a dispute over who could sit under a nice shady tree in the school yard. White kids had made it "their" spot, a black kid asked the principal if anyone could sit there and was told to go ahead so he did, next day three nooses were dangling from the tree. Over months, the tensions erupted into sporadic violence. The case is an international cause celebre and was reported on the BBC in May. Since then, one 17 year old was convicted (all-white jury, judge and public-appointed defender did nothing to defend).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ld/6685441.stm
Another easy-peasy way to add your voice is to click on this website:
http://www.colorofchange.org/jena/?id=2039-225260
and just sign the petition.
I have no connection to anyone involved in this case - I'm a white Brit living in London UK with no political affiliations - but I'm outraged that such a travesty can happen and decided that I would speak out. Thanks for bearing with me.
http://jenasix.org/
Long story short: A school yard fight in a Louisiana high school has resulted in six kids under 18 facing 22+ years in jail on charges of aggravated battery/attempted murder. No prizes for guessing that the defendants are all poor black kids.
In case I oversimplified - the catalyst for months of racial tension was a dispute over who could sit under a nice shady tree in the school yard. White kids had made it "their" spot, a black kid asked the principal if anyone could sit there and was told to go ahead so he did, next day three nooses were dangling from the tree. Over months, the tensions erupted into sporadic violence. The case is an international cause celebre and was reported on the BBC in May. Since then, one 17 year old was convicted (all-white jury, judge and public-appointed defender did nothing to defend).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ld/6685441.stm
Another easy-peasy way to add your voice is to click on this website:
http://www.colorofchange.org/jena/?id=2039-225260
and just sign the petition.
I have no connection to anyone involved in this case - I'm a white Brit living in London UK with no political affiliations - but I'm outraged that such a travesty can happen and decided that I would speak out. Thanks for bearing with me.
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Re: Resident in the USA? Help these schoolkids.
Please consider petitioning the Governor of Louisiana to intervene in this case.
...............I have no connection to anyone involved in this case - I'm a white Brit living in London UK with no political affiliations - but I'm outraged that such a travesty can happen and decided that I would speak out. Thanks for bearing with me.
...............I have no connection to anyone involved in this case - I'm a white Brit living in London UK with no political affiliations - but I'm outraged that such a travesty can happen and decided that I would speak out. Thanks for bearing with me.
Not to say all are the same, but there is a clear majority "culture" among blacks which resents anything white.
.........and frankly white trash yee-haws and that majority deserve each other's company.
Not racism.........observation.
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Re: Resident in the USA? Help these schoolkids.
Please consider petitioning the Governor of Louisiana to intervene in this case.
http://jenasix.org/
Long story short: A school yard fight in a Louisiana high school has resulted in six kids under 18 facing 22+ years in jail on charges of aggravated battery/attempted murder. No prizes for guessing that the defendants are all poor black kids.
In case I oversimplified - the catalyst for months of racial tension was a dispute over who could sit under a nice shady tree in the school yard. White kids had made it "their" spot, a black kid asked the principal if anyone could sit there and was told to go ahead so he did, next day three nooses were dangling from the tree. Over months, the tensions erupted into sporadic violence. The case is an international cause celebre and was reported on the BBC in May. Since then, one 17 year old was convicted (all-white jury, judge and public-appointed defender did nothing to defend).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ld/6685441.stm
Another easy-peasy way to add your voice is to click on this website:
http://www.colorofchange.org/jena/?id=2039-225260
and just sign the petition.
I have no connection to anyone involved in this case - I'm a white Brit living in London UK with no political affiliations - but I'm outraged that such a travesty can happen and decided that I would speak out. Thanks for bearing with me.
http://jenasix.org/
Long story short: A school yard fight in a Louisiana high school has resulted in six kids under 18 facing 22+ years in jail on charges of aggravated battery/attempted murder. No prizes for guessing that the defendants are all poor black kids.
In case I oversimplified - the catalyst for months of racial tension was a dispute over who could sit under a nice shady tree in the school yard. White kids had made it "their" spot, a black kid asked the principal if anyone could sit there and was told to go ahead so he did, next day three nooses were dangling from the tree. Over months, the tensions erupted into sporadic violence. The case is an international cause celebre and was reported on the BBC in May. Since then, one 17 year old was convicted (all-white jury, judge and public-appointed defender did nothing to defend).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ld/6685441.stm
Another easy-peasy way to add your voice is to click on this website:
http://www.colorofchange.org/jena/?id=2039-225260
and just sign the petition.
I have no connection to anyone involved in this case - I'm a white Brit living in London UK with no political affiliations - but I'm outraged that such a travesty can happen and decided that I would speak out. Thanks for bearing with me.
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Re: Resident in the USA? Help these schoolkids.
http://www.pww.org/article/view/1591/1/99/ look to your own country and be just as outraged
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Re: Resident in the USA? Help these schoolkids.
http://www.pww.org/article/view/1591/1/99/ look to your own country and be just as outraged
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Re: Resident in the USA? Help these schoolkids.
http://www.pww.org/article/view/1591/1/99/ look to your own country and be just as outraged
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Re: Resident in the USA? Help these schoolkids.
I'd like to know where the writer got the figures. Just out of interest. I know that non whites suffer more at the hands of british courts than their white counterparts - but infant mortality rate 100 pecent higher than that of white children? I just dont see it personally. I may well be completely wrong of course but non whites have the same access to the heath service as whites, the same access to the same social benefits as whites. So why should the infant mortality rate be 100% higher? COuld this be a load of old commie bullshit?
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Re: Resident in the USA? Help these schoolkids.
I'd like to know where the writer got the figures. Just out of interest. I know that non whites suffer more at the hands of british courts than their white counterparts - but infant mortality rate 100 pecent higher than that of white children? I just dont see it personally. I may well be completely wrong of course but non whites have the same access to the heath service as whites, the same access to the same social benefits as whites. So why should the infant mortality rate be 100% higher? COuld this be a load of old commie bullshit?
i.e. for political gain ..