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My understanding of the facts are as follows:
(1) Some white kids hung nooses from a tree because some black kids ate lunch under the tree where a group of white kids normally congregated. The white kids were suspended from school for this incident.
(2) Several months later, six black boys beat the hell out of a single white boy causing moderately severe injuries.
(3) The black boys involved in the beating of the white kid were charged with a variety of assault charges and one of them was charged with attempted murder.
(4) Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and other black activists become enraged because they feel that the six black kids were charged too severely while the white kids that hanged the nooses weren't prosecuted criminally.
I don't understand the whole fuss. What crime were they supposed to charge the noose hanging white kids with? The school took disciplinary action against them. It was a tasteless and disgusting act but nobody suffered bodily injury. They deserved to be disciplined by the school and the school took appropriate action. Do the black protesters expect these white kids to go to prison? I don't think prison is appropriate punishment for what the little white punks did.
Now for the fight, first, I don't know how these two incidents were related with there being several months in between. Second, six people attacking one person and beating them senseless and even kicking him while he was on the ground is a very serious crime. Fighting six against one violates the Man Code to start with. When I was younger and someone had to resort to violence to resolve their differences, the only acceptable way to do it was one on one with no weapons. There also came a point when one person had taken enough of a beating and the winner just stopped fighting. You didn't kick your opponent while he was nearly unconscious lying on the ground. Face it, these six black kids committed a serious crime.
These black kids definitely deserve to be charged criminally. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know what specific charges are appropriate. However the idea is that if the prosecutor has to prove to the jury that their actions fit the crime they are charged with. If the jury thinks the charge is too severe then they come back with a not guilty verdict.
I just don't understand how these black activists have turned this into a situation where the poor black kids go to prison while the privileged white kids get off for their crimes. These crimes are nowhere near equal. One was an offensive racist statement and the other is a gang severely beating the hell out of a person that didn't even stand a chance of defending himself. How can anyone consider these comparable acts?
Am I missing something in this issue? I just don't understand it.
(1) Some white kids hung nooses from a tree because some black kids ate lunch under the tree where a group of white kids normally congregated. The white kids were suspended from school for this incident.
(2) Several months later, six black boys beat the hell out of a single white boy causing moderately severe injuries.
(3) The black boys involved in the beating of the white kid were charged with a variety of assault charges and one of them was charged with attempted murder.
(4) Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and other black activists become enraged because they feel that the six black kids were charged too severely while the white kids that hanged the nooses weren't prosecuted criminally.
I don't understand the whole fuss. What crime were they supposed to charge the noose hanging white kids with? The school took disciplinary action against them. It was a tasteless and disgusting act but nobody suffered bodily injury. They deserved to be disciplined by the school and the school took appropriate action. Do the black protesters expect these white kids to go to prison? I don't think prison is appropriate punishment for what the little white punks did.
Now for the fight, first, I don't know how these two incidents were related with there being several months in between. Second, six people attacking one person and beating them senseless and even kicking him while he was on the ground is a very serious crime. Fighting six against one violates the Man Code to start with. When I was younger and someone had to resort to violence to resolve their differences, the only acceptable way to do it was one on one with no weapons. There also came a point when one person had taken enough of a beating and the winner just stopped fighting. You didn't kick your opponent while he was nearly unconscious lying on the ground. Face it, these six black kids committed a serious crime.
These black kids definitely deserve to be charged criminally. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know what specific charges are appropriate. However the idea is that if the prosecutor has to prove to the jury that their actions fit the crime they are charged with. If the jury thinks the charge is too severe then they come back with a not guilty verdict.
I just don't understand how these black activists have turned this into a situation where the poor black kids go to prison while the privileged white kids get off for their crimes. These crimes are nowhere near equal. One was an offensive racist statement and the other is a gang severely beating the hell out of a person that didn't even stand a chance of defending himself. How can anyone consider these comparable acts?
Am I missing something in this issue? I just don't understand it.
