Most Whites, Including "Progressive" Bloggers, Don't Think Jena Six Charges Are Wrong

September 28, 2007 by
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Support is coming in from all for the Jena 6, except from white, so-called "progressive" bloggers.

They just make excuse(1) after excuse(2) (read comments to both post), and even claim the charges against the Jena 6 are valid. They even have the gall to say they didn't blog on it because they couldn't find information about it. That's so friggin funny. I guess us Black folks have a
 special internet connection that leads us to different web pages than white bloggers have access to. That damn digital divided! We need more funding to support white blogger net accessibility.

I know for a fact that they are a lie, and you do too. If they wanted to find information, it was in the exact same places you and I found it. As a matter of fact I posted white reporter(3)Amy Goodman's article on my blog, over and over again; and my blog continually comes up at the top of net searches for "Michael Bell" and "The Jena 6" - I have the blog stats to prove it. I also then started posting Mary Mitchell's stuff(4) at the Chicago Sun Times, and she blogged(5) on it regularly. Further, I posted many other resources over and over again, such as the Free The Jena 6 page(6). I was far from the only one.

This goes back to the point that I keep telling Black people. White folks are not going to love you no matter how much you beg them. In one comment, a white person said it was our job to make them relate, and to convince them they should be outraged. Do you here that? It's not outrageous to them to see Black people treated poorly. They're easily outraged over dogs(7), but apparently we don't qualify. We are not people for who injustisce against should upset them.

Same commenter notifies us that we dare not "lecture"; clearly, we are to beg them to think that human beings with darker skin should be treated like human beings. They don't already think that on their own, and it's up to us to be Magical Negroes(8) that can take them to that special place where they will, by their grace, impart upon us sympathy and compassion that we don't deserve.

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Shamontiel, what are you even talking about? I said nothing about what you stand up for one way or the other. As a matter of fact, I made no claims about you at all. You made claims about me. And yes, if you're coming here to attack me, you can step wit it.
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Posted on 10/17/2007 at 12:10:00 PM

D. Yobachi, I actually came back to this article to apologize to you about not being able to see where you were coming from with the "oreo" statement (although I do find that to be tacky regardless). However, let's get one thing clear. Never in your life should you ever think that I do NOT stand up against racism. You think those articles on my page about the Jena 6, me going out there, the one on NMU, and the one on America are there for decoration? Hell naw! I defend just as much if not more the hypocrisies in racism; I just do it without name calling. I was getting ready to tell you about a disturbing message I got from a black man that absolutely blew my mind, but hell, if you want me to be gone, I'm gone. No tears shed. I'm still doing my thing.
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Posted on 10/16/2007 at 12:10:00 PM

Shamontiel: "Was it really necessary to call the Black people who say there is no racism "oreos"?" Yes, because only an oreo would say such a thing, so why shouldn't I identify them as what they are. But you're dismissed as you would attack me as being equivilent to racist as Justin Barker. Always a one of you around to call another black man a racist for standing up for his folk. Be gone!
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Posted on 10/11/2007 at 10:10:00 AM

Thought you would be especially interested in this article from new CP, Jenn White: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/402770/the_jena_six_racism_in_small_town_life.html
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Posted on 10/09/2007 at 10:10:00 AM

continued: I don't know what a "one drop rule" is. I would be able to understand "embrace being black" more than "embrace being white". Because I consider everyone of one race: human, it is not something I relate to. I am not even sure I could "embrace being female". What I would embrace about me is when I make a positive difference in the life of another. Or when I help a young mom get on or off the bus when she is stuggling with the kids and stroller. I especially like when I make somebody laugh. Stuff like that.
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Posted on 10/08/2007 at 12:10:00 AM

Shamontiel: no need to apologize you can call me white, just don't call me late for supper. : > It is just the way I see things. I do not see you as a black woman, I see you as a woman and yes, I did notice your skin color. Kind of like I can notice someone has carrot colored hair, or blue eyes or is 6' or speaks with an accent or a language that I do not recognize. I speak from being around bigots for, oh 50 years or so. From living in KKK territory. From being married to "Archie Bunker". From getting beat by him, because I could not hate you, as the example, because of your skin color.
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Posted on 10/08/2007 at 12:10:00 AM

Okay, I'm tired of seeing my face on here, but I have thought about Alyce's request, and actually, Alyce, I hae to apologize to you. If you don't want to associate yourself with the White race, that's your right. I look at it as a step toward progression that someone whose history is not rooted in slavery, police brutality (although you have had some very serious situations with the cops, so scratch that), and consistent racism, can so easily see the wrongs of the Jena case. However, I'll apologize again, and I won't call you White or call out your racial preference anymore. That's your choice and your request, just as the "book" plug is mine. I have to respect your decision.
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Posted on 10/07/2007 at 9:10:00 PM

All right, I have one more thing to say. Alyce, you and this one drop rule is killing me. Just because you have a circle of people around who are racist and White doesn't mean you can't embrace the fact that you are White. Boswell could've gone on thinking that not one White person would stand up for the Jena 6, and that's simply not true. Hell, there were the same amount of White people at the Chicago rally as there were Black people. Again, British people were covering this before the Jena 6. I don't even understand the point of this article. Okay, so more Black people are supporting the Jena 6 than White people? And?! More Black people wanted to be out of slavery than White people wanted us to be out of slavery. So now the majority of White people want slavery back?
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Posted on 10/06/2007 at 9:10:00 AM

By the way, and this is my last entry, did it ever occur to you that there could've been Whites on the 60 buses that turned away. You're acting like 20,000 people make up America. Again, an issue that focuses on a certain group of people is more likely to draw them out. And hell, I had lunch with a Polish lady today who is a diehard liberal, and she looked at me like she was stunned to have even heard about the Jena 6. This issue is STILL not getting out as much as I'd like to believe it is. By the way, Alyce, glad to have touched a nerve. I needed more nerves to be touched.
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Posted on 10/06/2007 at 1:10:00 AM

I think animal cruelty is offensive, cruel, and says a lot about a person when they feel that watching animals be killed and killing them for the helluva it. I can see why PETA concentrated on that. I hated to sign a petition to put a brotha in jail, but then I thought about how he didn't take that into consideration when he let these brothas run a kennel out of his house, and said "If he doesn't give a damn, I don't either" so YES, I can see why that got attention. Dogs in America are treated like pets, not animals. Personally I'm annoyed every single time I walk in the grocery store and see dead animals everywhere. If you feel the dog fighting issue wasn't important, so be it. I did. Was Jena 6 more important to me? Yes. However, I don't feel they were pointing out something that shouldn't have been pointed out with the dog fighting.
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Posted on 10/06/2007 at 1:10:00 AM

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