THE 'WHITE = WEAK' STEREOTYPE REARS ITS HEAD "A Jacksonville high school student was recently beaten and battered at school by three students he said he didn't even know. Witnesses to the attack told police Forrest High School sophomore Karl Koch Jr. was targeted because of the color of his skin. 'They started closing in, and all I remember is getting hit,' Koch said. Koch's wrist was shattered and six screws and a plate now hold it together. He also has nine stitches above his right eye. Two 15-year-old students and one 17-year-old student were taken into police custody and charged with aggravated battery in connection to the attack. 'I just seen them around school a few times and never really talked to them,' Koch said. According to the police report, one of the suspects said, 'Look at the white boy, he looks like a victim,' before punching Koch in the eye."

NOOSE BEARER PLEADS GUILTY TO INTIMIDATING JENA PROTESTERS "A teenager pleaded guilty Friday to a federal hate crime of threatening and intimidating civil rights marchers near Jena, Louisiana, last year by displaying hangman's nooses from the back of a pickup truck. Federal authorities announced Friday that Jeremiah Munsen, 18, of Colfax, Louisiana, admitted that he placed two large nooses on his truck on September 20. They said Munsen, along with an unidentified teen passenger, drove repeatedly past a group of marchers gathered at a bus depot in Alexandria — about 35 miles south of Jena, where the marches took place — as they awaited buses to return them to Tennessee. … Munsen, who faces up to a year in prison, will be sentenced at an August 15 hearing."