What happened to the women in Virgina( I think) that was kidnapped and raped for days?
Oh wait, I forgot. The black community would rather put its men, even criminals, before its women.

M you beat me to it!

No one deserves to be charged with attempted murder for a simple fight at school.

That's what it was nothing more, nothing less.
A kid got jumped at school, happens everyday all over the world and has happened throughout history.

Newsflash: teenagers fight and jump each other.

Most people seem to have missed the entire point of what the Jena6 protests were about.

And last time I heard no one really knows the whole story on what happened to that woman and not to mention the folks that committed that crime are being charged appropriately.

Not appropriate to charge some kids with attempted murder for jumping some other kid. Assault is the appropriate charge not attempted murder.

Agreed. However, I would also add that some things got blown way out of proportion in the wake of the Jena 6 incident. In my hometown, there's a guy known for putting up elaborate Halloween decorations every year. That year, a central feature of his yard was a scene of three figures (a vampire, a space alien, and a spooky-looking white man) being hanged. I thought it was an awesome Halloween display, but there was a HUGE uproar over it: news teams and crowds of protestors swarmed this poor guy's lawn, and the local NAACP commented on it pretty harshly in the paper.

The guy had been hanging Draculas and shit in his yard for years and most people in town loved it, but all of a sudden it was a racist gesture. For weeks I heard white people ridiculing the NAACP and black people in general for being hypersensitive and always wanting to cry "racist" at the first opportunity. And who could blame them? If you aren't very educated about racial issues, and this is the one racially-themed news item with which you're going to come into close contact all year (both of which apply to most of the people in my town), what are you supposed to think? All the while, this guy is getting labelled a racist on the news for doing something he'd been doing for years, and which obviously never had any racist intent or implications.

The kids didn't deserve the treatment they got in court. What was really scary, though, was the kind of attention they got afterward, and the way they reacted to it. Why the heck were they invited to all kinds of Hollywood and music award ceremonies? People who commit assault, even if treated unfairly by the system, shouldn't get to walk the red carpet and smile for the cameras.