Privilege in the United States by RiveR6213

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Privilege in the United States

POSTED BY: RIVER6213
UPDATED: Saturday, June 30, 2007 19:34
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Monday, June 11, 2007 8:07 AM

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Originally posted by piratenews: Hero the psycho. Doped to the gills and selling the police state. Lovely.

We are not watching you PN. Honost. Nobody cares what you do or how big your tin foil hat is...

That said a Gangsta-govt. death squad is waiting for the next time you fail to come to a complete stop at a stop sign...

Just remember speed limits are the devil.

H

Edited to add: Queen Elizabeth says hello.

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Monday, June 11, 2007 1:03 PM

SIGNYM

River- it's nice to see someone with passion. Sometimes I forget why I think the way I do. Thanks for reminding me.

--------------------------------- Always look upstream.

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Monday, June 11, 2007 9:54 PM

RIVER6213

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Originally posted by SignyM: River- it's nice to see someone with passion. Sometimes I forget why I think the way I do. Thanks for reminding me.

--------------------------------- Always look upstream.

Thanks for that SignyM. I do have passion when I believe in something or at least feel strongly about it. Why we think about the things we think. It helps if you keep journals. I've kept Journals since I was 14 years of age and I have been pretty consistent at writing in them. If I've ever wondered how I ended up the way I am all I have to do is read my journals and see all the lousy choices I've made over the years that has arrived me to this nasty point in my life. The hard part is to undo the damages that you have made. Go figure.

-River

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Friday, June 29, 2007 7:19 AM

RUE

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070629/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticsracismjustic
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Black teen convicted amid racial tensions in US south

by Abbey Brown Fri Jun 29, 8:31 AM ET

JENA, United States (AFP) - In a case that has exposed racial tensions in the southern United States, a black teenager was convicted of aggravated battery Thursday for a school fight with a white student.

The fight was one of several racial incidents which rocked this central Louisiana town after black students tried to cross the invisible color line and sit on the white side of the school yard last fall.

Students arrived a few days later to find two hangman's nooses dangling from a tree.

Outrage and inter-racial violence followed the decision by a white school superintendent to over-rule the principal's recommendation to expel three white students who were found to have hung the nooses.

Mychal Bell, 17, was among six black students charged with attempted murder for beating a white student.

Bell's charge was dropped to aggravated battery when his trial began Monday, but the attempted murder charges remain for the five other youths.

After deliberating for less than three hours Thursday, an all-white jury returned with a unanimous guilty verdict of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit that crime, which carry a maximum sentence of 22 years in jail.

The jury had been given the option to convict on lesser charges.

Bell's father, Marcus Jones, left the courtroom in a rage after the verdict was read, kicking the door and metal detector in the hall. Officers had to restrain him until family intervened and took him outside.

"Blacks do not stand a chance here," family friend Vivian Thompson said of Jena after the guilty verdict. "I want to see justice. This wasn't it."

She and Bell's aunt, Sandra Simmons, said Bell's defense lawyer should have asked for the trial to be moved elsewhere.

"They are going to hang all them boys," Simmons said of the other five still facing attempted murder charges.

The white student, Justin Barker, was badly hurt in the fight, although not to the point of hospitalization.

He was found unconscious with blood coming from his ears and nose after being punched and then kicked repeatedly by a group of black youths, witnesses testified during Bell's trial.

But the charges laid against the black students known as the "Jena Six" were far harsher than those meted out to white students who attacked their black peers, some in the black community have said.

One of the Jena Six, Robert Bailey, was jumped by six to seven white men at a private party in November. Only one of the men was arrested, and he was charged with simple battery.

Two days later, Bailey and friends ran into one of the men involved in the fight at a convenience store, and the man pulled out a shotgun.

Bailey told police he wrestled the gun away in self-defense but Bailey ended up being charged with aggravated battery and theft.

"That's injustice and racism," he said in a recent interview.

The attack on Barker came the next day.

Eleven white students, including Barker, testified Wednesday. Four identified Bell as the one who hit Barker, knocking him unconscious before the others started to kick him.

The town of Jena has fewer than 3,000 people and is made up of 85 percent white and 12 percent black residents, according to the US Census Bureau.

Sentencing for Bell is set for July 31. Trial dates have not yet been set for the other teens.

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Friday, June 29, 2007 8:14 AM

LEADB

Idiots should have at least expelled the white students who hung the nooses; might have defused the situation. On the other hand, does that excuse beating the white kid to unconsciousness? No; but is the charge and sentence they seem to be considering 'in line' with what others (particularly white) have received? No. Boy this sucks. If I lived closer, I'd go protest.

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Friday, June 29, 2007 9:40 AM

SIGNYM

Genarlo Wilson 17 and black + female 15 and white = 10 YEAR sentence. Tell me that's not racism.

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--------------------------------- Always look upstream.

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Friday, June 29, 2007 11:22 AM

LEADB

Yeh, I saw that too. Was too upset at the time to post.

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Saturday, June 30, 2007 7:04 AM

RIVER6213

*cough*

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Saturday, June 30, 2007 7:34 PM

RIVER6213

I guess we who are on top have to play stupid and not admit the truth, but this is fine. This sort of stupid thing has been going on with every ruling group ever since humans learned to formed groups. But like all of those other groups in the past, this behavior will come back and bite us in our collective asses. You wait and see, or should I say that the brats you are raising now will wait and see.

Did I ever let you all know how much I dislike the human race? Oh wait, I did.

-River

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