August 30th, 2007
Jena 6, Your Father and GrandFather’s era of Race Relations are Back!
This is an important time in the world of black blogging. My blog is a business blog but if our kids are treated in a racist manner like the Jena 6 blackinbusiness does not matter. How can a child with a bright future, football grant in aid pending, keep the desire to succeed when he finds out how unfair the system is based on skin color. Your father and grandfather had the back of the bus, but a piece of nature being enjoyed by sitting under a shade tree is reserved for whites in 2007. If you are black, and sit under the tree, a symbol of white hate toward blacks, a noose is there for you to see. An authority figure, the DA says I can end your life with a stroke of the pen, what kind of America we live in.
This is the kind of America where dog fighting causes outrage but a senator in a public restroom, tapping his foot, against the undercover agents foot, in the next stall and reaching his palm under the stall, brings a yawn. This is the kind of America where black people are expected to be patriots, love our neighbors, accept racism with a smile and never let them see us sweat or demand fair treatment.
I am appalled by the despicable treatment of the Jena 6, I am linking you to 2 sites to explain why I am sweating and angry at a system that this injustice can prevail. This is mucked upped!! Free these children!!
Jena 6
Black Perspective
August 30th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Excellent post. Thanks for supporting the Day of Blogging on Justice for Jena 6. One of the great things about today is that a young brother, Kenneth Foster, won’t die from lethal injection in Texas tonight. Now, if we could get the Jena, LA justice system to listen to reason.
peace, Villager
August 30th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Villager, when people hear this story they are shocked!!
August 31st, 2007 at 12:11 am
What a joke! “This is the kind of America where dog fighting causes outrage but a senator in a public restroom, tapping his foot, against the undercover agents foot, in the next stall and reaching his palm under the stall, brings a yawn.”
1) Dogfighting is wayyyyyyyy worse than tapping someone’s foot in a restroom for sex.
2) The Craig restroom scandal has received just as much media attention as the Vick dogfighting case.
3) Craig was not treated better because of his skin color. He tried using his senate ID badge to get out of it and was denied. He ended up pleading guilty, just like Vick.
I agree with you that there are racial injustices in the justice system. But the Vick case is not one of them. His case had nothing to do with skin color. It had everything to do with him being the ringleader of a terrible criminal organization. As I said before, for you to call Vick’s case a civil rights issue trivializes TRUE civil rights issues.
August 31st, 2007 at 12:24 pm
responsibleliberal, thank you for your return visit. Senator Craig did plead guilty even though he stills claims he was misunderstood.He should come out of the closet, get a man to love and stay away from soliciting sex in public rest rooms. As for Vick, why did the arrest of Floyd Boudreaux cause little outrage?
August 31st, 2007 at 4:45 pm
“As for Vick, why did the arrest of Floyd Boudreaux cause little outrage?”
Floyd who? That’s why. Vick is a mega sports superstar. If he gets a DUI it’s frontpage headlines on most sports sections. If he has a blister on his finger, it’s frontpage sports news. If joe blow does the same things, it might make the local news but that’s it. It’s not going to be national headlines. It has nothing to do with race.
August 31st, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Thanks for clearing up this issue. Mr. Boudreaux is a villian who profited from dog fighting. He is the Don King of the sport. your point is well taken
August 31st, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Celebrate the day. Kenneth Foster’s life has been spared because of the activism of the AfroSpear. How the hell did we get from Jena 6 to dogfighting? Please explain this irresponsible side discussion.
September 1st, 2007 at 12:39 pm
my post spoke about the outrage from the media regarding Mike Vick and no outrage over Jena6,responsibleliberal, took issue and in a previous post, he commented that me and the talking heads on tv try to make it an race issue. The conversation was better suited for the Vick post but there is a similar point,when we do something bad there is outrage, when something bad is done to us,there is little outrage or caring.Eddie, thanks for commenting
September 2nd, 2007 at 12:27 pm
This is some great advocacy around the Jena 6. I know the Black people of Jena know they are not alone in this struggle, and the white people know their color-aroused antagonism is drawing international attention to the backwardness of their little town.
On an entirely different subject, what do you suppose engenders more controversy in a Black family? Being gay or marrying a white woman? That’s the question I explore in an essay today, entitled,
“Gays, White Women, Controversy and Acceptance in a Black Family.”
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Esq, I will read your post, you have no fear when it comes to topics and I hopr to learn from your post