The Black Republican

Wow!

In early December the case of the "Jena Six"--the six African-American high school students in Louisiana accused of viciously beating a white classmate in 2006--collapsed dramatically with a felony guilty plea by one of the defendants. As something that was going to trigger "America's next great civil rights movement" (to quote National Public Radio) and grassroots protests against the "new Jim Crow" and the systematic discrimination against blacks in the criminal justice system, this was quite a letdown. The Jena Six were supposed to be the new Scottsboro Boys, the nine black youths railroaded to death sentences by all-white juries in 1930s Alabama on charges of raping two white women.

But the fact remains that the Jena Six case climbed to its rickety position as a national symbol of racial injustice largely because a lot of people, some professional activists and many members of the press, wanted it to do so.

Funny how those same brave race rats managed to run onto the ship with a screaming chorus so loud that was heard all across the country, but we didn't hear a word from the MSM about how fast the charges of racial prejudice in Jena from the the race-baiters "professional activists" Rev. Jessie and Rev. Al (and this Pastor Bean) fell apart. I thought this was going to be protested and made headline news for months. Isn't that what we were told? What happened to "no Justice, No Peace"? Where are the headlines now? Where are the protests? More importantly, why were you in Jena when you thought these boys had been wronged, but are nowhere to be found now that there are real lives and real racial tensions that need to be healed? How can any of you call yourselves Reverends when it seems that all you do is divide and never seem to have the desire or ability to unite. Or is there just no money in that?

I guess it didn't help that the center of the whole contrivance admitted that he is actually guilty, did it?

And to the media, where were the stories about how the citizens of Jena - both black and white - sought to come together, before this whole thing blew up, to resolve this issue themselves with civility and decorum? Seems that just didn't fit the narative you had already written, did it?

Don't you people think you owe the people of Jena an apology at least? Or do you think you have done no wrong here?

I am so sick of the efforts by these race-baiters and their MSM sycophants to foment division and anger between members of different races and religions. I wish you folks would just get a life, and dissuade yourselves from the notion that you are part of the solution, because you are not! You are, in fact, the biggest part of the problem, and actually are standing in the way of progress. If it weren't for the national media and these "professional activists" feeding the monster, us ordinary folk would have let racism die the starvation death it so richly deserves years ago.