UF student Tasered after questioning John Kerry

OK, cheap shots aside, that's not what you said.
You said simply because those two were involved -- and, if they weren't, would half the country have heard of this case? No. -- "the cause" loses credibility with you. So, because those two guys were there, there really weren't disparities in the sentencing, or festering racial animosities, or nooses in the tree? I don;t know what you mean by the "credibility" of the cause, since you admit in subsequent posts that it's an important story in and of itself.

 

From the Times article:

"A marcher, Latese Brown, 40, of Alexandria, said, “If you can figure out how to make a school yard fight into an attempted murder charge, I’m sure you can figure out how to make stringing nooses into a hate crime.”

Pretty much bang on.

 

Zing!

 

Poin's started as thread on this. With any luck at all this pathetic thread will die.

 

Jesse and Al truly are moths to the flame. As soon as you heard hint of that Jena story you knew the Jesse and Al shakedown machines were on the express trains to La. They are nothing if not predictable.

Nonetheless, the Jena story is undoubtedly deserving of major coverage. But that coverage should be not filtered through our self-aggrandizing race-baiters in chief (btw, still waiting on that apology for their conduct in the Duke case). In fact, their involvement likely ends up doing a disservice by turning some people away from the story who otherwise would've been interested, sympathetic, and supportive. Markvid's comments suggest one case in point.

 

Well, who else did CNN talk to yesterday besides them?
Not many people.
I want to hear from someone who was there when all this happened and are directly affected, not them.

 

What does that have to do with anything? You said "the issue" lost credibility with you because of their presence. Since you haven't offered even a scintilla of explanation for that, it remains childish.
And, anyway, CNN and MSNBC and even Fox talked to a lot of the college kids who came down to march, and to the black talk-radio hosts who organized the marches, and even to some of the locals.

 

Move over to Poin's thread, folks. Nothing to see here any more.

 

No! It's because it's not even a true grassroots civil rights demonstration!

 

Umm only one is still in jail. Get your facts straight.

 

Yes, because 6-on-1 is simply a school-yard fight.

And as far as I'm concerned, every crime is a hate crime!

 

Not to let the facts get in the way of your rant, but the white kids in question hung a noose in a tree. Stupid, yes. Criminal, probably. They should have at least gotten kicked out of school.
The black kids, provoked or not, beat the crap out of a white kid who had nothing originally to do with the noose thing. The issue is whether the black kids should have been prosecuted for attempted murder, which was probably a stretch for the prosecutor.

But let's see: hanging a noose (yes, dumb, stupid and racist) or beating someone up.
What's worse.