Anyone and everyone in the black community is or should be aware of the catastrophic havoc that the justice system is causing in the black community. The Jena 6 situation along with the recent acquittal of 8 whites that beat a black man to death in florida has the african american community in an uproar. It's time that we fight back against the justice system that has been nothing but an injustice to us for the last 500 years. The week of november 2nd is a great place to begin. Leaders in the African American Community are asking blacks and supportive non-blacks to not bUy anything...nothing, not Gas, food, clothes, a car...NOTHING on November 2nd. The only thing that congress and those in legislation understand is money. Money talks so let's have our dollars say nothing. They are asking that everyone buy whatever they need for that week by monday. One day doesn't send enough of a message. Black people account for 716 billions dollars that is put into the US economy on a yearly basis. But we still get no respect and we hardly if ever recieve fair trials in our court systems. Let's stand up and come together. JOIN THE BLACKOUT NOVEMBER 2ND AND SHOW SUPPORT TO YOUR PEOPLE! iF YOU NEED MORE INFO CHECK OUT thetruthfinders.com for more info on the black out. It's not about a race thing it's about a justice thing. Also when you have time google Michael Baisden. He is fighting on the frontline in the jena 6 controversy and he is also attempting to start a defense fund for impoverished African Americans that cannot afford quality legal counsel. We all know that public defenders don't fight as hard or as adequately as hired private counsel. It's time for the younger Black generation to take a stand and get involved with our continued struggle for fair trial in the united states. There is no way that a 17 year old should be facing 22 years in jail for a fist fight at school. It's time to wake up and get informed and most importantly it's time for us to get involved.PLEASE, THIS IS SOOOOO Important. We can't afford to do nothing.
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I am proud of you wonderful people who continue to support racism. Thank you for your valient efforts to divide us.
Smile Like You Care
haha, I think I love you for that comment right there. Well at least I love the comment.
Good, I would find it odd if you loved me from one comment. Usually I require that at least two comments before even a first date.
Smile Like You Care
racist gesture BUT holy cow, they aren't being racists, they are just asking for people to NOT DO SOMETHING TO MAKE A POINT about the importance of blacks to this country and economny...regardless of the fact that I don't think not buying things is useful way of makign a point ...
I don't think you make sense to me, personally, when you say, "I am proud of you wonderful people who continue to support racism. Thank you for your valient efforts to divide us."
She is not the one who came up with this plan, the plan itself is NOT TO SUPPORT RACISM and yet YOU ARE TAKING IT AS A MARK OF DIVISION.
I guess I am saying you are welcome to interpret this gesture as Racism whereas I think that's bull, It is not an effort to divide rather UNITE.
but whatever---Individual differences and Different perspectives force us to reach different conclusions for the same idea/actions
"I leave my one and only grain of spiritual sand
to universal scales of humanity, all humanity...
forever is finding a solution to a solution." -Forever Begins, Common
http://www.progressiveu.org/231615-this-is-a-muslim-girls-plight
Umm...didn't you just ask the blacks of the US to do just that? Nothing?
And honestly, the Jena 6 thing is being blown way out of proportion. 6 kids beat up 1 kid. That's assult and should require some punishment. Since the 1 kid that got beat up is alright, it isn't attempted murder; it isn't even something that should have gone to the police.
And maybe you're talking about the noose. Big deal. It's a knot in some rope with negative connotations for some. If I got all scared everytime I walk through the black neighborhood where I live, I'd be a "racist." If some black kids get scared walking through the white neighborhood, the white people are racist. You know what I think? I think that blacks should stop treating themselves like a minority and begin to act like one of the majority. The only difference between me and any black person out there is a melanin deficiency on my part.
Nicholas Aden
Self-Promotion
ok first of all Jena 6 is not being blown out of proportion. It is more than just 6 black kids that beat up one white kid. It's the fact that there WERE nooses hung from a tree and that there even IS a tree where black kids are not supposed to go. Jena 6 is a representation racism is still everywhere and people keep putting if off like it's not a big deal
Racism of course can be against any race and in this case it just happens to be against blacks. There were many many accounts of the boys being harassed and threatened by other kids outside of school and when they retaliated this happened to be on school property and made more public.
Don't undermine the fact that there are clearly HUGE racist actions that happened. Not only should the boys be charged with assault but so should the white students should get punished for threatening them outside of school.
And as for the blackout, I agree with the other posts about how this really isn't going to effect the economy if the supporters buy in bulk before it. There is no way to truly go one whole day without buying anything. I think there are more powerful ways to expresses one's support.
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"Is it true, said Candide, that people in Paris are always laughing?"
-Voltaire
It's always blacks being oppressed, in case you've never noticed.
Nicholas Aden
Self-Promotion
yeah but maybe you should open your eyes and see that blacks are oppressed a lot and it's not just in the south. Just recently a college professor at Columbia found a noose hanging on her door. These things aren't just something that black people are just complaining about. This is serious racism. Black people have come so far but it's gestures like this that bring us back 50 years.
And it's not ALWAYS black people being oppressed, there are other minorities too and I realize that but it's just not as televised/talked about.
And of course white people can be hated against and I'm not saying that there is any exception to racism depending on if you're black or white. What I'm saying is you can't look at Jena 6 as being something that is very little. It just shows that there is still a lot of prejudice going on in the states and it is against all races and the reason why this was so big is because of the protests that were going on down there.
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"Is it true, said Candide, that people in Paris are always laughing?"
-Voltaire
underestimating the significane of the Noose, that piece of rope is negative connotations that are very powerful and extremely hurtful.
"Tears sprang to my eyes. I'd never had a moment like that in my life. It was difficult. It was also quite embarassing."-----These are the words of the Columbia Professor, who is african american, and had a Noose that was hung at her office door knob.
She teaches race and multiculturalism
"I leave my one and only grain of spiritual sand
to universal scales of humanity, all humanity...
forever is finding a solution to a solution." -Forever Begins, Common
http://www.progressiveu.org/231615-this-is-a-muslim-girls-plight
I'm not downplaying or "underestimating" the power or connotations of the noose. I'm just saying it's a load of bullshit. It's a piece of rope. Now, if it were around someone's neck, I might feel different. But considering I, personally, tie nooses and hang them in my tree every Halloween, I don't see the point in crying over a piece of rope.
Nicholas Aden
Self-Promotion
I think my point is being lost here
---It HURTS EMOTIONALLY when people use these gestures because they are PURPOSEFULLY USED TO HURT AND MAKE A POINT...why the hell do you think this is such a big deal, IT IS SYMBOLIC..it shows someone else's feelings and opinions of hate and prejudice on another person's race and history...it makes you feel like shit.
come on, you tie them for halloween, NOT SPECIFICALLY ON ONE BLACK PROFESSOR"S DOOR KNOB? right?
"I leave my one and only grain of spiritual sand
to universal scales of humanity, all humanity...
forever is finding a solution to a solution." -Forever Begins, Common
http://www.progressiveu.org/231615-this-is-a-muslim-girls-plight
By empowering these symbols with meaning and emotion, we make them stronger. The second people stop empowering them will be the second they stop mattering.
Nicholas Aden
Self-Promotion
about their place in history, we all are very well aware of what they represent and when someone placed them on that BLACK professor's door knob, we knew what they were supposed to represent and mean.
It is so easy to say these things, "we make them stronger. The second people stop empowering them will be the second they stop mattering," BUT think about the people who it actually has been done to and in their past, their ancestros, their older generations have been victims to the hate and people are bringing that hate back by tying these pieces of rope--
------- they are SYMBOLS OF HATE AND PAST PREJUDICES RESURFACING....truthfully I want all of us to be strong like you said but it's kind of hard for someone to get over them when obviously people still hold hate/prejudice and malicious feelings for your race
"I leave my one and only grain of spiritual sand
to universal scales of humanity, all humanity...
forever is finding a solution to a solution." -Forever Begins, Common
http://www.progressiveu.org/231615-this-is-a-muslim-girls-plight
Umm...my main problem with the "my ancestors" approach is that if your ancesters were lynched, you don't exist. I mean, sure, your great great great great second cousin three times removed could have been, but still...That's a lot of greats.
Also, think about all the other things the noose has been used for. Guy Fawkes will hanged. William Wallace was hanged. In fact, I'm sure, though not 100%, that more white folks have been hanged than black folks over the course of human history.
Nicholas Aden
Self-Promotion
I have to agree with the two posters here, Nicholas. The noose has a very firm historical background that represents lynching, an obscene act, and it can only mean hatred. I would cry too if somebody left it on my door. That poor woman, who has clearly devoted her life to educating others against blind hatred only to find herself the object of it.
However, I do not think there is a firm connection between what the Jena 6 did and the noose. That kid didn't hang those nooses, and the beating occurred more than 3 months after that incident. Their violent actions should not be encouraged or in any way supported.
http://www.progressiveu.org/103818-i-do-not-support-the-jena-6
Economically, if you are purchasing all of these items the days before you are actually driving up the costs, and not really harming the business owners at all.
It's sort of like telling people not to buy gas a certain day, so they all buy gas the days before, driving up the costs, and paying more in the end, so the gas companies make more money.
Regardless, you're really hurting local business owners if you're not being selective, and it's pointless if you aren't just going without. Stockpiling in the days before just changes increases demand the days before, reduces instantaneous sales on the day of the black out, and not the average revenues.
It's a good thought, it really is... but I really think there must be a better way.
who have tried to see that The issue in Jena was a BIG deal and that it's a call to unite...not be racist. I agree there may be a better way to get the point across but it's more about trying to get folks to unite and stand together for a common cause. We can't be blind to the fact that racism still exists...more within the justice system in America. But we have to bring injustices to light. And I never said that the boys shouldn't be punished for the assault, I did however point out the absurdity of the sentence. 22 years for assault is ludicrous and anyone who says it isn't has a problem. Sometimes you gotta call a spade a spade.
Love is Supreme,
L. Archelle
Stop supporting violence. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks would be ashamed of you.
http://www.progressiveu.org/103818-i-do-not-support-the-jena-6
Warren Ballentine actually stated on the truthfighters website,"However we ask that you don’t make a mad dash to the stores days prior or the days following." It is pointless to do so. Oh yeah, if it's just a piece of rope, why don't we just ask the jews to desensitize themselves when they see a swastika? What does one think when you see that symbol? You cannot forget this country's history, come on people....
Here is the site I think you meant.
http://www.truthfighterstv.com/
Is it OK if some Mexicans come?
http://www.progressiveu.org/063811-the-illegal-issue
My heart would swell with pride if these racist leaders would 'come together' to do positive and productive things, and not just increase divisions to increase their own power and profit.
Thankful is the only proper attitude