What happens when you combine bogus MSM sensationalism with professional race-baiters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? You get a small town story of common thugs turned into an international circus based on lies and propaganda.
But the truth always has a way of getting out…
The so-called “white tree” at Jena High, often reported to be the domain of only white students, was nothing of the sort, according to teachers and school administrators; students of all races, they say, congregated under it at one time or another.
Two nooses — not three — were found dangling from the tree. Beyond being offensive to blacks, the nooses were cut down because black and white students “were playing with them, pulling on them, jump-swinging from them, and putting their heads through them,” according to a black teacher who witnessed the scene.
There was no connection between the September noose incident and December attack, according to Donald Washington, an attorney for the U.S. Justice Department in western Louisiana, who investigated claims that these events might be race-related hate crimes.
The three youths accused of hanging the nooses were not suspended for just three days — they were isolated at an alternative school for about a month, and then given an in-school suspension for two weeks.
The only one of the six to be tried and convicted so far, Mychal Bell, 17, was widely reported to be an honor student with no criminal record. Though he kept a high grade-point average, Bell was on probation for at least two counts of battery and a count of criminal damage to property prior to the beating of Justin Barker last year.
The six-member jury that convicted Bell was, indeed, all white. However, only one in 10 people in LaSalle Parish is African American, and though black residents were selected randomly by computer and summoned for jury selection, none showed up.
But why bother with facts when they don’t fit your agenda?
It’s ironic how race-baiters like Al Sharpton can claim a crime has been committed by a white against a black when no such crime occured, and then claim a real crime committed by blacks against a white kid should go unpunished.
