Rosa Parks 1955
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Rosa Parks 1955
Use Logic Or STFU!
You can't....on the books.Originally Posted by Biggles
Keep in mind these were kids.
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You can't....on the books.
Keep in mind these were kids.
It's not as if there was a sign. School kids,like everyone else,have their areas where "like minded" people hang out.
The smokers have theirs...the punks....the nerds...so on.
This is different in so far as this group used death as a scare tactic to say "keep away".
I don't assume that if "the nerds" had tried to sit their they would have used the same tactics.
An appeals judge did overturn the sentence of one of the boys who was sentenced as an adult.
Racism is alive and well on the planet, not just here.
By the way Dixie was written by a Northerner....ironic?
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing..... Descartes
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Hill Billies are from the north too. from the Irish Hills area in Michigan State I believe.
It's not as if there was a sign. School kids,like everyone else,have their areas where "like minded" people hang out.
The smokers have theirs...the punks....the nerds...so on.
This is different in so far as this group used death as a scare tactic to say "keep away".
I don't assume that if "the nerds" had tried to sit their they would have used the same tactics.
An appeals judge did overturn the sentence of one of the boys who was sentenced as an adult.
Racism is alive and well on the planet, not just here.
By the way Dixie was written by a Northerner....ironic?
The best way to keep a secret:- Tell everyone not to tell anyone.
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Hill Billies are from the north too. from the Irish Hills area in Michigan State I believe.
Unless they are Beverly HillBillies!!
Yes there are definitely hillbillies in Michigan.
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing..... Descartes
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I have heard something similar.Hill Billies are from the north too. from the Irish Hills area in Michigan State I believe.
I found this, too, which I thought was interesting:
History
It is believed that the term "hillbilly" originally referred to Scots-Irish immigrants of mainly Presbyterian origin, who brought their cultural traditions with them when they moved to the United States. Many of their stories, songs and ballads dealt with past history from their original homeland, especially relating the tale of the Protestant King William III, Prince of Orange, who defeated the Roman Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
Supporters of King William came to be known as Orangemen and Billy Boys (Billy being an abbreviation of William; the term "Billy Boy" is still used today, mainly in Northern Ireland). When considerable numbers of these Scots-Irish immigrants settled in hilly regions during the early 18th Century, they were nicknamed "hill billies" by the occupying British soldiers.
As to the Jena six, I think we have a situation that screams out for the invention of a mechanical device capable of oscillating at a great rate, as a paint-can shaker, for example, upon which may be affixed perhaps fifty people at a time, so that they might have the ever-loving shit shaken out of them, and that said shaking be administered without any undue discrimination except to insure that all the racists get their turn.
Shaking a few innocents, too, might have the desirable effect of propagating the idea that when shit hits the fan, it occasionally soils bystanders.
My thought on the matter, for what it's worth.
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
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I moved to Atlanta from Illinois. There is racial tension down here but it's not all from whites, it goes the other way too, especially among older people. Not so bad with the younger ones here.Sadly little has changed in the Southern States. There is deep seated racism. It will take a few generations before it disappears. There are many people alive today who's great grandfathers fought in the civil war. 'Dixie' is still their National anthem.
What happened in Jena is awful. The most those kids should have been charged with was simple battery. The boy the attacked was at a school function that very night, how do you get attempted murder from that? You hear that on the radio and think the kid almost died they beat him so badly.
Also, those kids should have been charged with the noose hanging. The DA said there are no charges on the books for that. That strikes me as weird since some kid, during a rally for Jena (can't remember where it was but somewhere in the South) drove past the rally dragging a noose on the back of his pickup truck. He was arrested and charged.
Use Logic Or STFU!
FBI Reviewing Anti-Jena 6 Web Page
The FBI is reviewing a white supremacist Web site that purports to list the addresses of five of the six black teenagers accused of beating a white student in Jena and "essentially called for their lynching," an agency spokeswoman said Saturday.
Sheila Thorne, an agent in the FBI's New Orleans office, said authorities were reviewing whether the site breaks any federal laws. She said the FBI had "gathered intelligence on the matter," but declined to further explain how the agency got involved.
CNN first reported Friday about the Web site, which features a swastika, frequent use of racial slurs, a mailing address in Roanoke, Va., and phone numbers purportedly for some of the teens' families "in case anyone wants to deliver justice." That page is dated Thursday.
The Rev. Al Sharpton said in a statement Saturday that some of the families have received "almost around the clock calls of threats and harassment," and called on Gov. Kathleen Blanco to intervene.
A Blanco spokeswoman said the governor had asked law enforcement — primarily state police — to investigate.
"These people need more than an investigation. They need protection," the Rev. Jesse Jackson said. He said his organization would be in touch with President Bush's nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey.
"This is a test for the disposition of the Department of Justice to serve as an intervenor and a deterrent" to hate crimes and discrimination, Jackson said. He said federal marshals should protect the families.
Carolas Purvis, whose number was among three listed on the Web site, said she did not feel in danger. Purvis is the aunt of Bryant Purvis, who has yet to be arraigned. She said she has received a number of calls, some from people who say nothing, others to let her know that her number had been put on the site. One, Friday night, used the N-word to her young son, she said.
A dispatcher for the LaSalle Parish Sheriff's Department said no one in the office Saturday could say whether any threats had been reported.
Of the two other numbers listed as "active" on the Web site, one was not answered Saturday; the other yielded a constant busy signal.
On Thursday, thousands of demonstrators marched in a civil rights demonstration in support of the so-called Jena 6. The six black teens were arrested after a December attack on a white student — the culmination of fights between blacks and whites.
Of the six teens arrested, five initially were charged with attempted second-degree murder; charges for four have been reduced as they were arraigned. Charges against the sixth teen, booked as a juvenile, are sealed.
Mychal Bell is the only one to have been tried so far. A state appeals court recently threw out his conviction for aggravated second-degree battery, saying he couldn't be tried as an adult. He remained in jail pending an appeal.
William A. "Bill" White, listed as the Web site's editor and commander of the American National Socialist Workers Party, did not immediately answer an e-mail to his address. Calls to one of the two William Whites listed in Roanoke were not answered; the other said he was not involved with the site.
Blanco said Saturday that harassing families involved in the case "cannot and will not be tolerated."
"Public attacks on private citizens done out of ignorance and hatred is appalling, and anyone who stoops to such unspeakable persecution will be investigated and subject to the full penalty of law," she said in a statement.
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