Judgement In Jena - CNN Special Investigation - Thurs Night

[One2Snoop]

CNN SIU: Judgment in Jena

CNN's Kyra Phillips gets to the heart of a racial crisis gripping a small southern town. A can’t miss hour of justice in black and white.

Watch Thursday, 8 p.m. ET 9/20/07

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/siu/

video clip....

Is Jena, LA a Racist town? 2:50
CNN's Sean Callebs looks at the "Jena 6" case and the cloud hanging over the tiny Louisiana town.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/09/17/callebs.jena.background.CNN

[Athena]

Thanks One2.

I think Bell's lawyer in that clip hit the nail on the head. She says people don't even realize because it is embedded; they can't see what outsiders see. The Jena resident that was interviewed says there is not "that much racism" but there is some.

I do hope that this special does show both sides. It should be interesting.

[One2Snoop]

You're welcome Athena. :seeya:

I also hope it shows both sides. It would be nice if a local would let us know if it was a good representation of whats been going on in Jena.

[One2Snoop]

The following transcript is not from the CNN Special Investigation - Judgement In Jena but from another CNN report. The transcript for Judgement in Jena isn't up yet.....

TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: And good morning again, everyone. You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Tony Harris, live in Jena, Louisiana.

Thousands jam the streets right now for a civil rights protest. A small town down south puts race and the American legal system front and center this morning.


HARRIS: Unfolding this hour, racial divisions and demonstrations in Jena, Louisiana. Take a look at these live pictures. Thousands -- that's right, thousands of protestors have descended on this town. It is a show of support for the so-called Jena six. The black students charged with beating a white classmate. Demonstrators say the charges against the black teens were too harsh. Some local residents say it's all been blown out of proportion.


We were here in the wee small hours of the morning when people were starting to arrive on buses, in personal vehicles, carrying signs, full of hope and optimism that today there would be an opportunity to reverse what many who are here today feel is racial injustice. What is this march about? Well, it is about trying to get the charges against the six young men thrown out. Absolutely thrown out. Dropped. And this these kids be allowed to go on with their lives.

It must be said that it is a far different story for this town of Jena, Louisiana, 85 percent white, 15 percent black. Many of the white residents feel that this town has been descended upon, it has been portrayed in an unfair light. They remind us again -- they remind us again that there was a victim. There was a victim in that December 4th attack, is how they term it, an attack in that school, Jena High School, where the march is ultimately going to lead and end up.

I want to, if I could, take a moment -- we were fortunate enough to talk to Tina Jones. She is the mother of one of the kids who have come to be known as the Jena six. Her son, Brian Purvis. I want to share a bit of that conversation with you right now.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TINA JONES, DEFENDANT'S MOTHER: Well, I'm excited about the large amount of people that came in, in support of our kids. Because we wanting to let the D.A. and the judge know that they're doing wrong to these kids. And with so many people that's standing behind us and, you know, standing up for the same cause, it means a lot.

HARRIS: Tina, what do you hope to accomplish today?

JONES: I hope that the D.A. will wake up and realize that he's doing the wrong thing and to release these kids and let them go.

HARRIS: I want you to explain in your own words to us what the racial environment is here in Jena. How would you describe it?

JONES: It's not equal. You know, the black people are -- get the harsher extent of the law, whereas the white people will get, you know, a slap on the wrist per say. So it's not equal here.

HARRIS: Do you believe that the prosecutor prosecuted this case out of malicious intent, out of racist intent?

JONES: I don't know, but it seems to me that he has a personal interest in the case.

HARRIS: Why do you say that?

JONES: Because he's so adamant about destroying these kids' lives. You know, he threatened them at the school and he also, you know, he's very adamant in the courtroom about a tennis shoe being a deadly weapon. He's just trying to ruin these kids' lives.

HARRIS: I know that your son can't talk about the facts of the case, but I know that you know much about this case. To the extent you can, what can you tell us about this fight on December 4th, coming up on a year now and what role your son played, did not play, in the attack on Justin Barker?

JONES: Brian wasn't involved in the fight at all. He wasn't even in the area that the fight took place. He was named in the fight by one of the students. Have one statement says Brian kicked Justin.

HARRIS: Not involved at all.

JONES: At all.

HARRIS: Was he there?

JONES: He was at school that . . .

HARRIS: Was he a part of the crowd that was watching the fight?

JONES: Yes. He seen the fight. He stood up on the railing and looked over to see after he heard a lick. And he stood up on the railing and seen Justin laying on the ground. And immediately the teacher sent the kids back to class. And several of the kids were arrested that day, but Brian wasn't arrested.

HARRIS: Who identified Brian as being involved in the actual fight? Because these are serious charges attached to the actual fight, the attack?

JONES: Right. Right. One of the students that goes to the high school. But I don't -- forgot what . . .

HARRIS: White student? Black student?

JONES: He's a white student. He said Brian kicked Justin. And then there was a teacher that made a statement saying Brian was in the area but she didn't see him do anything.

HARRIS: Do you have anything that you would like to convey to Justin Barker, to his family? After all, our understanding is that he took some serious punishment and he was badly injured. There were two sides to every story. There may be 10 to this story. Is there anything that you would like to say to Justin's parents as a way of perhaps healing?

JONES: I'll just say that Brian didn't have anything to do with the fight. And with the Barkers, I can understand, you know, that their son was, you know, was in a fight. But Brian had absolutely nothing to do with that, you know. And I mean, you know, that's all I can say about it, he had nothing to do with it.

HARRIS: Where does this go from here in your mind?

JONES: We've got a long fight ahead of us and we're going to continue to fight until justice prevails in Jena.

HARRIS: Do you have any concerns that a rally of this size today might do more to harden attitudes in this community and make it more difficult for people like you or your son who call Jena home?

JONES: I hope not. I hope that it wouldn't because we're going to continue to have these types of rallies and we hope everybody still will come -- continue to come out and support us because until the charges are dropped, we will continue to do the same thing.

HARRIS: Brian, I know you can't talk much about this, but I am curious, I have to ask you, how are you doing? How are you holding up? And what are your hopes for this day?

BRIAN PURVIS, DEFENDANT: I'm doing pretty good. I hope there's a pretty good outcome of what's taking place today.

HARRIS: What is it that you hope comes out of this, this day, this moment?

PURVIS: That he drops the charges.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HARRIS: And, once again, I just want to make the point, again and again and again, we have tried diligently to get the other view of this story from Reed Walters, tried to get him here today. We tried to get him on the program yesterday. We also tried to get Murphy McMillan, who is the mayor of Jena, to join us to talk about this case and the impact on his community. And we've been unsuccessful. We will continue to make those calls and try to get them on the program with us from Jena. Joined now by Tyler Perry. Tyler Perry, writer, producer, actor. The man's building a media conglomerate.

Tyler, great to see you here in Jena, Louisiana.

TYLER PERRY, FILMMAKER: And you as well. You as well.

HARRIS: Out of the box, tell me why you're here?

PERRY: Well, Louisiana's my home state, number one. And any time this kind of injustice is going on anywhere in the world, it speaks to everyone who is dealing with things. And I wanted to be here today to speak, to use everything I've been given to support these six young men and their families and just let everyone in the world know that justices cannot be tolerated.

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[One2Snoop]

Additonal CNN videos/reports on "The Jena 6"

On The Road To Jena
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/20/jena6.sidebar/index.html

Commentary: 'Jena 6' rally was about equal justice, not race
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/20/roland.martin.jena6/index.html

D.A.: Case isn't about race
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/09/19/jena.6.da.press.conference.cnn

Jesse Jackson: Obama needs to bring more attention to Jena 6
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/19/jackson.jena6/index.html

Court: It's 'premature' to consider motion to release Jena 6 defendant
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/19/jena.six/index.html

U.S. attorney: Nooses, beating at Jena High not related
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/19/jena.six.link/index.html

[Athena]

CNN has announced that the Appeals Court has granted a hearing for Mychal Bell tomorrow, 9/21 to reduce bond and possibly get out of jail.

~Mike Mattingly, CNN

[One2Snoop]

CNN has announced that the Appeals Court has granted a hearing for Mychal Bell tomorrow, 9/21 to reduce bond and possibly get out of jail.

~Mike Mattingly, CNN

Here's a small blurb on that meshed in with other news from the day....

While the tension was palpable, news broke Thursday afternoon that the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal ordered a hearing within 72 hours to determine if the only one of the six still behind bars can be released.

The order has "got to be good," Mychal Bell's attorney, Bob Noel, told CNN. "It means we have a day in court. Any day in court is going to be a good day."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/20/jena.six/index.html

[One2Snoop]

Transcript from last nights broadcast of "Judgement In Jena"...

CNN: SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT

Judgment in Jena

Aired September 20, 2007 - 20:00 ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): These are the faces and the voices of protest. Thousands from across the nation are here in tiny Jena, Louisiana, where nothing has been normal since the three nooses were hung from a school tree.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We uncover stories never heard, images never seen.

UNIDENTIFIED: Tough streets of Baghdad.

UNIDENTIFIED: Gang members driving down this street.

UNIDENTIFIED: Deadly risk.

UNIDENTIFIED: You can hear and see the choppers.

ANNOUNCER: Now, Kyra Phillips, "Judgment in Jena."

PHILLIPS (voice-over): Jena, Louisiana, population, about 3,000. It's like so many small Southern towns. Jena is about 85 percent white, 13 percent black, and people here are, for the most part, civil to one another. Still, blacks and whites keep largely to themselves. Social life here is built on two enduring pillars, high school football and church on Sunday.

REVEREND EDDIE THOMPSON, RESIDENT OF JENA, LOUISIANA: Probably this way true in many places in the South, that the most segregated hour in America is Sunday morning at 11:00.

PHILLIPS: But civility and tolerance were splintered just over a year ago on August 31, 2006, when number 33, Kenneth Purvis, a star junior fullback for the Jena Giants, asked if he and his friends could sit under this large oak tree on the high school grounds, a tree that Purvis and other black students believed was an unofficial gathering place reserved for white students only.

(on camera): Why did you want to go there?

KENNETH PURVIS, JENA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT: I wanted to be more integrated.

PHILLIPS: Why?

PURVIS: Because it is always just separate over there. It's just separate. PHILLIPS (voice-over): Kenneth Purvis and his friends got a quick and clear answer from a school official. You can sit anywhere you want. The day after Purvis and his friends gathered under that tree, they were sent an unforgettable message.

(on camera): So, you come to school the next day.

PURVIS: Yes, ma'am.

PHILLIPS: And what did you see?

PURVIS: There was three nooses hung up in the tree.

PHILLIPS (voice-over): Three nooses hung from the tree.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I could not believe it. I joked about it, laughed about it, thought it was funny that somebody would actually do it. But that was an offending thing.

PHILLIPS: This educator, who wants his identity hidden for fear of reprisals, has been teaching in Jena for a decade. He wasn't at all surprised when he learned which white students hung the nooses.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Knowing the kids or having been around kids, yes, I do think that they knew what was involved. I think they knew exactly what they were doing.

PHILLIPS: Most of the white students, like Anna Maria Ranton (ph), were confused and on edge.

(on camera): You're coming in as a freshman. And this noose incident happens. Did you even understand what was going on?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was scared, especially as a freshman. But, you know, nothing ended up happening. And I felt like, you know, people made a mistake and that it was all blown out of proportion.

PHILLIPS (voice-over): The nooses were quickly taken down. And the three white students who hung them were identified.

Principle Scott Windham wanted them expelled.

(on camera): The kids, in fact, were a pretty mixed bag. None had any prior run-ins with the law. One of them wound up getting expelled for bringing brass knuckles to school. Another boy left high school, because, as his mother told us, he hadn't brought home a notebook since the seventh grade anyway.

Now, the third boy finished high school. As a matter of fact, his mom is a special education teacher who, we are told, taught her son to respect everyone.

(voice-over): But, after their parents appealed to the school board, the expulsions were overturned. Instead, they were suspended for less than a week, and allowed to return, after counseling sessions. Black parents were furious. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We had several incidents where white kids committed major offenses at school, vandalizing through gluing locks, and the kids weren't even suspended from school. They were given cleaning duties around school.

PHILLIPS: Tensions between white and black students rose. The very next day, when Kenneth Purvis and his friends gathered under that tree a second time, there was some shouting, but no violence.

(on camera): So, you and the other black students saw the nooses, and you decided, all right, we're all going to sit under that tree again?

PURVIS: Yes, that's how -- that's how it happened.

PHILLIPS: That's how it happened.

PURVIS: We just went over and sat under the tree again.

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[Zuras]

Anti-white racist trash from CNN, like always.

[Zuras]

OMG. Pouring glue in a lock is a "major offense". Boy, those kids got away with murder. LOL. I don't know how it is people are such zombies these days. White people are affraid to call racists racists if thoese racists aren't white or are anti-white in their racist BS. This kid they have here on the show lies several times flat out in the interview and the BS line about "I wanted to be more integrated" was obviously told to him by his racist parents to for more "buzzwords" for the anti-white racist douchebags totally screwing up the coverage of the incident. Seems the only people "allowed" to call the racist emdia's bluff in all this are black:

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/7170510

And thank god for honest black people.

[Athena]

OMG. Pouring glue in a lock is a "major offense". Boy, those kids got away with murder. LOL. I don't know how it is people are such zombies these days. White people are affraid to call racists racists if thoese racists aren't white or are anti-white in their racist BS. This kid they have here on the show lies several times flat out in the interview and the BS line about "I wanted to be more integrated" was obviously told to him by his racist parents to for more "buzzwords" for the anti-white racist douchebags totally screwing up the coverage of the incident. Seems the only people "allowed" to call the racist emdia's bluff in all this are black:

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/7170510

And thank god for honest black people.

No what Jason Whitlock has done was voiced his own opinion of what he thnks of the case. Those of us that have been following the case could probably dispute most of what he says "we" don't know. He is actually missing some of the pertinent facts especially about Mychal Bell's attorney who was ineffective. Our consitution says every American is entitled not only to counsel but EFFECTIVE counsel thus alot of what went on in the trial was left unchallenged because the public defender in this case was ill-prepared due to the fact that Bell did not agree to a plea bargain offered. Blaine Williams was counting on him to accept the plea and Bell refused. So I guess he may have been "honest" but he was basing his article on information he had not the information that is actually out here. JMO

My next post will reflect what Whitlock and Williams should have been aware of.

[Athena]

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: What Blane Williams should have known
~Friends of Justice

Reflections in the wake of the Mychal Bell trial

Partisan witnesses
* The ten student witnesses who testified at Mychal Bell’s trial were all white. In fact, most of them were part of a distinct minority within
the high school’s white student population who attended all-white schools in the country surrounding Jena until High School. (More on this below)
* Justin Cooper was the only witness at trial to testify that Mychal Bell kicked Justin Barker as the victim lay unconscious on the ground.
Since Justin Cooper was one of the boys who admitted to hanging the nooses at Jena High School at the beginning of the school year, he can hardly be seen as an objective or credible witness. Defense Attorney Blane Williams was apparently unaware of Cooper’s connection to the noose incident.
* Jessica Hooter was one of four trial witnesses who identified Mychal as the person who threw the first punch at Justin Barker. Two days after the assault occurred, Jessica was unable to identify the initial attacker. But as she explained at trial, “After I thought about it more, I remembered more.” In his closing remarks, Blane Williams never mentioned that she had embellished her earlier testimony. Perhaps he forgot.
* The single male juror graduated from High School with Justin Barker’s father. The tendency to sympathize with an old school buddy whosekid got punched and kicked in a one-sided assault is understandable. It also makes objectivity impossible.
* Midway through the trial, assault victim Justin Barker and his family were seen by ten witnesses (myself included) sharing a convivial meal with several of the students who had testified against Mychal Bell. This suggests that a number of “memory-enhancing” conversations about the incident have taken place between early December and late June. Jessica Hooter likely “remembered” that the unidentified attacker was Mykal Bell because this quickly became the orthodox story in the social circle she move in.

Ms. Martin’s list
* At trial, special education teacher Kristy Martin listed off the names of the boys who surrounded Justin Barker as if they were clear in her memory. Although she was forced to admit that she never saw a single student touch Justin Barker, Martin’s ability to name names seemed very convincing. Martin is the only witness thus far who has provided a list of attackers longer than three names.
* In a written statement, given immediately after the incident, Coach Wayne Spence states that he was taking names of rowdy students in the gym during the lunch hour. “I had a list that Ms. Martin obtained from me,” he wrote. This suggests that Kristy Martin specifically asked Spence for the list of names the day of the fight. This explains why she is the only witness to remember more than two or three members of the Jena 6. Most eye witnesses can’t identify a single assailant by name. Most of the students who gave eyewitness statements after the December 4 altercation at the school make references to “a bunch of black kids”.

The witness no one called
* Coach Benjy Lewis gave two statements immediately after the school incident in which he clearly states that Justin Barker was facing him when Malcolm Shaw (not Mychal Bell) struck Barker from behind. “I saw Malcolm Shaw hit Justin Barker with his right fist to the right side of Justin’s head, right around the temple,” Lewis wrote. “Justin went down face first, knocked out . . .” Most witnesses agree that a single punch knocked Barker out cold. The only adult who witnessed the punch says Mychal Bell didn’t throw it.
* In a signed statement given immediately after the altercation at the school, student Jesse Beard stated that moments after the assault Coach Manning asked him where Malcolm Shaw was.
* It isn’t hard to see why the prosecution didn’t call Lewis to the stand (his testimony would have devastated the state’s case); but how do we explain why defense attorney Blane Williams didn’t call the coach to testify?
* Several people (myself included) noticed Mychal Bell repeatedly handing his attorney pieces of eyewitness testimony during the trial. This suggests that Williams entered the courtroom utterly unprepared for trial.

The green jacket theory
* Two female students testified that the person who knocked Justin Barker cold was wearing a green jacket. Mychal Bell’s statement, given immediately after the incident, suggests that he was initially cleared of responsibility because he was wearing a black jacket. At trial, the “green jacket” witnesses were convinced that Mychal Bell was not the attacker-they knew Mychal and the guy in the green jacket was someone else.
* The “green jacket” identification means that we have at least three mutually contradictory eyewitness accounts of who struck Justin Barker: Mychal Bell, Malcolm Shaw, or an unidentified student in a green jacket.
* Both “green jacket” witnesses insist that Justin Barker was knocked cold, not by a punch to the temple, but by having his head slammed into a concrete bench. Coach Benjy Lewis says that Justin Barker was knocked cold from a punch from behind. Witnesses who name Mychal Bell as the attacker describe a face-to-face confrontation followed by a blow to the head that knocked Justin Barker out. Defense attorney Blane Williams never reflected on the evidence long enough to identify these obvious contradictions.

If Lewis is right; Bell is innocent
* The fact that Justin Barker cannot remember who hit him argues in favor of Coach Lewis’s blow-from-behind account. It must also be remembered that Lewis was the only adult who directly witnessed the assault. He was also the only non-partisan eye witness. If Lewis is telling the truth, the witnesses who identify Mychal Bell as the initial attacker are either confused or, like Jessica Hooter, they are victims of a false sense of concreteness produced by the continual retelling the story in the company of partisan friends.
* Most of the prisoners recently exonerated on the basis of unassailable DNA evidence were wrongfully convicted by confident
eyewitnesses. Memory doesn’t work like a photograph; recollections change dramatically with time. We often see what we want to see.
* All this contradictory evidence makes it impossible to identifyJustin Barker’s assailant with any confidence.

http://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/ineffective-assistance-of-counsel-what-blane-williams-should-have-known/

[Zuras]

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: What Blane Williams should have known
~Friends of Justice

Reflections in the wake of the Mychal Bell trial

Partisan witnesses
* The ten student witnesses who testified at Mychal Bell’s trial were all white. In fact, most of them were part of a distinct minority within
the high school’s white student population who attended all-white schools in the country surrounding Jena until High School. (More on this below)



What a bunch of racist crap. Can't trust evil whitey! Gosh, so we have to rely on the 10-12% of the black students to testify, eh?


* Justin Cooper was the only witness at trial to testify that Mychal Bell
kicked Justin Barker as the victim lay unconscious on the ground.
Since Justin Cooper was one of the boys who admitted to hanging the nooses at Jena High School at the beginning of the school year, he can hardly be seen as an objective or credible witness. Defense Attorney Blane Williams was apparently unaware of Cooper’s connection to the noose incident.

Huh? Really? Look at the medical reports. Barker himself doesn't even remember who knocked him out, because the cowardly POS hit him from behind and he was instantly knocked out. So if no one was kicking him on the ground, how did his face get so screwed up he racked up 12,000+ thousand dollars in medical bills and had a face so bruided he couldn't see out of one eye? So, yes, maybe he was the only one, and maybe he is even lieing! So who the hell stomped his face? It was him or his friends, period, your bogus source notwithstanding.


* Jessica Hooter was one of four trial witnesses who identified Mychal as the person who threw the first punch at Justin Barker. Two days after the assault occurred, Jessica was unable to identify the initial attacker. But as she explained at trial, “After I thought about it more, I remembered more.” In his closing remarks, Blane Williams never mentioned that she had embellished her earlier testimony. Perhaps he forgot.


How did she "embelish it", or perhaps this racist writer has "forgot" to prove his bogus statement.


* The single male juror graduated from High School with Justin Barker’s father. The tendency to sympathize with an old school buddy whosekid got punched and kicked in a one-sided assault is understandable. It also makes objectivity impossible.


More nonsensical BS, the fact is that even if this guy was going to give a guilty verdict himself, if the evidence was persuasive, he is only one person. He was convicted by all of them. Hello?


* Midway through the trial, assault victim Justin Barker and his family were seen by ten witnesses (myself included) sharing a convivial meal with several of the students who had testified against Mychal Bell. This suggests that a number of “memory-enhancing” conversations about the incident have taken place between early December and late June.
"memory enchaning" ?

LOL. Fantasies are what racists throw out when they run out of excuses and exaggerations. Some of the witnesses WERE his friends and WERE their to witness him being attacked. That doesn't sound odd at all. Why does it to this racist twat of a writer?

I'm sorry, this is some of the msot ignorant racist trash I've seen in some time. whomever you got this garbage from has outdown themselves. The only really valid point I saw in all of it was related to the teacher that saw malcom throw the first punch. But he may have mis-identified the person and later redacted this. Given how much of what you written is so full of racist invective and completely bologna, it wouldn't surprise me if this guy doesn't even even exist at all, let alone saw Malcolm throw the first punch.

[William Anthony]

What a bunch of racist crap. Can't trust evil whitey! Gosh, so we have to rely on the 10-12% of the black students to testify, eh?



Huh? Really? Look at the medical reports. Barker himself doesn't even remember who knocked him out, because the cowardly POS hit him from behind and he was instantly knocked out. So if no one was kicking him on the ground, how did his face get so screwed up he racked up 12,000+ thousand dollars in medical bills and had a face so bruided he couldn't see out of one eye? So, yes, maybe he was the only one, and maybe he is even lieing! So who the hell stomped his face? It was him or his friends, period, your bogus source notwithstanding.



How did she "embelish it", or perhaps this racist writer has "forgot" to prove his bogus statement.



More nonsensical BS, the fact is that even if this guy was going to give a guilty verdict himself, if the evidence was persuasive, he is only one person. He was convicted by all of them. Hello?


"memory enchaning" ?

LOL. Fantasies are what racists throw out when they run out of excuses and exaggerations. Some of the witnesses WERE his friends and WERE their to witness him being attacked. That doesn't sound odd at all. Why does it to this racist twat of a writer?

I'm sorry, this is some of the msot ignorant racist trash I've seen in some time. whomever you got this garbage from has outdown themselves. The only really valid point I saw in all of it was related to the teacher that saw malcom throw the first punch. But he may have mis-identified the person and later redacted this. Given how much of what you written is so full of racist invective and completely bologna, it wouldn't surprise me if this guy doesn't even even exist at all, let alone saw Malcolm throw the first punch.

It has been reported that the author or this post has been banned. I sincerely hope that it will not be a permanent one. I think that the comments of the author show the struggles that Black Americans have to overcome in order to receive true equality in America.

[dallasvic]

It has been reported that the author or this post has been banned. I sincerely hope that it will not be a permanent one. I think that the comments of the author show the struggles that Black Americans have to overcome in order to receive true equality in America.

Hi WA,

This true and scary:eek:. One thing I noticed was once I told Zuars I was white he/she stopped answering my post.So this told me Zuras had some problems.