I believe the demonstration will be successful. And I hope it will be peaceful.

NO RIOTING! IT'S THE WEAPON WE USE ON OURSLEVES. AWLAYS TRICKED INTO IT. NEVER SERVED BY IT.

NEVER DESTROY YOUR OWN THINGS FOR YOUR OPPONENT. BE SMARTER.

Jesse Jackson and whoever it takes to expose to the world what this racist crap is.

What kind of nitwit hangs a noose under a tree in the first place? We wouldn't be having this discussion.

I don't know about anyone else out there over 45, but if anyone had told me, back in high school in the 70's, that this stuff would be happening in 2006-7, I'd have said no way, we're past it. The regression on every level is horrifying.

per wikipedia
On December 4, 2006, Jena High School student Justin Barker, age 17, was assaulted by other Jena High students. National Public Radio reported that earlier that day Barker, a white student, bragged about how one of his alleged attackers, Robert Bailey, Jr., had been beaten up by a white man the Friday before.[2] Barker was then hit and kicked by a group of students and was temporarily knocked unconscious.[3][2] He was examined by a doctor at the local hospital. After two hours of treatment and observation for a concussion and an eye that had swollen shut, he was released in time to attend the school's Ring ceremony that evening.[4] In the meantime, the six students accused of the attack, eventually dubbed the "Jena Six",[5] were arrested.

also in wikipedia
An argument ensued, after which the white student ran to his pickup truck and produced a pistol-grip shotgun. Bailey ran after the white student and wrestled him for control of the gun. Bailey's friends intervened in the scuffle and took the gun away. Bailey refused to return it and ultimately took it home with him. Local police reported that the accounts of the white student and black students contradicted each other and formed a report based on testimony taken from eyewitnesses. This resulted in Bailey being charged with three counts: theft of a firearm, second-degree robbery, and disturbing the peace. The white student who produced the weapon was not charged.[2][6]
Rockmonkey "The article I read said the kid they beat was beaten into unconsciousness. I don't know about you guys, but if 6 white kids had beat a black kid like that...well I doubt Jesse would be saying they shouldn't be charged with attempted murder"
Jesse Al and other african americans must speak. I don't recall anyone here angered by the assults on the black student that prededed the Jena six assaults.
If there is no law in Jena for all people, of course unrest will folow. Attempted murder from an assault where the victim celebrated hours later dosen't seem appropriate.

Good thing no one did any actual studying, there, you know how education can just throw water on the flames of ignorance and short tempers, and all...and if you do that, you can't milk a circumstance for more federal money...people thinking for themselves, being productive, solving problems, can't have THAT....

The article I read said the kid they beat was beaten into unconsciousness. I don't know about you guys, but if 6 white kids had beat a black kid like that...well I doubt Jesse would be saying they shouldn't be charged with attempted murder. They would be crying for the harshest penalties possible. The double standard on hate crimes(by minorities) is ridiculous, and thats what this was.

Plant a whole grove of f*ckin trees instead of ONE tree.

"Jesse got his headline" I haven't seen any white leaders go down and try and inject a little common sense in this situation. Remarks like yours and the other racists here make this event more important.

Would this white tree be an example of the freedoms in this country that our enemies hate us for?

This whole event highlights the fact that racism is alive in well, in schools, in courts, everywhere. I'm so sick of it.

Well Jesse got his headline. At least this time it seems he has a legitimate cause to back. Hopefully everyone down there can behave themselves during the upcoming demonstration.

This sort of evil nastiness has been and continues to be an ugly reality simmering beneath the surface of life in the largely un-reconstructed South. That the local power elite (whites) would exercise their control of the local legal apparatus to produce a perverted mockery of justice is unsurprising.

What would be surprising is if outside pressure can undo any lasting harm caused to anyone involved in these incidents - I hope so. Wiping out any blot on the students legal records related to this would be the minimum criteria for 'justice' in this situation, and honestly the best that could be hoped for.

It is too much to hope for that the people who hang nooses from the 'white' tree would ever change their minds and that is the ongoing tragedy of how southern culture is morally stunted and spiritually crippled by the poison of racism. There is a LOT that is admirable, beautiful, and good in the people of the South but all of it is shadowed, tainted, cursed by the deeply rooted corruption of bigoted hate.

So let's cut down the tree. Good idea, Jena. That'll keep those blacks from trying to sit under it. Why, goodness! Ayshuns and Messkins might try to sit under it next! Just ain't no place safe and clean for white folk no more...*Sob*...

all i can say is riot

Hypocrite Hillary(DC Experience Matters?JFK & Bill HAD LIL

This Video Is Showing That Hillary is a hypocrite for saying obama has no experience

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBy3AKn_2Fk

The young men involved in this should be punished on some level, but second degree murder?! That's absurd. This is prosecutorial terrorism. This prosecutor needs to be reprimanded, and so does the public defender. What a disgrace to the attorney profession.

A fuckin tree. Guess poor people got nothing else to do. Move on Dot Org send them some money you waste yours on silly crap.