Jena 6 Update

Dr. Cheese · #1 08-26-2009, 09:46 AM

http://www.theroot.com/buzz/jena-6-t...turn-it-around

This is an article on how one of the Jena 6 kids is doing since the controversy.

Kosko · #2 08-26-2009, 11:07 AM

It is very welcome news that this man has turned his life around.

Unfortuneatly and obviously, racial tensions still exist. In Buffalo a white male was recently mugged by a group of 12 black males for dating a black woman. Including in the mugging was being hit in the head with a slab of concrete. Someone swung and hit this man in the head with concrete for being in love.

There is no place in the world for hate crimes and I believe they should be punished to the fullest extent.

Dr. Cheese · #3 08-26-2009, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Kosko

It is very welcome news that this man has turned his life around.

Unfortuneatly and obviously, racial tensions still exist. In Buffalo a white male was recently mugged by a group of 12 black males for dating a black woman. Including in the mugging was being hit in the head with a slab of concrete. Someone swung and hit this man in the head with concrete for being in love.

There is no place in the world for hate crimes and I believe they should be punished to the fullest extent.

I had not heard about that. If your version is accurate, I hope the perpetrators are justly punished.

Joe Gress · #4 08-26-2009, 12:19 PM

Good to hear a good story out of a nasty situation. I hope for the best for those boys.

Kosko · #5 08-26-2009, 01:05 PM

Here is a link to the article:

http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story...69724&catid=13

Seen no where except a small news site for about half a day

As (the lesser) half of a wonderful interracial (I hate that word by the way) relationship, this hate terrifies me. Buffalo has gotten particularly bad recently with violence and near constant shootings.

Also for what its worth I don't agree with the majority of the posters on WGRZ, they're mostly filled with hate and vitriol. There's a few good people on there though, BuffaloB especially.

vagus · #6 08-26-2009, 02:30 PM

Sounds like the prep school isn't that big of an improvement education wise.

""I didn't change the way I act. I didn't do nothing different"

Most people are victims of their environment, and changing your latitude can change your attitude greatly. Only second to a good education, which everyone involved in the jena 6 - kids to media - obviously lacked...

Dr. Cheese · #7 08-26-2009, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by vagus

Sounds like the prep school isn't that big of an improvement education wise.

""I didn't change the way I act. I didn't do nothing different"

Most people are victims of their environment, and changing your latitude can change your attitude greatly. Only second to a good education, which everyone involved in the jena 6 - kids to media - obviously lacked...

I think that what he was saying was that he was not bad in Jena, it was just that he had people gunning for him there. I know his quote was not grammtically correct, but I think it takes a pretty shallow person to make a judgement about someone's intelligence on the basis of such a small quote.

vagus · #8 08-26-2009, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese

I think that what he was saying was that he was not bad in Jena, it was just that he had people gunning for him there. I know his quote was not grammtically correct, but I think it takes a pretty shallow person to make a judgement about someone's intelligence on the basis of such a small quote.

You are right, but I think there might be more in infer when someone mistakes what you are actually making a judgment on. I was speaking more on the quality of our schools and the declining level of education provided in them across the board.

It is "grammatically" and "judgment" btw

<- worlds worst speller....

mike_v_s · #9 08-26-2009, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by vagus

You are right, but I think there might be more in infer when someone mistakes what you are actually making a judgment on. I was speaking more on the quality of our schools and the declining level of education provided in them across the board.

It is "grammatically" and "judgment" btw

<- worlds worst speller....

Judgment can be spelled both with and without an "e".

Mike

Doodaddy · #10 08-26-2009, 05:39 PM

It was weird hearing about all of that situation and living quite close to it. :-\

mike_v_s · #11 08-26-2009, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Doodaddy

It was weird hearing about all of that situation and living quite close to it. :-\

Weird. The spelling of "judgment" didn't raise much of a stink over here in Slidell.

Mike

vagus · #12 08-27-2009, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by mike_v_s

Judgment can be spelled both with and without an "e".

Mike

Huh.... That is interesting

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judgement vs judgment: judgement is preferred in British English (except in the sense of a judge's decision, in which case "judgment" is preferred), judgment in American English.