5 blog reactions to www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070717_two_races_two_systems_of_justice_in_louisiana/

re-think some of my earlier notions. The system of justice was so messed up even before the nooses incident that as much as the boys who beat the white kid deserve some punishment, we must also look at the circumstances the punishment was meted out. "Two Races, Two Systems of Justice in Louisiana" - Amy Goodman, TruthDig.com (July 17th) The second article is more recent and also highly controversial and has to deal with the increasing attention paid to how the families of the "Jena 6" have been spending all the money and donations they've

and the students responsible were given a three-day suspension. I further explained that the black students were not happy with the decision so they staged a sit in protest, as is their right under the US Constitution. The police were called and that District Attorney Reed Walters came out and threatened to end the children’s lives with a stroke of a pen if they did not stop protesting. The FBI agent I was speaking to asked me where the articles were printed. I told him they were on the internet but right off, I did not have the web addresses readily available but read him some of the headlines from my notes. He told me that it