The next time there is a trial of a black man who is convicted by an all white jury chosen from an all white jury pool and you represent the 15-20% black in your town, you have no right to cry "racism" if you are an eligible voter who is not registered to vote. We all know that they pick jurors from the voter rolls which means that it isn't just "the best justice that money can buy," it's also "the best justice from people who hide."
Mychal Bell of the Jena Six - Perhaps you've heard of them? They're not quite the Jackson 5, because they don't have the dance moves. Unless or course you count the way they danced on Justin Barker's face. Bell is just one of the latest victims of this kind of race-based initiative.
The Civil Rights Movement was not just a struggle for suffrage. It too was a struggle to break the chains that bound black people to a whipping post of fear and injustice under the lash of many a cracker sheriff, prosecutor and/or judge.
Far too many times did a white man get off after beating a black man to death or lynching him. It was through an unofficial process called jury nullification. They all knew that Bobby did it. "Hey, Bobby is a good kid. His mom taught my Sunday school class. He married my cousin twice removed on my wife's side. I just don't want to see that man go to jail. Why, that would just tear his wife and kids up. His Auntie Helen would never speak to me."
We found out recently it takes only 41 jackasses in the Senate to guarantee that nothing will happen, but with a jury it only takes ONE. You can be the thorn in the side of some out of control prosecutor by voting to acquit the pot smoker who was walking while black after the Friday night football game. You can shitcan their plans to railroad some young man for being at the wrong place at the wrong time and getting hit with only 7 or 8 of the 41 bullets officers fired near a downtown nightclub. You can be the sole "guilty" vote when the white cop comes up on charges of beating the shit out of a speeder. I know that this doesn't necessarily constitute "truth," but it does come closer to our idea of justice.
I know that some of you will say, "How the hell are people supposed to survive if they miss work that as George Bush says, 'puts food on their family?' " I guess they'll just have to do it the old fashioned Republican way, charge it on our grandkid's credit card.
Oh yeah, and while we are on the subject of the Jena Six. Don't you think that some presidential pardons and a reconciliation panel would go a long way towards restoring the community of Jena? Not just pardons for the Jena Six, but for the prosecutor who had a conflict of interest being the legal counsel for the school board and the idiot who pulled a gun on the black kids at the store and the black kids that got charged with grand theft for taking the gun and the white kids that beat up the black kid at a "white only" party and the idiot/s that hung the nooses and Justin Barker who had a felony possession of a firearm at the school and the idiot/s that burned down the school. Wouldn't a South African style reconciliation panel do far more to heal this town than any punishment? They certainly are far more deserving than Scooter Libby.
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