Re: Incident in Jena,La.
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Media and certain groups have been spinning this story hard. This came out today in an Associate Press story:
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From the same story, which is the central point of the protesters:
when whites and blacks tangled several times before the Jena Six episode, why did authorities charge the whites with misdemeanors — or not at all — while charging blacks with felonies?
What also rankles African Americans in Jena, says Riser, the former school superintendent, is that whites charged with the same crimes as blacks receive more lenient punishment. "What this boils down to is: Why is there a double standard?"
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