by The $ Avenger » Thu Sep 20, '07, 11:54 pm
He shouldn't even be given an answer. Would you invite Hitler to Israel? Or even consider it a valid question?
Edit: In other news: have any of you heard this business about "The Jena 6"? It's evidently an issue that people are trying to bring into the realm of a race conflict, as six young black boys assault a white boy at school, (haven't heard if there was any connection between the white boy and the next part though,) all stemming from the fact that there was a tree on school grounds where white kids usually sat, and black kids chose to sit there. The next day nooses were hanging in the tree, the usual threat of the KKK.
Some believe that the "Jena 6" should not only not be tried for attempted murder, (one has, and was tried as an adult) but have no punishment whatsoever. Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton are organizing a mass protest at the said tree, busing in thousands of blacks, declaring this to be a heinous injustice of racism to try the "Jena 6".
To me, the whole thing is absurd. It is a deplorable that some white kids would hang up nooses, and these people have committed an act of evil of the greatest order, but the solution isn't for the "Jena 6" to assault a white boy. The nooses were a threat; one can't be charged for any crime unless an act of physical force is committed, which a threat is not. Assault, and attempted murder are, and thus I believe the "Jena 6" to be justly arrested and charged for their crime. Bringing race into the issue is irrelevant. This is how racism is continued, and made an institution.
However, the two Reverends are demanding that there be a new category of law, racial law: that because the "Jena 6" are black, retaliating against moronic bigotry of whites, that they should be considered innocent. This opens up a new realm of law that demands recognition of skin color in determining guilt or innocence in issues. This is racism, demanded by the two Reverends to be written into law as justice, and exempts the crimes assault and attempted murder.
This forgets that white, black, green, pink, puce, or whatever, is not the distinguishing characteristic of a man, but that he is simply a man, and nothing more, with the same individual rights guaranteed to him by law. Define "whiteness" or "blackness". It's a color, not an idea.
While the whites that hung up nooses are most likely racists, the solution is not to demand a special black law that takes racism one step farther, and writes it into law. That's an act more evil than a man being racist, that's demanding that the law be racist.
"Impossible is just a word people use to make themselves feel better when they quit." Vyse, Skies of Arcadia Legends.