Comments on: Jena and the preferred narrative

By: Highbrid Nation » Blog Archive » COPYCAT NOOSE INCIDENTS HIT NY: Hate Mongers Show Your Face!

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:33:56 +0000

[...] all you bigots been lying dormant waiting for a Jena 6 incident to spark your hatred in the physical form? Ohhhh no it’s that this “hatred” has [...]

By: Skee Stylus

Skee Stylus — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:25:11 +0000

As the author of the aforementioned Highbrid Nation post I appreciate the recognition and trackback. Why was my commentary sandwiched between Diddy and Madonna? It’s another simple irony of life. I have strong feelings about what happened in Jena but my feelings are of importance to only a select few and in the grand scheme of things. Puffy and The Material Girl are still more appealing to my audience and public at large.

I like your prescribed sentencing and in fact is leagues more appropriate than what prosecution has come up with. Unfortunately ^^Shelley^^ I believe your assessment that “The town is not getting itâ€™s act together.” is a bit short sided. This isn’t about Jena, LA. There is a Jena in all 50 states and in every town in America. Prejudice and bias can happen anywhere. Racism is always a smoldering fire waiting to blaze. I hope we’re all learning.

By: Evorgleb

Evorgleb — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:12:25 +0000

Great post! and i agree 100% The things that lead to the Jena 6 incident happen all the time in every school across the US. It’s just this time the wrong person grabbed hold of the situation and we somehow got an attempted murder case.

By: Scruggs

Scruggs — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:00:11 +0000

Frank, I’ve got some stray thoughts on this. First is that a six person beatdown that leaves the victim able to attend an evening social function is not a beatdown. It is a humiliating punishment, organized as such, with punches and kicks pulled in order to maximize the humiliation. There’s no aspect of life-threatening fear to it. It’s a ritual and in some cases entirely appropriate, especiallly for passive aggressives who like to hang nooses and count on the state to enforce their fatuous dominance games. Under the circumstances, what recourse actually existed for the kids? I might scold them on their technique. No vests and no community service. They’ve got sixty years of enforced humility ahead of them and the heart condition that comes with that.

The vest and the garbage detail is perfect for the DA, however. He needs a generous, heaping portion of ridicule and needs to learn how to give back to the Iron Nanny State that nurtured him. In his vest, with his sack and stick, he has a chance at becoming a role model for the passive aggressive noose children. In fact, they could join him and swap tales of aggrieved victimhood before the social structure resumes its guarantee of a life lived in undeserved privilege.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:16:02 +0000

Good suggestion on the italics, Charles. I’ve added it to the list.

By: Charles Follymacher

Charles Follymacher — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:34:25 +0000

~~Yes, well, if the races cannot link arm-in-arm in peace and harmony, leg-to-leg in jumpers and sanitation duty is a start of some kind~~

oh, why start, i’m so far behind in my ~~Diallo~~ Darfur blogging as it is.

(p.s. can you nix the italics?)

By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:56:57 +0000

PS, the House Judiciary committee is holding hearings on Jena 6 and they will be televised. The 16 I think it is, but you can check the Judiciary committee’s schedule.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:54:00 +0000

Your punishment is about the best I’ve seen proposed by anyone involved in all of this.

I think the thing that disturbed me the most was the town librarian saying that she didn’t know there was any negative connotations associated with hanging nooses in the deep south. Like Laura Curtis said, either this really did demonstrate racism, or deep stupidity.

The town is not getting it’s act together. I don’t think this will be the last incident.