Jena 6

The Jena Six refers to a group of six black teenagers who were charged with the beating of Justin Barker, a white teenager at Jena High School in Jena, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES, on December 4, 2006. The beating followed a number of racially-charged incidents in the town, of which the earliest that has been reported was when three white students hung nooses from a tree at Jena High School. Over 20,000 people have gathered to march in the town because they claim that the charges brought upon the Jena 6 were racially driven. From my perspective I believe that there was little control in this school and that discrimination was present at the school. But I believe the way that the black students handled this was play out dumb. By resorting to violence they basically shot themselves in the foot. They could have handle the situation in a myriad of other ways that would not have led to their incarceration. Yes, although the discrimination the white kids were practicing was wrong, two wrongs don’t make a right. If the black kids would have told a school official or involved the authorities, the white kids would have gotten in trouble and nothing would have happened to them. By resorting to violence in order to retaliate they basically have no case, and what ever punishment they get they deserved. They assaulted another person just because that person called them a name, that doesn’t mean that they have the right to hit anyone.