You didn't mention what, to me, is the saddest, most infuriating thing about the entire mess.
This same asshole DA didn't charge the white kid because he couldn't find a law on the books against the noose-hanging.
There are days when I look at this country and I think, Jesus H. WEPT, we're as backwards as the damned Taliban. Why in hell aren't hate crimes federal statutes? I rather thought the underlying issue behind the Civil War was states rights versus central government. Last I looked, central government won that one.
Why isn't this federal? How in hell do we allow individual states to not have hate crime laws in place?
I have been following this, too, and it is deeply fucking disturbing that this kind of crap can still happen anywhere in our supposedly enlightened country.
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This same asshole DA didn't charge the white kid because he couldn't find a law on the books against the noose-hanging.
There are days when I look at this country and I think, Jesus H. WEPT, we're as backwards as the damned Taliban. Why in hell aren't hate crimes federal statutes? I rather thought the underlying issue behind the Civil War was states rights versus central government. Last I looked, central government won that one.
Why isn't this federal? How in hell do we allow individual states to not have hate crime laws in place?
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http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/09/20/jena-protest.html
http://www.cbc.ca/searchengine/
and more. I think I've been out of it on this story too.
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