# the Jena 6

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [September 20, 2007, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jena-6/35680 "2007-09-20T06:49:54Z")
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### Author: ![camarojoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2007, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jena-6/35680/29 "2007-09-20T08:44:07Z")

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Sounds like a real messed up situation and a lot of things leading to the incident.

But a question asked by a co-worker after reading this. Reverse the colors. If it was reversed, would you see busloads of whites going to protest the case?

Our court system is very unbalanced. Hanging a noose in a tree is wrong, but not anywhere as severe as basically beating to death a person. Plus one of the defendants has a heavy record against him. I don’t see anything good coming out of this other than making the situation even more segregated down there.

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To me its pretty simple if they arent given a fair punishment then the race tension will get worse and more violence will happen.

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So who determines fair?

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