Jena Redux

The sorry affair in Jena demonstrates once more just how warped our society remains. Here several black kids brutally assault a white kid and are charged with a crime. The community is outraged because the charge is excessive, so the charge is reduced and the subsequent conviction overtuned. Some dopey white people hang SYMBOLIC nooses on a tree and suddenly we have the old South and the Klan and the slave trade back with us. Or so it would seem if you listen to the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the looney left media. Of course, the nooses were immediately removed, the tree cut down and those responsible charged. So the system does work, right? Oh no, we must not only forget about the assault, make these kids who beat the white kid into civil rights heroes, drag the most guilty one's deadbeat dad, who deserted him years ago, out of hiding and reinstigate the 60s civil rights movement. In the eyes of the liberal loons, beating a kid unconscious is equivalent to a stupid prank. Why? Because the liberals have always been about symbolic gestures, not about reality.