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death penalty.

I was reading your post of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. I also pledged at Clemson University. I am coming up on three years in the fraternity. When did you pledge?

I don't give a damn who was what color or nationality. A piece of shit is a piece of shit and the assholes that did that to this woman are the epidomy of human garbage. Spare us all the stench of thier existance and shove in a compost pile

These monsters, human grabage, or whatever you want to call the group that did these things to this poor woman, they should never see daylight again. Look in the eyes of these monsters, and you will see that they have no soul or conscience. I hope that this poor woman recovers physically, and mentally. I will be praying for her. I hope she gets justice and the satisfaction of seeing these monsters put where they belong forever-behind bars where they can't hurt anyone else again. I am sickend and disgusted, and frankly, outraged. Any normal person of any race would have these same feelings of outrage that I do for what these monsters did to this human being. I applaud the FBI for wanting to prosecute this as a hate crime, as they do not belong in society and the longer they are behind bars, the better.

I find this disgusting. While the outward issue was a racial hate crime without question, I don't like that people let white trash like that represent an entire race. My first reaction was anger, but I must a agree with Jan, lock 'em up (which is a step up from what and where they were living) and forget them. I have found unfortunatly that the east-south east part of this nation still subscribes to 1950's mentality when it comes to race. There is no room in America for this ignorance any longer. I hope the FBI rails these people. Yea, they were broke, yea they didn't have a 5th grade education between them , yea they are white trash mountain people .....tough that is no excuse for hate! I hope the news coverage is great enough that we can make these six poster children for morons of a terrible by gone era! Anthony, I can see how easy it is to have that opinion, but man as long as there is one black man and one white man that believe different there is hope that this injustice like so many others will be eliminated and that society will scorn those that do embrace it. Dude, we ARE that society!

Yesterday morning, my professor led a devotion based on Romans 12:9-21. Of course, yesterday being Sept. 11, he mentioned how difficult it was for him to read those words reflecting on what had been done to America. I think the same is here. I read this, and I fume, and whatever instinct I have towards vigilante justice screams inside of me to be put to use. How do you suppress that? How do you "bless those who persecute you?"

I agree, white trash. 15-25 years? They should be locked up & throw the key away. Or does Virginia have the death penalty? We don't need these kind of people in our society. They even "look" like a bunch of idoits. Don't judge all white people with them. I'll be interested in "this" trial. Sock it to them.

Mad Gramma

Michigan

This woman will never recover mentally from this. Therefore they should never stop paying for it. A life sentence is the only acceptable conclusion to this case, PERIOD! I think the only way that this will happen is if we have a prosecutor like Carl Lee's attorney in A Time To Kill, who can effectively use the same speech that will conclude by saying "Now imagine that she is white". After all this would have more mainstream media attention, and a national out cry for justice if she was a white woman. Sorry Kevin but race will always matter in this world. Am I lying?

This just goes to support my usual argument that sex crimes should be treated as capital crimes.

As a white female and a "Christian" I am very sorry, but I could not "turn the other cheek". These MONSTERS need to die in prison, I can not even call them animals, because animals have different motives in nature. Hopefully this poor women will get all the help she needs to half way recover, because I do not believe that she will EVER FULLY RECOVER from this horrible treatment.
I know what the Bible says, BUT I say, if you live by the sword, you shall die by the sword, this is an UNFORGIVING CRIME.
As far as I am concerned THIS IS A HATE CRIME.
And I believe "color is still an issue in 2007 America, I do not like to think so, but this is reality!!!
Lore

I agree that this is a heinous crime worthy of proper punishment, but remember that each of us is capable of this. We are more sinful than we realize. These people who committed this crime are not animals, they are people made in the image of God who have used those qualities for destruction and evil instead of creation and good.

I'm Canadian and this is on the main page of all of our news websites - right where it should be. I am shocked, disgusted and horrified. These people should never be allowed out a cell...in fact, I hear Alcatraz has some space.

I do want to make a point about the racist bit though...are these wastes of human life that attacked Megan racist? Hell ya!! But, really, not all white people are and should your African American posse not trust ANY white people...come on, that's like saying it's ok for white people to be racist. None of it's ok. Unfortunately, there are horrible people in the world, and guess what they're black, white, Chinese, Latino, yadayada. We have to learn to look at the person not the colour.

Remember Tawana Brawley?

It is a shame,in this day and age things like this still exist. Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. These MONSTERS forfeited their rights.

Alejo, do you actually have a point? Are you serious?

The news media did a wonderful job covering Vick (former pro football player) for his role in the dog abuse scandal. But where's the media now? Why is this story on the second page of news media websites? If those people in West Virgina had been accused of treating a dog like that the whole world would know. Makes me wonder! By the way I wrote in petitions to make sure that people (including Vick) stop abusing animals and for companies like Nike, NFL etc. to stop endorsing idiots who thinks its cool to participate in dog fights.
But while I was doing my part to help stop this horrendous sport of dog fighting people especially African-Americans were saying that white Americans are more concern about dogs rights than people's rights. I just thought this is not true! But now that I'm seeing very little coverage of what happened to this woman I'm starting to believe that they might be right. At least the media believes that people don't care about this appalling crime that "allegedly" took place. I hope they are wrong. One last thing the news blogs showed how many people were outraged by the dog abuse scandal. Thousands upon thousands wrote in. But look at the numbers in this blogsite.

Whether or not this should be considered a hate crime is irrelevant. The need to add the "hate" classification in order to secure a harsher sentence is ridiculous. The race of the suspects and victim has no bearing on the fact that these 6 scumbags should be locked up for life. Remember that just 9 months ago, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom--both white--were kidnapped, tortured, and brutally murdered in Tennessee by 5 black criminals. Hate crime? Does it matter? There's something wrong with our justice system when the occurrence of a racial slur in the midst of a heinous crime determines whether or not the perpetrators will once again be walking the same streets as the rest of us some day. If we can't adequately sentence criminals based alone on the fact that they kidnapped then raped and tortured another human being for a week, then we need new sentencing laws.

I want to comment, but I am unsure of what to say. I am saddened that these kinds of events continue to happen, but it is to be expected that evil will continue to rear its head in a myriad of ghastly forms. On the racial issue, I pray that whites and blacks would have redemptive and open relationships with many people regardless of skin color and seek to understand the experiences of others.

I agree 100% with what Anthony wrote above. ALL of these people were coming out against Michael Vick for abusing some dogs. However, here we have a case of a young woman who was tortured and not much has been said about it yet. What's wrong with this picture??!!! Vick's situation involved dogs and this involves a HUMAN life!!!! Where's the NAACP, Reverend Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson....now??

Tawana Brawley, WTF?!?! Are trying to say she is lying? Whith 2 black eyes, knife wounds, and rat & dog feces in her stomach? Alejo, I hope you don't end up on the jury.

Certainly we ought to take alejo's point seriously; these are allegations, not convictions, and I don't know that any of us can seriously claim to understand the evidence well enough to pronounce sentence yet. Remember how a lot of us got snookered by Mike Nifong, and how Jack Murtha faces slander lawsuits by at least two of the Marines he accused of guilt in the Haditha tragedy?

Yes, it looks bad, but so did the George Bush "he didn't complete his service" memo fraud. If you believe everything you read, you can see a fool in the mirror.

Regarding "you can't trust white people"; well, even fishbelly white folks like me can figure out that my ancestors (and sometimes, I) have given those of color aboundant reason to doubt our good will and sincerity, to put it VERY mildly. And so I'm resigned (and even comfortable) to admit that "trust is earned."

And, to try to earn it. In this case, I'm going to try by reminding people about the difference between "allegation" and "conviction", but if I'm persuaded that a jury and judge ruled amazingly contrary to the evidence a la "Orenthal," I just might see what I can do to get someone removed from office.

Ah here it go. Rboert Perry he a good white man, so he claim. He talk about how white folks is bad racist somtime and he aint afriad to admit it. Then he turn around and say u got to watch the negro juryies because they let black killers off and you can't trust them. OJ gilty? My black behind he was gilty. That was the worst fraemup in modern history, with Mark Ferman going on about (ON TAPE!!!) beating "niggers" and framing them for crims they don't commit. But Robert Parry aint no racist, He one of the good whites.

You know, sometimes the best one can say is "I'm sorry." So, to the extent that I am responsible for this sort of thing happening because of my own sinfulness, I am sorry. To the extent that I've turned a blind eye to racism in my own community, I am sorry. For what it's worth, I am truly, deeply sorry.

I'm with Kevin and Mary.
This behavior was inhuman and deeply, deeply evil. That the heinousness of what happened will be overshadowed by racism is a further tragedy. Racism is evil, but the racism in this case was merely an excuse for vicious, evil behavior. The motivation is pretty irrelevant. Were these 6 not racists (allegedly), they would've found some other excuse to behave this way. The root of the problem is evil and it is evil that should be focused on and dealt with here. Which is why I am profoundly sorry that such evil behavior will be used to further justify distrust and bitterness. Particularly since I'm rather certain that other exemplars could be found that would disprove the distrust and bitterness, and that would encourage distrust toward one's own ethnicity. Every human has the capacity for evil. When we focus on particular motivations as the most pressing problem, we overlook this. And we divide when we should be united in hatred for evil behavior.

Darden, well said.

Does anyone have words to describe the conclusions of Alejo and Robert Perry? Just read what they wrote fellas. Scroll up, you won't believe it. Shock (I guess the Sherrif was lying). Unbelievable.

Shameful Anthony is the only word I can thik of. Disgustting too. Now it abot time for pentamom to come on and say how we shuld not forget about all the white laides raped and killed by black guys.

From the Associate Press: "Megan Williams, her right arm in a cast, may be well enough to leave the hospital within a few days, her mother said.

"I just want my daughter to be well and recover," Carmen Williams, her mother, said. "I know the Lord can do anything.""

Nothing further.

Anthony, I made no conclusions. I just said that we have enough examples of flat out lying in racially charged cases that we ought to indulge an extra dose of skepticism when sensational, racially charged allegations are made.

If this is a controversial position, it means that too many people have learned nothing from Brawley, Nifong, and for that matter the Jim Crow era.

Vick is a pro ball player and Ms. Williams is an unknown, but this is just another example of the biases of all media (including blogs). They post what people read, and people want to read about people they can despise. Michael Vick was mean to dogs, which are cute. The West Virginia psychos abused a human being made in the image of God. We're used to that sort of thing nowadays, but that just shows how far we are from having a Biblical sense of justice.

I wish that some *white* Christian politician would deliberately work on getting credibility on racial issues. It would signal that somebody - anybody - is serious about taking racism seriously on a political level. It would reflect the reconciliation that Christ has ALREADY accomplished in His church, by displaying it to the world in a bold way.

After reading the story, my questions are: how did this girl (Megan Williams) get sucked into hanging out with such a disfunctional bunch of people, and why wasn't her mother picking up on this?

yeah it's really they own fault. White folks cant be all to blame. Stupiid colored girl and her moms was a big part of the problem. But tsmith aint racist ornuthing.

Who care HOW OR WHY she met them? What that got to do with ANYTHING? I gess if they was frends then she deserve it????!!!! That is sick sick sick. Anthony i bet u anything tsmith is another white woman messin in busness she don't belong like nentamom. Trying to chnge the focus from the horrible racist crime to how maby the victim brot in on herself. That is sick racist and shameful.

Phil M., I apologize if my comment wasn't clear. Hopefully, as this case progress, truth will win out, and the perpetrators will be punished to the full extent that West Virginia law allows. It wasn't meant as a statement of this young woman's color of skin. Somewhere, along the way, when she was growing up, she got the wrong message that it was okay for her to hang around with messed up people like those that abused her. She didn't get the message that she's worth more than that, that she's a unique, beautiful expression of God in this world. She's 20 years old, she should have gotten the message of her true worth a long time ago.

Is is just me, or does Phil W's English get worse and worse with each of his posts?

And no, I'm not being racist, Phil. So don't even go there, Dawg.

Robert, please spare us. Are you telling me that some frat boys at Duke who hired strippers at a keg party and then had a rough few weeks afterward is your precedent for disbelieving the story of that girl pictured in the hospital bed above? There's a time and a place to talk about the rights of the accused. This is not one.

"Yes, it looks bad, but so did the George Bush "he didn't complete his service" memo fraud." ...Are you saying that maybe nobody kidnapped, raped, and tortured this girl? Seriously? What, she just "fell down the stairs?"

One more thing:

While we should all be outraged and saddened by this situation, I don't know that we should be shocked. I say that for several reasons: 1)the potential for this evil is within all of us, and if you don't believe that about yourself, then you need to read the Bible some more; 2)as a Christian world and life view becomes less prevalent in our culture, people have less of a foundation from which to consider any action objectively evil, so they are only left with their personal predilections to guide their behavior; and 3)horrible things are happening to people all around you all the time.

If you are a Christian, and you don't know people that have horrible things happening to them, then you need to get out into the world and find them and love them in Jesus' name.

Nick, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that the more lurid the accusations are, the more likely it is that someone is lying. Is "To Kill a Mockingbird" a literary classic because we can always believe the sheriff or DA when lurid details of an alleged crime come out?

Sign me up to administer the rattan if the defendants are convicted--in Singapore and Malaysia, convicts often plead for more prison time and to be spared the cane. Send me to Singapore to learn how to do it correctly.

But don't count on me to forget Tawana Brawley, Al Sharpton, Crown Heights, Mike Nifong, and others. Don't suggest I should forget that hysteria surrounding a lurid case, especially a racial one, often results in death threats and even (Crown Heights, Jim Crow era) deaths.

And please, don't minimize what Mike Nifong did. He drug a nonexistent case out for a year, costing the defendants that time and millions in legal fees. They got death threats, too. Anyone who values the liberties of Durhamites who cannot afford such legal fees (say most of the "black" residents, maybe?) ought to be pretty glad that such a character was removed from office, don't you think?

Robert and Co, have you seriously read the news articles that are available on this case? There is far more evidence given in them than in any of the articles regarding cases such as the Brawley/Duke case.

Here's what you are arguing for (just so you can consider the outrageousness of your claims):
- the people who were arrested where either in cahoots with the gal OR the deputies who found her where in cahoots with her OR she managed to sneak into the house at just the right moment (in her poor physical condition) and the owners of the house weren't shocked in the least to see a heavily abused black woman stumbling through their house
- she purposefully physically--including sexually--abused herself to frame these people

Do I really need to go on? The info you need is available just like it was in the Duke case and others. Read it and stop acting nice.

Please note, I feel strongly that these idiots did in fact do many terrible things to this woman, and that they should be punished severely for those acts. But from what I've read, Robert may think the same thing.

I think Robert's point is that there have been many times in the past where someone was accused of doing something terrible, but in the end it was shown to be a false accusation. Because of those past experiences we should have a healthy skepticism about any allegation. One could say there's a chance (even just a tiny one) that something like one of Kyle's scenarios happened (see post above), without thinking one of them actually did.

To me it seems wise, in general, to have a healthy skepticism about any allegation. Then depending on the details of a specific allegation, adjust your level of skepticism. In this case, I'm not very skeptical at all that the accusations are true. But in other cases I may be much more skeptical.

IF (caps for emphasis, not by accident) something along these lines is what Robert had in mind, is there still a problem with his position?

Kyle, the ugly reality is that, apart from the fact that the woman was found at the home of the accused, virtually everything you state could be posited about the Brawley or Duke cases after the first few days. The ugly reality is that both Tawana Brawley and the Duke accuser DID manage to convince police that they had really been assaulted, and they DID by various means plant the evidence that turned several peoples' lives upside down.

And no, I'm not being nice here, unless volunteering to administer faithfully a Singapore style caning to those found guilty counts as nice on some planet.

I just heartily believe in innocent until proven guilty, and that Solomon had it right when he noted in Proverbs that the first person to speak sounds persuasive--and then the opponent gets to speak.

Words can't express my disgust and anger. It's despicable that anyone would do such a thing. It also angers me as a native, albeit expatriated, West Virginian. I'm also sad to say, once I saw the location, I wasn't surprised. Anthony, I've heard you talk about how the trailer parks need the gospel, not just the inner cities. Logan WV could obviously use serious prayer and folks to minister to that broken, dilapidated and forgotten place. It's unfortunately a place with a long history of violence.

jason

I agree - these six brutes need the gospel. But they also all need to be executed.

Let's not get it twisted. This case cannot be compared to Tawana Brawley.
Many people, including me, believe she was lying. There were no witnesses to what happened to her, and several neighbors, black and white, said she had been at a party in an empty apartment, and feared getting punished by her mother for breaking curfew. it was never clear why she and her family his inside of a church for 30 days rather than go before the grand jury. Al Sharpton doesn't even 100% stand behind her story now. (Read the book "Unholy Alliances" by two investigative reporters for the real story.)But this is not the main point,...In this present case, Ms. Williams'injuries were witnessed by the officers on the scene, and the perpertrators were present. Her injuries were so obviously not self-inflicted. I am outraged that the 6 perpetrartors are not being charged with attempted murder, when the Jena 6 were charged with just that after a white boy was beaten, but was well enough to go to a party the same night he was released from the hospital. Justice? What type of "justice" you get in this country depends upon (in this order)your gender, skin color, native language, zip code, bank account and/or credit rating, material assets and having similar friends in your circle. Just think, 40 years after singing "We Shall Overcome", the appropriate lyric for today is "We Are Struggling Still...Oh Deep In My Heart I Do Believe..."

I see that people are comparing this to the girl at duke. Okay, white women lie all the time how many of the white women have killed there children than ran to media saying someone kidnaped them. I think its going on right now. oh yeah it is, but the media eats that crap up. Go to smoking gun read the police report the girl was limping asked for help at the door, the sheriff rescued her from her torture. Sorry you don't want to believe it. They have some pictures of the girl posted else where showing how beautiful she was. And the after picture is above. Mr. Vick was mean to dogs and its all over the news. This is a human being who was tortured where is the coverage on that.
If this were a white chick the media would be eating it up, but since she is black she doesn't matter. It makes me sick that America is still so racist, white people think they are so superior. Black people are treated like second class citizens in America and it will never change.

"white people think they are so superior. Black people are treated like second class citizens in America."

I'm white but I don't think I'm superior. Just because some (or even for argument's sake, many) white people think they are superior, that doesn't mean that all white people think that way. That's the same type of generalization that causes so many problems.

IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT WE AS AFRICIAN AMERICANS ARE STILL AT RISK OF BEING KIDNAPPED, BEATEN AND ABUSED FOR THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN. I CANT BEGIN TO IMAGINE A PUNISHMENT OTHER THEN DEATH FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED! THIS IS MY WORST NIGHTMARE BECOMING REALITY. AND PROOF THAT TUFF TIMES DON'T LAST TOUGH PEOPLE DO! NEVER GIVE UP!

I post these words here, because I still believe they mean something. I think we must remind ourselves of what a great man once said at a time worse than this, but not so different.
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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

-MLK JR.

Who says 'Racism' or the term 'Hate Crime' applies ONLY to whites?

Check this out.:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ridley/its-a-hate-crime-so-whe_b_39917.html

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={DF47CCDB-9C7B-45F6-A7C3-ED7968CA4873}

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Oliver_Denny

And lets not forget the Central Park Jogger.

Ignorance doesn't have a color or ethnicity.

This is an unfortunate situation. How she ever got mixed up with these people...one can only wonder. From what I've read about this case, the suspects are absolute waists of flesh and blood, and should be exterminated immediately. They don't deserve to suffer for what they did, their existence altogether is nothing other than a natural error in creation. They ought to be extinguished, and they should never receive a bail of any amount. Trash like them could potentially have a 10 thousand dollar stash from sales and production of Methamphetamines, which could possibly end up with them back on the streets.

And another thing, We as black people should refrain from fraternizing with white people of this sort. Not all rich white people are good, and not all poor white people are bad, but we have to look out for ourselves ,and we cannot continue put ourselves at risk. We are a very accepting people at times, and we want to be accepted. However, because of our loving nature, we are vulnerable. Keep that in mind. It's a cruel, white world and that's the reality of it.

White Fucking Trash

i think black people should fuck up every white person who look like they don't like black people. To let yall know i don't play dat racist shit so fuck wit me if you want and imma beat ur ass. PROUD BLACK WOMAN!!!!!!FREE JENA 6!!!!!!!!!!

i cant believe something lyk dis happening make me kinda scared who i hang around because theres white people out there who still have so much hate against black people and i still dont understand why because we work hard and we easily learn and they jus take everything we do & put their name on it dat messed up and i hope i dont affend ne 1 cause dats jus my opionin of da situation cause im not racist ive dated all colored people and my baby father is mixed and i get alone fine with his white side of da family cause they dont act ignorant lyk some of these white peoles out there they should of gave the N word 2 dem if u look at some of da things they have done if u ask me the N or the C word should not b aloud 2 be said & it should be puinshement behind it if u say dat world b/c its not aloud in my house and i wish da hold world thought lyk dat and ima make it clear im not adressing dis 2 all white people but if u get affened den dis must apply 2 u and u need 2 get a life

Those that did this un-Godly act to this young lady should get the max that the courts can give. I had the honor of speaking to the victims sister and I am thankful for her spirit and trying to keep the family open-minded and positive. There are does who want hate-crime laws push in this matter. But,in some state the hate crime laws aren't up-to- par. Those evil doers will get more time for their crimes with laws that are already on the books. With the great efforts of the law and the great sheriff support, these thug will pay !!

those white people are retards and they should get the deaf penatly