The difference between Black and White in the United States: Jena 6 vs. a White family of 6

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What is happening with the Jena 6 is reminding us all about the times when Slavery was the Law and Lynching Blacks the norm in the United States of America.

An “all-white jury, promptly convicted” a black teenager “of aggravated second degree assault, battery and conspiracy,” for beating a white kid. This high school student is now awaiting “sentencing which may put the teenager in prison for the next 22 years.” Five of the remaining black kids are awaiting their day in court.

What is happening to these children is appalling on its own, but it becomes unbearable when you compare it to how whites are treated in the United States of America as compared to non-whites.

When these children were arrested their bails were set between $70,000 and $138,000. Since most of these families come from poor neighborhoods, none of the parents could afford the price set for their children, hence the kids spent months in jail.

Now compare this incident with one that took place in West Virginia last week. Six white family members held a young black woman, who “had been stabbed four times”, for one week. They forced her to “eat rat and dog feces and drink from the toilet.” “Deputies say the woman was also doused with hot water while being sexually assaulted.” “One of those arrested, Karen Burton, is (also) accused of cutting the woman’s ankle with a knife.”

This incident is straight out of a horror movie. “Deputies found the 23-year-old victim Saturday after going to the home in Big Creek, about 35 miles southwest of Charleston, to investigate an anonymous tip. One of the suspects, Frankie Brewster, was sitting on the front porch and told deputies she was alone, but moments later the victim limped toward the door, her arms outstretched, saying, ‘Help me,’ the sheriff’s department said in a news release.”

One would have to believe that all those involved in raping, beating, stabbing and brutalizing this 23-year black woman would be considered extremely violent criminals and put in jail without bail. But unfortunately this is the United States of America. “All six were held Monday in lieu of $100,000 bond each.”

The difference between Black and White in the United States is this: If you are a black teenager and beat a white teenager, you will be charged with attempted murder and your bail set at anywhere between $70,000 and $138,000. But if you are white and decide to do the most horrendous acts imaginable to a young black woman over a one-week period, your bail will be set at $100,000.

Welcome to the United States of America.

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