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Jena 6 Aftermath - Nooses Punishable By Prison: Readers' Comments
July 18, 2008
DiversityInc readers had a lot to say about Jena 6 Aftermath: Nooses Punishable By Prison. Here are their unedited comments.
Posted: Friday, Jul 18, 2008
Jena 6 Aftermath: Nooses Punishable By Prison
Thank you for this incredible and important information. I am taking a class in Power, Privilege and Oppression at Lesley University and would like to include a copy with references and links to you website. Can you grant permission to me for this purpose?
Karen Joyce
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Posted: Friday, Jul 18, 2008
Jena 6 Aftermath: Nooses Punishable By Prison
As it may do some good to teach young people about symbols, those young people involved with hanging the noose in Jena were already educated around what it means to hang a noose, hence the reason for hanging it in the first place. Teaching these particular young people did not have a positive outcome. The noose evokes certain feelings among those people whose ancestors suffered, SUFFERED from those injustices that took place. NOTHING positive will result from hanging a noose anywhere, whether it's outside someone's house or in a school yard. People KNOW the results doing so... it evokes HATE. Therefore there should be repercussions for those actions. If you can get arrested for a hate crime, you should get arrested for evoking hate as well. WAKE UP!
Karen Wilson
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Posted: Friday, Jul 18, 2008
Jena 6 Aftermath: Nooses Punishable By Prison
To state that hanging a noose is freedom of speech is denying the very foundation of personal rights. Freedom of speech was tempered by it's creator with him saying everyone should have the freedom to express themselves until it imposes on another's right to express themselves. No one can justly yell "fire" in a theater. Stop this insanity of using freedom of speech as a reason to intimidate and subjugate people.
Jeanette Jamal
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Posted: Friday, Jul 18, 2008
Jena 6 Aftermath: Nooses Punishable By Prison
Until we as a society learn to tolerate other people and protect the acts of a few idiots laws such as the noose law will need to be legislated and enforced upon us. Look at seat belt laws, speeding laws, etc. We need laws to protect us from ourselves and change the way we as a society think. It is a process in which ideas supported by a law will take plant in society. Perhaps this should have been legislated years ago.
Brian Dixon
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Posted: Friday, Jul 18, 2008
Jena 6 Aftermath: Nooses Punishable By Prison
I applaud those states who choose to enact laws against noose use. (Catchy phrase). For those of the mindset this is some kind of free speech declaration, If as Lee Bollinger once said, "The free speech principle is left with the concern of nothing less than helping to shape "the intellectual character of the society." Now I ask you, how does a symbol of hate and oppression shape the intellectual character of society. It would in fact display of a lack of character, or at least a character of worth. In Brandenburg vs OH, the supreme court stated restrictions on free speech are appropriate if the "speech" were "likely to incite imminent lawless action". Is not Jena 6 an example?
grant garber
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