Donate To The Un-equal Justice Legal Defense Fund

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FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
People interested in making donations please read the info below:

Although a lot of organizations are collecting donations, the legal defense teams are not getting the funds and the lawyers are having to spend their own money to help these young men. One organization has stated that they have collected over $130,000 for the Jena Six and the legal team for Mychal Bell has only received $4,000 to date and not even from that organization. We have established a fund to ensure that the funds are going to for the legal defense. We'll help where it is needed most and right now that is for Mychal Bell. All donations will be greatly appreciated by the family of Mychal Bell.

Donations will be accepted by check, cashiers check, money order and bank wire as the need is urgent. Please send donations to the following:

Make Payable To:
THE UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Mail To:
THE MICHAEL BAISDEN SHOW
ATTN: UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
P.O. BOX 17266
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78217-0266

We will update everyone weekly on the show with amounts of the donations. Thank you in advance on behalf of Mychal Bell, his family and legal team. we will be helping the other families of Jena Six, but Mychal Bell has the greatest immediate need. If you have already donated to an organization ask them when and how the funds are being used. We will be working with the National Bar Association and will layout the plans for the how the funds will be used to help in these endeavors.

[moreel]

We need to establish a fund for all these cases where they try to railroad us with the law we need to fund the little black girl they're trying to lock away for pushing a teacher the New York shooting murder of the young man before his wedding night where police had a bullet rainfest of 50 bullets for three unarmed men and for any other situation we need have local watch organizations that pass on these kinds of cases to the overall larger community and we need to highlight and seek proper legal representation So that we consistently seek these cases and effectively show them for what they are a legal system that has an unconscoius biasnessess against people who they consider violent and unworthy of real legal defense because this happens in every court system usa. They don't fund schools they regularly discriminate in corporate America and try to keep pay promotions at a minium and want to cut out funds for higher education and create a new poor middle class we need wide sweeping action we need our own financial institutions that are kept offshore we need mass financial education and we need to build strengthen our black minority business into global institutions we don't own anything so inturn they own us.

Much Love

[vickfan4eva]

is this fund also for his bail

[pendiva1]

Hey Michael,

I just want to applaud you, George, Juan D, and all of my brothers and sisters who made the journey to Jena, LA. Now you know when people start talking money, most of "us" tend to get quiet. However, I challenge each supporter of the Jena 6 to donate $1.00 for each person in their household to assist these young men. Many people say $1.00 isn't worth the paper it's printed on, but i say, it's worth what you desire. In this case, it's worth the freedom of these young men. Again, I challenge each and everyone of my brothers and sisters who listen to your show, who browse the forums, etc. to donate $1.00 per person in their households to the UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND for Mychal Bell. Better yet, I DARE YOU!

The struggle continues......................................... ...................

By the way, in case anyone wants to know, my bank draft is being made as we speak!

[Robin from east orange]

Because it is imperative that we get this young man out of prison, The Kissfm family should get together to bail this young man out. the courts have cleary shown us that they will not be intimidated by the African American Community. So, I am suggesting that since they won't let him out we should bail him out. Lets show the legal system that we can and will take care of our own. It only will take a dollar from all of the listener and other supporters. We can get him out within couple of days. Now wouldn't that smear eggs on their faces.;)

[Creole]

On CNN coverage (online live video) 09/20-----The camera was focused for hours on a motorhome parked in the middle of town. There was a male on the top of the motorhome with a microphone. He was not identified, he started passing around boxes, asking for money to pay $9000 (10% of $90,000 bail) to get Mychal out of jail on bail. Even after the camera moved away from him, you could hear him announcing the amount collected, $5000,$10,000, $25,000 and he finally announced $30,000 was collected.
So my question is, who was HE and what happened to the $30,000?

[pendiva1]

On CNN coverage (online live video) 09/20-----The camera was focused for hours on a motorhome parked in the middle of town. There was a male on the top of the motorhome with a microphone. He was not identified, he started passing around boxes, asking for money to pay $9000 (10% of $90,000 bail) to get Mychal out of jail on bail. Even after the camera moved away from him, you could hear him announcing the amount collected, $5000,$10,000, $25,000 and he finally announced $30,000 was collected.
So my question is, who was HE and what happened to the $30,000?

Creole, I saw that as well. The part that saddens me is that he is only one of a number of people who will use this tragedy as a means of personal financial gain. I can only say that I will do my part and send money to this particular defense fund, fully believing that it wil be used solely for the purpose intended.

[DreaLee]

On CNN coverage (online live video) 09/20-----The camera was focused for hours on a motorhome parked in the middle of town. There was a male on the top of the motorhome with a microphone. He was not identified, he started passing around boxes, asking for money to pay $9000 (10% of $90,000 bail) to get Mychal out of jail on bail. Even after the camera moved away from him, you could hear him announcing the amount collected, $5000,$10,000, $25,000 and he finally announced $30,000 was collected.
So my question is, who was HE and what happened to the $30,000?
I saw him as well. He had pissed me off just a little because he was having a dance party, which I thought was completely inappropriate. We didn't come to Jena to have a party we came to support the Jena six. I felt that that scene only made us look like what people already think of us. But anyway I didn't know he was collecting money. Whatever money he collected I hope he is using it for it's purpose. Shame on him, if used that important day for his own financial gain.

[Athena]

Because it is imperative that we get this young man out of prison, The Kissfm family should get together to bail this young man out. the courts have cleary shown us that they will not be intimidated by the African American Community. So, I am suggesting that since they won't let him out we should bail him out. Lets show the legal system that we can and will take care of our own. It only will take a dollar from all of the listener and other supporters. We can get him out within couple of days. Now wouldn't that smear eggs on their faces.;)

From what I understand, family and friends were prepared to bail him out on Friday. Unfortunately at Friday's hearing he was DENIED bail.

[dena45]

I will donate an amount every week until further notice,are until Michael tell me nothing else is needed, I am fighting for what is right.
.:D

[thamessage]

There were individuals on the street between the courthouse and the school. I discouraged my cousin to donate because it just didn't feel right. I told her what Micheal previously said about phony organizations collecting money. I will send my money to this organization, and I pray it reaches the right hands.

[basicjustice]

Hello all

I was wondering why Mychal has not been released? Is is the $$$.
I have mailed my check. Where is the Hip Hop crew ? If we could get them to give and get this young man free. I read tonight ,a teacher in Nashville Tenn killed his wife's lover (18 yr old high school student) he is out on bail until his trial in Jan 08. Something is wrong with this Nation's Legal System.

We need to keep praying and Keep it Moving until we see
some BASIC JUSTICE for this case.

[backonthebus]

BACK ON THE BUS: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

THE FILM THAT WILL TELL IT ALL?

WE HAVE RETURNED FROM JENA SAFELY AND NOW IT IS TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH TO SOCIETY.

THE TRUE STORY, THE REAL STRUGGLE, THE REAL LEADERS, THE CONTREVERSY, THE COVER UPS, THE SCANDAL AND THE TRUE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

NO MIC, NO MUSIC, NO PARTY AND NO PIC NIC

JUST THE TRUTH

THIS FILM IS GOING TO TELL IT ALL GET READY AMERICA BECAUSE THE SH*T IS GOING TO HIT THE FAN.

WE MENTIONED NO ROCK WILL GO UNTURNED AND THAT WE WOULD ROLE ON AND NOT ROLE OVER.

TO ALL OUR FELLOW BROTHERS AND SISTERS, SUPPORTERS AND SELL OUTS FOR THOSE WHO STOOD IN AND THOSE WHO SET OUT.

YOU NO WHO YOU ARE AND THE LENSE DOES NOT LIE.

BACK ON THE BUS: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

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[bholdthetruth]

He would have been out if they would have gone at this the correct way. March In baton Rouge at the capitol. Not in Jena, LA where this stuff originated.

This march should have NEVER taken place for several reasons. Those 6 young men are THUGS and that’s exactly how they are being treated. The black community is being shattered and it’s not because of some “white man”, it’s because of thugs like those 6 and they do not need to continue to pollute out community. Black people continue to sit around and ignore the truth. The truth is around us, in our community and its staring us in the face everyday we watch the news.

Philadelphia, PA – “Disturbing Black Murder Rates” You don’t honestly think it’s a white man in a sheet and pointy hat shooting black people do you?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0213/p01s02-ussc.htm

Miami, Fl – “Man [THUG] shots at 4 officers, killing one” Yea, he’s black and was shot dead by police a day later. Good thing they took him off the streets before he killed another black man.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20760201/

Those are just 2 stories out of thousands of problems that are infesting out black community. Yet the so called black activists are trying to justify the actions of 6 thugs in Jena, LA. Tell the top poverty pimps like Sharpton and Jackson to get on CNN and address the real issues in the black community. But don’t expect that anytime soon, no money involved. This Jena thing is being used for a few peoples own gain. The only issues with those 6 are the excessive charges. If they wouldn’t have beaten that boy they wouldn’t be worried about spending 20 years in jail. Don’t forget the crimes these 6 boys committed.

As for that march, this was totally out of order and served no purpose (well maybe to line the pockets of certain individuals). People are comparing this to what Dr. King and others did in the past and that is wrong. During the civil rights movement things were moved. Black people can now enter through the front door, sit anywhere on a bus, use the same fountain, bathroom, etc. Those were actual civil rights movements. King never got his posse together and beat someone. This “Jena 6” cannot be called a “modern day movement” if nothing is being MOVED. But those 6 boys can thank their ancestors for their actions 50 years ago. Because if that was 1950 Jena the only party that white boy was going to after his beating was the lynching of those 6. Matter of fact, a 1950 black man would have NEVER thought about beating another human, especially a white one.

Now about those charges, I do believe they are excessive. Sharpton and Co. should have gone to Baton Rouge, LA and rallied at the capitol to have those excessive charges reduced NOT dropped/dismissed. And I say Baton Rouge because that’s probably the only way that Bell is going to get released. The court system in Jena, LA has made their minds up on the punishment for those 6 guys. And they proved this Friday, that no march in their town will change anything.

One last thought... If the boy who these 6 thugs beat would have been black would any of this be going on? Seems like were focusing too much on black on white crimes when we should be focusing on the TRUTH!

[ChildoftheKing]

arrange where groceries can allow someone to make a contribution at the checkout. Get a fund at banks esp black owned also franchises. We have to think big and smarter Mike. This way alot of confusion and corruption is minimized. Also again when doing these rallies and marches in Jena and capital be prepared to stay more than a day. Make it conveient to have the rally everydday until Mychal walks out of there. It could be a week or more. Meanwhile walk on Washington as well. We have to have more than one fish frying!

[ChildoftheKing]

I will donate an amount every week until further notice,are until Michael tell me nothing else is needed, I am fighting for what is right.
.:Darrange where groceries can allow someone to make a contribution at the checkout. Get a fund at banks esp black owned also franchises. We have to think big and smarter Mike. This way alot of confusion and corruption is minimized. Also again when doing these rallies and marches in Jena and capital be prepared to stay more than a day. Make it conveient to have the rally everydday until Mychal walks out of there. It could be a week or more. Meanwhile walk on Washington. We have to have more than one fish frying!

[twoodson]

My family and I walked by the mysterious guy with the bullhorn perched on the motor home soliciting $1.00 contributions from marchers. The last time we walked by and he yelled out that the monies had grown to $15k we were really impressed but immediately suspicious. We decided not to give any money because we couldn't tell what group, if any, he represented. A group called STAND was also soliciting $1.00 donations from marchers--they were on a truck parked just before you reached the school. Even though they appeared to represent a real organization, we didn't give any money to them either. I would love to know who these people are and if any of this money will show up in the hands of the family or the legal defense fund.

[Rainey!]

Michael - we are confused!we are with you - but

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i love you to death and i appreciate all that you are doing - but we're confused. We are ready to march for every state and every cause....but folks are starting organizations to help others. you under estimated people attending the march.....just like you dont have faith that people ...our people have big hearts and are doing things to help others. you are judging us/us blacks and that's not right. i was on this Jena 6 kick last year....i wore a tee shirt to the gym and every where and folks were like, " what is Jena 6".....I did not and have not made a profit, but folks dont know what to do now. if you want us to donate to a housing fund to help the families we will, if you want us to pull money from different organizations to help the families and give them money we will - but dont threaten your listeners - we need advice not to be schooled, because Mike as you remember, many of us were on this long before you were and were concerned - but because we dont sit behind a microphone and we are not on the talk show....no one wants to listen to us. so please.....dont scold us....allow us to know what you want to do. you cant judge folks for starting organizations - hell, many of us have taken the lead and are making changes in the city we live in. i have defended you a lot over the weekend - people are saying you are making this about you.....i am born on the same day as you so i know how us Cancers are - we are concerned and care...but Mike.....have more faith in your listeners....we all have big hearts and are concerned. you are not being fair and judging....once again, us blacks who adore you.

[Rainey!]

On CNN coverage (online live video) 09/20-----The camera was focused for hours on a motorhome parked in the middle of town. There was a male on the top of the motorhome with a microphone. He was not identified, he started passing around boxes, asking for money to pay $9000 (10% of $90,000 bail) to get Mychal out of jail on bail. Even after the camera moved away from him, you could hear him announcing the amount collected, $5000,$10,000, $25,000 and he finally announced $30,000 was collected.
So my question is, who was HE and what happened to the $30,000?

now that JUST DONT MAKE SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rainey!]

arrange where groceries can allow someone to make a contribution at the checkout. Get a fund at banks esp black owned also franchises. We have to think big and smarter Mike. This way alot of confusion and corruption is minimized. Also again when doing these rallies and marches in Jena and capital be prepared to stay more than a day. Make it conveient to have the rally everydday until Mychal walks out of there. It could be a week or more. Meanwhile walk on Washington. We have to have more than one fish frying!


but will grocery stores do it?

[zion]

I seen on the news today that there is a KKK organization that has listed 5 of the members of the Jena 6 families names and addresses on a website this past Thursday. On the website it is asking for people to take justice against the Jena 6 and lynch them!

According to the news report, the FBI is investigating this and Jesse Jackson is asking the government (President Bush) for protection for the families of the Jena 6, as they have been receiving threatening phone calls around the clock.

Look at these links to read more:

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1190550991229750.xml&coll=2


http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070923/news_1n23nation.html

[brownatural]

As you all can see that all of our marching, talking, writing, and even donating to aid a bail that was denied, that all of this pretty much did nothing to change the courts minds nor to change the minds of MANY whites. No matter how angry we get and we march all day and night, that nothing will really change.

Black people have got to boycott Thanksgiving and Christmas this year!!! Of course, these and other holidays aren't really for us anyways, but since the majority of blacks spend heavily and especially at holidays, let's boycott Thanksgiving & Christmas & show "the powers that be" through their pocket books. No one should buy anything unless it is for your basic human needs.

Next if they continue to treat blacks unfairly, we need to go back to revolutionary means as so called peace doesn't really work in a powerful unjust system.


TO THE COMMENTS MADE BY <bholdthetruth - "One last thought... If the boy who these 6 thugs beat would have been black would any of this be going on? Seems like were focusing too much on black on white crimes when we should be focusing on the TRUTH!">
One thing you should realize that from slavery till today, black bodies was never a priority for many of these racist whites and the system. Black bodies are treated less than human for some reason or another. So even if the Barker boy was black, do you think that the justice system would have even cared?? I don't think so. What would have happened is that the same justice system would have done the same thing to the "Jena 6" and probably would have expelled the beaten boy from school for even having a fight on school campus (remember it would be black bodies).

The focus in the case to me, is really on having an unqual system of justice, and if you really look at it it is not on race per se, but the inequity itself. That isn't right, is it (bholdthetruth)???

[backonthebus]

BACK ON THE BUS: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

THE FILM THAT WILL TELL IT ALL?

WE HAVE RETURNED FROM JENA SAFELY AND NOW IT IS TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH TO SOCIETY.

THE TRUE STORY, THE REAL STRUGGLE, THE REAL LEADERS, THE CONTREVERSY, THE COVER UPS, THE SCANDAL AND THE TRUE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

NO MIC, NO MUSIC, NO PARTY AND NO PIC NIC
JUST THE TRUTH

THIS FILM IS GOING TO TELL IT ALL GET READY AMERICA BECAUSE THE SH*T IS GOING TO HIT THE FAN.

WE MENTIONED NO ROCK WILL GO UNTURNED AND THAT WE WOULD ROLE ON AND NOT ROLE OVER.

TO ALL OUR FELLOW BROTHERS AND SISTERS, SUPPORTERS AND SELL OUTS FOR THOSE WHO STOOD IN AND THOSE WHO SET OUT.

YOU NO WHO YOU ARE AND THE LENSE DOES NOT LIE.

BACK ON THE BUS: WHERE ARE WE NOW?


PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR EMAIL ASAP TO RECEIVE UPDATES ON THE RELEASE OF THE MOST CONTREVERSAL FILM IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

BACKONTHEBUSFILM@YAHOO.COM

[mike63]

He would have been out if they would have gone at this the correct way. March In baton Rouge at the capitol. Not in Jena, LA where this stuff originated.

This march should have NEVER taken place for several reasons. Those 6 young men are THUGS and that’s exactly how they are being treated. The black community is being shattered and it’s not because of some “white man”, it’s because of thugs like those 6 and they do not need to continue to pollute out community. Black people continue to sit around and ignore the truth. The truth is around us, in our community and its staring us in the face everyday we watch the news.

Philadelphia, PA – “Disturbing Black Murder Rates” You don’t honestly think it’s a white man in a sheet and pointy hat shooting black people do you?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0213/p01s02-ussc.htm

Miami, Fl – “Man [THUG] shots at 4 officers, killing one” Yea, he’s black and was shot dead by police a day later. Good thing they took him off the streets before he killed another black man.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20760201/

Those are just 2 stories out of thousands of problems that are infesting out black community. Yet the so called black activists are trying to justify the actions of 6 thugs in Jena, LA. Tell the top poverty pimps like Sharpton and Jackson to get on CNN and address the real issues in the black community. But don’t expect that anytime soon, no money involved. This Jena thing is being used for a few peoples own gain. The only issues with those 6 are the excessive charges. If they wouldn’t have beaten that boy they wouldn’t be worried about spending 20 years in jail. Don’t forget the crimes these 6 boys committed.

As for that march, this was totally out of order and served no purpose (well maybe to line the pockets of certain individuals). People are comparing this to what Dr. King and others did in the past and that is wrong. During the civil rights movement things were moved. Black people can now enter through the front door, sit anywhere on a bus, use the same fountain, bathroom, etc. Those were actual civil rights movements. King never got his posse together and beat someone. This “Jena 6” cannot be called a “modern day movement” if nothing is being MOVED. But those 6 boys can thank their ancestors for their actions 50 years ago. Because if that was 1950 Jena the only party that white boy was going to after his beating was the lynching of those 6. Matter of fact, a 1950 black man would have NEVER thought about beating another human, especially a white one.

Now about those charges, I do believe they are excessive. Sharpton and Co. should have gone to Baton Rouge, LA and rallied at the capitol to have those excessive charges reduced NOT dropped/dismissed. And I say Baton Rouge because that’s probably the only way that Bell is going to get released. The court system in Jena, LA has made their minds up on the punishment for those 6 guys. And they proved this Friday, that no march in their town will change anything.

One last thought... If the boy who these 6 thugs beat would have been black would any of this be going on? Seems like were focusing too much on black on white crimes when we should be focusing on the TRUTH!


So you are saying we should have let Jena slide, who knows how many other injustices have been committed thier criminal justice system. Sorry man if we keep letting it go in Jena it is going to get even worse. Give a fool an inch he will want a foot next time. Jena was the perfect place because know they are unhappy and uncomfortable. Now they feel like the brothas and sistas have been feeling for years. Welcome to the nightmare you created Jena.

Question: If this was your son, who had a not so good record, in this same situation would you let it go then. Also in your last hypothetical you wrote about if the boy was black sums everthing up. No nothing would have been done, THAT'S OUR POINT.

[ENERGY]

To Michael Basden and George Wilbourn
85% of African American girls will onset Fibroid Tumors in their bodies, by the age 21. Nutritional imbalance causes damaged to the uterus. Our teenage girls keep it to themselves because they are taught to keep it to there selves “woman problems”. I am here to expose the inside of what's happening to our girls. By the time they are adults there uterus is being taken out. This will definitely reduce our chances of reproduction. Please help make our people aware to what’s happening with our young girls. I speak to many young teenage girls and they’re not aware of any other option than surgery. The Doctors are scheduling surgeries on our 14 and 15-year-old Black girls. Challenge the parent to call in and talk about this problem, which will eliminate our race. I’m on a mission to make our young black girls aware of other options instead of having their uterus removed. Our grandmothers taught us, use caster oil or cod liver oil to help keep it moving (remove the gas from the stomach). What our great grand parents knew was that stress causes nutritional problems and nutritional problems lead to stress diseases. Look in to my site www.gattea.com and view www.gattea.tv for live testimonies about how I have helped lots of girls and Woman with this problem. Many stress related illness has destroyed our communities. God Bless all of you and your listeners. You can always call me at 708 362-5135 my web site is www.gattea.com that’s to learn more about GATTEA, Tea which helps gas and bloating stomachs.
This is too all our OBP (Our Black People)
ONE LOVE
WILL GATLIN
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[backonthebus]

BACK ON THE BUS: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

THE FILM THAT WILL TELL IT ALL?

WE HAVE RETURNED FROM JENA SAFELY AND NOW IT IS TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH TO SOCIETY.

THE TRUE STORY, THE REAL STRUGGLE, THE REAL LEADERS, THE CONTREVERSY, THE COVER UPS, THE SCANDAL AND THE TRUE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

NO MIC, NO MUSIC, NO PARTY AND NO PIC NIC
JUST THE TRUTH

THIS FILM IS GOING TO TELL IT ALL GET READY AMERICA BECAUSE THE SH*T IS GOING TO HIT THE FAN.

WE MENTIONED NO ROCK WILL GO UNTURNED AND THAT WE WOULD ROLE ON AND NOT ROLE OVER.
TO ALL OUR FELLOW BROTHERS AND SISTERS, SUPPORTERS AND SELL OUTS FOR THOSE WHO STOOD IN AND THOSE WHO SET OUT.
YOU NO WHO YOU ARE AND THE LENSE DOES NOT LIE.

BACK ON THE BUS: WHERE ARE WE NOW?


PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR EMAIL ASAP TO RECEIVE UPDATES ON THE RELEASE OF THE MOST CONTREVERSAL FILM IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

BACKONTHEBUSFILM@YAHOO.COM

[Robert j. Clark]

On CNN coverage (online live video) 09/20-----The camera was focused for hours on a motorhome parked in the middle of town. There was a male on the top of the motorhome with a microphone. He was not identified, he started passing around boxes, asking for money to pay $9000 (10% of $90,000 bail) to get Mychal out of jail on bail. Even after the camera moved away from him, you could hear him announcing the amount collected, $5000,$10,000, $25,000 and he finally announced $30,000 was collected.
So my question is, who was HE and what happened to the $30,000?
That man is me, Robert j. Clark of Monroe, LA. 71202, my number is 3183883323 or 3186147999cell. The finally count on the money was $26,750+ and was turned over to Mr. Bell attorney at a local church right after the March in Jena, LA. (Police escort-Monroe Marshall office). I tookthe liberty of taking pictures and a live viedo shot just for the non belivers. Please feel free to contact me at Po.O. Box 6, Monroe, LA. 71201 or robert@theclarkcompanyinc.com

[SimpliciTees]

Michael, thank you for the details regarding the defense fund. I'm a loyal listener from Chicago that designed a symbolic T-shirt that represents, not only the Jena 6 movement but the strength of our people. Proceeds of the sales will be donated to the Jena 6 Legal Defense Fund. Members can also visit my website at www.simplici-tees.net.
I was able to briefly meet with George Wilburn this past friday at Jokes & Notes to give him a couple of T-shirts and discuss donations. I would very much so like for you to have this symbolic T-shirt as well. It's on the way!

Thank you for motivating the people.

[Robert j. Clark]

Creole, I saw that as well. The part that saddens me is that he is only one of a number of people who will use this tragedy as a means of personal financial gain. I can only say that I will do my part and send money to this particular defense fund, fully believing that it wil be used solely for the purpose intended.Money was turned over to Mr. Bell attorney Mr. Louis Scott of Monroe, LA. who is personal friend of mine right after the march in Jena,LA. y a police escort ( Monroe Marshall office) Robert j. Clark 318 38823323 if need to contact me !!!!!

[economicsoul]

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[Remydiva]

I am ready to donate. is there a specific amount to start with?:)

[devasinger]

Hey Michael,

I just want to applaud you, George, Juan D, and all of my brothers and sisters who made the journey to Jena, LA. Now you know when people start talking money, most of "us" tend to get quiet. However, I challenge each supporter of the Jena 6 to donate $1.00 for each person in their household to assist these young men. Many people say $1.00 isn't worth the paper it's printed on, but i say, it's worth what you desire. In this case, it's worth the freedom of these young men. Again, I challenge each and everyone of my brothers and sisters who listen to your show, who browse the forums, etc. to donate $1.00 per person in their households to the UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND for Mychal Bell. Better yet, I DARE YOU!

The struggle continues......................................... ...................

By the way, in case anyone wants to know, my bank draft is being made as we speak!

I am with you on this. If we all commit to 6 dollars a day, 6 dollars a week or even 6 dollars a month per person, we would have Mychal out of jail and be able to support the defense for all of them. My household is seven - two adults and 5 children. We will commit to $42.00 a month to start. Anybody with me?:) Peace and Love,
devasinger

[Blue Butterfly]

I will be sending money monthly to assist Jena 6 and other Blacks that are living in Jena. Michael Baisden you are superb. Jena 6 was e-mailed to me from my Young Morgan State University Colleage several weeks ago. I deleted alot of e-mails and Jena 6 was one of the deletes that I didn't read. I learned alot about being Black, African, Negro, and Colored living in America at Morgan when I was in my forties. My favorite statue at Morgan was Frederick Douglas which I learned alot of what he stood for. Yes, I heard Jena 6 again on your radio show and researched what was going on.

Many Black Americas fear the South because racism is accepted as a part of life. You can not fight this issue alone. Those ancestors that fought racism have a story to tell. Many Blacks headed North. Maryland is the last Southern State with history. However, I am glad my parents brought my family to Maryland. I visited North Carolina during my childhood, adolescent, and young adulthood. I saw and experienced racial hatred. It's a learned behavior. I was not raised to hate another human being because of their lifestyle, religion, color of their skin, or who they were. I pray for everyone through this March and standing up for what is humanly right.

We live next door to Washington, D.C. I learned how to go to Washington to lobby for what you believe. I will be a part of the next March if Jena policticians don't change what they are doing to Black individuals.

Heavenly Love

I am with you 500% representing the Jena 6.

[Divine1212]

Regarding your article Divided we fall, to answer the question what was accomplished from the march. Whether Mychal Bell was released or not, great things was accomplished. The Nation, the world saw just how we can and will come together for a cause. That was a Strong showing without the help from the media. That is the problem now, that is the reason for all the current negative articles, which is only trying to divide us and lessen the struggle. Whether we believe it or not, this type of conspiracy has always been used to divide and conquer us, which is why suddenly such a powerful move last Thursday has been turned into a negative by the same media who refused to tell the story initially. Regardless of whether there was a split in the march should not even be commented on. I think it really scars the world when we come together for a cause and the media will down play it every time and turn it into a negative by writing and starting nonsense articles that will take our attention from the real cause. Let's not let them do it this time. Let's not loose site of the main objective. What ever the next plan is, I am all for it and I will donate according to this website. I thank God that so many of us came together for the march and made a POWERFUL statement to the world. I believe Mychael Bell will be released and the nation will come to know that we will not sit back and just let them put our children into modern day slavery within the prison system.

For some reason, I do not know how to e-mail Michael Baisden directly. Can someone e-mail me the directions. Thank you.

[janedoelives]

My children Josephine 7, and Iverson 6, have pledged to donate $20 each per month to this cause.
Peace and Blessings.

[Black Chinese]

Mingle city family, all that can be said for the gentlemen on the trailer is that, we may not know the hour or the minute, but he will surely be accountable for every penny of the monies that he collected from people who gave from their hearts to the Jena 6. I said that to say this, we don't want to be afraid to contribute because we get caught up in whether or not the individuals representing the cause are doing so legitimately. We want to continue to do what we feel is right for us as individuals. However, I do feel confident in saying that, this defense fund is the way that I will be making my donation.

[stonos]

Out of one came many. Working together as human beings (regardless of what race or color you are) will always make the difference. By standing together in the fight of injustice and inequality we can make a change for the young men in Jena LA and for others in this country that unfortunately have to face and deal with the ugliness of hate, fear and the insecurity of very scared and ignorant people. What has happened in Jena is not a surprise to me. There have been other examples that showed the ugliness of how hateful people and an unfair and injust system treats its own fellow Americans (such as the hurricane Katrina victims in LA). I am thankful to see this forum and that there are folks out there fighting, because we need them. I always keep in the back of mind that those young men could have been my son(s) or my brother. I think about that everyday - and ask myself why are people so afraid of others and their differences? We should embrace them and if we can't then at least try to understand or respect that we are all God's children. We can go far with a combined effort in anything that we touch. I am thankful for folks out there that believe in JUSTICE and FAIR treatment to all!!!!

[la renard]

He would have been out if they would have gone at this the correct way. March In baton Rouge at the capitol. Not in Jena, LA where this stuff originated.

This march should have NEVER taken place for several reasons. Those 6 young men are THUGS and that’s exactly how they are being treated. The black community is being shattered and it’s not because of some “white man”, it’s because of thugs like those 6 and they do not need to continue to pollute out community. Black people continue to sit around and ignore the truth. The truth is around us, in our community and its staring us in the face everyday we watch the news.

Philadelphia, PA – “Disturbing Black Murder Rates” You don’t honestly think it’s a white man in a sheet and pointy hat shooting black people do you?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0213/p01s02-ussc.htm

Miami, Fl – “Man [THUG] shots at 4 officers, killing one” Yea, he’s black and was shot dead by police a day later. Good thing they took him off the streets before he killed another black man.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20760201/

Those are just 2 stories out of thousands of problems that are infesting out black community. Yet the so called black activists are trying to justify the actions of 6 thugs in Jena, LA. Tell the top poverty pimps like Sharpton and Jackson to get on CNN and address the real issues in the black community. But don’t expect that anytime soon, no money involved. This Jena thing is being used for a few peoples own gain. The only issues with those 6 are the excessive charges. If they wouldn’t have beaten that boy they wouldn’t be worried about spending 20 years in jail. Don’t forget the crimes these 6 boys committed.

As for that march, this was totally out of order and served no purpose (well maybe to line the pockets of certain individuals). People are comparing this to what Dr. King and others did in the past and that is wrong. During the civil rights movement things were moved. Black people can now enter through the front door, sit anywhere on a bus, use the same fountain, bathroom, etc. Those were actual civil rights movements. King never got his posse together and beat someone. This “Jena 6” cannot be called a “modern day movement” if nothing is being MOVED. But those 6 boys can thank their ancestors for their actions 50 years ago. Because if that was 1950 Jena the only party that white boy was going to after his beating was the lynching of those 6. Matter of fact, a 1950 black man would have NEVER thought about beating another human, especially a white one.

Now about those charges, I do believe they are excessive. Sharpton and Co. should have gone to Baton Rouge, LA and rallied at the capitol to have those excessive charges reduced NOT dropped/dismissed. And I say Baton Rouge because that’s probably the only way that Bell is going to get released. The court system in Jena, LA has made their minds up on the punishment for those 6 guys. And they proved this Friday, that no march in their town will change anything.

One last thought... If the boy who these 6 thugs beat would have been black would any of this be going on? Seems like were focusing too much on black on white crimes when we should be focusing on the TRUTH!

PLEASSSSE Miss us with this ignorant talk!!!

[Umichprincess]

Earlier Michael Baisden said the Defense fund was at 130,000 and this was in March and Mychal Bell's fund was at 4000. I would like to know where the funds stand as of now. I find it hard to believe that Mychal Bell does not have enough for bond after all of this time. Are the lawyers advising against bond? Do they promise to get him out soon? As people fighting for this cause I believe we are entitled to know.

[lklove]

Hi everyone!!! La Renard....I AGREE !!! People...Please stop responding to the multiple personality troll who apparently has taken on the monumental task of telling us black folk THE truth about ourselves. YAWNNN....He goes by plenty of names, blackman1, bholdthetruth....etc etc, kinda like ahhhhh...SATAN... but the messages are always the same: we don't know the truth (the white man>> he does)....the jena six are thugs (we stick together....white people don't)....black single parent households are producing all our ills...breeding crime, crime, crime, and more crime (his stats of course support every twisted word he says).... first he lives in jena, then in north carolina.....yada yada yada.....same stuff, same sarcasm "it's some intelligent people......you're an intelligent sista...I'm not racist.....I got black friends who say....". The dude needs help that we cannot provide and his talents may be appreciated much more on other sites. Good grief.... charlie brown.

I support the jena six and I am down with sending money for this cause. Boycotting Christmas and other days are good options as well.... if anyone gets the chance check out Warren Ballantine's show because the are talking about a black friday Oct 20 or Nov 2nd. I am also proud of our people for taking a stand.....it's long overdue!

[zion]

The Little Rock Nine, once barred from Central High School because they are black, arrived on its soggy campus in limousines Tuesday as the community marked 50 years since President Eisenhower directed soldiers to escort the students inside.

"You can overcome adversity if you know you are doing the right thing," said Carlotta Walls Lanier, one of the nine.

About 4,500 people gathered on the front lawn of the inner-city campus, where the high school is now 52 percent black, to commemorate one of the key moments in the civil rights movement.

Former President Clinton held open the school's doors in a symbolic gesture.

"I am grateful we had a Supreme Court that saw 'separate but equal' and 'states rights' for the shams they were, hiding our desire to preserve the oppression of African-Americans, and I am grateful more than I can say that we had a president who was determined to enforce the order of the court," Clinton said.

The two-hour ceremony included brief remarks by each of the Little Rock Nine: Melba Patillo Beals, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls Lanier, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Minnijean Brown Trickey and Thelma Mothershed Wair.

"The thing I feared most in my life were white policemen. White policemen have guarded me these last few days. I've spoken to them. We've talked to each other," Beals said. "As I stepped out of my limousine, a white man who doesn't know me reached for the collar, the lapel, of my coat, and straightened it.

"It is the look in your eyes, the smile on your faces — white, black, green or blue — the determination in the eyes of those of color and the willingness to move ahead, that makes me know we're cool," she said.

Society has made progress, but Gov. Mike Beebe and Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola noted that economic and educational inequalities still exist.

"We have the largest black middle-class in our history, but 35 percent of black children in the city live below the poverty line," said Stodola, who is white. "There is a pervasive feeling that we are two cities. We may be desegregated, but we have a way to go to be integrated."

In September 1957, then-Gov. Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to keep nine black children out of Central High, telling a statewide TV audience that court-ordered integration would spark mob violence. He didn't acknowledge that he helped manufacture the crisis to boost his segregationist credentials.

Outside the school Tuesday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said the civil rights struggle continues 50 years later in a social system that has "first-class jails and second-class schools."

"We were winning against all odds. Now we're begging youth to attend school," Jackson said.

Dale Charles, head of the state NAACP chapter, said the commemoration overstated the progress in race relations. He called it a commercial piece: "After today, the lights will go out and people will look at something else."

The U.S. Supreme Court declared segregated classrooms unconstitutional, ruling that many districts were operating education systems that were separate but not equal. By the fall of 1957, the Charleston and Fayetteville school districts had integrated peacefully, but agitators targeted Little Rock for trouble.

For three weeks, Little Rock became the focus of a showdown between Faubus and Eisenhower. Faubus pulled the Guard away, but a crowd gathered outside the school Sept. 23 to prevent it from complying with U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies' desegregation order.

Eisenhower that night authorized the use of federal troops to enforce Davies' order, and members of the 101st Airborne escorted the Little Rock Nine to classes on Sept. 25, 1957.

The White House issued a statement Tuesday honoring the Little Rock Nine for their courage. "We resolve to continue their work to make America a more perfect Union," the statement said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_re_us/integration_anniversary

[zion]

It is time for us to address the social and civic injustice and discord that permeates from the 22nd floor of Government Center and embraces unethical values that zero into and destroys the zenith of one's character, while plaguing communities and families...yes, innocent citizens of Toledo.

Upon Carleton Finkbeiner taking leadership of this city as mayor, he listed 34-campaign pledges. He stated that his administration would unite and promote, in every way possible, a clean, green, and safe city with vibrant colors everywhere – a city that inspires our citizens to improve our neighborhoods, educate our children, and create jobs that offer a future in their hometown.


Mayor Finkbeiner stated that job creation comes with an environment that invites new investment in our city. He stated that he would focus on building and maintaining the business base of Toledo, to ensure jobs, and opportunity for all.

He stated that too many Toledoans lack pride and confidence. Pride in our past, pride in our present and confidence in our future. Mayor Finkbeiner stated that he promoted full accountability for all city employees, and that even during the difficult times the citizens of Toledo would receive the best quality services we can deliver to them.

We are here to say that Mayor Finkbeiner has been a golden child in front of the cameras during election time, but he has been a deceptive advocate, a drum major for injustice behind close doors. We recommend that the $9,996 shower on the 22nd floor of Government Center be used to wash away the injustice and the malfeasance that stains this city.

Please allow me to state the facts:

In May 2006 he called Toledo's first African-American Fire Chief...King Kong. He later violated the First Amendment Provisions regarding Freedom of the Press, when his press secretary forcibly kept a WSPD reporter out of a public press conference. He also disregarded and discredited Michael Ashford as being elected city council president. He accused Gary Daugherty, a respectable man with a engineering degree, as being lazy.

He fired the Affirmative Action/Contract Compliance Director Perlean Griffin, and he also stated that those city directors who spoke to Perlean Griffin would also be dealt with. Which brings me to this...

Dwayne Morehead did not heed the strong-armed threats of Mayor Finkbeiner, but rather chose the path of righteousness by standing for what was right. Because Morehead continued to speak with Perlean Griffin, he was demoted from being the co-director of the city's Youth Commission to being an administrative specialist, and was placed on a 30-day probation period and was instructed to report to Juanita Greene who is the executive director of the Board of Community Relations. He knew that he was being set-up to be fired. Dwayne Morehead has become a casualty of the cause of injustice.

On April 18, 2007 Dwayne Morehead received a letter signed by Mayor Finkbeiner congratulating him on being nominated for the 2006 Toledoan of the Year Awards, and expressing his gratitude for for the outstanding work he has done in this city.

Those same qualities that allowed Morehead to be nominated, also gave him the courage and the strength to stand up for what is right. In doing so, On June 29 Dwayne Morehead was suspended for 30 days and recently he was fired.

Mayor Finkbeiner, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We will no longer be strong-armed. We send a message that we will not lie down on the bed of injustice, but that we will stand up and ensure that everyone is protected equally, fairly, equitably and that everyone has the same opportunity. This issue is one of race and it is about doing what is ethical, what is morally right. We all have a civil right to success. That is not a privilege, it is a civil right!

We charge Mayor Finkbeiner with being out of order and in direct disobedience and violation to the Family Medical Leave Act which states: Employees are entitled to leave from employment due to a serious health condition. The Family Medical Leave Act states that the employee provide a certification from a health care provider.

We send a clarion call that Dwayne Morehead has been fired due to retaliation. We proclaim that Morehead has legitimate disease conditions that are under the care and supervision of Dr. Baldwin, who submitted the proper paperwork stating that Morehead could not report to work, and that he is to be on medical leave. Mayor Finkbeiner and Juanita Greene blatantly ignored and discredited the professional experience of Dr. Baldwin, by rejecting and ignoring her assessment of Dwayne Morehead's condition of illness.

We will not tolerate or ignore Mayor Finkbeiner's tactics in the dismissal of Dwayne Morehead or any other city employee unjustly...regardless of your race. This is an issue of morality that not only affects one, but it affects an entire family. It affects the lives of Morehead's six children and wife at home. It affects the citizens of Toledo, it discredits the phrase “Toledo Pride.” This is not about what party you're part of, this is about right and wrong...the conscience of this city.

Since its inception in 1946, The Board of Community Relations has served the conscience of this city, and as such, has sought to create a heightened sense of awareness that inequality and discrimination still exist. The board exists to promote, empower and support citizens to create social justice, equal opportunity and a harmonious environment. They are to intervene in conflicts and disputes, by providing investigation into unlawful discriminatory practices.

Because Morehead's termination letter was signed by Juanita Greene by the orders of Mayor Carleton Finkbeiner, this creates an unethical conflict of interest for the Board of Community Relations to do there job by investigating this matter. Morehead has a charge with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission against the Executive Director of the Board of Community Relations, Juanita Greene. Therefore, any investigation conducted by the board would surely be bias....as Juanita Greene is the one who does the investigations, and surely it would be unprofessional and unethical for her to investigate herself concerning this matter. In addition, Mayor Finkbeiner can not ignore and he can not minimize the charges for his actions. The facts don't lie. In addition, Brian Schwartz, the mayor's public information officer, someone who gets paid to speak for the Mayor....stated on a local blog website called Swamp Bubbles...that Morehead should be fired! Brian Schwartz also stated that Morehead should be grateful the mayor took him from a blue-collar worker to management, and that Morehead betrayed the mayor. Isn't it a big coincidence...that the suspension letter given to Dwayne Morehead stated that all the problems began on or about March 7, 2007....which happens to be the day after Morehead filed charges against the Finkbeiner administration?

In addition, at a press conference on Monday, September 10, 2007 Brian Schwartz passed out the employee file of Dwayne Morehead outside of Government Center to anyone who wanted it. First and foremost, this just shows that the Finkbeiner administration is desperate and will do anything they can to discredit Morehead. In addition, we obtained the files and isn't it interesting that the letter that Mayor Finkbeiner sent Mr. Morehead congratulating him for being nominated for the Toledoan of the Year Award wasn't in his file? Also there are NO violations or disciplinary issues noted in Morehead's file from Finkbeiner's inauguration in January 2005 until March 2007 incidents that began with his demotion ....the day after Morehead filed his charges against Finkbeiner!

Perhaps the Finkbeiner administration should study the law a bit more, before passing out employee files to total strangers at will. The law states: "The public has a right to know certain information about its employees, such as name, work address, salary, job classification and title, job performance. (See R.C. 124.09(C), R.C. 149.43(B)(1)). However, a public employee also has the right to non-disclosure of personal or confidential information contained in his or her personnel file. In applying the Public Records Act to public record requests involving personnel files of governmental employees, the Ohio Supreme Court has balanced the publics interest in accessing public records against the employee’s interest in protecting his or her privacy.

In State ex rel. Fant v. Enright (1993), 66 Ohio St.3d 186, Appellant made a public records request of the Clerk of Courts of Franklin County to inspect the personnel file of the former Franklin County Deputy Clerk. The Clerk of Courts refused to release the requested personnel file for inspection; Appellant filed a complaint for a writ of mandamus to compel release of the personnel file. The lower court denied the writ. On appeal, the Ohio Supreme Court emphasized that an item contained in a personnel file is a public record only when it is kept by a public office and serves to document the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations or other activities of the office.

The Court observed that not all information contained in a personnel file would be considered a public record and that, pursuant to R.C. 1347.01(E), a public office has an affirmative duty to protect from disclosure personal or confidential information contained in a personnel file. Accordingly, the personal or confidential information must be redacted or removed from the personnel file prior to inspection and/or copying. (See, also Sunshine Laws Update (May 2001), Attorney General Betty D. Montgomery; Sunshine Law An Update, Public Practice Continuing Legal Education (November 2001), Attorney General Betty D. Montgomery – advises keeping confidential files in a separate drawer, file cabinet or office to reduce the possibility of someone reviewing an inappropriate file.)"

In addition, apparently in the files were offenses allegedly committed by Morehead under the Ford administration. There is only one problem, Morehead never worked for Mayor Ford, he was a union employee. Furthermore, the city rules state that the information was supposed to be removed 18 months after the document was placed in the file. It’s been four years since the last document was placed in the file. It appears to me that this is such a gross injustice and the only thing the city can do to protect themselves is to slur Morehead. If the Finkbeiner administration is able to reveal Morehead's employee files to the general public ... than perhaps the general public should request to see the employee files of the Finkbeiner administration beginning with Mayor Finkbeiner himself.

Therefore, we are requesting that the NAACP, the Toledo Urban League along with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission fully investigate the wrongful discharge of Dwayne Morehead and report it's finding's back to the citizens of Toledo. The citizens of Toledo have a right to hold Mayor Finkbeiner accountable for his frivolous actions.

Why should the NAACP and the Urban League get involved? According to the NAACP mission statement listed on their website it states, “they are to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.” According to the Urban League website their mission states they are to “enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights. So, the question is...Why? Why don't the Toledo chapters of the NAACP and Urban League get involved?

Where are the religious leaders? Being a religious leader is more than just going to church. It is not about having big billboards, selling chicken dinners, who has the most members or the biggest church … what about being involved and caring about the injustice that often affects the lives of so many people. When will we as leaders stop trying to build mega-churches? When will we learn to stop using hurting people coming to us for help, as a way to get rich off their tithes and offerings? When will we stop expecting the people to serve us? As pastors ... we are to serve the people! It is time for the religious community to wake up and realize that it is not about us, and it has never been about us. It is time for us to take a stand against the injustices that continue to happen within this city ... after all, we should consider Matthew 25:31-46.

In conclusion, we are cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities. We cannot sit idly by and not be concerned about what is happening in this city. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Toledo Pride, Toledo Pride … Mayor Finkbeiner, pride comes before a fall. And if this city falls, it is only a direct reflection of its leadership.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070309/DEVELOPINGNEWS/70309013

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070310/NEWS16/70310015

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=local&id=5073901

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060527/NEWS16/605270338&SearchID=73246028586931

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070906/NEWS16/709060354

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060531/OPINION02/60531030

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070911/NEWS16/709110346

[zion]

It is time for us to address the social and civic injustice and discord that permeates from the 22nd floor of Government Center and embraces unethical values that zero into and destroys the zenith of one's character, while plaguing communities and families...yes, innocent citizens of Toledo.

Upon Carleton Finkbeiner taking leadership of this city as mayor, he listed 34-campaign pledges. He stated that his administration would unite and promote, in every way possible, a clean, green, and safe city with vibrant colors everywhere – a city that inspires our citizens to improve our neighborhoods, educate our children, and create jobs that offer a future in their hometown.


Mayor Finkbeiner stated that job creation comes with an environment that invites new investment in our city. He stated that he would focus on building and maintaining the business base of Toledo, to ensure jobs, and opportunity for all.

He stated that too many Toledoans lack pride and confidence. Pride in our past, pride in our present and confidence in our future. Mayor Finkbeiner stated that he promoted full accountability for all city employees, and that even during the difficult times the citizens of Toledo would receive the best quality services we can deliver to them.

We are here to say that Mayor Finkbeiner has been a golden child in front of the cameras during election time, but he has been a deceptive advocate, a drum major for injustice behind close doors. We recommend that the $9,996 shower on the 22nd floor of Government Center be used to wash away the injustice and the malfeasance that stains this city.

Please allow me to state the facts:

In May 2006 he called Toledo's first African-American Fire Chief...King Kong. He later violated the First Amendment Provisions regarding Freedom of the Press, when his press secretary forcibly kept a WSPD reporter out of a public press conference. He also disregarded and discredited Michael Ashford as being elected city council president. He accused Gary Daugherty, a respectable man with a engineering degree, as being lazy.

He fired the Affirmative Action/Contract Compliance Director Perlean Griffin, and he also stated that those city directors who spoke to Perlean Griffin would also be dealt with. Which brings me to this...

Dwayne Morehead did not heed the strong-armed threats of Mayor Finkbeiner, but rather chose the path of righteousness by standing for what was right. Because Morehead continued to speak with Perlean Griffin, he was demoted from being the co-director of the city's Youth Commission to being an administrative specialist, and was placed on a 30-day probation period and was instructed to report to Juanita Greene who is the executive director of the Board of Community Relations. He knew that he was being set-up to be fired. Dwayne Morehead has become a casualty of the cause of injustice.

On April 18, 2007 Dwayne Morehead received a letter signed by Mayor Finkbeiner congratulating him on being nominated for the 2006 Toledoan of the Year Awards, and expressing his gratitude for for the outstanding work he has done in this city.

Those same qualities that allowed Morehead to be nominated, also gave him the courage and the strength to stand up for what is right. In doing so, On June 29 Dwayne Morehead was suspended for 30 days and recently he was fired.

Mayor Finkbeiner, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We will no longer be strong-armed. We send a message that we will not lie down on the bed of injustice, but that we will stand up and ensure that everyone is protected equally, fairly, equitably and that everyone has the same opportunity. This issue is one of race and it is about doing what is ethical, what is morally right. We all have a civil right to success. That is not a privilege, it is a civil right!

We charge Mayor Finkbeiner with being out of order and in direct disobedience and violation to the Family Medical Leave Act which states: Employees are entitled to leave from employment due to a serious health condition. The Family Medical Leave Act states that the employee provide a certification from a health care provider.

We send a clarion call that Dwayne Morehead has been fired due to retaliation. We proclaim that Morehead has legitimate disease conditions that are under the care and supervision of Dr. Baldwin, who submitted the proper paperwork stating that Morehead could not report to work, and that he is to be on medical leave. Mayor Finkbeiner and Juanita Greene blatantly ignored and discredited the professional experience of Dr. Baldwin, by rejecting and ignoring her assessment of Dwayne Morehead's condition of illness.

We will not tolerate or ignore Mayor Finkbeiner's tactics in the dismissal of Dwayne Morehead or any other city employee unjustly...regardless of your race. This is an issue of morality that not only affects one, but it affects an entire family. It affects the lives of Morehead's six children and wife at home. It affects the citizens of Toledo, it discredits the phrase “Toledo Pride.” This is not about what party you're part of, this is about right and wrong...the conscience of this city.

Since its inception in 1946, The Board of Community Relations has served the conscience of this city, and as such, has sought to create a heightened sense of awareness that inequality and discrimination still exist. The board exists to promote, empower and support citizens to create social justice, equal opportunity and a harmonious environment. They are to intervene in conflicts and disputes, by providing investigation into unlawful discriminatory practices.

Because Morehead's termination letter was signed by Juanita Greene by the orders of Mayor Carleton Finkbeiner, this creates an unethical conflict of interest for the Board of Community Relations to do there job by investigating this matter. Morehead has a charge with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission against the Executive Director of the Board of Community Relations, Juanita Greene. Therefore, any investigation conducted by the board would surely be bias....as Juanita Greene is the one who does the investigations, and surely it would be unprofessional and unethical for her to investigate herself concerning this matter. In addition, Mayor Finkbeiner can not ignore and he can not minimize the charges for his actions. The facts don't lie. In addition, Brian Schwartz, the mayor's public information officer, someone who gets paid to speak for the Mayor....stated on a local blog website called Swamp Bubbles...that Morehead should be fired! Brian Schwartz also stated that Morehead should be grateful the mayor took him from a blue-collar worker to management, and that Morehead betrayed the mayor. Isn't it a big coincidence...that the suspension letter given to Dwayne Morehead stated that all the problems began on or about March 7, 2007....which happens to be the day after Morehead filed charges against the Finkbeiner administration?

In addition, at a press conference on Monday, September 10, 2007 Brian Schwartz passed out the employee file of Dwayne Morehead outside of Government Center to anyone who wanted it. First and foremost, this just shows that the Finkbeiner administration is desperate and will do anything they can to discredit Morehead. In addition, we obtained the files and isn't it interesting that the letter that Mayor Finkbeiner sent Mr. Morehead congratulating him for being nominated for the Toledoan of the Year Award wasn't in his file? Also there are NO violations or disciplinary issues noted in Morehead's file from Finkbeiner's inauguration in January 2005 until March 2007 incidents that began with his demotion ....the day after Morehead filed his charges against Finkbeiner!

Perhaps the Finkbeiner administration should study the law a bit more, before passing out employee files to total strangers at will. The law states: "The public has a right to know certain information about its employees, such as name, work address, salary, job classification and title, job performance. (See R.C. 124.09(C), R.C. 149.43(B)(1)). However, a public employee also has the right to non-disclosure of personal or confidential information contained in his or her personnel file. In applying the Public Records Act to public record requests involving personnel files of governmental employees, the Ohio Supreme Court has balanced the publics interest in accessing public records against the employee’s interest in protecting his or her privacy.

In State ex rel. Fant v. Enright (1993), 66 Ohio St.3d 186, Appellant made a public records request of the Clerk of Courts of Franklin County to inspect the personnel file of the former Franklin County Deputy Clerk. The Clerk of Courts refused to release the requested personnel file for inspection; Appellant filed a complaint for a writ of mandamus to compel release of the personnel file. The lower court denied the writ. On appeal, the Ohio Supreme Court emphasized that an item contained in a personnel file is a public record only when it is kept by a public office and serves to document the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations or other activities of the office.

The Court observed that not all information contained in a personnel file would be considered a public record and that, pursuant to R.C. 1347.01(E), a public office has an affirmative duty to protect from disclosure personal or confidential information contained in a personnel file. Accordingly, the personal or confidential information must be redacted or removed from the personnel file prior to inspection and/or copying. (See, also Sunshine Laws Update (May 2001), Attorney General Betty D. Montgomery; Sunshine Law An Update, Public Practice Continuing Legal Education (November 2001), Attorney General Betty D. Montgomery – advises keeping confidential files in a separate drawer, file cabinet or office to reduce the possibility of someone reviewing an inappropriate file.)"

In addition, apparently in the files were offenses allegedly committed by Morehead under the Ford administration. There is only one problem, Morehead never worked for Mayor Ford, he was a union employee. Furthermore, the city rules state that the information was supposed to be removed 18 months after the document was placed in the file. It’s been four years since the last document was placed in the file. It appears to me that this is such a gross injustice and the only thing the city can do to protect themselves is to slur Morehead. If the Finkbeiner administration is able to reveal Morehead's employee files to the general public ... than perhaps the general public should request to see the employee files of the Finkbeiner administration beginning with Mayor Finkbeiner himself.

Therefore, we are requesting that the NAACP, the Toledo Urban League along with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission fully investigate the wrongful discharge of Dwayne Morehead and report it's finding's back to the citizens of Toledo. The citizens of Toledo have a right to hold Mayor Finkbeiner accountable for his frivolous actions.

Why should the NAACP and the Urban League get involved? According to the NAACP mission statement listed on their website it states, “they are to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.” According to the Urban League website their mission states they are to “enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights. So, the question is...Why? Why don't the Toledo chapters of the NAACP and Urban League get involved?

Where are the religious leaders? Being a religious leader is more than just going to church. It is not about having big billboards, selling chicken dinners, who has the most members or the biggest church … what about being involved and caring about the injustice that often affects the lives of so many people. When will we as leaders stop trying to build mega-churches? When will we learn to stop using hurting people coming to us for help, as a way to get rich off their tithes and offerings? When will we stop expecting the people to serve us? As pastors ... we are to serve the people! It is time for the religious community to wake up and realize that it is not about us, and it has never been about us. It is time for us to take a stand against the injustices that continue to happen within this city ... after all, we should consider Matthew 25:31-46.

In conclusion, we are cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities. We cannot sit idly by and not be concerned about what is happening in this city. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Toledo Pride, Toledo Pride … Mayor Finkbeiner, pride comes before a fall. And if this city falls, it is only a direct reflection of its leadership.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070309/DEVELOPINGNEWS/70309013

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070310/NEWS16/70310015

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=local&id=5073901

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060527/NEWS16/605270338&SearchID=73246028586931

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070906/NEWS16/709060354

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060531/OPINION02/60531030

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070911/NEWS16/709110346

[Blackman7]

Hi everyone!!! La Renard....I AGREE !!! People...Please stop responding to the multiple personality troll who apparently has taken on the monumental task of telling us black folk THE truth about ourselves. YAWNNN....He goes by plenty of names, blackman1, bholdthetruth....etc etc, kinda like ahhhhh...SATAN... but the messages are always the same: we don't know the truth (the white man>> he does)....the jena six are thugs (we stick together....white people don't)....black single parent households are producing all our ills...breeding crime, crime, crime, and more crime (his stats of course support every twisted word he says).... first he lives in jena, then in north carolina.....yada yada yada.....same stuff, same sarcasm "it's some intelligent people......you're an intelligent sista...I'm not racist.....I got black friends who say....". The dude needs help that we cannot provide and his talents may be appreciated much more on other sites. Good grief.... charlie brown.

I support the jena six and I am down with sending money for this cause. Boycotting Christmas and other days are good options as well.... if anyone gets the chance check out Warren Ballantine's show because the are talking about a black friday Oct 20 or Nov 2nd. I am also proud of our people for taking a stand.....it's long overdue!

Excuse me, but the poster known as "bholdthetruth" and myself are not the same person. If you read our debates, you'd know we don't agree on anything.

[lklove]

Blackman7......I said blackman1.....

[Blackman7]

Sorry. Aiight! :)

[Wild Turkey]

Bottom line, we have got to get organized. We need to create a network of communication amongst African Americans. Something similar to what Louis Farrakhan suggested at "The Millions More March". Michael Baisden is the perfect catalyst for all this. Keep in mind he cant do it alone. And we need serious sisters and brothers who are willing to see this through to the end. We need people who are not afraid of hard work. A department of communications, dept of justice, dept of politics, dept of medicine/health, dept of spirituality, and etc. We cant find each other geographically. If you own a music store and you are in California I will pay the shipping to support you. But I cant because I dont know you exist. WE HAVE GOT TO GET ORGANIZED. Where are the African American Web developers? Create web pages that bring us together. If you live in D.C, I dont have much, but I will do all I can to help you. We can do this, but we must organize first. THat is the one thing we have always lacked organization.

[MaliciousRC.com]

I heard Rev. Al Sharpton say that there was two kinds of justice. Well it made me laugh, because it looks like when it comes to Justice we are going to have to rely on "Just Us". We are going to have to come together!

Lee

[chutch212]

Hey Michael and friends please take a minute of your time and post and go to this link (NBC Field Notes) by By Martin Savidge, NBC News Correspondent and view the comments that have been posted relative to the "Jena Six"

Latest post from: Gridlock in Jena

(http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/20/370120.aspx)

[Dr2Smooth4u]

The answers to many questions are found in the internet video

http://zeitgeistmovie.com

This movie relates religion, 911, government malfeasance, the Iraq war, Federal Reserve Bank and so many other issues.

I think it answers so many questions regarding why is the world in the shape it is in.

Might need to be a new thread topic.

[gypsy1234]

Let's put the money in the defense fund that has been set up by Mike and not to the scam artists that are definitely out there. We have no idea what they will do with the money. We need to give what we can for all of the Mycal Bells. This fund needs to continuously grow to give the support needed for all of the victims. Let's not forget, like the media has, about the young lady in Virginia who was so brutally abused and beaten by six white people. The court has dismissed the charges of it being a hate crime. Please, let's all contribute what we can for the cause.

[johnsonld5]

Hello:

All this was after my grandson went into a house that he was not invited into. He was arrested in the house. Then the police officer beat him , had his knees in his back and was hitting him with a batone to his head, officer broke his hand, and pepper sprayed him.He was then later that night being transported to the Fort Bend County Juvenile center ,officer kept threanted him and cursing him out.

Then when we went to the court hearing mostly without an attorney for my grandson and when I questioned the Judge he would make excuses for this court appointed attorney stating she in trial or she is campaigning etc.
Then after I was inform to accept a plea bargain of a detemine sentence for my grandson over 20 years up to his birth date of 18 years old.

I was also warned if he should take this plea bargain we could not appeal, and if my grandson ever broke any laws as an adult he would served out 40 years. I refused to go aong with this corruption and then I became the target of all types of attacks of my charcter. This court system made sure that I would not work as a nurse again. This corrupt court and District Attorney office filed on my with out this lady as the complaint that I called her twice. No, phone records was obtained, now, after a year I learned that this lady pretend she had damaged this and things removed from her house when the police report shows that both of these teenagers was caught inside the house.
Then she also pretends she works for Calfornia IRS in Texas and that is not true. Then she has two homes close together and I learned this was her son home. Now, this well racist Detective I filed a complaint is the one who fabricated this false charge, he pretend I confess to him, he stated the FBI gave me her two unlisted phone numbers, he pretend that my grandson when he got out of juvenile attemtp to break in this lady house again. He made up many false police reports to justify them profiling my grandson.

I am a 57 years old black lady who is disable and due to not allowing this illegal system to send my grandson to prison for 20 years when he was never even indicted by Fort Bend County Grand Jury. I became their target for all type of corruption. Fabricating evidence, refusing to provide me legal counsel, having me in court without legal defense, FBI refusing to investigate, the U.S. Justice Department refusing to investigate, yet these court system and District Attorney office here is using their office under the color of law illegal harass me. Racial profilng us and cover up for these police officers and Fort Bend County employees.

Every thing the court system and Missouri City police has done to us was hate crimes, misconduct and illegal tapping my phone lines, fabricating police reports, having a clerk to sign summons as if she is a judge, contacting my license board and having me investigated as I broke a nursing practice act and I had not worked since 10/2005 when all this was taking place
Posting all this letter from Texas State Board over the internet on Fort Bend County web site, my social security number, date of birth , driver license and address.

Now, I am the focus as well as my grandson being harass, racial profilng and all type of hate crimes acts against both of us. My grandson was filed on again as when he was arrested at school in October 17, 2007 for being in the hall and this asst prinicpal who knew into this illegal probation allowed a person who was only the probation officer and not a commisson peace officer arrest him. This same person withdrew him from school and this is how he did not finished school . My grandson was suppose to graduate in May of 2007. Yet this school district Fort Bend ISD refused to allow him return to school stating he had a felony conviction and this charge he was never indicted by the Fort Bend County Grand Jury.

I need help before October 9, 2007 at 8:30 Am this judge has my case set for a jury trial. This court refuse to provide me legal representation knowing I am not able to pay for an attorney due to being indigent and not financial able.

Please help me.
Linda Johnson you can mail me at P.O.Box 310905 Houston, Texas 77231
(281)261-6160

[blackmamba313]

“Jena 6, Justice, and the Willie Lynch Syndrome”
By Glenn Morgan

Michigan Citizen Newspaper

It is like de’ja'vu. I’m speaking in reference to the racially charged, high-profile Jena 6 fiasco that emanated from a small, backwood town in Louisiana.

After reading the details about events that led up to a brawl between black and white students at the town’s high school, it is clear that nothing has really changed in terms of race in this country regardless of the “token” gains made by blacks that resulted from the 1960s Civil Rights/ Black Power Movement. The way in which events unfolded in Jena, LA provides clear evidence that de’facto and de’jure racism still exists in this society and can rear its ugly head at any moment.

But, the most troubling detail of the case for me was the cause of the milieu Reading that the brouhaha stem from a black student asking permission to sit under a tree used as a hang out by white students made me cringe and my blood boil. I sarcastically asked myself the questions: What was so special about this tree? What significance did it hold besides being a hang out spot for juveniles? And, had these white students who used the tree as a hang out found the ‘tree of life’ or something?

I also had some questions concerning the black student’s—who made the request—rationale for wanting to sit under this tree. I just can not wrap my brain around the notion of having a desire to sit under a tree because white folk find solace under it. Personally, I do not care where white people gather for the purpose of intra-racial fellowship, unless it effects me as a citizen of these United States. Country club, golf course, restaurant, theatre, or under a tree, it makes no difference.

On the other hand, there are black folk who find it a privilege to be one of few blacks in the company of whites. Whether it be in private or public settings, a predominately white residential area, organization, or institution of higher learning.

Did the black student assign some sort of ‘privilege’ to the tree just because white students sat under it?

Nevertheless, I’m certain there are plenty of trees around the school campus where the events in Jena had taken place for black students to congregate amongst themselves, if they so desired.

Going a step further in my analysis, the black student’s request for permission to sit under the tree made me think of Malcolm X’s notion of the “integration mad Negro” who thinks that the “White man’s ice is colder.” Today, us black folk refer to it as it the “Willie Lynch Syndrome.” The syndrome is practiced in varying ways as a means of psychological terrorism and social control of a particular ethnic/ racial group. Black Americans have been the guinea pigs of such negative socialization process, particularly through the public education system. The end result if not assimilation into the dominant ethnic/racial group, then a permanent second-class status at the margins of society yet under the ‘delusion’ of having full citizenship rights.

As a note, my sentiments are in no way a criticism of the young black student that made the request to sit under the tree that his white classmates made their hang out— or, as us black folk say ‘stomping ground.’

As a people, we must think of education as a political process. Black students are to some degree mentally abused on a daily basis in this country’s predominately white controlled private and public institutions of learning. We must—speaking of black educators—develop curriculums designed to ‘decolonized” the minds of black students free of any replacement dogma that lapses into empty ethnocentrism that debases the true glory of our culture, history, and struggle. Of course, the end result must be excellence. The same excellence that lay the blueprint for great Afrikan Civilizations and their peoples.


Nonetheless, we must also keep in focus the fact that even today it is through the practice of the “Willie Lynch Syndrome” that blacks mindlessly identify with the Euro-American cultural beliefs, customs, and values—and that’s not to say that different ethnic/ racial groups can cross-culturally share similar beliefs, customs, and values in terms education, family, religion and other mainstays of society.

However, as an educator of Afrikan descent, I understand that the mentacidal— the psychological destruction of a race as defined by psychologist and ‘black personality’ expert the late Dr. Bobby E. Wright in his article Mentacide: The Ultimate Threat To The Black Race —pattern of behavior among blacks results from 400-hundred years of negative socialization. Or, even again, the “Willie Lynch Syndrome,” that compels us to sub-consciously desire to be accepted by whites, be white, or integrate with whites because of an insidious inferiority complex.

Some of us believe that when we quote “make it” and are exposed to white social circles that we’ve reached the “mountain top.” Take O.J. Simpson for example. An athletic, black football legend who played the role of white America’s safe “All American Negro” for decades. Now, he’s the epitome of the black boogeyman that historically haunts white America’s racist imagination and national psyche.

Since the Civil Rights/ Black Power Movement of the sixties, it is obvious that blacks have taken advantage of “integration” in numerous ways, whether viewed as token or not. The question becomes: At what price? Our cultural identity, personal integrity, community, and humanity. OJ represents how low us black folks will stoop to be accepted by whites, which brings me back to Jena.

The black student’s request can symbolically looked at as a continued desire for us to integrate with whites by flocking to their established community’s without sustaining a sense of community ourselves. Research date consistently shows that “black dollars” turn over more times in a white community than a black community. On weekends, during the holidays, or on a daily basis this means that blacks go to the “burbs” in herds, if they don’t live in such area, to shop. And, of course, most of the goods and services that blacks need are located on the periphery of the urban areas where most of us reside.

The point is that integration has lulled black folk to sleep—economically, culturally, politically and the list goes on. We are still running around thinking it’s a privilege to sit next to whites in a classroom, restaurant, or some other public or private setting.

The mainstream media may be one of the primary culprits behind such negative behavior pattern. Blacks are portrayed in advertising, film, magazines, and television as being perfectly integrated into the fabric of American society. In his bestseller Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, political scientist Andrew Hacker argues that such pop culture mediums offer romanticized images of race and the social reality of black Americans in the United States.

Hacker also points the fact that blacks are continuously inundated with images of white people and how they live on a daily basis, which may compel us to identify with whites in terms of beliefs, customs, and values. This is in spite of the fact that there are notable black artists, athletes, entertainers, leaders, musicians, and politicians that appear on mainstream mediums like radio and television.

Yes, black folk have transcended barriers put before them in pursuit of equality, freedom, justice, and “American Dream.” The symbols of hate strung up on a tree in this temporary crucible of hate called Jena reminds black folk that the battle is never over. The flip side of the “Dream” is the nightmare we have lived and survived to preserve our humanity as a people in a nation we call home, yet treated as second-class citizens.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the Jena 6 debacle. The most evident is that the struggle for equality, justice, and liberation continues for black folk! The go along get along approach to battle social injustice is futile unless we match political might with economic savvy.

We must refrain from going to places where we are not welcomed, whether it be a Denny’s or Cracker Barrel restaurant, or under a tree. We must impress upon young people—like the black student that asked permission to sit under a tree—to plant their own seeds of opportunity because no one can give you permission to do that.



Glenn Morgan is an educator, cultural critic and writer in Detroit. Contact information: glenn_morgan_71@hotmail.com. Or; Black Men’s Education Association c/o Glenn Morgan—President, P.O. Box 06995, Detroit, MI 48206.





The Lynching Tree
By Glenn Morgan

Beneath the South’s
crimson-orange
sullen sun,
on a humid spring
day of judgment,
I saw a man
just beyond the freedom trail
through the Delta swamp;
the forgotten hideaway for
dreaming
slaves.

He was a lifeless, disfigured man
wounded
slashed
about his body
with yards of thick, knotted, mangled rope
around his broken neck,
with a sackcloth
covering his unknown face.
His body was hanging high
in the middle of a rural killing field
deep in the confederacy;
a wilderness
where blotchy blood-stained
plantation cotton once grew tall
on fertile soil
labored on and tilled by
a dark people
cursed as the wretched of the earth,
now the burial ground for many
black men
like the man I saw hanging
from a Mississippi Magnolia
with a chunk of his dismembered
treasures—
heinously torn flesh and bone—
shoved between his tightly clutched jaw.
And there he was,
a mahogany man’s
severely
swollen, burnt, beaten
and bruised carcass on display
like a huntsman’s prize game,
gutted of his humanity
by merciless butchers
who professed
a black man’s death
by lynching
is a form of democracy,
simply because insurrection
and emancipation
ran rampant through his veins.

A black man,
a victim of Jim Crow law
a son of enslaved tribesman
hanged from a withering
lynching tree
an unnamed man
an unknown face
with untold tales to tell
of being the hunted prey

by men unlike himself
men who were lawless cannibals
men who made treein “coons”
a national spectator sport,
the persecutors and prosecutors
of the black man,
men who delivered swift blind
injustice,
a trial by mob hysteria
to crucify
a black man for being black
a black man who was a kinsman
to kings who ruled in distant jungle lands,
a man born to a family of warrior men
hang from a the dry rotten branches of a
sprawling tree;
a ritual shrine of torture
that bears the African fruit
or our
grandfather’s, father’s,
brother’s, uncle’s
and nephew’s seed,
all hanged at the height of harvest season
when the lynching tree was in full bloom,
and when a native son— a soldier—
like the one I saw
would only be strung up
by his rogue countrymen
and history
as a worthless
black
nigger.

[4milton]

On CNN coverage (online live video) 09/20-----The camera was focused for hours on a motorhome parked in the middle of town. There was a male on the top of the motorhome with a microphone. He was not identified, he started passing around boxes, asking for money to pay $9000 (10% of $90,000 bail) to get Mychal out of jail on bail. Even after the camera moved away from him, you could hear him announcing the amount collected, $5000,$10,000, $25,000 and he finally announced $30,000 was collected.
So my question is, who was HE and what happened to the $30,000?

I heard the voice of someone collecting the moeny, but I never saw the person. When he was close to $30,000, he said he wanted to give the money to the family. After reaching the $30,000, he called a lady out and she was the grandmother of one of the boys, maybe Mychal. He gave the money to her and told her it was to help the family. I will continue to give and pray. :)

[Mr. Unite Us]

The D.A. and judge needs to be removed from the Jena case, and fired.

The person running the website below should arrested for promoting
domestic terrorism.

http://www.overthrow.com/

[zion]

UPDATE: FBI SAYS THEY WILL NOT SEEK CHARGES
AGAINST THE PUBLISHERS OF THIS WEBSITE

The Federal Bureau of Investigation told WREG-TV in Memphis today that they will not seek criminal charges or legal action against the American National Socialist Workers Party, LLC, or its Commander, Bill White.

"As I've said from the beginning, this nonsense about an 'FBI investigation' has been nothing but a farce cooked up by the Jew media to intimidate other whites who might be inclined to speak out," ANSWP Commander Bill White stated today, "We have not broken any laws and we have not done anything more extreme than any of the niggers who marched in the street to demand the right to lynch white people did last week."

This is at least the sixth time this year the FBI has chosen not to seek charges against White after he or his supporters have engaged in provocative activism. The first was after an ANSWP supporter, Eric Hunt, kidnapped famed Jewish liar Elie Wiesel. The second was after a group of niggers in Virginia Beach demand White be investigated for insulting them after they filed a false complaint of racial discrimination against their landlord. The third was after Roanoke Times editor Christian Trejbal published the names of Virginia Concealed Carry permit holder on the internet and received bomb threats. The fourth is after ANSWP supporters distributed literature outside the home of Leonard Pitts and allegedly made threatening phone calls to him. The fifth time was when the North Carolina NAACP demanded we be prosecuted for mass mailing 2000 fliers demanding an end to nigger crime in Henderson, North Carolina. Last year, this site's largest controvery occurred when the FBI refused to extradite White to Canada for allegedly plotting the assassination of Canadian anti-white lawyer Richard Warman.

Look at this website here:

http://www.overthrow.com/


We need to put Bill White and this website on blast!!!! Come on family, we must get this website shut down!!!!!

This website list the names, addresses and phone numbers of the Jena 6, and is encouraging people to lynch them and their family.

WE MUST STOP THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! Support the Jena 6, No justice, No peace!

[spiceyspirit]

I hope this young man will be safe cause i saw on CNN new that if he gets out of jail they were going to harm him. Do you think the judge won't let him out of jail because of this. Cause if this young man get hurt in any way thier will be some big trouble ahead.

[mike63]

FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
People interested in making donations please read the info below:

Although a lot of organizations are collecting donations, the legal defense teams are not getting the funds and the lawyers are having to spend their own money to help these young men. One organization has stated that they have collected over $130,000 for the Jena Six and the legal team for Mychal Bell has only received $4,000 to date and not even from that organization. We have established a fund to ensure that the funds are going to for the legal defense. We'll help where it is needed most and right now that is for Mychal Bell. All donations will be greatly appreciated by the family of Mychal Bell.

Donations will be accepted by check, cashiers check, money order and bank wire as the need is urgent. Please send donations to the following:

Make Payable To:
THE UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Mail To:
THE MICHAEL BAISDEN SHOW
ATTN: UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
P.O. BOX 17266
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78217-0266

We will update everyone weekly on the show with amounts of the donations. Thank you in advance on behalf of Mychal Bell, his family and legal team. we will be helping the other families of Jena Six, but Mychal Bell has the greatest immediate need. If you have already donated to an organization ask them when and how the funds are being used. We will be working with the National Bar Association and will layout the plans for the how the funds will be used to help in these endeavors.

I will be sending bi-weekly donation to this fund by certified checks. My question is are there plans to start accepting credit or debit card payments for this fund in the future.

[ChildoftheKing]

FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
People interested in making donations please read the info below:

Although a lot of organizations are collecting donations, the legal defense teams are not getting the funds and the lawyers are having to spend their own money to help these young men. One organization has stated that they have collected over $130,000 for the Jena Six and the legal team for Mychal Bell has only received $4,000 to date and not even from that organization. We have established a fund to ensure that the funds are going to for the legal defense. We'll help where it is needed most and right now that is for Mychal Bell. All donations will be greatly appreciated by the family of Mychal Bell.

Donations will be accepted by check, cashiers check, money order and bank wire as the need is urgent. Please send donations to the following:

Make Payable To:
THE UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Mail To:
THE MICHAEL BAISDEN SHOW
ATTN: UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
P.O. BOX 17266
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78217-0266

We will update everyone weekly on the show with amounts of the donations. Thank you in advance on behalf of Mychal Bell, his family and legal team. we will be helping the other families of Jena Six, but Mychal Bell has the greatest immediate need. If you have already donated to an organization ask them when and how the funds are being used. We will be working with the National Bar Association and will layout the plans for the how the funds will be used to help in these endeavors.
It would be great if u could connect with banks and groceries stores that r for the cause. I know this may be bring on controversy but u never know unless u try.

[Chocolate!]

:rolleyes: That's crazy!Sorry. Aiight! :)

[Chocolate!]

Hello:

All this was after my grandson went into a house that he was not invited into. He was arrested in the house. Then the police officer beat him , had his knees in his back and was hitting him with a batone to his head, officer broke his hand, and pepper sprayed him.He was then later that night being transported to the Fort Bend County Juvenile center ,officer kept threanted him and cursing him out.

Then when we went to the court hearing mostly without an attorney for my grandson and when I questioned the Judge he would make excuses for this court appointed attorney stating she in trial or she is campaigning etc.
Then after I was inform to accept a plea bargain of a detemine sentence for my grandson over 20 years up to his birth date of 18 years old.

I was also warned if he should take this plea bargain we could not appeal, and if my grandson ever broke any laws as an adult he would served out 40 years. I refused to go aong with this corruption and then I became the target of all types of attacks of my charcter. This court system made sure that I would not work as a nurse again. This corrupt court and District Attorney office filed on my with out this lady as the complaint that I called her twice. No, phone records was obtained, now, after a year I learned that this lady pretend she had damaged this and things removed from her house when the police report shows that both of these teenagers was caught inside the house.
Then she also pretends she works for Calfornia IRS in Texas and that is not true. Then she has two homes close together and I learned this was her son home. Now, this well racist Detective I filed a complaint is the one who fabricated this false charge, he pretend I confess to him, he stated the FBI gave me her two unlisted phone numbers, he pretend that my grandson when he got out of juvenile attemtp to break in this lady house again. He made up many false police reports to justify them profiling my grandson.

I am a 57 years old black lady who is disable and due to not allowing this illegal system to send my grandson to prison for 20 years when he was never even indicted by Fort Bend County Grand Jury. I became their target for all type of corruption. Fabricating evidence, refusing to provide me legal counsel, having me in court without legal defense, FBI refusing to investigate, the U.S. Justice Department refusing to investigate, yet these court system and District Attorney office here is using their office under the color of law illegal harass me. Racial profilng us and cover up for these police officers and Fort Bend County employees.

Every thing the court system and Missouri City police has done to us was hate crimes, misconduct and illegal tapping my phone lines, fabricating police reports, having a clerk to sign summons as if she is a judge, contacting my license board and having me investigated as I broke a nursing practice act and I had not worked since 10/2005 when all this was taking place
Posting all this letter from Texas State Board over the internet on Fort Bend County web site, my social security number, date of birth , driver license and address.

Now, I am the focus as well as my grandson being harass, racial profilng and all type of hate crimes acts against both of us. My grandson was filed on again as when he was arrested at school in October 17, 2007 for being in the hall and this asst prinicpal who knew into this illegal probation allowed a person who was only the probation officer and not a commisson peace officer arrest him. This same person withdrew him from school and this is how he did not finished school . My grandson was suppose to graduate in May of 2007. Yet this school district Fort Bend ISD refused to allow him return to school stating he had a felony conviction and this charge he was never indicted by the Fort Bend County Grand Jury.

I need help before October 9, 2007 at 8:30 Am this judge has my case set for a jury trial. This court refuse to provide me legal representation knowing I am not able to pay for an attorney due to being indigent and not financial able.

Please help me.
Linda Johnson you can mail me at P.O.Box 310905 Houston, Texas 77231
(281)261-6160


WE both live in the DIRTY SOUTH where justice is left up to those in control of the PEN... CoRRUPT policemen, Internal Affairs, District Attorneys, Judges, FBI & Justice Dept. investigators are not GoinG to dispute their fellow Klansmen..........

I Pray that justice prevails in your situation.

FOR THOSE OF US THAT MIGRATED NORTH
WE SEE JENA 6'S EVERYDAY AROUND HERE

I FEEL THAT EVERY BLACK MANS CASE SHOULD BE OPEN AND REVEIW

[Caity B]

"High School Security Guards
Accused of Excessive Force Students,
Parents to Protest Friday

Caught On Video
Click Link Below
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=5677461


By Leo Stallworth
PALMDALE, Sept. 26, 2007 (KABC-TV) -
Three teens and a mother are arrested after a scuffle with security guards at Knight High School in Palmdale. An investigation is underway as to whether excessive force was used by the guards.

One of the students arrested caught the whole thing on video.

The incident was instigated over cake.

It was a birthday party at Knight High School in Palmdale. Early last week, during lunch hour, students say the cake dropped, and then everything else dropped. There was mayhem and chaos. On the heels of this incident, a group of parents and students plan to hold a protest on Friday.

This is exclusive video that a student at William P. Knight High School in East Palmdale used his cell phone to capture video of 16-year-old Pleajhia Mervin being arrested by campus police early last week.
:::Click Here For Video:::

Mervin says a security guard slammed her against a table at a lunchroom at the high school and twisted her arms behind her back so violently, he broke her wrist. Her wrist is in a cast.

"He put my arm behind my back and he started raising it until it hurt, so I told him, 'Stop, it hurts.' He had slammed me on the table and told me to hold still. He called me a 'nappy-head,' and that's when I just started crying," said Mervin.

Mervin claims she was roughed up simply because she failed to pick up every crumb of a birthday cake she accidentally dropped on the floor of the lunchroom during a lunch-hour birthday celebration for a friend. She says she thought she cleaned up the mess, but the security guard thought otherwise.

"He said, 'You have to come pick the rest of this cake up.' So I said, 'I picked it up.' He gets on his walkie-talkie, he got a call, so I just started walking to class, and that's when he grabbed me," said Mervin.

Mervin says when the security guard realized he was being videotaped, he tackled the student shooting the video. She says another student captured photographs of that incident. She says the whole incident was unnecessary.

"I think that he could have had a better way of cuffing me and throwing me on the table," said Mervin.

Mervin's mother, Latrisha Majors, said when she rushed to the school demanding to see her daughter, she was accused of battering the principal. She says she was then arrested and forced to spend the night in jail.

"This has caused such a disruption in my life," said Majors. "I try to explain this, but I can't. The 'nappy-head' thing, she doesn't understand that there is prejudice going on every day, all day long. It's not right.

School officials had this to say:

"Good afternoon. I can just comment we did have an incident at our school last week. However, I would like to emphasize that we do have a safe campus. I've been working with our staff, with my district office staff, community leaders, and parents, to ensure that we continue to keep our campus safe for all students, but I want people to know that our focus here is academic excellence for all students," said Dr. Susan McDonald, principal of Knight High School.

Pleajhia Mervin has been expelled from school. She will have to go to an expulsion hearing. She says she's even been accused of battering the security guard, and was ticketed for littering. Her mother says she has retained a lawyer from the Cochran firm and plans to sue the school district. A group of parents, students and community activists plan to protest outside the school on Friday morning."
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=5677461

[Caity B]

*changes weird smiley face to >( *

[mike63]

I will donate an amount every week until further notice,are until Michael tell me nothing else is needed, I am fighting for what is right.
.:D

I am also donating Bi-weekly from my paycheck to the fund starting Tommorrow. I have also come up with a concept to continue to promote the "Enough Is Enough" Campaign. I have designed an entire line of Enough is Enough T-shirts. The graphics are eye catching and will continue to draw attention to the cause. The designs can be viewed at http://www.streetdunkah.com
Click on the Jena 6 T-shirt at the bottom of the page.

[mechellie2]

I have had a hard time trying to get intouch with Mr.Baisden. We have a house in Wilson,N.C. that we would love and be honored to let the Jena Six families can come an stay. My contact ia mechellie2@yahoo.com

[Rebecca.K.]

What about the rights of Justin Barker?

[tluva]

Heads Up Everyone;

I found out on CNN today, that there are attachments to the new defense bill, soon to be voted on. The attachments would make the goverement more serious about hate crimes. Needless to say, the bill expected to be vetoed and voted against to overide the veto.

[LaVelle Thompson]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070927/ap_on_re_us/jena_six


JENA, La. - A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate prompted a massive civil rights protest here walked out of a courthouse Thursday after a judge ordered him freed.

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Mychal Bell's release on $45,000 bail came hours after a prosecutor confirmed he will no longer seek an adult trial for the 17-year-old. Bell, one of the teenagers known as the Jena Six, still faces trial as a juvenile in the December beating in this small central Louisiana town.

"We still have mountains to climb, but at least this is closer to an even playing field," said the Rev. Al Sharpton, who helped organize last week's protest.

"He goes home because a lot of people left their home and stood up for him," Sharpton said.

District Attorney Reed Walters' decision to abandon adult charges means that Bell, who had faced a maximum of 15 years in prison on his aggravated second-degree battery conviction last month, instead could be held only until he turns 21 if he is found guilty in juvenile court.

The conviction in adult court was thrown out this month by the state 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal, which said Bell should not have been tried as an adult on that particular charge.

Walters had said he would appeal that decision. On Thursday, he said he still believes there was legal merit to trying Bell as an adult but decided it was in the best interest of the victim, Justin Barker, and his family to let the juvenile court handle the case.

"They are on board with what I decided," Walters said at a news conference.

Walters said Bell faces juvenile court charges of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit that crime.

Bell is among six black Jena High School students arrested in December after a beating that left Barker unconscious and bloody, though the victim was able to attend a school function later the same day. Four of the defendants were 17 at the time, and legally adults under Louisiana law.

Those four and Bell, who was 16, all were initially charged with attempted murder. Walters has said he sought to have Bell tried as an adult because he already had a criminal record, and because he believed Bell instigated the attack.

The charges have been dropped to aggravated second-degree battery in four of the cases. One defendant has yet to be arraigned. The sixth defendant's case is sealed in juvenile court.

Critics accuse Walters, who is white, of prosecuting blacks more harshly than whites. They note that he filed no charges against three white teens suspended from the high school for allegedly hanging nooses in a tree on campus not long before fights between blacks and whites, including the attack on Barker.

An estimated 20,000 to 25,000 protesters marched in Jena last week in a scene that evoked the early years of the civil-rights movement.

Walters said the demonstration had no influence on the decision he announced Thursday, and ended his news conference by saying that only God kept the protest peaceful.

"The only way — let me stress that — the only way that I believe that me or this community has been able to endure the trauma that has been thrust upon us is through the prayers of the Christian people who have sent them up in this community," Walters said.

"I firmly believe and am confident of the fact that had it not been for the direct intervention of the Lord Jesus Christ last Thursday, a disaster would have happened. You can quote me on that."

When the Rev. Donald Sibley, a black Jena pastor, called it a "shame" that Walters credited divine intervention for the protesters acting responsibly, the prosecutor said: "What I'm saying is, the Lord Jesus Christ put his influence on those people, and they responded accordingly."

After the news conference, Sibley told CNN that Walters had insulted the protesters by making a false separation between "his Christ and our Christ."

"I can't diminish Christ at all. But for him to use it in the sense that because his Christ, his Jesus, because he prayed, because of his police, that everything was peaceful and was decent and in order — that's not the truth," Sibley said.

Walters has said repeatedly that Barker's suffering has been lost in the furor that erupted over the case, and that what happened to the teen was much more severe than a schoolyard fight.

Walters also has defended his decision not to seek charges in the hanging of the nooses, which he said was "abhorrent and stupid" but not a crime.

[grenetta b]

:) JENA, La. - A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate prompted a massive civil rights protest here walked out of a courthouse Thursday after a judge ordered him freed.

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Mychal Bell's release on $45,000 bail came hours after a prosecutor confirmed he will no longer seek an adult trial for the 17-year-old. Bell, one of the teenagers known as the Jena Six, still faces trial as a juvenile in the December beating in this small central Louisiana town.

"We still have mountains to climb, but at least this is closer to an even playing field," said the Rev. Al Sharpton, who helped organize last week's protest.

"He goes home because a lot of people left their home and stood up for him," Sharpton said.

District Attorney Reed Walters' decision to abandon adult charges means that Bell, who had faced a maximum of 15 years in prison on his aggravated second-degree battery conviction last month, instead could be held only until he turns 21 if he is found guilty in juvenile court.

The conviction in adult court was thrown out this month by the state 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal, which said Bell should not have been tried as an adult on that particular charge.

Walters had said he would appeal that decision. On Thursday, he said he still believes there was legal merit to trying Bell as an adult but decided it was in the best interest of the victim, Justin Barker, and his family to let the juvenile court handle the case.

"They are on board with what I decided," Walters said at a news conference.

Walters said Bell faces juvenile court charges of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit that crime.

Bell is among six black Jena High School students arrested in December after a beating that left Barker unconscious and bloody, though the victim was able to attend a school function later the same day. Four of the defendants were 17 at the time, and legally adults under Louisiana law.

Those four and Bell, who was 16, all were initially charged with attempted murder. Walters has said he sought to have Bell tried as an adult because he already had a criminal record, and because he believed Bell instigated the attack.

The charges have been dropped to aggravated second-degree battery in four of the cases. One defendant has yet to be arraigned. The sixth defendant's case is sealed in juvenile court.

Critics accuse Walters, who is white, of prosecuting blacks more harshly than whites. They note that he filed no charges against three white teens suspended from the high school for allegedly hanging nooses in a tree on campus not long before fights between blacks and whites, including the attack on Barker.

An estimated 20,000 to 25,000 protesters marched in Jena last week in a scene that evoked the early years of the civil-rights movement.

Walters said the demonstration had no influence on the decision he announced Thursday, and ended his news conference by saying that only God kept the protest peaceful.

"The only way — let me stress that — the only way that I believe that me or this community has been able to endure the trauma that has been thrust upon us is through the prayers of the Christian people who have sent them up in this community," Walters said.

"I firmly believe and am confident of the fact that had it not been for the direct intervention of the Lord Jesus Christ last Thursday, a disaster would have happened. You can quote me on that."

When the Rev. Donald Sibley, a black Jena pastor, called it a "shame" that Walters credited divine intervention for the protesters acting responsibly, the prosecutor said: "What I'm saying is, the Lord Jesus Christ put his influence on those people, and they responded accordingly."

After the news conference, Sibley told CNN that Walters had insulted the protesters by making a false separation between "his Christ and our Christ."

"I can't diminish Christ at all. But for him to use it in the sense that because his Christ, his Jesus, because he prayed, because of his police, that everything was peaceful and was decent and in order — that's not the truth," Sibley said.

Walters has said repeatedly that Barker's suffering has been lost in the furor that erupted over the case, and that what happened to the teen was much more severe than a schoolyard fight.

Walters also has defended his decision not to seek charges in the hanging of the nooses, which he said was "abhorrent and stupid" but not a crime.

[AfRiCaN_QuEeN]

Justice for Justin Barker... did he go to jail? where is the justice for the "hate crime" he committed? he's white, that doesn't normally happen to white people. since you said justice for justin, let me give you something to think about. if one guy (or 6) has to go to jail behind a crime they committed, why doesn't the "white guy" go to jail for the "hate crime" he committed? justice is supposed to be justice, no matter what race you are. we are not trying to give justin barker NO-justice, we are trying to give EVERY race EQUAL JUSTICE.

[AfRiCaN_QuEeN]

What about the rights of Justin Barker?

Justice for Justin Barker... did he go to jail? where is the justice for the "hate crime" he committed? he's white, that doesn't normally happen to white people. since you said justice for justin, let me give you something to think about. if one guy (or 6) has to go to jail behind a crime they committed, why doesn't the "white guy" go to jail for the "hate crime" he committed? justice is supposed to be justice, no matter what race you are. we are not trying to give justin barker NO-justice, we are trying to give EVERY race EQUAL JUSTICE.

[dbetts]

If anyone would like to see the full press conference Reed Walters held on today. Go to www.WAFB.com click on the link.

I was very confused when he named a person in which whom had asked him a question. Later I found out that he was a black minister from Jena. My question is why would he let everyone know who this minister was. He did not give the names of others that asked him questions. What was the point?

[deltachill79]

Michael and the Family,

The money that we DO NOT spend on these pagan holidays should be donated to the Unequal Justice Fund. I will donate my money!

[solovely]

My father is a pastor of a church in Mississippi. I am going to ask him about setting up a fund at the church for this cause...I'm sure he won't have any problems with that...he's a great man. I keep you all posted!

[alluevadreamed]

READ THIS NEW ARTICLE

The Jena Six are African-American teenage boys in Louisiana who were charged with attempted murder for what amounted to a schoolyard smackdown. It is, indeed, as black folks have been saying for weeks, a case of the justice system meting out unequal justice.
Mychal Bell, one of the Jena Six, is the only one who’s been tried so far. His charges were reduced to aggravated battery, and he was found guilty in June. But what else happened in June?
At a predominantly black housing project called Dunbar Village in West Palm Beach, Florida, 10 black teens repeatedly raped a Haitian immigrant woman before forcing her to perform oral sex on her 12-year-old son. Why doesn’t what happened to the West Palm Beach Two outrage the good reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton just as much as what happened in Jena, Louisiana?
Jesse and Al have been to Jena, railing about injustice. If either has made an appearance in West Palm Beach, Fla., to rail about the injustice of what happened to the West Palm Beach Two, someone please kindly correct me.
You know which body count I’m talking about. In Baltimore, as of the time I’m writing this, that body count has reached 215. It might top 300 by year’s end. Last year, Philadelphia’s body count was over 400.
Over 400 murdered in Philadelphia in 2006 and 215 in Baltimore this year. And let’s not forget who most of the victims are: Young black men, just like the Jena Six.
The case of the Jena Six has inspired some black folks to let out a war whoop as they sally forth to slay yet another dragon of white racism. But those black folks who think that white racism is the only problem we face in 2007, or even the main one, are deluding themselves.
In fact, our obsession with white racism, and with a criminal justice system that we insist is rife with white racism and institutional racism, may contribute to that body count. Here’s how.
I can’t speak for other cities, but in Baltimore our body count gets so high because jurors in this town repeatedly cut loose young black men accused of violent crimes. In Baltimore -- Bodymore, Murderland, the criminals call it -- the typical homicide victim is a young black man with a criminal record. Homicide suspects have the same profile.
I’ve had people in a position to know tell me that, more frequently than is ever reported, Baltimore jurors have cut loose young black men with lengthy criminal records who have been accused of either murder or another violent crime. It is our insistence that white racism is pervasive and that the criminal justice system is rife with racism that may inspire some jurors to send these young black men back out on the streets, where they commit more murders.
So, yes, we should protest -- and protest vigorously -- whenever cases like that of the Jena Six come along. But our lips should not be sealed shut when a black woman is raped and forced to perform oral sex on her 12-year-old son.
That body count of young black men murdered should outrage us every bit as much as what’s happened to the Jena Six. A young black man murdering another young black man and then walking out of court scot-free is just as much an injustice as six young black men being railroaded by the Louisiana criminal justice system.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” Martin Luther King Jr. once said.
And he might have added that injustice doesn’t come only in the color of white.

[rjohnson]

My name is Rodney L. Johnson, I am President/CEO of MetroLinx, a company partnered with a communications company called 5LINX Inc. I'm writing to present a simple, creative vehicle to raise funds for the Un-Equal Justice Legal Defense Fund. This fundraising opportunity benefits the members, supporters and your organization all at once. I'd like to introduce a fundraising initiative called LINX 2 FUNDS.

Our objective with LINX 2 FUNDS is to help your supporters, listeners and members save money. This program helps develop continuous monthly income for the Un-Equal Justice Legal Defense Fund while saving your supporters money. With this program, the UEJLDF can set budgets knowing monthly proceeds will be available, and create more visibility for this endeavor. LINX 2 FUNDS also provides a personalized website that automates the program, tracks progress and minimizes administration. It also converts inactive donors/supporters to active status while creating long-term, loyal customers for MetroLinx. This program is absolutely free of charge the first year. I offer the first year free to let the organization try out our program risk free. The costs would be $95.00 per year thereafter to maintain the website.

If you feel that this information will be helpful in the advancement of the UEJLDF, visit us at www.metrolinx.net for information about how the LINX2Funds Program can benefit the UEJLDF or other Non-Profit, For Profit, Civic, Church Group organizations.


Thank you,

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[BOMANI63]

School Security Guards Beat Teen over Cake Spill
Last Edited: Thursday, 27 Sep 2007, 7:24 AM PDT
Created: Wednesday, 26 Sep 2007, 10:53 PM PDT
http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=81401CAEF2EC7F5196628A8E31DC23D3 ?contentId=4473580&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1%20%20%20%20%20%20%20
It all started with a piece of birthday cake, but it ended up with a high school girl being beaten and expelled.
Palmdale -- It all started with a piece of birthday cake, but it ended up with a high school girl being beaten and expelled. The incident, which occurred last week at Knight High School in Palmdale, was caught on a cell phone camera. Michael Brownlee was live in Palmdale with what the girl and her mother plan to do now.
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[Ishine44]

Hi Michael & Family,

I got an opportunity to see a slideshow of the Jena 6 march, and I was impressed with the creativity of the t-shirts the marchers wore. I think it will be a good idea to sell some of the t-shirts as a fundraising tool for the legal fund. I am also interested in purchasing one particular shirts I saw. It read: “It began with a tree and grew into a movement.”

Please let me know how I can get in touch with the group responsible for making that shirt. Thanks.

I-shine:)

[LadyJJ]

:) Due to unforseen ccircumstances, I missed the march but I am very much a part of the fight for equal justice. We can never allow ourselves to be comfortable with a system that continues to dehumanize us. Hopefully we wiil not have to march again but if we do I will be there. I still find it amazing that we are reliving history again....Civil Rights Movement 2007! I love that you refuse to make this a racial issue and I am honored to be apart of this endeavor.

[LadySOULdja]

In Virginia there is an African-American woman who was held 30 days in jail after NOT being indited in a grand jury trial. I saw this story tonight and decided to post it here to see if she could get any help.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va-jailmix-up0930sep0,0,3372435.story

http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=7133062&nav=menu496_2_5

http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=7140203&nav=menu496_10

http://www.wric.com/Global/story.asp?S=7148522&nav=menu28_2_2

[QueenSheba]

We have a Giving Campaign at my job which are all required to participate in and there are several of us who much would rather have this money coming our of our paycheck go toward a more worthy cause that would support our community. One that we know the money is benefiting the people intended however we have to write in the name of the fund and it is asking for an EIN number? If there is one available please someone let me know what that is so that we can continue our support of the jena six and give more to the un-equal justice legal defense fund.

[Bestlove0628]

Michael, I just want to cry (I have tears ready to flow as I type). Every time someone calls your show to talk about their son that's unjustly in jail or someone tells you a story related to it I become so angry and sad. Since hearing about the Jena 6 (my 8 year old daughter and I both wore all black in support) something has fired up in me and I have you to thank! I'm an extremely compassionate person, especially for my people and I want to do what I can. I'm a 33 year old single parent with not much money to spare but I will set aside some money every 2 weeks for as long as I can and when I can for this fund.

I returned to school after 11 years to start from scratch and become a Psychologist, helping woman and children. I'm only able to take 1 or 2 classes at a time but I will do what it takes to offer my daughter Niaimani, and I a better future. Although, my major would fit me well, I'm considering changing to Law eventually becoming a Civil Rights Attorney. I want to help fight for what's right. I NEED to help the woman, men and children who have been thrown in jail for the benefit of the "UN"justice system. I'm sure by the time I graduate, you will still be fighting and I'd like to fight right along side with you and the many others. This will be my lifes mission!

[radiannce]

Praise God!!!!!

Our churches took up a collection for the defense fund. We received word during our conference that they released him. I pray that we all remain active in this because injustince is happening more since this occurred.

[bussuper]

I would like to know the mailing address and telephone number of the Un-egual Justice Legal Defense Fund. Please email info to grgl905@aol.com

[Bravo]

To: The FAMILY

My company IMOR Inds has designed and is the ONLY distribution source for a very special product - the JENA 6 Rally ribbon magnet. It measures approx. 4inchesx7inches, and can displayed on your auto,in your home,office or almost every where. Own one for the historical connection.

We will donate $1.00 to the Un-Equal Justice Legal Defense Fund from the purchase of every ribbon magnet that includes the word "Justice" with your orders. Each ribbon magnet retails for $4.95 or $4.50ea. for three or more.A realistic goal is $10,000 for The Fund this year. If that goal is reached, we will increase the donation by an additional 50-cents.

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[khaliphb]

People let's keep our eye on the ball. Get to the root cause and stop using band aides Read this thread in its entirety and see why our people are being misused and abused. This is their plan and they are starting with us by getting the message to our people that they will control us. This can me altered and turned around, but negroism is running rapid and it is time to wake up and go to work.

Please Read the following"

This our government speaking:


'A Coup Has Occurred'



By Daniel Ellsberg

September 26, 2007

(Text of a speech delivered September 20, 2007)



Editor’s Note:

Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming war with Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at an American University symposium on Sept. 20.




Below is an edited transcript of Ellsberg’s remarkable speech:


I think nothing has higher priority than averting an attack on Iran, which I think will be accompanied by a further change in our way of governing here

that in effect will convert us into what I would call a police state.

If there’s another 9/11 under this regime …

it means that they switch on full extent all the apparatus

of a police state that has been patiently constructed,

largely secretly at first but eventually leaked out and known

and accepted by the Democratic people in Congress,

by the Republicans and so forth.



Will there be anything left for NSA to increase its surveillance of us? …

They may be to the limit of their technical capability now,

or they may not. But if they’re not now they will be after another 9/11.



And I would say after the Iranian retaliation to an American attack

on Iran, you will then see an increased attack on Iran – an escalation

– which will be also accompanied by a total suppression

of dissent in this country, including detention camps.



It’s a little hard for me to distinguish the two contingencies;

they could come together. Another 9/11 or an Iranian attack

in which Iran’s reaction against Israel, against our shipping,

against our troops in Iraq above all, possibly in this country,

will justify the full panoply of measures that have been

prepared now, legitimized, and to some extent written into law. …



This is an unusual gang, even for Republicans.

[But] I think that the successors to this regime

are not likely to roll back the assault on the Constitution.

They will take advantage of it, they will exploit it.



Will Hillary Clinton as president decide to turn off NSA

after the last five years of illegal surveillance?



Will she deprive her administration her ability to protect

United States citizens from possible terrorism

by blinding herself and deafening herself

to all that NSA can provide? I don’t think so.



Unless this somehow, by a change in our political climate,

of a radical change, unless this gets rolled back in the next year

or two before a new administration comes in

– and there’s no move to do this at this point

– unless that happens I don’t see it happening under

the next administration, whether Republican or Democratic.



The Next Coup



Let me simplify this and not just to be rhetorical:

A coup has occurred. I woke up the other day realizing,

coming out of sleep, that a coup has occurred.

It’s not just a question that a coup lies ahead with the next 9/11.

That’s the next coup, that completes the first.



The last five years have seen a steady assault on every

fundamental of our Constitution, … what the rest of the world

looked at for the last 200 years as a model and experiment

to the rest of the world – in checks and balances, limited government,



Bill of Rights, individual rights protected from majority infringement

by the Congress, an independent judiciary, the possibility

of impeachment. There have been violations of these principles

by many presidents before. Most of the specific things

that Bush has done in the way of illegal surveillance

and other matters were done under my boss

Lyndon Johnson in the Vietnam War:

the use of CIA, FBI, NSA against Americans.



I could go through a list going back before this century to Lincoln’s

suspension of habeas corpus in the Civil War, and before that

the Alien and Sedition Acts in the 18th century.

I think that none of those presidents were in fact

what I would call quite precisely the current administration:

domestic enemies of the Constitution.



I think that none of these presidents with all their violations,

which were impeachable had they been found out at the time

and in nearly every case their violations were not found out

until they were out of office so we didn’t have

the exact challenge that we have today.



That was true with the first term of Nixon and certainly of

Johnson, Kennedy and others. They were impeachable,

they weren’t found out in time, but I think it was not their intention to

in the crisis situations that they felt justified their actions,

to change our form of government.

It is increasingly clear with each new book and each new leak

that comes out, that Richard Cheney and his now chief of staff

David Addington have had precisely that in mind

since at least the early 70s.



Not just since 1992, not since 2001, but have believed in

Executive government, single-branch government under

an Executive president – elected or not

– with unrestrained powers. They did not believe in restraint.



When I say this I’m not saying they are traitors.

I don’t think they have in mind allegiance to some foreign power

or have a desire to help a foreign power.



I believe they have in their own minds a love of this country

and what they think is best for this country – but what they

think is best is directly and consciously at odds

with what the Founders of this country and Constitution thought.



They believe we need a different kind of government now,

an Executive government essentially, rule by decree,

which is what we’re getting with signing statements.



Signing statements are talked about as line-item vetoes

which is one [way] of describing them which are unconstitutional

in themselves, but in other ways are just saying the president says

“I decide what I enforce. I decide what the law is. I legislate.”



It’s [the same] with the military commissions,

courts that are under the entire control of the Executive Branch,

essentially of the president. A concentration of legislative,

judicial, and executive powers in one branch,

which is precisely what the Founders

meant to avert, and tried to avert and did avert

to the best of their ability in the Constitution.



Founders Had It Right



Now I’m appealing to that as a crisis right now not just because

it is a break in tradition but because I believe in my heart

and from my experience that on this point the Founders had it right.



It’s not just “our way of doing things” – it was a crucial perception

on the corruption of power to anybody including Americans.

On procedures and institutions that might possibly keep

that power under control because the alternative

was what we have just seen, wars like Vietnam,

wars like Iraq, wars like the one coming.



That brings me to the second point.

This Executive Branch, under specifically Bush and Cheney,

despite opposition from most of the rest of the branch,

even of the cabinet, clearly intends a war against Iran

which even by imperialist standards, standards in other words

which were accepted not only by nearly everyone in the

Executive Branch but most of the leaders in Congress.



The interests of the empire, the need for hegemony,

our right to control and

our need to control the oil of the Middle East and many other places.

That is consensual in our establishment. …

But even by those standards, an attack on Iran is insane.

And I say that quietly, I don’t mean it to be heard as rhetoric.

Of course it’s not only aggression and a violation of international law,

a supreme international crime, but it is by imperial standards,

insane in terms of the consequences.



Does that make it impossible?

No, it obviously doesn’t, it doesn’t even make it unlikely.

That is because two things come together that with the acceptance

for various reasons of the Congress – Democrats and Republicans

– and the public and the media, we have freed the White House

– the president and the vice president – from virtually

any restraint by Congress, courts, media, public, whatever.



And on the other hand, the people who have this unrestrained

power are crazy. Not entirely, but they have crazy beliefs.



And the question is what then, what can we do about this?



We are heading towards an insane operation. It is not certain.

It is likely. … I want to try to be realistic myself here,

to encourage us to do what we must do, what is needed

to be done with the full recognition of the reality.

Nothing is impossible.



What I’m talking about in the way of a police state,

in the way of an attack on Iran is not certain.

Nothing is certain, actually.

However, I think it is probable, more likely than not,

that in the next 15, 16 months of this administration

we will see an attack on Iran. Probably. Whatever we do.



And … we will not succeed in moving Congress probably,

and Congress probably will not stop the president from doing this.

And that’s where we’re heading.

That’s a very ugly, ugly prospect.



However, I think it’s up to us to work to increase that small perhaps

– anyway not large – possibility and probability to avert this

within the next 15 months, aside from the effort

that we have to make for the rest of our lives.



Restoring the Republic



Getting back the constitutional government and improving it

will take a long time. And I think if we don’t get started now,

it won’t be started under the next administration.

Getting out of Iraq will take a long time.

Averting Iran and averting a further coup in the face of a 9/11,

another attack, is for right now, it can’t be put off.

It will take a kind of political and moral courage

of which we have seen very little…



We have a really unusual concentration here and in this audience,

of people who have in fact changed their lives, changed their position,

lost their friends to a large extent, risked and experienced

being called terrible names, “traitor,” “weak on terrorism”

– names that politicians will do anything to avoid being called.



How do we get more people in the government and in the public

at large to change their lives now in a crisis in a critical way?

How do we get Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for example?



What kinds of pressures, what kinds of influences can be

brought to bear to get Congress to do their jobs?

It isn’t just doing their jobs. Getting them to obey their oaths of office.



I took an oath many times, an oath of office as a Marine lieutenant,

as an official in the Defense Department, as an official

in the State Department as a Foreign Service officer.

A number of times I took an oath of office which is

the same oath office taken by every member of Congress

and every official in the United States

and every officer in the United States armed services.



And that oath is not to a Commander in Chief,

which is not mentioned. It is not to a fuehrer.

It is not even to superior officers.

The oath is precisely to protect and uphold

the Constitution of the United States.



Now that is an oath I violated every day for years

in the Defense Department without realizing it

when I kept my mouth shut when I knew

the public was being lied into a war

as they were lied into Iraq,

as they are being lied into war in Iran.



I knew that I had the documents that proved it,

and I did not put it out then.

I was not obeying my oath which I eventually came to do.

I’ve often said that Lt. Ehren Watada – who still faces trial

for refusing to obey orders to deploy to Iraq

which he correctly perceives to be an unconstitutional

and aggressive war – is the single officer in the United States

armed services who is taking seriously in upholding his oath.



The president is clearly violating that oath, of course.

Everybody under him who understands what is going on

and there are myriad, are violating their oaths.

And that’s the standard that I think we should be asking of people.



Congressional Courage



On the Democratic side, on the political side,

I think we should be demanding of our Democratic leaders

in the House and Senate – and frankly of the Republicans

– that it is not their highest single absolute priority

to be reelected or to maintain a Democratic majority

so that Pelosi can still be Speaker of the House

and Reid can be in the Senate, or to increase that majority.



I’m not going to say that for politicians they should ignore that,

or that they should do something else entirely,

or that they should not worry about that.

Of course that will be and should be a major concern of theirs,

but they’re acting like it’s their sole concern.



Which is business as usual.

“We have a majority, let’s not lose it, let’s keep it.

Let’s keep those chairmanships.”

Exactly what have those chairmanships done for us

to save the Constitution in the last couple of years?



I am shocked by the Republicans today that I read

in the Washington Post who yesterday

threatened a filibuster if we … get back habeas corpus.



The ruling out of habeas corpus with the help of the Democrats

did not get us back to George the First it got us back to

before King John 700 years ago in terms of counter-revolution.



We need some way, and Ann Wright has one way,

of sitting in, in Conyers office and getting arrested.

Ray McGovern has been getting arrested, pushed out the other day

for saying the simple words “swear him in” when it came to testimony.



I think we’ve got to somehow get home to them [in Congress]

that this is the time for them to uphold the oath,

to preserve the Constitution, which is worth struggling for

in part because it’s only with the power that the Constitution

gives Congress responding to the public, o

nly with that can we protect the world from mad men in power

in the White House who intend an attack on Iran.



And the current generation of American generals and others

who realize that this will be a catastrophe have not shown

themselves – they might be people who in their past lives

risked their bodies and their lives in Vietnam or elsewhere,

like [Colin] Powell, and would not risk their career

or their relation with the president to the slightest degree.



That has to change.

And it’s the example of people like those up here who somehow

brought home to our representatives that they as humans

and as citizens have the power to do likewise and find in themselves

the courage to protect this country and protect the world.



Thank you.



================

Daniel Ellsberg is author of

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.

[schinee72]

PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE. I POSTED IT LAST WEEK & IM REPOSTING IT NOW. THIS IS THE TYPE OF ACTION WE MUST TAKE SERIOUSLY!

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770925012

[QueenTiye13]

Before the Jena 6, before Genardo Wilson, there was William Jonathan Mayo.

http://www.freemayo.com

Please go to this website and read about this Morehouse student.

William is currently in his fifteenth year – serving 2 life sentences and 2 twenty-year sentences at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Georgia. Due to William’s zeal and tenacious spirit for life, it’s evident that he was on his way to a successful career. In 1992, William would have graduated from Morehouse College with a Psychology Major and Criminal Justice Minor and would have been commissioned as a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Army through the ROTC Program. Instead, he began serving a life long sentence for a crime even the actual perpetrators of the crime say he did not commit.

[filmoredollar]

Praise God!!!!!

Our churches took up a collection for the defense fund. We received word during our conference that they released him. I pray that we all remain active in this because injustince is happening more since this occurred.


I am proud to hear that. Regardless of my thoughts on this Jena thing the one resource that black America has is our churches. And unfortunately, it's not often that I see them stand. Makes me smile :D

[empower_us]

Dear Michael:

We are SO used to the ERRONEOUS thought process that is constantly projected at us of "fighting" and "defending" that we forget that when you send out the vibration of "DEFENSE" that all you attract are MORE instances of situations and circumstances that must be DEFENDED. The "wars" on poverty, crime, drugs create MORE not LESS and that is why they are essentially INEFFECTIVE. The SECRET, including Dr. Beckwith and others of higher consciousness "get" this fundamental truth of our universe.

I hereby suggest therefore that the name of the foundation "get in line" with the TRUE intent which is EQUAL JUSTICE. How about the "EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL" FUND? Imagine ALL of our listeners/supporters holding this POSITIVE name in their thoughts!!! Millions!!! We HAVE to attract EQUAL JUSTICE.

Thanks for holding the light...

Jim Moore, Executive Coordinator-Integrator
The World One Empowerment Project, LLC
http://www.world1empower.org

[gryph]

http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=4487143&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

16 year old arrested for spilling cake has wrist broken, plus mother and kid who video recorded on his cell phone the attack arrested.

She says he called her “nappy-headed” as he twisted her arm and bent her over a table
The mother of a 16-year-old Los Angeles-area high school student says her daughter was assaulted by security guard who broke her wrist for spilling cake crumbs on the floor at lunchtime. The incident, which occurred last week at Knight High School in Palmdale, Calif., was caught on a cell phone camera by another student who was then also assaulted by the security guards and suspended from school, the parents say. The girl whose arm was allegedly broken by the guards, Pleajhai Mervin, told Fox News LA that she was bumped in the lunch room and dropped her cake. She said she was ordered to clean it up, which she did, then to re-clean the spot three separate times. Embarrassed, Pleajhai said she attempted to leave but was jumped on by burly White security guards who twisted her arm and bent her across a table, breaking her wrist in the process. She says the officer called her “nappy-headed” and told her to “hold still” as he roughed her up. The incident didn’t end there. The security guards later had the mother of the girl arrested after she hired an attorney and insisted that the guard be arrested. The mother says she was told that she was being arrested and charged with battery for allegedly pushing the guard and an assistant principal. She was then suspended from her job at another school in the county. Pleajhai was suspended for five days and arrested for battery and for littering for spilling the crumbs. The student who captured the video on her cell phone was also arrested, along with his sister who was present at the scene. Watch the video, and let us know whether you think the guards are guilty of excessive force.

[roe2mont]

Please let your listeners know that Democracy Now is shown on a Public Broadcast Stations (PBS). The Show aired an interview with Rev Al Sharpton via Phone along with Caseptla Bailey and Tina Jones parents of two of the young men on September 21, 2007 at 7:00 PM est. Their web address is www.democracynow.org they can view the show online as well as purchase the tape.

I love the fact that as a people we can fight one another as is the case with our sibling, but nobody else better not mess with our family, because we will definitely come together and fight against the outsider(s). Please don't take the statement out of context, because I truly mean it from my heart and not in a bad way. It is time for us to stop killing one another in our neighborhoods and allow the crimes go unpunished, because of the code of the streets too many of our young men are dying. You have a lot of people that are critical of Bill Cosby, but when it comes to some of our people he does speak the truth, it time for all of us to look at ourselves because if we condon the behaviors of our children by not addressing them when you see them in action, we are just as bad as the one commiting the crime. I am speaking in regards to the things happening in our neighborhoods (Not the Jena 6 case in particular)

I applaud you and everyone else for igniting the fire under all of our feet. I would like for us as a people with all the buying power that we have to come together and pull our resources together to uplift one another economically as well as educationally, so that the proverty that exist in our neighborhoods will not keep our people at each other the way that it has, which is basically a slave mentality, historically the master's plan was to divide and conquer which is what they did with our ancestors and at this point the master doesn't have to do anything anymore, because the seed planted has settle in and taken root in a lot of our (African Americans) minds. The fruits of his labor (self hatred) is shown everyday on many street corners, hospitals, and morgues.


I read the Covenant with Black America and to see part of what Tavis Smiley was talking about in the book unfold is definitely an eye opener especially since I have two sons and one is down in Atlanta attending College, we had a discussion regarding the Jena 6 case and basically I let both my sons know it is those young men today, but it can be you tomorrow.

I belive that just as we have come together to right the unequal senstence handed down, that we can come together in all manners of life as Les Brown says "Black Life Has Value" it is time that we all see that once again.

[Rainey!]

Michael Baisdens organization - but would like to sell the remaining shirts 1st. please call 804-291-8698 or email - Kidsfutureourkids@gmail.com.

Shirts are $20.00 each.

[Antonio D]

I have not heard anyone really tackle the reason why African Americans in poll after poll indicate that they are supporting Hillary Clinton. It really is a sad occasion in our history that when black folks have a legitimate candidate for President, they refuse to support him. It's especially frustrating at a time when black folks rightly rally for injustice in Jena, Louisiana, when we decry the top Republican candidates skipping every debate to discuss our issues, and when blacks are loudly championing a community approach to our problems. What is truly disgusting is the notion that black folks say that Bill Clinton was the first black President. This is absolutely foolish talk, which I believe arose because Bill Clinton was so adept at pandering to black folks. No one is challenging this foolishness. I even heard a radio personality introduce Bill Clinton as the first black President. This needs to stop. Black always talk about what we want to see, e.g. a black President, but when we have an opportunity we foolishly question his blackness. Of course, all black folks don't think alike or have to vote for the same person, but I would have imagined when given an opportunity to support one of your own, we would have done so. It truly is a disgrace what I am seeing. Maybe it will change, but someone to address this issue in a meaningful way.

There is a situation that is worse, however. The black politicians, particularly the Congressional Black Caucus, who have publicly supported Hillary Clinton. How is it that a group supposedly representing the interest of black folks can not agree on supporting a black candidate for President. I understand that the CBC can not endorse a candidate, but each individual member can and have been doing so, but not to support one of your own members - shameful. The arguments I have read by some who support Hillary Clinton defies logic. How can anyone say, with a straight face, that a white woman better understands the issues affecting the black community? These same politicians when challenged by white candidates almost universally say that they (the black candidate) is better able to address the issues of the black community. It is total hypocrisy for them to say something different now. Political calculation has no place when it comes to matters such that will affect the entire black community. Interestingly, white woman are supporting Hillary Clinton because she is a woman and they are not trying to justify their reasons. If a Jewish candidate ran for President, I'm certain that Jewish people would support that candidate. But our own politicians, who should know the challenges of running for office with a white electorate, will not support Obama. There are a good number of people saying internally that if black folks don't support him why should we, which is a good question.

I must say that I have lost what little respect I had for black politicians. They truly have forgotten the reasons why they were elected. If they do not support Obama, I say that black folks should not support them. Black folks deserve leaders with some integrity, which may cost them something, i.e., that political appointment they would be vying for in a Clinton administration. When will we ever stop believing that the white man's or woman's ice is colder.

[CeoHall22]

First time on the mingle City forum.. I'm so proud of our people for the Jena Six march. I'm ready to march in Atlanta for Genarlow Wilson if needed. Also read this article about "PETA" who's been crucifying Michael Vick when there own people just recently was found dumping dead animals in the garbage...Read very interesting...http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/23/EDG11DC9BK1.DTL

[YasminShiraz]

Hello family,
I'm not exactly sure how to post this, so I'm going to email you and try to post and email some more. 15 year old Shaquanda Cotton was sentenced to 7 years in prison for pushing a hall monitor at her high school in Paris, Tx. She was sentenced in March 2006. BET.com ran the story a while back. Shaquanda has her own blogspot. http://freeshaquandacotton.blogspot.com/
She can receive mail at:

Ron Jackson Correctional Complex
Unit 2, Dorm 4
Po Box 872
Brownwood, TX 76804

The Judge who handed down this sentence is: Judge Chuck Superville-
He can be reached at Honorable MC Chuck Superville, JR. Judge
Lamar County Courthouse
119 North Main
Paris, TX 75460
Ph# 903.737.2410
Fx# 903.785.3858

I work with youth on various issues self-esteem, violence, etc. I will be getting that information through to my network.
Yasmin Shiraz
yasmin@yasminshiraz.com

[Lavidaloka]

Mr. Baisden, I was listening to one of your shows and heard of the following:
A legal movement was being started to look into the lengthy prison sentences handed out to black youth and the inequality of the justice system. Darryl Washington, Esq. from the National Bar Association was involved and was interviewed on that day. It was mentioned that if anyone knew of a prisoner where the sentence was not justified, to send a cd/video or letter describing the situation. Someone please post elaborate information on the steps I should take to get further info, who to write, how I can get involved, etc… Peace...A

[nomoidoagain]

I was also wondering about that since I did write a check and I've been checking my account to see when it goes through but as of today it has not and that was almsot 2? weeks ago.....On CNN coverage (online live video) 09/20-----The camera was focused for hours on a motorhome parked in the middle of town. There was a male on the top of the motorhome with a microphone. He was not identified, he started passing around boxes, asking for money to pay $9000 (10% of $90,000 bail) to get Mychal out of jail on bail. Even after the camera moved away from him, you could hear him announcing the amount collected, $5000,$10,000, $25,000 and he finally announced $30,000 was collected.
So my question is, who was HE and what happened to the $30,000?

[CLove48]

He would have been out if they would have gone at this the correct way. March In baton Rouge at the capitol. Not in Jena, LA where this stuff originated.

This march should have NEVER taken place for several reasons. Those 6 young men are THUGS and that’s exactly how they are being treated. The black community is being shattered and it’s not because of some “white man”, it’s because of thugs like those 6 and they do not need to continue to pollute out community. Black people continue to sit around and ignore the truth. The truth is around us, in our community and its staring us in the face everyday we watch the news.

Philadelphia, PA – “Disturbing Black Murder Rates” You don’t honestly think it’s a white man in a sheet and pointy hat shooting black people do you?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0213/p01s02-ussc.htm

Miami, Fl – “Man [THUG] shots at 4 officers, killing one” Yea, he’s black and was shot dead by police a day later. Good thing they took him off the streets before he killed another black man.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20760201/

Those are just 2 stories out of thousands of problems that are infesting out black community. Yet the so called black activists are trying to justify the actions of 6 thugs in Jena, LA. Tell the top poverty pimps like Sharpton and Jackson to get on CNN and address the real issues in the black community. But don’t expect that anytime soon, no money involved. This Jena thing is being used for a few peoples own gain. The only issues with those 6 are the excessive charges. If they wouldn’t have beaten that boy they wouldn’t be worried about spending 20 years in jail. Don’t forget the crimes these 6 boys committed.

As for that march, this was totally out of order and served no purpose (well maybe to line the pockets of certain individuals). People are comparing this to what Dr. King and others did in the past and that is wrong. During the civil rights movement things were moved. Black people can now enter through the front door, sit anywhere on a bus, use the same fountain, bathroom, etc. Those were actual civil rights movements. King never got his posse together and beat someone. This “Jena 6” cannot be called a “modern day movement” if nothing is being MOVED. But those 6 boys can thank their ancestors for their actions 50 years ago. Because if that was 1950 Jena the only party that white boy was going to after his beating was the lynching of those 6. Matter of fact, a 1950 black man would have NEVER thought about beating another human, especially a white one.

Now about those charges, I do believe they are excessive. Sharpton and Co. should have gone to Baton Rouge, LA and rallied at the capitol to have those excessive charges reduced NOT dropped/dismissed. And I say Baton Rouge because that’s probably the only way that Bell is going to get released. The court system in Jena, LA has made their minds up on the punishment for those 6 guys. And they proved this Friday, that no march in their town will change anything.

One last thought... If the boy who these 6 thugs beat would have been black would any of this be going on? Seems like were focusing too much on black on white crimes when we should be focusing on the TRUTH!
Apparently you don’t have all of the facts around this issue. Did you know that the school Administrators gave these young men permission to sit under that tree and then nooses showed up on the tree the next day? Did you know that after that one of the African American students was beat up by White students? Did you know that the White student that was beat up pulled a gun? The media didn’t talk about that! The only reason the Jena 6 is in jail is because they reported the fight and gun to the racist authorities..

Your first problem is listening and believing what you hear and see on the television news. The media has done a great job of getting everyone (all races) to turn against African American people. Let the media tell it White American is perfect even after they do something far worst than what occurred in Jena. We all know that is not true.

If you had been listening to this entire issue you would know that the base reason for the march and uproar is the fact that so many young black men and women are looking at unfair sentences that are not equal to their crime. I’m upset with what's going on in the African American community as well. I do believe that we as a people must do more to rectify our many problems however we also tired of watching our young people (some that are thugs as you call them and many of them are not) get put in jail for the rest of their lives for making a mistake. Before writing negative comments you should do your homework.

May I ask what are you doing to help out in your African American community or are you of another race?

[CLove48]

He would have been out if they would have gone at this the correct way. March In baton Rouge at the capitol. Not in Jena, LA where this stuff originated.

This march should have NEVER taken place for several reasons. Those 6 young men are THUGS and that’s exactly how they are being treated. The black community is being shattered and it’s not because of some “white man”, it’s because of thugs like those 6 and they do not need to continue to pollute out community. Black people continue to sit around and ignore the truth. The truth is around us, in our community and its staring us in the face everyday we watch the news.

Philadelphia, PA – “Disturbing Black Murder Rates” You don’t honestly think it’s a white man in a sheet and pointy hat shooting black people do you?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0213/p01s02-ussc.htm

Miami, Fl – “Man [THUG] shots at 4 officers, killing one” Yea, he’s black and was shot dead by police a day later. Good thing they took him off the streets before he killed another black man.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20760201/

Those are just 2 stories out of thousands of problems that are infesting out black community. Yet the so called black activists are trying to justify the actions of 6 thugs in Jena, LA. Tell the top poverty pimps like Sharpton and Jackson to get on CNN and address the real issues in the black community. But don’t expect that anytime soon, no money involved. This Jena thing is being used for a few peoples own gain. The only issues with those 6 are the excessive charges. If they wouldn’t have beaten that boy they wouldn’t be worried about spending 20 years in jail. Don’t forget the crimes these 6 boys committed.

As for that march, this was totally out of order and served no purpose (well maybe to line the pockets of certain individuals). People are comparing this to what Dr. King and others did in the past and that is wrong. During the civil rights movement things were moved. Black people can now enter through the front door, sit anywhere on a bus, use the same fountain, bathroom, etc. Those were actual civil rights movements. King never got his posse together and beat someone. This “Jena 6” cannot be called a “modern day movement” if nothing is being MOVED. But those 6 boys can thank their ancestors for their actions 50 years ago. Because if that was 1950 Jena the only party that white boy was going to after his beating was the lynching of those 6. Matter of fact, a 1950 black man would have NEVER thought about beating another human, especially a white one.

Now about those charges, I do believe they are excessive. Sharpton and Co. should have gone to Baton Rouge, LA and rallied at the capitol to have those excessive charges reduced NOT dropped/dismissed. And I say Baton Rouge because that’s probably the only way that Bell is going to get released. The court system in Jena, LA has made their minds up on the punishment for those 6 guys. And they proved this Friday, that no march in their town will change anything.

One last thought... If the boy who these 6 thugs beat would have been black would any of this be going on? Seems like were focusing too much on black on white crimes when we should be focusing on the TRUTH!
Apparently you don’t have all of the facts around this issue. Did you know that the school Administrators gave these young men permission to sit under that tree and then nooses showed up on the tree the next day? Did you know that after that one of the African American students was beat up by White students? Did you know that the White student that was beat up pulled a gun? The media didn’t talk about that! The only reason the Jena 6 is in jail is because they reported the fight and gun to the racist authorities..

Your first problem is listening and believing what you hear and see on the television news. The media has done a great job of getting everyone (all races) to turn against African American people. Let the media tell it White American is perfect even after they do something far worst than what occurred in Jena. We all know that is not true.

If you had been listening to this entire issue you would know that the base reason for the march and uproar is the fact that so many young black men and women are looking at unfair sentences that are not equal to their crime. I’m upset with what's going on in the African American community as well. I do believe that we as a people must do more to rectify our many problems however we also tired of watching our young people (some that are thugs as you call them and many of them are not) get put in jail for the rest of their lives for making a mistake. Before writing negative comments you should do your homework.

May I ask what are you doing to help out in your African American community or are you of another race?

[wgriffin412]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21018490/

[sq357]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21018490/
Here we go again! Why was he writing bad checks? Our black men, should know that that the world is not fair. If he was writing bad checks to feed his family--let him go! If he was writing them for anything else--add ten more years to his sentence.

[tacturne]

Michael Baisden,

I have heard that an economic Black out date is scheduled for Nov 2 where African Americans and all other races are being asked not to spend any money on that date. From what I understand, people are being asked to donate what money they would have spent that day to the defense fund for unequal justice. Are you aware of this event and if so do you support it and how do we get more information about how the day is to be carried out.

I am leading a student organization at Georgia State university and I need some tangible information that I can give to the people to try to rally support for the black out day. Can you help a sister out!


Thanks

Taralyn

[eli_el]

FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
People interested in making donations please read the info below:

Although a lot of organizations are collecting donations, the legal defense teams are not getting the funds and the lawyers are having to spend their own money to help these young men. One organization has stated that they have collected over $130,000 for the Jena Six and the legal team for Mychal Bell has only received $4,000 to date and not even from that organization. We have established a fund to ensure that the funds are going to for the legal defense. We'll help where it is needed most and right now that is for Mychal Bell. All donations will be greatly appreciated by the family of Mychal Bell.

Donations will be accepted by check, cashiers check, money order and bank wire as the need is urgent. Please send donations to the following:

Make Payable To:
THE UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Mail To:
THE MICHAEL BAISDEN SHOW
ATTN: UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
P.O. BOX 17266
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78217-0266

We will update everyone weekly on the show with amounts of the donations. Thank you in advance on behalf of Mychal Bell, his family and legal team. we will be helping the other families of Jena Six, but Mychal Bell has the greatest immediate need. If you have already donated to an organization ask them when and how the funds are being used. We will be working with the National Bar Association and will layout the plans for the how the funds will be used to help in these endeavors.
COUNT ME IN
Blatant Abuse Of Discretionary Powers By Judges in Both Criminal and Civil Courts

Hello,

Nooses are symbolic of the modern day lynchings that are performed by some judges everyday. Next meeting we will be speaking about a judge in Maryland.

Come Join Us:
http://blackbiz.meetup.com/248/
http://community.myfoxdc.com/blogs/eli_el
http://www.pinkthunder.com/pinkthunder/2003/11/the_universal_l.html

Take Care,

Eli

[NoVASister]

The lead attorney representing Mychal Bell (Mr. Scott, Esq.) addressed participants at the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference last Saturday. He provided the following information for those of us who wish to provide financial assistance to him.

Mychal Bell Defense Fund
510 Pine Street
Monroe, Louisiana 71201

[uptownbreeze]

I greatly appreciate a fund being set up for these obvious cases of abuse. There's a company, that most people never heard of, called Prepaid Legal Services which offers everyone affordable access to top rated Law Firms in all 50 states, for pocket change a day. People legal rights are being violated everyday on great and small levels, but it's all these little injustices that eventually adds up to what's happening today in society. Look into Prepaid Legal as a viable alternative also. www.prepaidlegal.com/hub/sharris70

[winnerinlife]

You know what? Each time Michael has set up a fund to donate to a worthwhile cause such as Hurricane Katrina and now the Jena 6, the money went STRAIGHT TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEEDED THE HELP. I have NEVER known Michael to stray away from that.

To donate, be clear that this money is going straight to the families of the Jena Six and their Attorneys. I will ALWAYS donate money anytime Michael asks for it because it's a guarantee that it will go where it's supposed to go.

My dad told me that when Michael had the Katrina fund in 2005, he made sure to donate TO HIS FUND ONLY because he knew he was legit.

Michael Baisden, you are NO JOKE! I love you for being REAL and making it plain what's up with the cash that you collect. You can best believe that I will be in Atlanta at the benefit AND making a donation. I will see you in the ATL in November!

[filmoredollar]

Here we go again! Why was he writing bad checks? Our black men, should know that that the world is not fair. If he was writing bad checks to feed his family--let him go! If he was writing them for anything else--add ten more years to his sentence.

I absolutely agree. Accountability and responsibility arts at home with us. You cannot complain about a system when you are a part of the problem. In this case we have people complaining that the media is bias and thats why blacks need to report on "Our News" and on the other side we are not telling the whole truth in our own reporting of the facts. Jesus (Am talking about his story not about religion) won followers because he had the moral high ground. I don't see that here.

Although the ceo's of major companies who scammed millions of dollars didn't get 30 years. So is this a race thing or is this a am rich so i have better lawyers than you thing.

[Bravo]

FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
People interested in making donations please read the info below:

Although a lot of organizations are collecting donations, the legal defense teams are not getting the funds and the lawyers are having to spend their own money to help these young men. One organization has stated that they have collected over $130,000 for the Jena Six and the legal team for Mychal Bell has only received $4,000 to date and not even from that organization. We have established a fund to ensure that the funds are going to for the legal defense. We'll help where it is needed most and right now that is for Mychal Bell. All donations will be greatly appreciated by the family of Mychal Bell.

Donations will be accepted by check, cashiers check, money order and bank wire as the need is urgent. Please send donations to the following:

Make Payable To:
THE UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Mail To:
THE MICHAEL BAISDEN SHOW
ATTN: UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
P.O. BOX 17266
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78217-0266

We will update everyone weekly on the show with amounts of the donations. Thank you in advance on behalf of Mychal Bell, his family and legal team. we will be helping the other families of Jena Six, but Mychal Bell has the greatest immediate need. If you have already donated to an organization ask them when and how the funds are being used. We will be working with the National Bar Association and will layout the plans for the how the funds will be used to help in these endeavors.
Please contact my company regarding the exclusive 'JENA 6 Rally' ribbon magnet that should be proudly displayed on your auto, in-home, office,or almost everywhere.They retail for $4.95ea./$4.50ea for three or more. A donation of $1.00 from each purchase will be made to the Un-Equal Justice Defense Fund. Help us reach a goal of $10,000 in 07'.

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An Advance Thank YTou
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In business for more than 10years.

[warmheart]

I want to say that Michael, you have gone above and beyond in support of this situation that affects so many of us all over the world. Kudos to you Michael!!! Putting the show on lockdown to be in Louisiana on 9/20/07; that is commendable. That just goes to show that you are real in what you say and not just talking. You are about the cause!! I was listening to the show yesterday and I wanted to comment on something you said about Bishop T.D. Jakes and the Jena 6. Anyway, you were talking about how Bishop T.D. Jakes was proud that he gave $6,000 in defense of the Jena 6, compared to the $30,000+ that you put up for this same cause. I just wanted you to know that T.D. shouldn't be put down for his contribution, rather he should be thanked. Give credit where credit is due. It doesn't matter how much he gave, it is the simple fact that he gave. What about the other people of his status that haven't done anything?? I think instead of putting him down for what he gave, give the man some props for what he has done. Just as people are giving you props for all that you are doing in support of the Jena 6; reciprocate. I know that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, that's what makes us individuals. I just think that when people are being supportive of a cause it doesn't matter what you do, just that you did. What about the ones who are silent and not doing anything to support this travesty that is happening to these young men and their families in Louisiana? People don't realize how close to home this situation really is. I remember you saying that other radio show hosts had the power to shut down their radio shows to go to Louisiana on 9/20/07, but they chose not to. I agree 100%. What I am trying to say is that the people who are doing something should get their props and not be criticised for their contribution, no matter the amount. We don't know what T.D. has going on in his life, so who is to say how much he can contribute? Just my two cents. Michael, I still love your show and I am going to continue to listen. Also, I want to thank you for putting the word out on this issue and making people aware that this is a problem that should not be ignored; rather WILL not be ignored!!

[marshagotgame]

Hello to all my Brothers and Sisters,

After confirming my bus ride from Maryland to LA; feeling compelled to "do more" I designed a "Jena 6" T-shirt. Keep in mind that I am 52 year old retiree/disabled living on a fixed income. I sold the T-shirt from Baltimore to Jena, LA. I sold $1500 worth of shirts!!!!!! Hallelujah!!! I couldn't believe it myself!

My intent was for 50% of the proceeds to go towards Mychal Bell's defense and the remainder to cover my "out-of-pocket" cost. Are you ready for this.....??

As I marched; I asked Jena residents how I could contact the Bell family to no avail. I tried to touch base with Michael Baisden and his crew. I was informed that they were in Alexandria, LA demonstrating with those that could not get into Jena. And lo and behold.....I saw the trailer parked near the Jena Courthouse and the gentleman soliciting the crowd for $$$$. And for those that doubted his "legitimacy"...check this out.......

I approached him; informing him that I had a $1500 donation for the Bell family. When he announced my donation, the trailer door flew open....one of the Bell attorneys (Louis Scott) grabbed me in a bear hug and before I knew it I was face-to-face with Bell's grandmother. I put the $1500 in her hand, she cried, I cried and it was a very fulfilling moment for me. I left T-shirts for the 6 Jena defendants and for some of their family members that were present.

So the morale of the story is......it's what's in the heart, not what's in the pocket. Unfortunately, there are dishonest people among us but all it takes is just one of us with the right intentions.

Your Sister In the Struggle !!

[ad_md]

That's great dena45. I think that serving financially will always be soemthing we, especially minorities, will have to do in this country. The U.S. was built on racism and unequal justice, therefore it's (unfortunately) rooted within the core of this country. Let us all keep up the fight!

BTW ALL - check this link from the afro american news paper based out of D.C.

http://www.afro.com/content/articlefiles/8075-JohnsonSharptonLetter.pdf

[elitejumper]

Dear Michael Baisden,

Please allow me to express my sincere appreciation for the topics featured on your radio show. It is truly extraordinary people like you who make a major impact on our African-American society. I try to tune in to your show to educate myself, as well as stay abreast of the unjust issues that frequently plague our nation. Regretfully, I was unable to catch the July 11th topic (The impact of incarcerated parents on their children...) which directly relates to my family’s current life situation.

Currently, I work part-time, and am a 2008 Olympic training athlete who spends majority of my time preparing to fulfill my athletic goals and dreams, as well as the daughter of an incredible father who has been incarcerated for over 25 years for a “crime he didn’t commit”. Unfortunately, my father was brought up in an era (in Philadelphia) when police corruption was at its apex, and African-American men were the #1 targets of arrest. In 1981, my father was framed, ineffective represented and imprisoned under a “LIFE SENTENCE”. He had no means, and still doesn’t (other than myself and him) of fighting for his freedom, nor has he been given the equal rights to do so. We have been trying so desperately to seek help against the unjust actions of the judicial system and the 39th Police district in Philadelphia, but we have been very unsuccessful due to limited resources.

Not too long ago, The Innocence Project (TIP), located in New York City, has tried to extensively offer their assistance but have been unsuccessful since the case evidence has been tampered with and purposefully misplaced (hidden) or thrown away. Attached is a letter from TIP expressing their views and concerns, as well as their request for help for my father whom they strongly believe is innocent as well. TIP is very interested in using my father as a “poster person” to prove how unjust the Philadelphia Judicial System truly is as well as attempt to win his case, along with other identical cases, without DNA involvement for the first time. The representatives who were working along side my father (from TIP) said that their efforts to push such campaign will take years before they accomplish anything. Because time is not on our side, I have attempted to reach out to several other credible sources that all believe my father is innocent after reading the legal information I provide them. Recently, I collaborated with a University of Pennsylvania Law professor and lawyer who appointed me a private investigator, who happened to interview all locatable witnesses linked to the case. As a result, we received good feedback, but because I could only pay the private investigator $500, and the professor/lawyer $1000 (which was a struggle)I was unable to make further progression. Now we are stuck between a rock and hard place.

Due to my father’s case being so old and evidence unable to be located it is impossible for me to gain effective assistance. Everyone wants money and no one is willing to work with me although, again, they know that my father did not commit the crime. I sincerely and desperately am writing you for your financial assistance or guidance in helping me secure a credible lawyer, who can bring my father home, as well as prove the judicial system wrong once again. Please note….I have all information pertaining to my father’s case available for review. We miss him and he has and continues to suffer a great deal from this tragedy. Please, Please I am crying out for your help!!!!!!!! I look forward to your positive response.

Sincerely, with kindest regards

[zion]

A judge ordered a black teenager back to jail, deciding the fight that put him in the national spotlight violated terms of his probation for a previous conviction, his attorney said.

Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers in the so-called Jena Six case is accused of beating a white classmate, had gone to juvenile court in Jena on Thursday expecting another routine hearing, said Carol Powell Lexing, one of his attorneys.

Instead, state District Judge J.P. Mauffrey Jr. sentenced Bell to 18 months in jail on two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal destruction of property, Lexing said.

"We are definitely going to appeal this," she said. "We'll continue to fight."

Bell had been hit with those charges before the Dec. 4 attack on classmate Justin Barker. Details on the previous charges, which were handled in juvenile court, were unclear.

Mauffrey, reached at his home Thursday night, had no comment.

"He's locked up again," Marcus Jones said of his 17-year-old son. "No bail has been set or nothing. He's a young man who's been thrown in jail again and again, and he just has to take it."

After the attack on Barker, Bell was originally charged with attempted murder, but the charges were reduced and he was convicted of battery. An appeals court threw that conviction out, saying Bell should not have been tried as an adult on that charge.

Racial tensions began rising in August 2006 in Jena after a black student sat under a tree known as a gathering spot for white students. Three white students later hung nooses from the tree. They were suspended but not prosecuted.

More than 20,000 demonstrators gathered last month in the small central Louisiana town to protest what they perceive as differences in how black and white suspects are treated. The case has drawn the attention of civil rights activists including the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Sharpton reacted swiftly upon learning Bell was back in jail Thursday.

"We feel this was a cruel and unusual punishment and is a revenge by this judge for the Jena Six movement," said Sharpton, who helped organize the protest held Sept. 20, the day Bell was originally supposed to be sentenced.

Bell's parents were also ordered to pay all court costs and witness costs, Sharpton said.

"I don't know what we're going to do," Jones said. "I don't know how we're going to pay for any of this. I don't know how we're going to get through this."

Bell and the other five defendants have been charged in the attack on Barker, which left him unconscious and bleeding with facial injuries. According to court testimony, he was repeatedly kicked by a group of students at the high school.

Barker was treated for three hours at an emergency room but was able to attend a school function that evening, authorities have said.

Bell, Robert Bailey Jr., Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis and Theo Shaw were all initially charged — as adults — with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit the same. A sixth defendant was charged in the case as a juvenile.

Bell, who was 16 at the time, was convicted in June of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit that crime. LaSalle Parish prosecutor Reed Walters reduced the charges just before the trial. Since then, both of those convictions were dismissed and tossed back to juvenile court, where they now are being tried.

Charges against Bailey, 18, Jones, 19, and Shaw, 18, have been reduced to aggravated second-degree battery. Purvis, 18, has not yet been arraigned.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_re_us/jena_six

[mike63]

Klansman #1 and Klansman #2 just don't get it do they. We're in this for the long haul, Michael Baisden if you say let's roll again, LET'S ROLL. Just tell us the date.

[mike63]

By rearresting Mychal Bell they may be trying to milk the case for bail funds. Each time they arrest him another bail is going to be set. I hope Mychals' defense attorneys look into this and come up with a strategy to combat this. Obviously this is a revenge move on thier part. All of the people that say that we are making too much out of the Jena thing, keep watching this case. IT'S ABOUT UN-EQUAL JUSTICE.

[garrylee]

Good Day to All the Family, Michael, George and to the wonderful people who run the show.

I am an avid listner- and follow the positive works of the show.

I am a Small Business Owner:

TADAKA Bath & Body Boutique
All Natural & Organic Handcrafted Bath & Body Products

Thanks to Michael and his support, my business is being reconized and appreciated in our community.

Therefore, as an appreciation and "Thank-You Michael Baisen" I am committing 20% of All Sales proceeds to the UNEQUAL JUSTICE DEFENSE FUND to Customers that mention Michael Bell or Badboy.

I Pledge 20% of all sales for ONE YEAR (1yr), beginning 10/12/07--
ending 10/12/08

Please let me know to whom and where I should submit funds and customer's llst.

Thank you,
Ms. Garry Williams, Owner
TADAKA Bath & Body Boutique
209 Edgewood Avenue, SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
404-688-4003
www.tadaka.net

[sr.recruiter]

Michael why don't you join and partner with Warren Balentine and get a legal perspective. He is asking that all people of color not to buy anything!!!! November 2nd. We need to hit them in the pockets because money gets their attention. LET'S SHOW THEM WE MEAN BUSINESS

[PosPar]

I agree with this $1.00 donation Mike needs to ask the family to donate a dollar and have a specific bank account set up for any one to walk into in their town and make the account number available to everyone. Bank of america works well. That's a easy way secure way and efficient way to ensure the money goes to the right place. Heck ask BOFA to match the donations......just a suggestion. A lot of listeners out there!! I think we all would be surprised. There's a out of state deposit form in every BOFA in the country.........just a thought

Lots of love for the cause!

We are going to do help until we get equal justice for these young guys!!!!!!!!!

By the way may money is waiting .. for more info on where to send it....

Money turns these wheels and they need it!!!!1 And for everyone else ...........put up !!!!!!!!show up!!!!!!! or just shut up!!!!!!!!!!

[PosPar]

make no mistake. People are truly aware and society haven't seen the amount of people that's about to show up........this time. LOL

[nurse1]

Our Boys And Girls Are Under Seized. Save The Children!!

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Jailings, shootings, lynchings, My BLACK CHILD was IN an ALL WHITE CLASS and was FORCED TO CLEAN TOILET in his public school bathroom AFTER ACCUSED BY WHITE STUDENT OF DIRTYING TOILET. TEACHER MADE my son who was KINDERGARTEN CLEAN TOILET AND FLOOR WITH OUT GLOVES. he was not GIVEN any NO DUE PROCESS. What are our legislatures doing about all this going on around the country. Our sons and daughters are under seized. Even the ACLU has noticed the national trend.

Read their article. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is committed to challenging the "school to prison pipeline," a disturbing national trend wherein children, disproportionately children of color, are being funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Many of these children are the most vulnerable, with learning disabilities or histories of poverty, abuse or neglect, and should receive additional educational services rather than isolation and punishment.
Several policy trends in the public education and juvenile justice systems are to blame for this nationwide epidemic. First, the trend toward "zero-tolerance" policies criminalizing minor instances of school misconduct plays a vital role in pushing our children out of public schools. These zero-tolerance policies often result in children being suspended, expelled or arrested for relatively minor disciplinary infractions. The criminalization of school code violations funnels many children into the juvenile justice system instead of addressing misbehavior through parents, teachers and school administrators. The application of discipline is often discriminatory, with minority students being disciplined and referred to the juvenile justice system at higher rates than their white peers. In some cases, children are directly arrested for school code violations, and in others, they are sent to alternative schools for children with behavioral problems.
Second, schools increasingly ignore and bypass due process protections for children, particularly those with special needs and learning disabilities, in sending these children to alternative schools and the juvenile justice system. Children often receive no or deficient legal representation to aid them in challenging charges resulting from school code violations. Many of the juvenile detention facilities in which they serve sentences provide few, if any, educational services. Third, various policy initiatives, including the No Child Left Behind Act, place an undue emphasis on high stakes testing, which creates incentives for schools to push out low performing students in order to boost their overall test scores and avoid facing federal penalties. Also in an attempt to avoid NCLB Act-related penalties, some school districts fail to report accurate graduation rates that accurately account for students who dropped out or were channeled into the juvenile justice system. These practices distort the reality that large numbers of minority children are being undereducated and displaced from the public education system.
The ACLU is working to challenge numerous policies and practices within public school systems and the juvenile justice system that contribute to the school to prison pipeline

So why does George think we don't need a village because a village didn't make the child? How ridiculous. Just because someone makes a baby whether they are a teen or an adult does not mean they are fit parents. Some parents have nothing to offer that child spiritually, intellectually, nor able to provide resources that it may take to raise that child appropriately. There are many children making babies and their babies themselves. Thats definetly a call for the village, the pastors, the grandmothers, aunts, uncles, brother, sisters to come in and help this child to provide what this child will need to become a wholesome and productive adult. Everyone doesn't have resources or parents and live in such a perfect environment of those who got it like that. Be thankful if you have parents and love and respect and decent roof over your head. The reality is also that some children are fending for themselves and raising themselves are they still not deserving of love, protection and helping hand to survive. My God are we that out of touch.

All children are deserving of protection and love whether they are facing jail or not. The student was man-handled, thrown On a table wrist broken by security and the child forced to cleain the toilet with his bare hands under the seat and on top, and definetly the younglady who was choked by her prinicipal. Well what about the 14 year old that was totured and murdered by the officers in Florida. We killed Saddam for in humane acts of violence against man kind and look what we are doing right here in America. What hipocrisy.

There needs to be more laws and proctection available to all children they are also american citizens. These schools are allowing teachers and administrators to hide behind sovereign immunity and get away with criminal behavior. Despite their socioeconomic levels, Black students begin school equally motivated and with test scores equal, some even higher, than those of White students. However, research shows that the longer they stay in school, the less motivated they become. And by the time they reach high school level many develop a total disinterest with education, fall behind, and subsequently drop out of school altogether. From elementary school to prison pipline we not only are creating the brightest but we are also killing their spirit and creating disilusional and kids who feel the need to protect themselves with guns. We need to wake up and really think about things for and see the big picture. OUR children are under seized. I would like to add when your shopping for the holidays please check out our website that is donated to a legal defense fund for all children facing injustice whether they are facing jail or not. The shopping page is linked to just about every store in America and even Travel, pet gifts, flowers, etc and most shipping is free. So if your going to shop anyway it might as well go towards a good cause. God bless. www.communityactions.org or http://www.krymus.com/3416-communityactioncoalition. well God Bless and keep the village moving

Michelle Vann
nurse1cac@yahoo.com

[MrPlowden]

Good Evening, Mr Baisden


My name is Raymond D. Plowden, II, I'm with a IVNET.TV. I'm looking to contact the person handling the Jena 6 fundraiser. What we do at IVNET.TV, we do live global broadband web cast on the internet. What I would like to do is make the Jena 6 fundraiser available to all of Michael Baisden fans that can't make it. What we do is charge a fee between $10.00 - $20.00 to gain access. A live web cast will enable the listeners that can't make it to be apart of the event. Our server can handle millions of fans logging in at different speeds. So I would like for you give me a call at your earliest time to see if this would be something you would like to have available to the fans.


1. What is global webcasting?
A global webcast uses streaming media technology to take a single content source and distribute it to many live viewers all over the world.

2. How does it work?
A live stream is "pushed" or sent out to our custom multimedia server network which then distributes it anywhere in the world simultaneously. So that anyone that listen to on the radio or online can view the fundraiser. The contribution raised for the fundraiser can be great.

Thank you

Raymond D. Plowden, II
www. ivnet.tv
1-877-250-9720
202-672-5314 (8:30 - 5:00)

[MrPlowden]

Good Evening, Mr Baisden


My name is Raymond D. Plowden, II, I'm with a IVNET.TV. I'm looking to contact the person handling the Jena 6 fundraiser. What we do at IVNET.TV, we do live global broadband web cast on the internet. What I would like to do is make the Jena 6 fundraiser available to all of Michael Baisden fans that can't make it. What we do is charge a fee between $10.00 - $20.00 to gain access. A live web cast will enable the listeners that can't make it to be apart of the event. Our server can handle millions of fans logging in at different speeds. So I would like for you give me a call at your earliest time to see if this would be something you would like to have available to the fans.


1. What is global webcasting?
A global webcast uses streaming media technology to take a single content source and distribute it to many live viewers all over the world.

2. How does it work?
A live stream is "pushed" or sent out to our custom multimedia server network which then distributes it anywhere in the world simultaneously. So that anyone that listen to on the radio or online can view the fundraiser. The contribution raised for the fundraiser can be great.

Thank you

Raymond D. Plowden, II
www. ivnet.tv
1-877-250-9720
202-672-5314 (8:30 - 5:00)

[CHUCKaBUCK]

i somewhat agree with you because i did not hear the entire story,i wonder was the white boys thugs also. In any case you can not deny the fact that things are and always have been black and white. i don't know your gender but i can almost gurantee that you are a female because a black man in these days and time, feel it. and all of us are not thugs, what about the incident in New York with officers&the 50 shots? were they thugs? Yes, we as a people need to get our stuff together as with every race. i didn't see you mention the beating of the black boy. Maybe the blacks were wrong, but we still need to stick toghter if nothing more then to show the world that we are not falling a part and that we are capable of coming together. in other words no matter what the cause, let's get together and who knows maybe even the thugs will wake up and stop the sensless killings. If people make money of it so what, let's focus on our job and let God deal with them.

[rjohnson]

My name is Rodney L. Johnson, I am President/CEO of MetroLinx, a company partnered with a communications company called 5LINX Inc. I'm writing to present a simple, creative vehicle to raise funds for the Un-Equal Justice Legal Defense Fund. This fundraising opportunity benefits the members, supporters and your organization all at once. I'd like to introduce a fundraising initiative called LINX 2 FUNDS.

Our objective with LINX 2 FUNDS is to help your supporters, listeners and members save money. This program helps develop continuous monthly income for the Un-Equal Justice Legal Defense Fund while saving your supporters money. With this program, the UEJLDF can set budgets knowing monthly proceeds will be available, and create more visibility for this endeavor. LINX 2 FUNDS also provides a personalized website that automates the program, tracks progress and minimizes administration. It also converts inactive donors/supporters to active status while creating long-term, loyal customers for MetroLinx. This program is absolutely free of charge the first year. I offer the first year free to let the organization try out our program risk free. The costs would be $95.00 per year thereafter to maintain the website.

If you feel that this information will be helpful in the advancement of the UEJLDF, visit us at www.metrolinx.net for information about how the LINX2Funds Program can benefit the UEJLDF or other Non-Profit, For Profit, Civic, Church Group organizations.


Thank you,

Rodney L. Johnson, President/CEO
MetroLinx
rjohnson@metrolinx.net
www.metrolinx.net

[peacefulbliss]

I would like to donate to the Jena 6 fund, I want to give some advice, TO the Jena 6 or at least 2 of them, Dont get on BET TV looking like thugs, remember we are trying to prove that we are not thugs...

[uptownbreeze]

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The color of justice in America is not Black or White, it's Green. You will get as much justice as you can afford. -Johnny Cochran

There's a difference between a legal situation and a legal crisis. Jena Six is a legal crisis, your local dry cleaner losing one of your shirts may be a legal a situation. Unfortunately most of us wait until a legal crisis hits our life before we seek the services of an attorney. We have to check our pockets before we check our rights. Never again does that have to be the case. You see if we knew better we would do better, well here's one of those ways to do better and provide your family with an umbrella of quality legal protection along with protection against the # 1 crime in America Identity Theft.

Prepaid Legal Services is the company that's been providing access to the legal system, starting as little as $16 per month, for 35yrs. Now you know a better way to avoid all the headaches and heartaches of a legal situation or a legal crisis, for more information simply go to www.prepaidlegal.com/hub/sharris70

[WhiteWolf777]

I paid a lawyer to file a post conviction on behalf of my daughter , who has set in jail for the past 18 years for a crime she did not committe and the state knew this to be a fact, read the attorney grievace section of my website to see the run around we get.
There wasn't and doesn't seem to be any justice for my children.Once on my website, would please scroll down to the last tab and hit petition for freedom and read the peition and if you feel my daughter was wrongful convicted please sign the petition.
As for the color of justice being green, maybe my money just wasn't green enough. There's also a donation tab. It would be nice if my children's injustice could get the publicity the Jena6 has gotten as well as the help.
PLEAS HELP:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( PLEASE HELP MY DAUGHTER

Thank You

[deedee1205]

My name is debra. i am a retired special ed paraprofessional/ bus driver/ nurse shift leader. My son is incarcerated for a crime he did not commit. the cost of his legal defense to be respresented is $5,000.00 lawyer fees. this is just to bring him back to our home town to have him brought before the judge for a re-consideration, since after hiring a private investigater we've discovered valuable evidence that will hopefully set him free. The info is very good, the lawyer is awaiting his fee to get him started. I will gladly give you all of the lawyers info if you don't trust me. just send him a check for the stated amount. my son deserves to be tried fairly, it's his right. lawyer info: Scott Phillip 411 21st st. columbus ga. 31904 c/o of debra jackson & Aundrus Horace (my son's name)if you need any more info about me and my son and his case i will furnish it for you. please please help me to bring my son home. debra jackson
In my son case he was accused of 7 counts. 3 rape, 1 kidnapping, 2 aggravated sodomies, 1 child molestation. The prosecution had no physcial evidence, no DNA, no rape kits, no gun, or any other material evidence. they went solely on the statements of 2 of the victims who were friends, and stated that he was the person who raped them. During my son's preliminary hearing the 2 victims were allowed in the court room. The P.I that i hired discovered that the women had priors. 1 was a prostitute, 1 gave false information, 1 lied about her age, according to the police she was underage.
2 of the victims refused raped kits and also refused to prosecute and signed waivers to that effect. My son has no priors, he was working full time, he was getting ready to enroll in College. He was advised by his legal counsel who we paid handsomely, to take a PLEA being in his best interests. He was facing 5 life w/o parole, + additional 50 years in prison if convicted. we later found out after taking the plea of 30yrs do 15yrs that the lawyer was not prepared for the case. The P.I. was hired after his sentencing along with a different attorney. after we found out about the many discrepancies in my son case this new lawyer was shocked to see how poorly the case was handled by the previous attorney. The new attorney advised us to hire the P.I. because the previous lawyer had made no attempt to obtain any evidence/info to support my son case. Such as background checks into the alleged victims credibility. The previous law firm that we hired was a REPUTABLE law firm in Columbus Ga. My son has been locked up 5 years, I pray that you can help us or direct us to someone who can help us. Please help me, I miss my son dearly. Thanks Debra Jackson

[Bless2b Lee]

Hey Michael,

I heard it in your voice Boo.............., you were extremely upset today. Rightfully so!! I felt the quiteness in the country as well. I started to get upset because I stop hearing about the Jena 6 on all of the news channels and on the radio. And you are correct, you are the ONLY radio personality speaking on the subject EVERYDAY. I'm in Raleigh and I can only get news about the Jena 6 if I listen to you or Jacki Reed in the morning on Tom Joyner. I even got the feeling that Tom Joyner was sick of hearing about it because one morning he kept laughing and interrupting Jacki in the middle of her report. A male caller even called him and Jay Anthony Brown and told them to Stop PLAYING so Damn much while Jacki is reporting!!

We are not going to realize the severity of this matter until it affects our own households. Where are all of the Pastors in the Mega churches? Why aren't the members of these Mega churches asking the Pastors to take the lead? You are only one person and you are correct in saying if the people do not show you that they want your support Don't waste your time! For now, I will send in my donations monthly as well. My first payment will go out with tomorrows mail. P.S. Go easy on Dominque

Bless2b Lee

[independent]

I was just at BOSSIP.com and they had pictures of a couple of the Jenna 6 bragging about they "THUGIN" flashing $100 bills. I know we have to focus on what is right and wrong but this STOOPIDITYmakes it difficult for me to feel empathy for them.

[Observer]

Mike,

I will donate to the defense fund and anything that will help our people. I hope we can join together and start putting our money together to advance our people.

I wish you would ask each person to donate a certain amount ....like $20.00 per person or an amount per family. This may help people to donate, once they know an amount that they can try to achieve.


Thanks,


Neal

[Hap]

my money sent..

[griffithah]

V-103 in Atlanta with Sinbad has a concert at the Tabanacle that day. Are they included in the boycott. That is a complete disregard in the cause. What do we do? Someone please let Michael Baisden and Rev Sharpton know about this because my e-mails continue to go un-answered. Let me know the results.

[griffithah]

Is everyone of our supporters included in this Boycott? we have a few famous folks still want to make a buck, that's already rich. What do we do now? are is this only for poor people to boycott? Someone please let me know something.

[griffithah]

To Whom It May Concern: I’m writing this letter to tell you’ll of small town southern experience of growing up in the south among school segregation until I was going to the 6th grade. I’m 50 years old and spent 20 years in the Military. When I was growing up, we did not question why we had to go to the balcony in the movie theater, why we had to go to the back of a restaurant to order or pick up food from a small window, especially when one of the men from church was the cook, go to the laundry mat with a sign displayed on the front “colored only” and to find two inches of water on the floor, the local swimming pools, one for white only and the other one for colored only. Back then, in their frame of mind, that’s the way it was since we didn’t have to bow our heads anymore and could walk the streets as we pleased. Back then, we had come a long way. I want to approach a subject that I’ve been looking for in the media for a long time. I don’t think that we will progress any time soon, as a people because of the NAACP is the only anything in the States that can get away with calling us colored people. When and if they ever change their title to National Advancement for People of Color, then I will support them. To be truthful, I rather for someone to call me the “N” Word, which we call each other, as friends and family but you never, heard a buddy say to you “come hear little colored boy”. Someone said to me one day in a debate that NAACP was formed by a white man, that’s ok but we need to change that Advancement of Colored People because back then, you never saw a sign that read “Blacks Only”, Just Colored Only. Let’s start in our back yard before can we can go any further. Mike Vick received much TV coverage because they see it as another colored boy going down and JENA6 is America and since it’s a poor income family, the media class them as “poor colored folks”, next to trailer trash. Call someone (Spike Lee) who is not afraid to piss people off, to air this to help the Brothers and Sisters of Jena. These are Christian people who need help from whence we came. Why in America that Telemunda TV will perhaps be the first to air the Jena6 instead of CBS, ABC, and WSB and so on? Just speaking my mind in Georgia. Late ad but true.

[katkat81164]

That man is me, Robert j. Clark of Monroe, LA. 71202, my number is 3183883323 or 3186147999cell. The finally count on the money was $26,750+ and was turned over to Mr. Bell attorney at a local church right after the March in Jena, LA. (Police escort-Monroe Marshall office). I tookthe liberty of taking pictures and a live viedo shot just for the non belivers. Please feel free to contact me at Po.O. Box 6, Monroe, LA. 71201 or robert@theclarkcompanyinc.com Mr. Clark, thank you soooooo much for clearing up this question. I would so much like to see more people, such as yourself come forward and set the record straight on some of these mysteries. I can not afford to subscribe to television service at this time and rely heavily on my computer to keep me in the loop. With that said I log on to Michael Baisden message boards everyday to get an update, I really appreciate you clearing this up for all of us. :)

[griffithah]

I will donate an amount every week until further notice,are until Michael tell me nothing else is needed, I am fighting for what is right.
.:D


V-103 in Atlanta with Sinbad has a concert at the Tabanacle that day. Are they included in the boycott. That is a complete disregard in the cause. What do we do? Someone please let Michael Baisden and Rev Sharpton know about this because my e-mails continue to go un-answered. Let me know the results.

[davisgl57]

How does one donate?
I also need to be contacted regarding a ridiculous case against my 39-year old son in Douglasville, GA. How can he obtain an atty. through this legal defense fund. Who can we contact.

Gladys Davis
Los Angeles, CA

[Larissa]

Hey Family,

My donation is on the way. I can't make the concert, but I did make the trip to Jena.

Michael I got your back!

[loveyad1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAZQlgPO8qc

This is why the smart folks over here at Bossip don't support Negro causes "just because" we are told to. Here is a picture of Robert Bailey Jr., a member of the Jena 6. According to a video on Youtube, he was braggin' about thuggin' on his Myspace and was caught showing off what looks to be Jena 6 Defense Fund stacks. SMH.

This is worse than Blood Diamond Russ' partner Ben Chavis spending NAACP donations to keep a sex deal quiet or Blood Diamond Russ defending blood diamonds in Africa while being on the payroll of the diamond industry.

The video with more disturbing pics is under the hood, check it out



Ganked from www.bossip.com

[rawtalk]

FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
People interested in making donations please read the info below:

Although a lot of organizations are collecting donations, the legal defense teams are not getting the funds and the lawyers are having to spend their own money to help these young men. One organization has stated that they have collected over $130,000 for the Jena Six and the legal team for Mychal Bell has only received $4,000 to date and not even from that organization. We have established a fund to ensure that the funds are going to for the legal defense. We'll help where it is needed most and right now that is for Mychal Bell. All donations will be greatly appreciated by the family of Mychal Bell.

Donations will be accepted by check, cashiers check, money order and bank wire as the need is urgent. Please send donations to the following:

Make Payable To:
THE UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Mail To:
THE MICHAEL BAISDEN SHOW
ATTN: UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
P.O. BOX 17266
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78217-0266

We will update everyone weekly on the show with amounts of the donations. Thank you in advance on behalf of Mychal Bell, his family and legal team. we will be helping the other families of Jena Six, but Mychal Bell has the greatest immediate need. If you have already donated to an organization ask them when and how the funds are being used. We will be working with the National Bar Association and will layout the plans for the how the funds will be used to help in these endeavors.

Can someone on MB's staff set up a PayPal account, that's easiest for people like myself who may want to pay using a credit card or electronic check...just a thought. I would love to help.
;)

Thank you
ruth

[jurlene]

Robert Bailey Jr, one of the so-called "Jena 6," has been receiving tens of thousands of dollars in CASH donations, which he keeps at home in his bedroom.

He was bragging about it on MySpace and put pics of himself rolling around with 100 dollar bills, and putting them in his mouth... they've since been taken down but here they are in all their glory.

[beautifulone]

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[Lrapsey]

Things concerns me where the Jena 6 money really went!!http://youtube.com/watch?v=OAZQlgPO8qc!

[Lrapsey]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAZQlgPO8qc

This is why the smart folks over here at Bossip don't support Negro causes "just because" we are told to. Here is a picture of Robert Bailey Jr., a member of the Jena 6. According to a video on Youtube, he was braggin' about thuggin' on his Myspace and was caught showing off what looks to be Jena 6 Defense Fund stacks. SMH.

This is worse than Blood Diamond Russ' partner Ben Chavis spending NAACP donations to keep a sex deal quiet or Blood Diamond Russ defending blood diamonds in Africa while being on the payroll of the diamond industry.

The video with more disturbing pics is under the hood, check it out



Ganked from www.bossip.com


Does Baisden know this????

[darren]

Does Baisden know this????


I have been wondering if any one took the time to look at my space when I posted this information about bailey before the rally in Jena. I posted about his my space account, not to mention the new cars & ward robes that certain family members of the 6 have been buying since the donations have been coming in. I also wonder how many people feel about being suckered into sending hard earned money to thugs who don't have enough respect for the people who are trying to help them.

[mekaluvspooh]

please email me back i wanna do a bank wire
:)

[uncdec01]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAZQlgPO8qc

This is why the smart folks over here at Bossip don't support Negro causes "just because" we are told to. Here is a picture of Robert Bailey Jr., a member of the Jena 6. According to a video on Youtube, he was braggin' about thuggin' on his Myspace and was caught showing off what looks to be Jena 6 Defense Fund stacks. SMH.

This is worse than Blood Diamond Russ' partner Ben Chavis spending NAACP donations to keep a sex deal quiet or Blood Diamond Russ defending blood diamonds in Africa while being on the payroll of the diamond industry.

The video with more disturbing pics is under the hood, check it out



Ganked from www.bossip.com

This what I wrote to bossip

I am an reader of this site and today I must say I am disappointed and downright disgusted with this posting.


http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=7134753
http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070928/UPDATES01/70928007

First of all this video is very old and second it has already been discredited. Those pictures were posted before the Jena six case and was not money from the defense fund. Funds have not been sent directly to the families. That Youtube video was created by a passive aggressive bigot with an obvious racist agenda and now you have helped this bigot spread his destructive message far and wide. This video has been traced back to a neo-nazi website

Why would you not do research before you post items that are destructive, detrimental and disrespectful to our community and our movement.

I am appalled by your remarks of "Put them in jail" and "This is why the smart folks over here at Bossip don’t support Negro causes just because we are told to".

I am glad to know where this web site stands when it comes to uplifting and advancing the plight of the Black community.

I guess this web site also would not have supported the Civil Right Movement because of reports that Dr. King was a womanizer and a communist. If someone would have made a negative Youtube video about Rosa Parks would this site have suggested she should sit her black butt on the back of the bus and stop complaining.

I am begging the Black Community to Wake up!!!!! We can not continue to fall for the same tricks they have been pulling for over 400 years. We must get smarter and more critical of the information we trust.

Don't forget who told you that there were only 15,00 people at the march in Jena when if you were there you know there were over 60,000+. Don't forget who labeled Katrina survivors as refugees and told you that there was wide spread rapes, murder and mayhem going on. To date there have been no confirmed cases or credible reports of any of this. Don't forget who told you that pumping over 40 bullets into Sean Bell was self defense, or that hanging a noose is just a prank and not a hate crime.

Black People our community is in crisis!!!!! We can not continue to fall for the OOKY Dook over and over again. This keep us Unfocused, Confused, and thus Ineffective and Inactive.

Bossip I think it is your responsibility to print a retraction to this erroneous post. This is disrespectful to the people who rode on busses or drove all day and night to march for justice. It is disrespectful to those who gave unselfishly to the defense fund. It is disrespectful to the hundreds of thousand people and their families who are lost in the system. Most of all it is disrespectful to our forefathers who left it to us to advance the movement. Because of this irresponsible reporting many people who had joined the movement to bring about change in the Black community have been discouraged, disillusioned and disheartened.

Bossip I understand that you have the right not to stand up for equal justice and join the movement to uplift and advance the plight of black people, but

I Beg you and others, if you are not willing to join and work for the movement please do not work against it by undermining, discrediting, or hindering it.

[Rosalind Warren]

FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
People interested in making donations please read the info below:

Although a lot of organizations are collecting donations, the legal defense teams are not getting the funds and the lawyers are having to spend their own money to help these young men. One organization has stated that they have collected over $130,000 for the Jena Six and the legal team for Mychal Bell has only received $4,000 to date and not even from that organization. We have established a fund to ensure that the funds are going to for the legal defense. We'll help where it is needed most and right now that is for Mychal Bell. All donations will be greatly appreciated by the family of Mychal Bell.

Donations will be accepted by check, cashiers check, money order and bank wire as the need is urgent. Please send donations to the following:

Make Payable To:
THE UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Mail To:
THE MICHAEL BAISDEN SHOW
ATTN: UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
P.O. BOX 17266
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78217-0266

We will update everyone weekly on the show with amounts of the donations. Thank you in advance on behalf of Mychal Bell, his family and legal team. we will be helping the other families of Jena Six, but Mychal Bell has the greatest immediate need. If you have already donated to an organization ask them when and how the funds are being used. We will be working with the National Bar Association and will layout the plans for the how the funds will be used to help in these endeavors.

Has any heard about a blackout for Jena 6 on November 2nd,need info please

[uncdec01]

I have been wondering if any one took the time to look at my space when I posted this information about bailey before the rally in Jena. I posted about his my space account, not to mention the new cars & ward robes that certain family members of the 6 have been buying since the donations have been coming in. I also wonder how many people feel about being suckered into sending hard earned money to thugs who don't have enough respect for the people who are trying to help them.


Sites that discredit photos and other false reports

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=7134753
http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs...TES01/70928007


This what I wrote to bossip a site that recently posted the pics

I am an reader of this site and today I must say I am disappointed and downright disgusted with this posting.


First of all this video is very old and second it has already been discredited. Those pictures were posted before the Jena six case and was not money from the defense fund. Funds have not been sent directly to the families. That Youtube video was created by a passive aggressive bigot with an obvious racist agenda and now you have helped this bigot spread his destructive message far and wide. This video has been traced back to a neo-nazi website

Why would you not do research before you post items that are destructive, detrimental and disrespectful to our community and our movement.

I am appalled by your remarks of "Put them in jail" and "This is why the smart folks over here at Bossip don’t support Negro causes just because we are told to".

I am glad to know where this web site stands when it comes to uplifting and advancing the plight of the Black community.

I guess this web site also would not have supported the Civil Right Movement because of reports that Dr. King was a womanizer and a communist. If someone would have made a negative Youtube video about Rosa Parks would this site have suggested she should sit her black butt on the back of the bus and stop complaining.

I am begging the Black Community to Wake up!!!!! We can not continue to fall for the same tricks they have been pulling for over 400 years. We must get smarter and more critical of the information we trust.

Don't forget who told you that there were only 15,00 people at the march in Jena when if you were there you know there were over 60,000+. Don't forget who labeled Katrina survivors as refugees and told you that there was wide spread rapes, murder and mayhem going on. To date there have been no confirmed cases or credible reports of any of this. Don't forget who told you that pumping over 40 bullets into Sean Bell was self defense, or that hanging a noose is just a prank and not a hate crime.

Black People our community is in crisis!!!!! We can not continue to fall for the OOKY Dook over and over again. This keep us Unfocused, Confused, and thus Ineffective and Inactive.

Bossip I think it is your responsibility to print a retraction to this erroneous post. This is disrespectful to the people who rode on busses or drove all day and night to march for justice. It is disrespectful to those who gave unselfishly to the defense fund. It is disrespectful to the hundreds of thousand people and their families who are lost in the system. Most of all it is disrespectful to our forefathers who left it to us to advance the movement. Because of this irresponsible reporting many people who had joined the movement to bring about change in the Black community have been discouraged, disillusioned and disheartened.

Bossip I understand that you have the right not to stand up for equal justice and join the movement to uplift and advance the plight of black people, but

I Beg you and others, if you are not willing to join and work for the movement please do not work against it by undermining, discrediting, or hindering it.

[darren]

Sites that discredit photos and other false reports

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=7134753
http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs...TES01/70928007


This what I wrote to bossip a site that recently posted the pics

I am an reader of this site and today I must say I am disappointed and downright disgusted with this posting.


First of all this video is very old and second it has already been discredited. Those pictures were posted before the Jena six case and was not money from the defense fund. Funds have not been sent directly to the families. That Youtube video was created by a passive aggressive bigot with an obvious racist agenda and now you have helped this bigot spread his destructive message far and wide. This video has been traced back to a neo-nazi website

Why would you not do research before you post items that are destructive, detrimental and disrespectful to our community and our movement.

I am appalled by your remarks of "Put them in jail" and "This is why the smart folks over here at Bossip don’t support Negro causes just because we are told to".

I am glad to know where this web site stands when it comes to uplifting and advancing the plight of the Black community.

I guess this web site also would not have supported the Civil Right Movement because of reports that Dr. King was a womanizer and a communist. If someone would have made a negative Youtube video about Rosa Parks would this site have suggested she should sit her black butt on the back of the bus and stop complaining.

I am begging the Black Community to Wake up!!!!! We can not continue to fall for the same tricks they have been pulling for over 400 years. We must get smarter and more critical of the information we trust.

Don't forget who told you that there were only 15,00 people at the march in Jena when if you were there you know there were over 60,000+. Don't forget who labeled Katrina survivors as refugees and told you that there was wide spread rapes, murder and mayhem going on. To date there have been no confirmed cases or credible reports of any of this. Don't forget who told you that pumping over 40 bullets into Sean Bell was self defense, or that hanging a noose is just a prank and not a hate crime.

Black People our community is in crisis!!!!! We can not continue to fall for the OOKY Dook over and over again. This keep us Unfocused, Confused, and thus Ineffective and Inactive.

Bossip I think it is your responsibility to print a retraction to this erroneous post. This is disrespectful to the people who rode on busses or drove all day and night to march for justice. It is disrespectful to those who gave unselfishly to the defense fund. It is disrespectful to the hundreds of thousand people and their families who are lost in the system. Most of all it is disrespectful to our forefathers who left it to us to advance the movement. Because of this irresponsible reporting many people who had joined the movement to bring about change in the Black community have been discouraged, disillusioned and disheartened.

Bossip I understand that you have the right not to stand up for equal justice and join the movement to uplift and advance the plight of black people, but

I Beg you and others, if you are not willing to join and work for the movement please do not work against it by undermining, discrediting, or hindering it.


Money was sent directly to the families at first until enough people started wondering why the money was being used for personal items. Then the defense fund was started.
And again you are wrong about how many people were in Jena. I am from Jena and I was there. There was not 60,000 people there that day.
Also your comparison of these six thugs to Rosa Parks is an discredit to Rosa. The myspace page is real. He only removed the pics. after attention was drawn to it.

[darren]

Can someone on MB's staff set up a PayPal account, that's easiest for people like myself who may want to pay using a credit card or electronic check...just a thought. I would love to help.
;)

Thank you
ruth

There is one bank in Jena where there is over $ 300,000 in the defense fund. Mr. Bells lawyers are working pro-bono.

[uncdec01]

The pics are real but the context is not correct which makes it propaganda. The video makes it seem like the boys were mocking people who sent in money. The pictures were there before the Jena case went public and before the defense fund ever received a dime.


As far as how many people were at the march believe what you want it is not important, but I know I live in a relatively small town and almost 1,000 people left from there alone.

I find it very interesting how you choose to refer to them as thugs. I am interested to know why you went to the march in Jena for young men and other who you perceive as thugs.

[Blackman7]

Money was sent directly to the families at first until enough people started wondering why the money was being used for personal items. Then the defense fund was started.
And again you are wrong about how many people were in Jena. I am from Jena and I was there. There was not 60,000 people there that day.
Also your comparison of these six thugs to Rosa Parks is an discredit to Rosa. The myspace page is real. He only removed the pics. after attention was drawn to it.

White people like YOU are the SAME KIND of RACISTS who try to tell the africans not to trust the Chinese with their countries natural resources.

History has TAUGHT those of us with INTELLIGENCE, that the only race we cannot trust is the WHITE RACE.

So please, spare us your disingenuous white devil opinions. The only people you can fool are those who lack intelligence.

[Blackman7]

darren,
When I was a boy, an old native man told me, "As long as you live, don't ever trust a white man."

White devils like YOU are the reason why.

[Blackman7]

Native American Genealogy and Tribes

Rhyming to Reading ~ ancient prophecy of the eagle and the condor

Ten Bears, Yamparika Comanche Chief
At the Medicine Lodge Creek Council at Kansas in October 1867: "I was born upon the prairie where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures and where everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls."

Tecumseh (Shooting Star), Shawnee Chief
"Where today is the Pequot? Where are the Narragansetts, the Mohawks, theIndian Feather Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun."

Joseph (Thunder Rolling in the Mountains), Nez Perce Chief
Upon surrender, October 1877: "I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulhulzote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men [Joseph's brother, Ollokot] is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever." After the surrender, Chief Joseph and his people were sent to Indian Territory where five of his children and many of his tribe died of disease.

Wetatonmi, Nez Perce, widow of Chief Joseph's brother, Ollokot
On leaving tribal lands after the surrender, October 1877: "It was lonesome, the leaving. Husband dead, friends buried or held prisoners. I felt that I was leaving all that I had but I did not cry. You know how you feel when you lose kindred and friends through sickness - death. You do not care if you die. With us it was worse. Strong men, well women and little children killed and buried. They had not done wrong to be so killed. We had only asked to be left in our own homes, the homes of our ancestors. Our going was with heavy hearts, broken spirits."

Red Cloud, Oglala Sioux

"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it."

Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux Chief
"We did not ask you white men to come here. The Great Spirit gave us this country as a home. You had yours. We did not interfere with you. The Great Spirit gave us plenty of land to live on, and buffalo, deer, antelope and other game. But you have come here; you are taking my land from me; you are killing off our game, so it is hard for us to live. Now, you tell us to work for a living, but the Great Spirit did not make us to work, but to live by hunting. You white men can work if you want to. We do not interfere with you, and again you say, why do you not become civilized? We do not want your civilization! We would live as our fathers did, and their fathers before them." Crazy Horse was forced to surrender in the spring of 1877. He was arrested in September of the same year and mortally wounded by a Sioux guard at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.

White Bear, Kiowa Chief
"I do not want to settle down in the houses you would build for us. I love to roam over the wild prairie. There I am free and happy. When we sit down, we grow pale and die."

Sitting Bull (Tatanka Lyotanka), Hunkpapa Sioux Warrior and Medicine Man
"If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it he will find it, and that is what the Indians are doing now when they ask you to give them the things that were promised them in the past; and I do not consider that they should be treated like beasts, and that is the reason I have grown up with theSitting Bull feelings I have." ------ "I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. It is bad for young men to be fed by an agent. It makes them lazy and drunken. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors or white farmers." Sitting Bull took about 900 of his followers to Canada. As game became scarce on the Canadian plains, hundreds of Lakotas crossed back to the US and with less than 200 of his people remaining, Sitting Bull surrendered to US authorities at Fort Buford, Dakota Territory on July 20, 1881. Held as a prisoner of war for two years, he returned to his people at Standing Rock Reservation in 1883. With the rise of the Ghost Dance Religion, there was fear he was inciting his people so Indian agents were sent to arrest him. Claiming he tried to escape, they shot and killed Sitting Bull on December 15, 1890. His people scattered and some fled the reservation. Big Foot and his band of 350 Miniconjou Lakota were rounded up by soldiers of the 7th Cavalry and on December 29, 1890, nearly 200 were killed in what became known as the Massacre at Wounded Knee.

Black Elk, Lakota Sioux Holy Man
On the Massacre at Wounded Knee: "Something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there." Black Elk's Lament; "You see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead."

Standing Bear, Ponca Chief
On the forced removal from their lands in Nebraska: "We told them we would rather die than leave our lands; but we could not help ourselves. They took us down. Many died on the road. Two of my children died. After we reached the new land, all my horses died. The water was very bad. All our cattle died; not one was left. I stayed until one hundred and fifty-eight of my people had died. Then I ran away with thirty of my people, men and women and children. Some of the children were orphans. We were three months on the road. We were sick and weak and starved. When we reached the Omaha Reserve the Omahas gave us a piece of land, and we were in a hurry to plough it and put in wheat. While we were working, the soldiers came and arrested us. Half of us were sick. We would rather have died than be carried back; but we could not help ourselves."

Black Hawk, Sauk and Fox Chief
In a dedication from his autobiography to General H. Atkinson who was commander of the army in the battle leading to his surrender, 1833: "I am now an obscure member of a nation, that formerly honored and respected my opinions. The path to glory is rough and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on yours - and that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to, is the wish of him, who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself."

Seattle (Sealth), Suquamish and Duwamish Chief
Replying to a speech by Governor Isaac Stevens on the signing of the treaty surrendering their lands, 1855: "Our dead never forget the beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bay, and ever yearn in tender, fond affection over the lonely hearted living, and often return from the Happy Hunting Ground to visit, guide, console and comfort them ... And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe..."

Geronimo (Goyathlay), Chiricahua Apache Leader
Geronimo From his autobiography: "We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or Usen [God] would not have created us ... For each tribe of men Usen created, He also made a home. In the land created for any particular tribe He placed whatever would be best for the welfare of that tribe ... Thus it was in the beginning: the Apaches and their homes each created for the other by Usen himself. When they are taken from these homes they sicken and die. How long will it be until it is said there are no Apaches?" Upon his surrender in 1877, Geronimo and his people were taken as prisoners of war and sent to a reservation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Upon final surrender, they were sent into exile in Florida.

Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha), Seneca Chief
In answer to why he did not want a Christian missionary to stay among his people: "We are told that your religion was given to you by your forefathers, and has been handed down from father to son. We also have a religion which was given to our forefathers, and has been handed down to us, their children. We worship in that way. It teaches us to be thankful for all favors we receive; to love each other and be united. We never quarrel about religion, because it is a matter which concerns each man and the Great Spirit. Brother, we do not wish to destroy your religion or take it from you; we only want to enjoy our own."

Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux Chief
"The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. So he kept his youth close to its softening influence."

Wild Cat (Coacoochee), Seminole Chief
Upon surrender, 1858: "When I was a boy, I saw the white man afar off, and was told that he was my enemy. I could not shoot him as I would a wolf or a bear, yet he came upon me. My horse and fields he took from me. He said he was my friend. He gave me his hand in friendship; I took it, he had a snake in the other; his tongue was forked; he lied and stung me. I asked for but a small piece of this land, enough to plant and live on far to the south - a spot where I could place the ashes of my kindred - a place where my wife and child could live. This was not granted me."

Hollow Horn Bear, Oglala Sioux Chief
On allotment, believing they would each get a piece of land with no opening to or from: "You white men have come to us again to offer something to us which we do not fully understand. You talk to us very sweet, but you do not mean it. You have not fulfilled any of the old treaties. Why do you now bring another one to us? Why don't you pay us the money you owe us first, and then bring us another treaty?"

Little Crow (Taoyateduta), Dakota Sioux Chief
In response to being called a coward by Red Middle Voice before the Dakota Uprising in August/September 1862: "Taoyateduta is not a coward and he is not a fool ... We are only little herds of buffalo left scattered; the great herds that once covered the plains are no more. See - the white men are like locusts when they fly so thick that the whole sky is a snowstorm. You may kill one-two-10; yes as many as the leaves in the forest yonder, and their brothers will not miss them. Kill one-two-10, and 10 times that many will come to kill you ... Braves, you are little children - you are fools. You will die like the rabbits when the hungry wolves hunt them in the Hard Moon. Taoyateduta is not a coward. He will die with you." After the uprising, 392 Dakota men were tried and 307 sentenced to hang in retribution for the whites who had been killed. Eventually, 38 were hanged. Of those not hanged, nearly half died of disease while in prison. Little Crow and his band fled west. He then returned to Minnesota with a small raiding party. On July 3, 1863, while picking berries with his son, he was shot and killed by farmer Nathan Lamson and his son Chauncey who received a $75 scalp bounty and a bonus of $500 for ridding Minnesota of Little Crow.

[darren]

White people like YOU are the SAME KIND of RACISTS who try to tell the africans not to trust the Chinese with their countries natural resources.

History has TAUGHT those of us with INTELLIGENCE, that the only race we cannot trust is the WHITE RACE.

So please, spare us your disingenuous white devil opinions. The only people you can fool are those who lack intelligence.

Actually I could give a shit what you think or who you trust. You have already proven your intelligence on several other posts. You are like your racist brother Al Sharpton alot of hot air with no direction.

[uptownbreeze]

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[darren]

The pics are real but the context is not correct which makes it propaganda. The video makes it seem like the boys were mocking people who sent in money. The pictures were there before the Jena case went public and before the defense fund ever received a dime.


As far as how many people were at the march believe what you want it is not important, but I know I live in a relatively small town and almost 1,000 people left from there alone.

I find it very interesting how you choose to refer to them as thugs. I am interested to know why you went to the march in Jena for young men and other who you perceive as thugs.

Again you are wrong. As I said the families were receiving money in the mail before the defense fund was set up. Also the pictures were there after the case went public. I did not go to the march in support of them. They are thugs. Look at the track record of a few of them. Bell 5 time repeat offender of violence against people & property all in the same year. Bailey whose juvenile record hasn't been made public yet. But I'm sure it will be not to mention the my space page where any one can see what he thinks of the people who try to help. Shaw & Jones who not only participate in a hate crime but go to the BET awards and dress and act like thugs.

I do have one question if nooses bring such terrible feelings & memories to some Black people. How do you justify Black people dressing like the Klan & wearing nooses around their neck during the march?

[uncdec01]

Again you are wrong. As I said the families were receiving money in the mail before the defense fund was set up. Also the pictures were there after the case went public. I did not go to the march in support of them. They are thugs. Look at the track record of a few of them. Bell 5 time repeat offender of violence against people & property all in the same year. Bailey whose juvenile record hasn't been made public yet. But I'm sure it will be not to mention the my space page where any one can see what he thinks of the people who try to help. Shaw & Jones who not only participate in a hate crime but go to the BET awards and dress and act like thugs.

I do have one question if nooses bring such terrible feelings & memories to some Black people. How do you justify Black people dressing like the Klan & wearing nooses around their neck during the march?


The only reason I am responding to this is because I am concerned for other who will not be able to see through your intentions. Just because you said the families received money before the defense fund was set up does not mean I believe you. I prefer to believe what has been documented.
Before the unequal defense fund was set up people sent checks and money orders to a P.O. Box that was put into an account in a bank in Jena.

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=7134753

http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070928/UPDATES01/70928007

Yes the pictures may have been there after the march but the picture were put up long before the march ever took place, thus the money depicted in them was not from the defense fund. The original my space page does not make any reference to the defense fund money.The youtube video was constructed by a neo-nazi trying to discredit our movement. Some of the pictures are very generic, what do the pics of them standing around with chains prove. Pictures taken out of context = propaganda.

Why were you at the march if it was not to support the Jena six????????

Your post on the other thread saying "blacks made our own people slaves before the white man ever did and that slavery was over 150 years ago so we should be over it" showed me everything I needed to know.

Black People we must wake up and stop being led astray by those who do not understand us and are working to keep us confused and divided. We must recognize these tools for what they are and not waste time attending to them. Our community is in crisis we do not have time to educate those who are ignorant or pretend to be ignorant to our plight.

[darren]

The only reason I am responding to this is because I am concerned for other who will not be able to see through your intentions. Just because you said the families received money before the defense fund was set up does not mean I believe you. I prefer to believe what has been documented.
Before the unequal defense fund was set up people sent checks and money orders to a P.O. Box that was put into an account in a bank in Jena.

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=7134753

http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070928/UPDATES01/70928007

Yes the pictures may have been there after the march but the picture were put up long before the march ever took place, thus the money depicted in them was not from the defense fund. The original my space page does not make any reference to the defense fund money.The youtube video was constructed by a neo-nazi trying to discredit our movement. Some of the pictures are very generic, what do the pics of them standing around with chains prove. Pictures taken out of context = propaganda.

Why were you at the march if it was not to support the Jena six????????

Your post on the other thread saying "blacks made our own people slaves before the white man ever did and that slavery was over 150 years ago so we should be over it" showed me everything I needed to know.

Black People we must wake up and stop being led astray by those who do not understand us and are working to keep us confused and divided. We must recognize these tools for what they are and not waste time attending to them. Our community is in crisis we do not have time to educate those who are ignorant or pretend to be ignorant to our plight.

You still choose to be wrong. The pictures were there before the rally. But I can see that you personally don't need any help being confused.

[uncdec01]

Yes the pictures may have been there after the march but the picture were put up long before the march ever took place, the money depicted in them was not from the defense fund. The original my space page does not make any reference to the defense fund money.The youtube video was constructed by a neo-nazi trying to discredit our movement. Some of the pictures are very generic, what do the pics of them standing around with chains prove. Pictures taken out of context = propaganda.

What part is wrong? I said the pictures were put up long before the rally. I am not confused at all. I am just concerned with why you are trying to confuse others.

http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070928/UPDATES01/70928007

You still have not answered my question of Why were you at the March if it was not to support the Jena six?

[Eyeswideopen]

spa, lipo surgery, breast surgery...write a story on that.....it ok for those family to chose to use that money that way without any questions....Go talk to those money hungry witches.

Money was sent directly to the families at first until enough people started wondering why the money was being used for personal items. Then the defense fund was started.
And again you are wrong about how many people were in Jena. I am from Jena and I was there. There was not 60,000 people there that day.
Also your comparison of these six thugs to Rosa Parks is an discredit to Rosa. The myspace page is real. He only removed the pics. after attention was drawn to it.

[PosPar]

Let the church say amen , amen, and amen!!!!!!!!

[darren]

When fools hear the truth, they get mad; when wise men hear the truth, they learn and become wiser---Confucius

Seems you got MAD when YOU heard the TRUTH! It's TRUE that the white man STOLE this indians land, enslaved the blacks, and committed the WORLD'S GREATEST EVILS. When you're EXPOSED for what you are, you get MAD, because it's the TRUTH!!!!!

You are truely amazing. You try and seem to be far more intelligent than you really are. You have or don't want any concept of the truth. What I said about you being like Al Sharpton is the truth. The only thing that you have exposed is that you are really a racist bigot.
Your quote that fools get mad when they hear the truth is right. How many times have I made you mad?

Truth! White people did not enslave the Black man. You would have to thank Black men on the continent of Africa for that. The comment that blacks were endentured servents is wrong. Slaves were took then as they are being taken now. By force. When tribes fought. The winner either slaughtered or produced slaves out of the tribe that lost.
I know that what the White man did to the American Indian was wrong. But if you look at the history of the world. It has not only been what you would wish to label white devils but also. Mongols, Blacks, Orientals, and yes Whites. Arabs also. But you I can only asume that you would defend the religion of Islam for several events of annihilation & slavery.

[darren]

WHITE DEVIL, we know whom you are!

Your accusations only prove that you know very little about any subject. Like other posts you have made you still can not put forth whole evidence of your theories.

[darren]

spa, lipo surgery, breast surgery...write a story on that.....it ok for those family to chose to use that money that way without any questions....Go talk to those money hungry witches.

Your name ought to be eyes wide shut. People must always defend something that is wrong when the truth is exposed.

[darren]

What part is wrong? I said the pictures were put up long before the rally. I am not confused at all. I am just concerned with why you are trying to confuse others.

http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070928/UPDATES01/70928007

You still have not answered my question of Why were you at the March if it was not to support the Jena six?

You said they were put up after the rally. I am not trying to confuse anyone. I am disagreeing with you.I live in Jena. That enough reason for me to be at the rally. Also you did not answer my question about nooses being bad and haveing bad memories tied to them.

[uncdec01]

I live in Jena.


Thank you, this explains alot :p

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[darren]

LOL What are you talking about??? I've put forth TONS of evidence, but no matter HOW much light you shine on them, you can't make a blind man see! :cool:

How many fingers am I holding up?

[darren]

It doesn't matter WHO does it...right is right and WRONG is WRONG! There is never any JUSTIFIABLE reason to disobey God![/QUOTE]


As with other posts you have made you avoid issues when it pertains to other races other than whites. As you would put it white devils.LOL.

[darren]

Thank you, this explains alot :p

You are welcome.

[milkandcookies]

:mad: Jena Mayor Thanks White Supremacists for "Moral Support"
by Tom Head, About.com Guide to Civil Liberties


As he prepared his city for the Jena Six rally held last Thursday, Jena mayor Murphy McMillin took time from his busy schedule to speak with Mississippi white nationalist leader Richard Barrett. In the interview, he effectively put to rest any doubts that civil rights activists might have had about the atmosphere of McMillin's small Louisiana city:
[Barrett] asked McMillin to "set aside some place for those opposing the colored folks."

"I am not endorsing any demonstrations, but I do appreciate what you are trying to do," Barrett quoted McMillin as saying. "Your moral support means a lot."

McMillin declined to return calls seeking comment Monday.
The small town's voting history is also very telling. In recent decades, the city was predictable Republican landslide territory until the the 2003 election between Democrat Kathleen Blanco and Republican Bobby Jindal, where Jena flipped and went to Blanco in a landslide. The race, which Blanco ultimately won, was a competitive 52-48 race statewide.

What made the difference? Given the mayor's words and the district attorney's actions preceding them, it does not seem unreasonable to imagine that the fact that Jindal was the first non-white major party gubernatorial nominee in Louisiana state history might have had something to do with it.

[Brotherjx]

Judge Steps Out of Jena Six News Case
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN – 55 minutes ago

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge has disqualified himself from hearing a request from news media to open juvenile court proceedings for a black teenager charged with beating a white classmate in Jena, a case that has drawn thousands of protesters.

State District Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr.'s recusal paves the way for another judge to decide whether the case against 17-year-old Mychal Bell should be open to the public.

Another judge was not immediately appointed to hear the petition filed by The Associated Press and more than two dozen newspapers, television networks and network affiliates.

The news organizations are seeking permission to attend new hearings in Bell's case, to review transcripts of previous hearings and other court records, and to lift a gag order against participants in the case.

Bell, 17, originally was charged with attempted murder for his alleged role in a December 2006 attack on Justin Barker at Jena High School. That charge was reduced before a jury convicted him in June of aggravated second-degree battery. Mauffray presided over the trial.

The charges against Bell and five others — the so-called "Jena Six" — sparked a huge civil-rights demonstration in Jena last month. Critics accused District Attorney Reed Walters of treating blacks more harshly than whites, because his office didn't file charges against three white teens accused of hanging nooses in a tree at the high school shortly before the attack on Barker.

In September, a state appeals court vacated Bell's conviction and ruled that he shouldn't have been tried as an adult. Bell is due in juvenile court early next month — also before Mauffray — and has a tentative trial date of Dec. 6.

In a one-page ruling, Mauffray indicated he recused himself because he was named as a defendant in the news media's litigation. Mauffray is the only judge assigned to the Lasalle Parish court where Bell's case is being heard. Dan Zimmerman, an attorney for the news organizations, said the judge would have been in a "difficult position" if he had to review his own decision.

Criminal cases involving juveniles in Louisiana are usually sealed, but lawyers for the news organizations argue that aggravated second-degree battery is one of the violent offenses that allows a juvenile court case to be opened to the public.

Five other students were charged with the attack on Barker, who was knocked unconscious.

Charges against three other teens — Robert Bailey Jr., 18; Carwin Jones, 19; and Theo Shaw, 18 — also have been reduced from attempted murder to aggravated second-degree battery. Bryant Purvis, 18, has not yet been arraigned, and a sixth suspect was charged as a juvenile.

In addition to The Associated Press, news organizations seeking to open Bell's case are The New York Times; USA Today; the Chicago Tribune; the Los Angeles Times; the Houston Chronicle; the San Antonio Express-News; The Beaumont Enterprise; The Dallas Morning News; CNN; ABC News; WDSU-TV and WWL-TV in New Orleans; WAPT-TV in Jackson, Miss.; WFAA-TV in Dallas; KHOU-TV in Houston; KVUE-TV in Austin, Texas; KENS-TV in San Antonio; The (Houma) Courier; The (Thibodaux) Daily Comet; The (Alexandria) Town Talk; The (Monroe) News-Star; The (Shreveport) Times; The (Lafayette) Daily Advertiser and The (Opelousas) Daily World.

[Wild Turkey]

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[msblkwidow]

Money was turned over to Mr. Bell attorney Mr. Louis Scott of Monroe, LA. who is personal friend of mine right after the march in Jena,LA. y a police escort ( Monroe Marshall office) Robert j. Clark 318 38823323 if need to contact me !!!!!

Thank you for this information.

[msblkwidow]

[QUOTE=Brotherjx;32714]Judge Steps Out of Jena Six News Case
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN – 55 minutes ago

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge has disqualified himself from hearing a request from news media to open juvenile court proceedings for a black teenager charged with beating a white classmate in Jena, a case that has drawn thousands of protesters.

State District Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr.'s recusal paves the way for another judge to decide whether the case against 17-year-old Mychal Bell should be open to the public.

Another judge was not immediately appointed to hear the petition filed by The Associated Press and more than two dozen newspapers, television networks and network affiliates.

The news organizations are seeking permission to attend new hearings in Bell's case, to review transcripts of previous hearings and other court records, and to lift a gag order against participants in the case.

Bell, 17, originally was charged with attempted murder for his alleged role in a December 2006 attack on Justin Barker at Jena High School. That charge was reduced before a jury convicted him in June of aggravated second-degree battery. Mauffray presided over the trial.

The charges against Bell and five others — the so-called "Jena Six" — sparked a huge civil-rights demonstration in Jena last month. Critics accused District Attorney Reed Walters of treating blacks more harshly than whites, because his office didn't file charges against three white teens accused of hanging nooses in a tree at the high school shortly before the attack on Barker.

In September, a state appeals court vacated Bell's conviction and ruled that he shouldn't have been tried as an adult. Bell is due in juvenile court early next month — also before Mauffray — and has a tentative trial date of Dec. 6.

In a one-page ruling, Mauffray indicated he recused himself because he was named as a defendant in the news media's litigation. Mauffray is the only judge assigned to the Lasalle Parish court where Bell's case is being heard. Dan Zimmerman, an attorney for the news organizations, said the judge would have been in a "difficult position" if he had to review his own decision.

Criminal cases involving juveniles in Louisiana are usually sealed, but lawyers for the news organizations argue that aggravated second-degree battery is one of the violent offenses that allows a juvenile court case to be opened to the public.

Five other students were charged with the attack on Barker, who was knocked unconscious.

Charges against three other teens — Robert Bailey Jr., 18; Carwin Jones, 19; and Theo Shaw, 18 — also have been reduced from attempted murder to aggravated second-degree battery. Bryant Purvis, 18, has not yet been arraigned, and a sixth suspect was charged as a juvenile.

In addition to The Associated Press, news organizations seeking to open Bell's case are The New York Times; USA Today; the Chicago Tribune; the Los Angeles Times; the Houston Chronicle; the San Antonio Express-News; The Beaumont Enterprise; The Dallas Morning News; CNN; ABC News; WDSU-TV and WWL-TV in New Orleans; WAPT-TV in Jackson, Miss.; WFAA-TV in Dallas; KHOU-TV in Houston; KVUE-TV in Austin, Texas; KENS-TV in San Antonio; The (Houma) Courier; The (Thibodaux) Daily Comet; The (Alexandria) Town Talk; The (Monroe) News-Star; The (Shreveport) Times; The (Lafayette) Daily Advertiser and The (Opelousas) Daily World.[/QUOT

Please keep us unformed.

[msblkwidow]

That man is me, Robert j. Clark of Monroe, LA. 71202, my number is 3183883323 or 3186147999cell. The finally count on the money was $26,750+ and was turned over to Mr. Bell attorney at a local church right after the March in Jena, LA. (Police escort-Monroe Marshall office). I tookthe liberty of taking pictures and a live viedo shot just for the non belivers. Please feel free to contact me at Po.O. Box 6, Monroe, LA. 71201 or robert@theclarkcompanyinc.com

Thank you for this information because I saw you too.

[mercedes95]

First thing I want 2 say is that you are my "HERO" Michael Baisden, and that is from the heart. Now about the donation is there a way you can make a site where u can take credit card payments or checking/that would be so much easier then mailing a dollar

[msblkwidow]

What about the rights of Justin Barker?

Rebecca, Rebecca.

Justin Barker used the "N-Word" several times on the day of the fight. How many times do you feel is okay for a person to be called this offensive word -once, twice... I know that there were other alternatives that they sh/could have used; but sometimes we react to thing without thinking. I know this to be true because it happened to me.

In 1967, I was coming out of my high school gym class. When I opened the gym door, it hit a fellow female student who happened to be White. She immediately called me a "Nigger". I hit that girl so hard right in her left eye. Of course, she had a black-eye. I did not get expelled or suspended because our Principal was a person who really tried bringing us together. I attended Lutheran High School North. Today, this high school is 90% African American and receives School of Excellence Award for the Mo. Department of Elem. and Sec. Education.

[amirah1]

Free Reginald Clemons
Will JUST US prevail for Bro. Reginald Clemons? We must open our hearts and support these issues that are circling around us since the being of time. Since we were stolen from our true land and ancestors. Brotha Reginald has been on DEATHROW (CONCENTRATION CAMPS) (Concentration Camps) since he was 21 years old for a crime he didn’t commit. He was never convicted of raping neither of the Kerry sisters, or robbing, or plotting neither murder. Not only is there evidence that the rape never happened according to the corner. There is newly discovered evidence of innocence for which Brotha Reginald Clemons is seeking legal counsel and to develop a documentary on the facts of this case. A documentary is necessary for this case, because the mass media has willing or unknowingly lied to the public at large about the white females being raped and about the forensic evidence in the “Chain of Rocks Bridge Case.” Brotha Reginald Clemons stand to be executed for crimes he was never been convicted on. The other Brotha in this case, named Marlin Gray was murdered without a conviction. According to evidence at the trial Brotha Reginald was never under the bridge when the Kerry sisters fell. Although mostly all of the evidence has been hidden by the Prosecutor Most of America and around the globe have heard about “The Chain of Rocks Murders.” Like most case involving black males, unfortunately has the taste anchored by white females. This brief summary is not to turn a black and white issue. It is not about blaming whitey. It is about the injustices involving us “Black FOLKS” as a people. It is about us taking a stand against a system that is not for us or intended for us. We have to get involved this could be your blood brother, your father, your son, or your neighbor. My love goes out to The Thomas Family, please do not let them down we need your support and love. The first issue: Why actually is this brotha whom never had a criminal record on DEATHROW (CONCENTRATION CAMPS)? Better yet, not just this brotha but Antonio Richardson on life without the possibility of parole? Why are the white defendants released even after the cousin Thomas Cummins which was involved in the case admitted to accidentally pushing the Kerry’s sisters off the Chain of Rocks Bridge? Why does the evidence point more to the cousin Thomas Cummins then anyone else involved in the case? Why was Marlin Gray murdered by the State of Missouri without a fair trial? Brotha Reginald’s trial attorney lost his licenses to practice law due to Prosecutor Nels Moss fulfilled treats to end his trial attorney’s legal career; if Brotha Reginald’s trial attorney did not help prosecute him. Thomas Cummins was beaten into a confession while his father was present during the interrogation. Thomas Cummins failed two polygraphs, had scratches on his face, ink pen marks on his forearm, a sore midsection, all supporting his confession that Julie Kerry accidently fell during the struggle. Neither Brotha Reginald Clemons nor his co-defendants had any defensive wounds indicating struggle with females. This is why anybody that study the facts of case wants answers to for injustice. HELP HIM BEFORE THEY MURDER HIM TOO!
Mrs. Vera Thomas 314-382-6396

[amirah1]

Free Reginald Clemons
Will JUST US prevail for Bro. Reginald Clemons? We must open our hearts and support these issues that are circling around us since the being of time. Since we were stolen from our true land and ancestors. Brotha Reginald has been on DEATHROW (CONCENTRATION CAMPS) (Concentration Camps) since he was 21 years old for a crime he didn’t commit. He was never convicted of raping neither of the Kerry sisters, or robbing, or plotting neither murder. Not only is there evidence that the rape never happened according to the corner. There is newly discovered evidence of innocence for which Brotha Reginald Clemons is seeking legal counsel and to develop a documentary on the facts of this case. A documentary is necessary for this case, because the mass media has willing or unknowingly lied to the public at large about the white females being raped and about the forensic evidence in the “Chain of Rocks Bridge Case.” Brotha Reginald Clemons stand to be executed for crimes he was never been convicted on. The other Brotha in this case, named Marlin Gray was murdered without a conviction. According to evidence at the trial Brotha Reginald was never under the bridge when the Kerry sisters fell. Although mostly all of the evidence has been hidden by the Prosecutor Most of America and around the globe have heard about “The Chain of Rocks Murders.” Like most case involving black males, unfortunately has the taste anchored by white females. This brief summary is not to turn a black and white issue. It is not about blaming whitey. It is about the injustices involving us “Black FOLKS” as a people. It is about us taking a stand against a system that is not for us or intended for us. We have to get involved this could be your blood brother, your father, your son, or your neighbor. My love goes out to The Thomas Family, please do not let them down we need your support and love. The first issue: Why actually is this brotha whom never had a criminal record on DEATHROW (CONCENTRATION CAMPS)? Better yet, not just this brotha but Antonio Richardson on life without the possibility of parole? Why are the white defendants released even after the cousin Thomas Cummins which was involved in the case admitted to accidentally pushing the Kerry’s sisters off the Chain of Rocks Bridge? Why does the evidence point more to the cousin Thomas Cummins then anyone else involved in the case? Why was Marlin Gray murdered by the State of Missouri without a fair trial? Brotha Reginald’s trial attorney lost his licenses to practice law due to Prosecutor Nels Moss fulfilled treats to end his trial attorney’s legal career; if Brotha Reginald’s trial attorney did not help prosecute him. Thomas Cummins was beaten into a confession while his father was present during the interrogation. Thomas Cummins failed two polygraphs, had scratches on his face, ink pen marks on his forearm, a sore midsection, all supporting his confession that Julie Kerry accidently fell during the struggle. Neither Brotha Reginald Clemons nor his co-defendants had any defensive wounds indicating struggle with females. This is why anybody that study the facts of case wants answers to for injustice. HELP HIM BEFORE THEY MURDER HIM TOO!

[amirah1]

Free Reginald Clemons
Will JUST US prevail for Bro. Reginald Clemons? We must open our hearts and support these issues that are circling around us since the being of time. Since we were stolen from our true land and ancestors. Brotha Reginald has been on DEATHROW (CONCENTRATION CAMPS) (Concentration Camps) since he was 21 years old for a crime he didn’t commit. He was never convicted of raping neither of the Kerry sisters, or robbing, or plotting neither murder. Not only is there evidence that the rape never happened according to the corner. There is newly discovered evidence of innocence for which Brotha Reginald Clemons is seeking legal counsel and to develop a documentary on the facts of this case. A documentary is necessary for this case, because the mass media has willing or unknowingly lied to the public at large about the white females being raped and about the forensic evidence in the “Chain of Rocks Bridge Case.” Brotha Reginald Clemons stand to be executed for crimes he was never been convicted on. The other Brotha in this case, named Marlin Gray was murdered without a conviction. According to evidence at the trial Brotha Reginald was never under the bridge when the Kerry sisters fell. Although mostly all of the evidence has been hidden by the Prosecutor Most of America and around the globe have heard about “The Chain of Rocks Murders.” Like most case involving black males, unfortunately has the taste anchored by white females. This brief summary is not to turn a black and white issue. It is not about blaming whitey. It is about the injustices involving us “Black FOLKS” as a people. It is about us taking a stand against a system that is not for us or intended for us. We have to get involved this could be your blood brother, your father, your son, or your neighbor. My love goes out to The Thomas Family, please do not let them down we need your support and love. The first issue: Why actually is this brotha whom never had a criminal record on DEATHROW (CONCENTRATION CAMPS)? Better yet, not just this brotha but Antonio Richardson on life without the possibility of parole? Why are the white defendants released even after the cousin Thomas Cummins which was involved in the case admitted to accidentally pushing the Kerry’s sisters off the Chain of Rocks Bridge? Why does the evidence point more to the cousin Thomas Cummins then anyone else involved in the case? Why was Marlin Gray murdered by the State of Missouri without a fair trial? Brotha Reginald’s trial attorney lost his licenses to practice law due to Prosecutor Nels Moss fulfilled treats to end his trial attorney’s legal career; if Brotha Reginald’s trial attorney did not help prosecute him. Thomas Cummins was beaten into a confession while his father was present during the interrogation. Thomas Cummins failed two polygraphs, had scratches on his face, ink pen marks on his forearm, a sore midsection, all supporting his confession that Julie Kerry accidently fell during the struggle. Neither Brotha Reginald Clemons nor his co-defendants had any defensive wounds indicating struggle with females. This is why anybody that study the facts of case wants answers to for injustice. HELP HIM BEFORE THEY MURDER HIM TOO!

[amirah1]

Free Reginald Clemons
free Reggie! Help before they kill them!

[PosPar]

what the web address

[msblkwidow]

I would like to donate to the Jena 6 fund, I want to give some advice, TO the Jena 6 or at least 2 of them, Dont get on BET TV looking like thugs, remember we are trying to prove that we are not thugs...

What does a thug look like? They looked very neat to me. They dress like today's kids dress. Please remember that you and your generation had a style? I'm sure we didn't like your fashions. I know that my parents and grandparents didn't like our fashions. We were the generation that pumped up the " gold teeth" and mini skirts and shorts, hip-hugger pants and halter tops. We also wore see-through skirts and tops(see-through vinyl material was used to create these skirts and tops). They hated our Afros. I will never forget a dance that we did called, "The Dog". Oh, it was nasty. The young men, during the day, wanted to dress like the neighborhood PIMPs.

So I ask again, What does a THUG look like? Remember, some of our youth dress the way they do because they feel protected by that look. And frankly speaking, have you shopped for young men and women lately. These young folk don't want to dress Ivy League. They want the big shirts and oversized pants.

To be very honest, we would not have worn jeans with holes and bleach stains or tops that were two sizes too small. We would not have shown our rear-ends especially with thongs showing. We would not have worn unzipped jeans and too small shirts while pregnate. How many pairs of bleached-out jeans do you own?

Hopefully, this fashion will change as they did in the past.

[cwilson]

please look at youtube under jena 6 bling and watch what was posted on a myspace page, why?

[msblkwidow]

Hey Michael,

I heard it in your voice Boo.............., you were extremely upset today. Rightfully so!! I felt the quiteness in the country as well. I started to get upset because I stop hearing about the Jena 6 on all of the news channels and on the radio. And you are correct, you are the ONLY radio personality speaking on the subject EVERYDAY. I'm in Raleigh and I can only get news about the Jena 6 if I listen to you or Jacki Reed in the morning on Tom Joyner. I even got the feeling that Tom Joyner was sick of hearing about it because one morning he kept laughing and interrupting Jacki in the middle of her report. A male caller even called him and Jay Anthony Brown and told them to Stop PLAYING so Damn much while Jacki is reporting!!

We are not going to realize the severity of this matter until it affects our own households. Where are all of the Pastors in the Mega churches? Why aren't the members of these Mega churches asking the Pastors to take the lead? You are only one person and you are correct in saying if the people do not show you that they want your support Don't waste your time! For now, I will send in my donations monthly as well. My first payment will go out with tomorrows mail. P.S. Go easy on Dominque

Bless2b Lee

I agree with you about the Tom Joyner show, and I don't like it so I don't listen to that particular radio show. I have other friends who also complain about the same. The Tom Joyner show, I guess is just for fun and kicks - nothing serious.

[iactup]

To all listeners in Richmond, VA., The African American Repertory Theatre is currently producing the play "A Lesson Before Dying". This play takes place in 1940's Louisiana and is about a young black man who is convicted and sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. This story is so similar to the Jena 6 that it even takes place in Louisiana! A portion of the proceeds for this play will be donated to the Un-Equal Justice Legal Defense Fund. The show run from Nov. 2-18 and the showtimes are Friday/Saturday nights at 8 PM and Sundays at 4 PM at Pine Camp 4901 Old Brook Rd, Richmond, VA. Tickets are $25 and $20. Contact us at 804-355-2187 and help us fill the seats so we can make a donation worthy of this great cause.

[mushmush_93725]

americaiswatching.org/moegibbs. This is an example of unequal justice. DNA results point to some other people which they are not even looking for since they have a black man in jail for the crime which he did not commit


FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
People interested in making donations please read the info below:

Although a lot of organizations are collecting donations, the legal defense teams are not getting the funds and the lawyers are having to spend their own money to help these young men. One organization has stated that they have collected over $130,000 for the Jena Six and the legal team for Mychal Bell has only received $4,000 to date and not even from that organization. We have established a fund to ensure that the funds are going to for the legal defense. We'll help where it is needed most and right now that is for Mychal Bell. All donations will be greatly appreciated by the family of Mychal Bell.

Donations will be accepted by check, cashiers check, money order and bank wire as the need is urgent. Please send donations to the following:

Make Payable To:
THE UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Mail To:
THE MICHAEL BAISDEN SHOW
ATTN: UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
P.O. BOX 17266
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78217-0266

We will update everyone weekly on the show with amounts of the donations. Thank you in advance on behalf of Mychal Bell, his family and legal team. we will be helping the other families of Jena Six, but Mychal Bell has the greatest immediate need. If you have already donated to an organization ask them when and how the funds are being used. We will be working with the National Bar Association and will layout the plans for the how the funds will be used to help in these endeavors.

[mushmush_93725]

americaiswatchig.org/moegibbs


Please read this story, if this is not unequal justice then what is??????????

[uptownbreeze]

"THE COLOR OF JUSTICE IN AMERICA IS NOT BLACK OR WHITE IT'S GREEN. YOU WILL GET JUST AS MUCH JUSTICE AS YOU CAN AFFORD"-
---JOHNNY COCHRAN

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[msblkwidow]

This what I wrote to bossip

I am an reader of this site and today I must say I am disappointed and downright disgusted with this posting.


http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=7134753
http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070928/UPDATES01/70928007

First of all this video is very old and second it has already been discredited. Those pictures were posted before the Jena six case and was not money from the defense fund. Funds have not been sent directly to the families. That Youtube video was created by a passive aggressive bigot with an obvious racist agenda and now you have helped this bigot spread his destructive message far and wide. This video has been traced back to a neo-nazi website

Why would you not do research before you post items that are destructive, detrimental and disrespectful to our community and our movement.

I am appalled by your remarks of "Put them in jail" and "This is why the smart folks over here at Bossip don’t support Negro causes just because we are told to".

I am glad to know where this web site stands when it comes to uplifting and advancing the plight of the Black community.

I guess this web site also would not have supported the Civil Right Movement because of reports that Dr. King was a womanizer and a communist. If someone would have made a negative Youtube video about Rosa Parks would this site have suggested she should sit her black butt on the back of the bus and stop complaining.

I am begging the Black Community to Wake up!!!!! We can not continue to fall for the same tricks they have been pulling for over 400 years. We must get smarter and more critical of the information we trust.

Don't forget who told you that there were only 15,00 people at the march in Jena when if you were there you know there were over 60,000+. Don't forget who labeled Katrina survivors as refugees and told you that there was wide spread rapes, murder and mayhem going on. To date there have been no confirmed cases or credible reports of any of this. Don't forget who told you that pumping over 40 bullets into Sean Bell was self defense, or that hanging a noose is just a prank and not a hate crime.

Black People our community is in crisis!!!!! We can not continue to fall for the OOKY Dook over and over again. This keep us Unfocused, Confused, and thus Ineffective and Inactive.

Bossip I think it is your responsibility to print a retraction to this erroneous post. This is disrespectful to the people who rode on busses or drove all day and night to march for justice. It is disrespectful to those who gave unselfishly to the defense fund. It is disrespectful to the hundreds of thousand people and their families who are lost in the system. Most of all it is disrespectful to our forefathers who left it to us to advance the movement. Because of this irresponsible reporting many people who had joined the movement to bring about change in the Black community have been discouraged, disillusioned and disheartened.

Bossip I understand that you have the right not to stand up for equal justice and join the movement to uplift and advance the plight of black people, but

I Beg you and others, if you are not willing to join and work for the movement please do not work against it by undermining, discrediting, or hindering it.

I am so glad that you challenged this post and the Bossip site creators. You are so correct in your assessment of these posts. I viewed the video on YouTube, and I immediately realized who was ultimately behind this negative propaganda.

It is such a shame that we still have people who jump on bandwagons without doing their own research. Then they feel really good by promoting foolishness.

Again, thank you for putting some facts to these erroneous messages. I do believe one of the Jena Six has a family member who plays for a NFL team, and that that family member is very supportive of his nephew. Who knows where Robert Bailey got his money.

I hope that we realize that these young men have a life; and that they don't have to sit in a dark room and do nothing while waiting on some illegal justice system to decides their fate. They should have fun. They are still youngsters. Let's also stop calling them "Thugs".

In a town of 3,000 Whites and only approx. 300 Blacks,(I really don't know if these stats are correct.) how many thug-like activities do you think that these young men can get involved in or get away with? Come on now. This town is so small, and I'm sure everybody knows what everybody else is doing. The police force will not let anything by them. I'm sure the Black young men or women ( for that matter) are watched constantly. So the young men want to be like the famous rappers. So what! Many of our young men and women dream of having "Bling" and gold/silver grills. It's the in-thing for them. I don't mind that they want some of the finer things in life; but they must stay out of trouble and stay in school. It appears as if this is what these young men were trying to do.

Let's talk about their academics (grade point averages). Let' talk about their pending scholarships (forthcoming).

"I am amazed at how absorbed people are with the absurd." (Rev. Norman Owens Jr., St. Louis, Mo.)

[msblkwidow]

I did a little searching myself and this is what I found.

Bailey family defends photos
When asked during a Washington, D.C., news conference sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union about photos of her stepbrother with $100 bills in his mouth, Catrina Wallace said rumors that the money shown in the picture came from the "Jena Six" defense fund are false.

Robert Bailey Jr. had several photos of himself with large amounts of cash posted on the social networking Web site Myspace.com, including one that ran in The Town Talk on Saturday showing him with $100 bills stuffed in his mouth.

"My son, Robert L. Bailey, was employed after being incarcerated," Caseptla Bailey said. "That is something he decided to do on Myspace. He is a kid. Robert was able to save money, and he also has relatives that have sent him money. That's something that kids do within the hip-hop community; that's something that's portrayed in the media, on BET. He is still a kid, he's gonna make mistakes. I'm not going to defend a mistake he made." (the newsstar.com)

You should visit this site and read some of the comments that their readers are making. Then reconsider. Are the Jena Six really "Thugs"? Do your own research first; and if you still believe what you've read on some of these racist sites, then so be it.

[littlefoot10]

Michael;
You and your show are doing a fantastic job in keeping the public informed of the injusters in the country. I was unable to make the Jena march but we did have an informational protest in front of the court house here in Maryland.On short notice we attracted about 200 persons.
The one dollar per listner is a great idea,mailed it today. May God continue bless you and your staff as you continue the good work.
littlefoot10:

[Brotherjx]

http://www.tmz.com/2007/10/31/dog-chapmans-hate-filled-tirade/
Dog Chapman's Hate-Filled Tirade
Posted Oct 31st 2007 5:22PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, TV, Meltdowns

The National Enquirer has obtained an explosive and shocking racist rant spewed by Duane Dog Chapman.
The Enquirer says they have two tapes of the Dog hurling insults at his son, Tucker, during an undated telephone conversation. It appears as if the Dog is concerned that Tucker's girlfriend, Monique Shinnery, who is black, will set him up because of the language the Dog uses.


the nearly eight minute long tape posted on the Enquirer's website, Dog says the N word numerous times and demands that Tucker break up with Monique or he'll be fired from the family bail bond business.

Reps for the Dog and A&E were not immediately available for comment.

[oldschoollove]

On CNN coverage (online live video) 09/20-----The camera was focused for hours on a motorhome parked in the middle of town. There was a male on the top of the motorhome with a microphone. He was not identified, he started passing around boxes, asking for money to pay $9000 (10% of $90,000 bail) to get Mychal out of jail on bail. Even after the camera moved away from him, you could hear him announcing the amount collected, $5000,$10,000, $25,000 and he finally announced $30,000 was collected.
So my question is, who was HE and what happened to the $30,000?

..... :eek: i didn't see this clip, is there any way that anyone can post this clip for viewing?

[mushmush_93725]

Michael I believe this is a great fund. I have a nephew who is not in need of the funds, but in need of support by the people. He is in Bismark North Dakota on trail for the second time for a murder all evidence says he did not commit. Test results shows that the weapons and finger prints and DNA are of someone else. His first trail was a hung jury. Michael PLEASE go to americaiswatching.org/moegibbs and read his story, and let the people know we need support in the court room as you will see on the site there is .5% blacks in Bismark and none on the jury. Michael please help our family and send people to support us. Thank you Karen








FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
People interested in making donations please read the info below:

Although a lot of organizations are collecting donations, the legal defense teams are not getting the funds and the lawyers are having to spend their own money to help these young men. One organization has stated that they have collected over $130,000 for the Jena Six and the legal team for Mychal Bell has only received $4,000 to date and not even from that organization. We have established a fund to ensure that the funds are going to for the legal defense. We'll help where it is needed most and right now that is for Mychal Bell. All donations will be greatly appreciated by the family of Mychal Bell.

Donations will be accepted by check, cashiers check, money order and bank wire as the need is urgent. Please send donations to the following:

Make Payable To:
THE UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Mail To:
THE MICHAEL BAISDEN SHOW
ATTN: UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
P.O. BOX 17266
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78217-0266

We will update everyone weekly on the show with amounts of the donations. Thank you in advance on behalf of Mychal Bell, his family and legal team. we will be helping the other families of Jena Six, but Mychal Bell has the greatest immediate need. If you have already donated to an organization ask them when and how the funds are being used. We will be working with the National Bar Association and will layout the plans for the how the funds will be used to help in these endeavors.

[drena]

Many people marched in Jena , La last month in support of the 6 young men unjustly charged with attempted murder for a school yard fight. There are many situations all over the nation that scream of injustice and unfair treatment of people in this country. There is the woman in West Virginia who was raped and tortured for days with barely any national coverage. They called her the N word but as of this writing, they still had not confirmed they are treating this as a hate crime. We all know the young groom in NYC who was murdered by the NYPD on the eve of his wedding. There is the teenage girl in Texas who was sentenced to jail time for an altercation with a school official. How about the teenage girl who was sprayed with mase for missing curfew. You can see her in the video restrained by a police officer twice her size. She was in handcuffs when she was sprayed. Maybe you heard of the California girl who had her arm broken by a school security official when she refused to pick up a piece of cake from the floor. It was filmed by a school mate and is all over You Tube. You may have heard of the young man in Georgia who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual sex with a young girl. He was 17, she was 15. There was also the young brother in Florida who died in the custody of the state when he was admitted to their boot camp. They said he had diabetes but they couldn't explain his battered body. All of these stories happened within the last year or two.
Those are just a few instances where people in this country have been treated unfairly, while 4 young men in Raleigh , NC sue the state for 10 million dollars each because they were 'falsely' accused of rape. There are people who spend YEARS in prison and are exonerated that don't get nearly that much coin. By the way, who else is tired of the Princess Diana wrongful death inquiry? I mean, come on, it's very sad how she died but does her death need to be the top news story 10 years and 2 months after her death?
On Friday, November 2, 2007, Warren Ballentine, Reverend Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders are calling for a national boycott. Black people alone spend 2 billion dollars a day in the United States and we are only approximately 12% of the population. 2 billion dollars a day, lining the pockets of companies that have shown no interest in our interests. We ARE living in the new civil rights movement. We cannot allow the march in Jena to be only an event. It MUST be a movement. In the 1950s, the bus boycott was only supposed to be for a few days or weeks. It ended up being over a year. The goal was for fair treatment and bus integration. Our parents and grandparents sacrificed and showed that with faith and strength, they could show corporate America the power of the community and demanded fair treatment. As we know, those buses were integrated. This is not about color. This is about class. The middle class and poor people in this country are not treated as the Declaration of Independance says we should be treated. It states that 'all men are created equal'. Clearly the governing class of the United States disagrees with their document.
Join us on on Friday, November 2, 2007 and don't spend ANY money. If you have to shop, do it the day before or the day after. If you need gas, get it the day before or the day after. We have to join together as a community. You may be thinking, it's only one day, what difference will it make? I had the same thought at first, but just think about it. If we all save our money that day, it WILL make a difference. That day may become a weekend. That weekend may become a week and that week a month. As we showed in the 1950s, we can make a difference if we do this together.
If you can pass the many dumb jokes and forwards we all get, you most certainly can pass this important email to all your friends and family.
Show a sign of solidarity.

[trulygold]

I just read this message; a few hours late, but I'm still on time. It's 5:a.m., and I am definitely passing this on via email, phone, or any way that I can. Although the day has already started, we can still pass this message in order to prevent any further spending for those who have not gotten the message. It's time that our people realize the financial impact that we have on a country that demonstrates such inequality. We can only be as powerful as our actions.

[mysterj]

Michael,

I am sure you have already considered this but I wanted to remind you again. This country won all our previous wars because of strategist who throught outside the box.

So lets think Security...

-911 stood for Sept 11, which is now engraved in our minds...
Recently we have heard over the news cast of reverse 911, which stands for (119) Nov 9.

Lets think Security...

911-was by air and sky...
119-???

But if you reverse air and sky you get wet and dry... (water and land)
I have twenty years of military training as well as three years in law enforcement...
I believe that it is very important to be vigilant as the bible says, "watch and pray"!

[uptownbreeze]

THE COLOR OF JUSTICE IN AMERICA IS NOT BLACK OR WHITE, IT'S GREEN. YOU'LL GET JUST AS MUCH JUSTICE AS YOU CAN AFFORD-- JOHNNY COCHRAN

There's a difference between a legal situation and a legal crisis. Jena Six is a legal crisis, your local dry cleaner losing one of your shirts may be a legal a situation. Unfortunately most of us wait until a legal crisis hits our life before we seek the services of an attorney. We have to check our pockets before we check our rights. Never again does that have to be the case. You see if we knew better we would do better, well here's one of those ways to do better and provide your family with an umbrella of quality legal protection along with protection against the # 1 crime in America Identity Theft.

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[helpone]

you can count on my donation for the long run.

[Divinity]

Will this fund help Megan Williams? The woman that was tortured and raped for a week, by Six Whites, (3 males and 3 Females) found Sept. 12, 2007, in West Virginia???

Last I heard, the captors were all charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and battery, possible life in prison. Prosecutors were seeking the maximum sentence on the kidnapping charges... All of the six individuals are accused of 108 different cases of crimes all combined, and being held on $100,000 bail.

AND the UN-EQUAL Justice Department was NOT FILING FEDERAL (HATE CRIMES) CHARGES AGAINST HER CAPTORS.

[helpone]

we need to stop acting like we were the ones who went through the abuse our grand and great grand parents went through.we live in a socity were our kids are getting so caught up with the dreams that this world has to offer, and some of the parents are not helping when you treat your kid like a friend and not your child.love is saying no,not giving in to make your child happy when it does not seem right.stop spending money on things that have no value,teach them to save start a bank account at a young age.kids need house chores.I hope this can change at least one child.

[mushmush_93725]

Michael please read americaiswatching.org click on Moe Gibbs also read inforum.com recent testimony from his second trail. He is an innocent man.
Thank you

[shaydancer]

Hey Mike this is Shaydancer from Baisden After Dark Showa(female Breakdance/Assistant in Production). I wanted to show you some love and sau thanks for letting me dance on your show.

Peace

[bigdogg]

http://www.bossip.com/7231/put-them-back-in-jail/#more-7231

JENA 6 TEEN THIS DOSENT THIS DOSENT LOOK GOOD.

[uncdec01]

http://www.bossip.com/7231/put-them-back-in-jail/#more-7231

JENA 6 TEEN THIS DOSENT THIS DOSENT LOOK GOOD.

Please catch up this is sooooo old and already discredited. Please let's not give this propaganda any more attention.

[adams93021@yahoo.com]

My name is Libby Adams and my son was arrested by Moorpark, CA police last name on a charge of felony vandalism. They explained that he fit the description of a man two months ago. His bail is at $20,000 dollars. My telephone number is 805-583-0456. I am disabled and don't have the money to get him an attorney. He is a junior in college and has never been in trouble with the law. Please help!

[mysterj]

White people like YOU are the SAME KIND of RACISTS who try to tell the africans not to trust the Chinese with their countries natural resources.
History has TAUGHT those of us with INTELLIGENCE, that the only race we cannot trust is the WHITE RACE.
So please, spare us your disingenuous white devil opinions. The only people you can fool are those who lack intelligence.


Who is White???

I know we think we know but for the sake of intellectual discussion, "let's define, "Who is White???""
I believe this is a creditable question...
In a recent news article a "Nobel Peace Prize winner" made the statement that "White people are smarter..."

So if you define who is white then we can truly analyze his statement...
Was he referring to "Germans?"
Are Germans white?
Was he referring to "Russians?"
Are Russians white?
Was he referring to "Swedes?"
Are Swedes White?
Was he referring to "Chinese?"
Are Chinese White?
Who was he referring to?
All whites of the USA?
His statement come at an auspicious time.
A time when the racial consciousness of the United States is at an heightened awareness...
So, I say lets discuss the statement that a Nobel Peace Prize winner has made to neither credit non discredit but to bring a fuller understanding of the pretense...
Intelligence is a factor of human kind that is not definitive, but race (or national origin) can be defined...
So who is white?
Are the Polish white?
Are Japanese white?
Are Arabs white?
Are Iranians White?
Are Jews White?

Let talk about it...
Believe me the rest of the world already are...

[darren]

Please catch up this is sooooo old and already discredited. Please let's not give this propaganda any more attention.


Who discredited it? Why is it propaganda? LOL

[kcurtis319]

Dear Staff,

We all heard of Jena 6 and we all have our opinions about that situation. We all know the color of justice is not BLACK AND WHITE. In this day and age the color of justice is GREEN. We know only the wealthy can afford the best lawyers because of the high cost of attorney's. But Dear Staff the playing field has changed. I am an associate of Pre-Paid Legal Services, and I want to help educate and protect as many families in the country as I can. I'm not here to convince anyone or anybody all I want to do is expose people to this information that is out there. Do you know that you are 3 times likely to end up in court than in the hospital? In 2003 there were 36 million hospitalization and 96 million court cases. But everyone knows about medical coverage and what is does for your hospital bills. Pre- Paid legal does for you legals fees, what HMO'S AND PPO'S does for your hospital bills, but still only 3 families out of 100 has never even heard of this amazing company and the product that we offer. I really want to help protect and educate families about this. On September 29Th and October 27Th on court TV of 2007, there was a documentary about this product and this company. This was one of the most powerful documentaries i have ever seen. There were four Former Attorneys General telling us why everyone needs this type of service. Mike Moore,Mississippi * Mike Turpin, Oklahoma* Grant Woods, Arizona * Andrew P. Miller, Virginia. Also President and CEO, National Black Chamber of Commerce, Harry C. Alford. I want and need your help on getting this word out so if the occasion like Jena 6 arises again the people will be educated. And we all know something will like this will rear it's ugly head. I am just the messenger of this powerful message. I want the low to middle income working class people to have the opportunity to protect themselves before something happens. ( NOT TO SEEK LEGAL ADVICE AFTER SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS ). I want the people to know that they also have equal access to the JUSTICE SYSTEM, like the wealthy but not prices of the wealthy.

I would love to send your staff a copy of this documetary. ( DVD FOR YOUR VIEWING.)
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FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
People interested in making donations please read the info below:

Although a lot of organizations are collecting donations, the legal defense teams are not getting the funds and the lawyers are having to spend their own money to help these young men. One organization has stated that they have collected over $130,000 for the Jena Six and the legal team for Mychal Bell has only received $4,000 to date and not even from that organization. We have established a fund to ensure that the funds are going to for the legal defense. We'll help where it is needed most and right now that is for Mychal Bell. All donations will be greatly appreciated by the family of Mychal Bell.

Donations will be accepted by check, cashiers check, money order and bank wire as the need is urgent. Please send donations to the following:

Make Payable To:
THE UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Mail To:
THE MICHAEL BAISDEN SHOW
ATTN: UN-EQUAL JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
P.O. BOX 17266
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78217-0266

We will update everyone weekly on the show with amounts of the donations. Thank you in advance on behalf of Mychal Bell, his family and legal team. we will be helping the other families of Jena Six, but Mychal Bell has the greatest immediate need. If you have already donated to an organization ask them when and how the funds are being used. We will be working with the National Bar Association and will layout the plans for the how the funds will be used to help in these endeavors.

[uncdec01]

Who discredited it? Why is it propaganda? LOL

We have already gone over this several times, if you are still confused please read the previous posts of the many many people and sources that have discredited this.

[darren]

We have already gone over this several times, if you are still confused please read the previous posts of the many many people and sources that have discredited this.

I have not seen any legitament sources who discredit this. You can not & have not provided any.

[Orlandoblkman]

LOL! There's one born every minute I guess!

[Brotherjx]

The Jena 6 families are not unified, I wonder if anyone knows that.
Grassroots activist who help start this movement knows the truth.
I respect Mr. Basiden & Rev. Sharpton for taking our grassroots activism to a level. But the truth is that the Jena 6 families are not on the same page.
Marcus Bell knows it was the ACLU, Friends of Justice and other groups the stood with them from the beginnings. I have video of the first rallies with the families and the very same groups he denounce on yesterday. the Community Defender TV show producer (Sis. Khadisha) was present at all the rallies.
This Jena 6 "thing" would not be an issue if was not for the grassroots movement that supported Mr. Bell and the other Jena 6 families.

anyone who need earlier video interviews or programs of rallies for the Jena 6
email Bro. J at:
blackaction@cox.net
www.blackaction.net

[mancheeks64]

I just want to say that while I am so proud of the fact that you, Mr. Baisden, have taken up the banter to sound the war cry against injustices done to African-Americans and people of color in general, I am sadden by the lack of support given to our Gay brothers and sisters who have face similiar and in most cases worse injustices done to them. If I had a voice like yours, meaning very public and heard around the nation, I would make sure that ALL African-Americans, people of color, straight, gay, bisexual, transgender or whatever were being treated fairly. I do what I can, of course but it doesn't have the impact that you or a Al Sharpton would have.

I am currently studying Social Work after changing careers two years ago. The thing that I have decided to dedicate my life to is to ensure that young Black, Gay/Lesbians are treated fairly and given opportunities that others have. I plan to open up youth drop in centers specifically designed for Gay and Lesbian youth, because of the lack for this population. I say that to say, that I am not just sitting here pointing the finger, I am merely pointing out a very, very serious and frustrating aspect of our society. We can achieve so much more if working together.

Please, please, please check this link out regarding the case of Michael Sandy http://www.rodonline.typepad.com/ and http://www.keithboykin.com/ I read some of the comments at the end of the stories and it just broke my heart and annoyed me that nation wide attention has not been put on this case. Oh, there are many others. Please understand Michael that I know you are one man, but right now, at this moment YOU ARE THE MAN. The man who is getting things done. I am behind you 100% in all that you do and stand for. I just want to feel like my whole being has 100% as well.

Thanks for you time, and may God continue to bless and keep you.

Mark Norris

[LayDee]

This radio station airs everyday in LA it is a racist radio station and shouldn't be allowed to air at all!! They speak of vigilante justice against us, and if the justice system keeps overturning our cases, then they will seriously consider going in our homes and lynch the ones they find guilty.. They speak of the Jena 6 and give out their address and phone #'s. Go to www.vonbluvens.org/092007.wma We shouldn't take this lightly especially with all of the racist events that are taking place today!!! Pass this on!!!

[streettalker]

If we are to be taken serious we need to stand as such and speak loudly.
the songs are one by Public Enemy "Fight The Power" the other is By KRS ONE called "World Peace".

KRS One]
World peace.. or world TALK?!

Yeah..
One two three four!

If we really want world peace
and we want it right now
We must make up our minds to take.. it..
Right now!
If we really want world peace
and we want it right now
Right now!
We must make up our minds to take.. it..

[KRS One]
Take it.. right now..
Don't hesitate! (world peace)
You want world peace? (world peace) (peace.. TAKE IT)
Or world talk?

(world peace..)
(world peace..)
(world peace..)

Yo, a lot of people are under the assumption
that peace, is soft or somethin
We must begin to reprogram our thought
FROM, how we were taught
Back in school, and our TV screens
Strength, is always mean
Love, is always soft
and peace is too peaceful
when all are equal
Sit back, and read the papers
about the murderers, thieves, and rapists
We depend on police for justice
but when do we say, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Right now, and call their bluff
It's not a matter of frontin like you're tough
It's a matter of takin yours
and livin universal laws
Cause those laws, cannot be bribed
nor changed, or paid on the side
You must come correct and walk straight
More love, less and less hate
When you walk, walk with AUTHORITY
Tell the negative people, don't bother me
Move your face away, I ain't with it
In a minute, I'm gonna hit it!

If we really want world peace
and we want it right now
We must make up our minds to take.. it..
Right now!
If we really want world peace
World peace..
and we want it right now
.. or world TALK
We must make up our minds to take.. it..

Break it down!
Take it, yeah!
World peace..
Yeah.. come in..

CRASH, SMASH, don't ask
when the negative disrupts the class
How much longer? Get stronger
The battle is getting longer
World, peace, or world talk
Do we run? Or do we walk? (CHARGE)
If you want world peace, take it
Cause a lot of our leaders FAKE IT (fraud)
It's similar to armageddeon
when the positive people stop lettin
the negative, control, how we live
Listen to the music I give!

If we really want world peace
and we want it right now
We must make up our minds to take.. it..
Take it!
If we really want world peace
and we want it right now
World peace.. (Right now!) ..or world TALK?
We must make up our minds to take.. it..

Take it!
If we really want world peace
and we want it right now
World peace!
We must make up our minds to take.. it..
Right now!
If we really want world peace
and we want it right now
Come in now..
We must make up our minds to take.. it..
World peace.. or world TALK?!

If we really want world peace
Yes I do
and we want it right now
When can I get it?
We must make up our minds to take.. it..
Come in!
If we really want world peace
That's it
and we want it right now
Right now
We must make up our minds to take.. it..

I want it now!
If we really want world peace
I want it right now!
and we want it right now
We need it right now!
We must make up our minds to take.. it..
No talk.. world peace!
If we really want world peace
Peace! *echoes*

We can also use another one by KRS ONE called "Who Protect us from you".
This songs are on the GHETTO MUSIC album by Boogie Down productions.

Verse

(fy-ah! come down fas...)

You were put here to protect us
But who protects us from you?
Every time you say thats illegal
Doesnt mean that thats true (uh-huh)
Your authoritys never questioned
No-one questions you
If I hit you Ill be killed
But you hit me? I can sue (order! order!)
Lookin through my history book
Ive watched you as you grew
Killin blacks and callin it the law
(bo! bo! bo!) and worshipping jesus too
There was a time when a black man
Couldnt be down wit your crew (can I have a job please? )
Now you want all the help you can get
Scared? well aint that true (you goddamn right)
You were put here to protect us
But who protects us from you?
Or should I say, who are you protecting?
The rich? the poor? who?
It seems that when you walk the ghetto
You walk wit your own point of view (look at that gold chain)
You judge a man by the car he drives
Or if his hat match his shoe (yo, you lookin kinda fresh)
Well, back in the days of sherlock holmes
A man was judged by a clue
Now hes judged by if hes spanish,
Black, italian or jew
So do not kick my door down and tie me up
While my wife cooks the stew (youre under arrest!)
Cos you were put here to protect us
But who protects us from you?

(a public service announcement brought to you by the scientists of
Boogie down productions. fy-ah! come again...)

If we are going to ask for something then let's make sure we are heard.
many brothers are mad and very angry and cant get behide the people who are afraid to speak up as men and speak up for justice for black people. White boy go out to find a hit man to kill his mother and step father and he get charged as a juvenile 6 brother fight back in self defense they are charged as adults. whats wrong with that? SPEAK LOUD FOR YOUR OWN FIRST!!!!

[MBallerinagurl]

Mike:

First of all, since you're a guy, you have no IDEA how many DIFFERENT variations of black dresses there are.

I'm trying to be a guest of yours at the Reception this week. I live in Atlanta, but am a native of Washiongton, DC.

I'm an AVID lsitener. I've actually gotten through to you on your "Day I Found Out I Had Breast Cancer" forum, and for the forum regarding the 16 year old that was assaulted by the security officer at her school.

I'm so excited about the show and speak about it so frequently, my 11 year old called on Halloween and actually GOT THROUGH!!! She was ECSTATIC!

And for the record, some people lable me as "Bougie," and "No," I don't have a steady man. My profile is on Mingle City. (MBallerinagurl) My photo is attached. I'm not ashamed to be 'put on blast.'

Hope to shake your hand at the Reception.

Thanks for being the new millenium Walter Winchel & Petey Greene all rolled up into one.:) And better than that, UNASHAMED. Let's 'shut it down' as a people!!! I'm on board with you and I have your dollar. My 11 year old daughter has hers, too. :-)

Peace Always,
Kim Milbourne

[5636sandpiper]

I'm from the town that where the security guard assaulted the young lady,she was 1 of the most impacted that got out because their was a video tape.Now we are not talking about the ones he chased into a neighborhood and and body slammed we not talking about the ones he punked at school and we are not talking about the ones he had got arrested on false charges or got kicked out of the school.I have been fighting with this man and against this man since last year.Now I get harrased from the school and the Lacaster Sherffi Dept and guess what come on with it.We are having a rally here Nov 19th,2007.And we will be at the court house on Ave M,for anyone who needs more info please email me,the more the better statment ENOUGH IS ENOUGH .

[PERSEFONE]

I received an email today stating that Micahel Baisden is making false allegations in reference to the legal funds collected for the Jena 6. The email went on to state that funds collected for the young men have been forwarded to their respective lawyers. There is also a link that was sent to hear the statemes that were made this week. I will attach the email. I am concerend about this because now is not the the time for division, and I would like to get to the bottom of this:confused:
Dear ColorOfChange.org member,
A national Black radio host is making reckless and false allegations that threaten to undermine the credibility of ColorOfChange.org. We want you to know the facts. And then we need your help to stop this attempt to defame what we've built together.

Over the last few months, radio personality Michael Baisden has repeatedly implied that ColorOfChange was improperly handling money collected for Jena 6 legal defense. On Monday and Tuesday he outright attacked us.

Baisden's claims and suggestions are completely false, and he and his staff know it. After you've read the facts below, can you take a moment to send Michael Baisden and his producers an email asking that he publicly apologize for slandering the movement we've built together?

You can listen to the damaging segments of the show, review the facts, and send him a message here:

http://colorofchange.org/baisden/?id=1557-276510

The real story about your donations

Since July, 17th, ColorOfChange members have donated $212,039.90 for the legal defense of the Jena 6, six Black boys being unjustly railroaded by the criminal justice system in Jena, Louisiana. ColorOfChange has already sent $210,809.90 to the six legal teams defending these young men. You can view the cancelled checks here:

http://colorofchange.org/jena/baisden/documentation/checks.html

On Michael Baisden's show this week, Mychal Bell's father, Marcus Jones, made allegations on air that the Jena 6 families have had no contact with ColorOfChange and that we do not have their authorization to collect money. It's simply not true. ColorOfChange has had contact with all of the families for several months. A member of each family has signed a letter authorizing the payments from our defense fund to their attorneys. This includes Marcus Jones. Marcus also asked us on air to stop fundraising for the Jena 6, and implied that he speaks for all of the families, but he does not – none of the other families have said they want this. All but Marcus are thankful and appreciative. Michael Baisden knows all this, yet he provided a forum for this attack and backed it up. You can view the authorization letters, and the full details, here:

http://colorofchange.org/jena/baisden/facts.html?id=1557-276510

ColorOfChange has not taken a single penny of these funds, not even for overhead or administrative costs. We absorb all the fees from every transaction, ensuring that every dollar donated goes directly to legal defense. Aside from the latest donations that are still being processed, every penny that has come in to help these young men is in the hands of lawyers who have been fighting hard to achieve justice.

Baisden has the facts, so why is he on the attack?

Michael Baisden and his staff know the facts. As early as September, we explained our procedures to Baisden and his staff. In October, we helped them contact the families and lawyers so that they could verify for themselves that the money was being distributed. By mid-October, Yvonne Gilliam, who works for Baisden, indicated by phone that every lawyer she'd contacted had properly received their checks from us.

So why does Baisden resort to slandering us on the air now, after seeing for himself exactly how funds were managed? He's promoting his own fundraising effort this week and is trying to position himself as the only trustworthy source for fundraising around the Jena 6. He's stated explicitly that he started his fund because he thinks other efforts are untrustworthy. Discrediting us is a great way to promote himself and his fund.

But there is no excuse for his behavior, especially from someone who claims to be part of a movement.

We hope Baisden can raise a lot of money for the Jena 6. The families need all the help they can get. But when someone with his reach builds himself up by spreading slanderous accusations about an organization doing innovative and powerful work on behalf of the Jena 6, it damages the entire movement. And it must be called out.

Defending the movement you've built

ColorOfChange.org started in 2005 with outrage, tears and a laptop computer. Our hearts were broken by what was happening in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. So we set up a website and emailed a petition to our friends. We realized we had struck a chord, so we decided to keep going. And it's a good thing we did. Because in just two short years, ColorOfChange.org has become a powerful tool and resource -- the largest Black-led online advocacy organization in the world, with nearly 400,000 members. And its because of your voice that we are here today, stronger than ever.

Never before have Black people and our allies had the ability to aggregate our power and our dollars online in such a powerful way. By mobilizing your concern and your dollars when the justice system attacked Black children, we have demonstrated conclusively that all of us working together can impact the courtroom - and the court of public opinion. By flexing our collective power, we have sent a clear message that it is a new day for racial justice in this country.

Baisden's baseless attack could harm our ability to do this work. We need your help now so that we can continue to be effective advocates for the Jena 6, and for other issues important to Black America.

You can help, here:

http://colorofchange.org/baisden/?id=1557-276510

Thank You and Peace,

-- James, Van, Clarissa, Gabriel, Mervyn, and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
November 8th, 2007

[sassyone]

I received an email today stating that Micahel Baisden is making false allegations in reference to the legal funds collected for the Jena 6. The email went on to state that funds collected for the young men have been forwarded to their respective lawyers. There is also a link that was sent to hear the statemes that were made this week. I will attach the email. I am concerend about this because now is not the the time for division, and I would like to get to the bottom of this:confused:
Dear ColorOfChange.org member,
A national Black radio host is making reckless and false allegations that threaten to undermine the credibility of ColorOfChange.org. We want you to know the facts. And then we need your help to stop this attempt to defame what we've built together.

Over the last few months, radio personality Michael Baisden has repeatedly implied that ColorOfChange was improperly handling money collected for Jena 6 legal defense. On Monday and Tuesday he outright attacked us.

Baisden's claims and suggestions are completely false, and he and his staff know it. After you've read the facts below, can you take a moment to send Michael Baisden and his producers an email asking that he publicly apologize for slandering the movement we've built together?

You can listen to the damaging segments of the show, review the facts, and send him a message here:

http://colorofchange.org/baisden/?id=1557-276510

The real story about your donations

Since July, 17th, ColorOfChange members have donated $212,039.90 for the legal defense of the Jena 6, six Black boys being unjustly railroaded by the criminal justice system in Jena, Louisiana. ColorOfChange has already sent $210,809.90 to the six legal teams defending these young men. You can view the cancelled checks here:

http://colorofchange.org/jena/baisden/documentation/checks.html

On Michael Baisden's show this week, Mychal Bell's father, Marcus Jones, made allegations on air that the Jena 6 families have had no contact with ColorOfChange and that we do not have their authorization to collect money. It's simply not true. ColorOfChange has had contact with all of the families for several months. A member of each family has signed a letter authorizing the payments from our defense fund to their attorneys. This includes Marcus Jones. Marcus also asked us on air to stop fundraising for the Jena 6, and implied that he speaks for all of the families, but he does not – none of the other families have said they want this. All but Marcus are thankful and appreciative. Michael Baisden knows all this, yet he provided a forum for this attack and backed it up. You can view the authorization letters, and the full details, here:

http://colorofchange.org/jena/baisden/facts.html?id=1557-276510

ColorOfChange has not taken a single penny of these funds, not even for overhead or administrative costs. We absorb all the fees from every transaction, ensuring that every dollar donated goes directly to legal defense. Aside from the latest donations that are still being processed, every penny that has come in to help these young men is in the hands of lawyers who have been fighting hard to achieve justice.

Baisden has the facts, so why is he on the attack?

Michael Baisden and his staff know the facts. As early as September, we explained our procedures to Baisden and his staff. In October, we helped them contact the families and lawyers so that they could verify for themselves that the money was being distributed. By mid-October, Yvonne Gilliam, who works for Baisden, indicated by phone that every lawyer she'd contacted had properly received their checks from us.

So why does Baisden resort to slandering us on the air now, after seeing for himself exactly how funds were managed? He's promoting his own fundraising effort this week and is trying to position himself as the only trustworthy source for fundraising around the Jena 6. He's stated explicitly that he started his fund because he thinks other efforts are untrustworthy. Discrediting us is a great way to promote himself and his fund.

But there is no excuse for his behavior, especially from someone who claims to be part of a movement.

We hope Baisden can raise a lot of money for the Jena 6. The families need all the help they can get. But when someone with his reach builds himself up by spreading slanderous accusations about an organization doing innovative and powerful work on behalf of the Jena 6, it damages the entire movement. And it must be called out.

Defending the movement you've built

ColorOfChange.org started in 2005 with outrage, tears and a laptop computer. Our hearts were broken by what was happening in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. So we set up a website and emailed a petition to our friends. We realized we had struck a chord, so we decided to keep going. And it's a good thing we did. Because in just two short years, ColorOfChange.org has become a powerful tool and resource -- the largest Black-led online advocacy organization in the world, with nearly 400,000 members. And its because of your voice that we are here today, stronger than ever.

Never before have Black people and our allies had the ability to aggregate our power and our dollars online in such a powerful way. By mobilizing your concern and your dollars when the justice system attacked Black children, we have demonstrated conclusively that all of us working together can impact the courtroom - and the court of public opinion. By flexing our collective power, we have sent a clear message that it is a new day for racial justice in this country.

Baisden's baseless attack could harm our ability to do this work. We need your help now so that we can continue to be effective advocates for the Jena 6, and for other issues important to Black America.

You can help, here:

http://colorofchange.org/baisden/?id=1557-276510

Thank You and Peace,

-- James, Van, Clarissa, Gabriel, Mervyn, and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
November 8th, 2007

I also received this same email and would also like to know what the deal is? Mike, if what is stated and shown in the email from "Color of Change Org" is indeed factual information, then I think you owe this organization and your listeners an on air apology. Aren't we all fighting for the same cause?

[McCoy Push-Kick22s]

Digesting the legal defense funds objectives I am struck that the fund and Mr. Baisden and our other rising significant leaders have not spoken much about ways to take the offensive in this war for justice. Perhaps I am jumping the strategical gun by pointing to this soft-belly area in the heart of every person, organisation, and municipality-- the purse and bill fold.
Had Mr. Bell been asian or a well-known & established entity, such as a corporate body, there would be an immediate class-suit V. the city, parish, & state. criminal court is the right hand, civil court is the left fist. Its strategic for our people to wash our hands and clean up the state coffers to send an audible message to the captains of the penal colony :eek:

[sheena35221]

PLEASE READ THIS IS NOT TRUE, IF YOU LOOK AT THESE CHECKS YOU CAN SEE THE WHITE OUT MARKS ON THEM. MICHAEL WHAT'S UP WITH THAT. THESE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY.

Dear ColorOfChange.org member,
A national Black radio host is making reckless and false allegations
that threaten to undermine the credibility of ColorOfChange.org. We want
you to know the facts. And then we need your help to stop this attempt
to defame what we've built together.
Over the last few months, radio personality Michael Baisden has
repeatedly implied that ColorOfChange was improperly handling money collected
for Jena 6 legal defense. On Monday and Tuesday he outright attacked
us.
Baisden's claims and suggestions are completely false, and he and his
staff know it. After you've read the facts below, can you take a moment
to send Michael Baisden and his producers an email asking that he
publicly apologize for slandering the movement we've built together?
You can listen to the damaging segments of the show, review the facts,
and send him a message here:
http://colorofchange.org/baisden/?id=2222-359678
The real story about your donations
Since July, 17th, ColorOfChange members have donated $212,039.90 for
the legal defense of the Jena 6, six Black boys being unjustly
railroaded by the criminal justice system in Jena, Louisiana. ColorOfChange has
already sent $210,809.90 to the six legal teams defending these young
men. You can view the cancelled checks here:

http://colorofchange.org/jena/baisden/documentation/checks.html
On Michael Baisden's show this week, Mychal Bell's father, Marcus
Jones, made allegations on air that the Jena 6 families have had no contact
with ColorOfChange and that we do not have their authorization to
collect money. It's simply not true. ColorOfChange has had contact with all
of the families for several months. A member of each family has signed
a letter authorizing the payments from our defense fund to their
attorneys. This includes Marcus Jones. Marcus also asked us on air to stop
fundraising for the Jena 6, and implied that he speaks for all of the
families, but he does not – none of the other families have said they
want this. All but Marcus are thankful and appreciative. Michael Baisden
knows all this, yet he provided a forum for this attack and backed it
up. You can view the authorization letters, and the full details, here:

http://colorofchange.org/jena/baisden/facts.html?id=2222-359678

ColorOfChange has not taken a single penny of these funds, not even
for overhead or administrative costs. We absorb all the fees from every
transaction, ensuring that every dollar donated goes directly to legal
defense. Aside from the latest donations that are still being processed,
every penny that has come in to help these young men is in the hands
of lawyers who have been fighting hard to achieve justice.

Baisden has the facts, so why is he on the attack?

[msmaj4700]

I am writing because I am concerned about the confusion between Michael Bell's father and The Color of Change. I wrote The Color of Change when it was reported, on the Michael Baisden show, that the money that I sent to The Color of Change for the Jena 6, was not forwarded to the Jena 6 families. I was provided with information that showed otherwise. I am wondering if the problem lies with Michael Bell's father, feeling he didn't get an adequate portion of the donations, or did his son's lawyers not recieve any of the donations. I also wanted to find out if Michael Baisden did any research before allowing the allegations to be presented on his show. I also would like to know if there is a plan in place to resolve the conflict. I really feel that the conflict takes away from the Jena 6 situation and the injustices in our society. What the conflict puts focus on is the "crabs in a basket" and The William Lynch theories.

[PERSEFONE]

No one has responded to our comment. I am not listening to the radio, so I'm not sure if it has been addressed. Can some one please let me know if you are aware of this current unfortunate situation?

[sassyone]

No one has responded to our comment. I am not listening to the radio, so I'm not sure if it has been addressed. Can some one please let me know if you are aware of this current unfortunate situation?

I have been listening for the most part today and I haven't heard Mike address this issue at all. I wonder if he will... :confused:

[VocalizedInk]

I just received this email from Color of Change. When the story broke I went to sign the petition for the Jena 6.... now even after Mr. Jones was on the show last week.... this jumps off... Just another WEAPON OF MASS DISTRACTION YALL STAY FOCUSED




"James & Van, ColorOfChange.org" <no-reply@colorofchange.org> wrote: From: "James & Van, ColorOfChange.org" <no-reply@colorofchange.org>
To: "
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:21:55 PST
Subject: We are being attacked. Please stand up for ColorOfChange.org.

Dear ColorOfChange.org member,
A national Black radio host is making reckless and false allegations that threaten to undermine the credibility of ColorOfChange.org. We want you to know the facts. And then we need your help to stop this attempt to defame what we've built together.
Over the last few months, radio personality Michael Baisden has repeatedly implied that ColorOfChange was improperly handling money collected for Jena 6 legal defense. On Monday and Tuesday he outright attacked us.
Baisden's claims and suggestions are completely false, and he and his staff know it. After you've read the facts below, can you take a moment to send Michael Baisden and his producers an email asking that he publicly apologize for slandering the movement we've built together?
You can listen to the damaging segments of the show, review the facts, and send him a message here:
http://colorofchange.org/baisden/?id=2461-242728
The real story about your donations
Since July, 17th, ColorOfChange members have donated $212,039.90 for the legal defense of the Jena 6, six Black boys being unjustly railroaded by the criminal justice system in Jena, Louisiana. ColorOfChange has already sent $210,809.90 to the six legal teams defending these young men. You can view the cancelled checks here:

http://colorofchange.org/jena/baisden/documentation/checks.html
On Michael Baisden's show this week, Mychal Bell's father, Marcus Jones, made allegations on air that the Jena 6 families have had no contact with ColorOfChange and that we do not have their authorization to collect money. It's simply not true. ColorOfChange has had contact with all of the families for several months. A member of each family has signed a letter authorizing the payments from our defense fund to their attorneys. This includes Marcus Jones. Marcus also asked us on air to stop fundraising for the Jena 6, and implied that he speaks for all of the families, but he does not – none of the other families have said they want this. All but Marcus are thankful and appreciative. Michael Baisden knows all this, yet he provided a forum for this attack and backed it up. You can view the authorization letters, and the full details, here:
http://colorofchange.org/jena/baisden/facts.html?id=2461-242728

ColorOfChange has not taken a single penny of these funds, not even for overhead or administrative costs. We absorb all the fees from every transaction, ensuring that every dollar donated goes directly to legal defense. Aside from the latest donations that are still being processed, every penny that has come in to help these young men is in the hands of lawyers who have been fighting hard to achieve justice.

Baisden has the facts, so why is he on the attack?

Michael Baisden and his staff know the facts. As early as September, we explained our procedures to Baisden and his staff. In October, we helped them contact the families and lawyers so that they could verify for themselves that the money was being distributed. By mid-October, Yvonne Gilliam, who works for Baisden, indicated by phone that every lawyer she'd contacted had properly received their checks from us.

So why does Baisden resort to slandering us on the air now, after seeing for himself exactly how funds were managed? He's promoting his own fundraising effort this week and is trying to position himself as the only trustworthy source for fundraising around the Jena 6. He's stated explicitly that he started his fund because he thinks other efforts are untrustworthy. Discrediting us is a great way to promote himself and his fund.
But there is no excuse for his behavior, especially from someone who claims to be part of a movement.
We hope Baisden can raise a lot of money for the Jena 6. The families need all the help they can get. But when someone with his reach builds himself up by spreading slanderous accusations about an organization doing innovative and powerful work on behalf of the Jena 6, it damages the entire movement. And it must be called out.
Defending the movement you've built

ColorOfChange.org started in 2005 with outrage, tears and a laptop computer. Our hearts were broken by what was happening in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. So we set up a website and emailed a petition to our friends. We realized we had struck a chord, so we decided to keep going. And it's a good thing we did. Because in just two short years, ColorOfChange.org has become a powerful tool and resource -- the largest Black-led online advocacy organization in the world, with nearly 400,000 members. And its because of your voice that we are here today, stronger than ever.
Never before have Black people and our allies had the ability to aggregate our power and our dollars online in such a powerful way. By mobilizing your concern and your dollars when the justice system attacked Black children, we have demonstrated conclusively that all of us working together can impact the courtroom - and the court of public opinion. By flexing our collective power, we have sent a clear message that it is a new day for racial justice in this country.
Baisden's baseless attack could harm our ability to do this work. We need your help now so that we can continue to be effective advocates for the Jena 6, and for other issues important to Black America.
You can help, here:
http://colorofchange.org/baisden/?id=2461-242728
Thank You and Peace,
-- James, Van, Clarissa, Gabriel, Mervyn, and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
November 8th, 2007

[ginagirl6761@yahoo.com]

:) I have alway wanted to see black leaders support other races when they are going thought something difficult. For example, if some gay or Jewish or any group , i would like to see our leaders right there.
I think it would go a long way to repair relationships if our leaders were seem as not only fighting for black people but all people.
I always thought there should be some type of inter faith group of men and women who respond to any major crisis in any minority group.
I think many whites or Jewish people see AL sharp ton types as only being for black people and although that isn't true, I feel a more focused and united front would help race relations in this country.
please let me know if something like this already exist
Cassandra:) :) :) :) :)

[ginagirl6761@yahoo.com]

WOW WHAT IS GOING ON HERE, I AM NOT SURE WHO TO BELIEVE.
i WOULD LIKE TO KNOW FROM MR. BAISEN DID ANY OF THE FAMILIES LAWYER GET ANY OF THE MONEY?
ARE THERE LEGAL CONTRACTS?
WOW WHAT IS GOING ON

[ginagirl6761@yahoo.com]

What Is Going On

[BPeriod]

Where is Mr. Baisden to respond to all this? He was quick to get on the radio and blast ColorofChange and James Rucker...calling him shady...so where is the PROOOF? ColorofChange is sending emails with links to cancelled checks..signed authorizations....AND emails from Jena 6 parents stating they don't know what the hell Michael Baisden is talking about. I have a hard time believing these folks would go through all that trouble to fabricate documents knowing the light has already been shined on them. But hey...if I'm wrong I would like a well researched response from Mr. Baisden and some proof. Something more than "I talked to him on the phone and he sounded shady" THAT sounds shady to me. :confused:

[sassyone]

Where is Mr. Baisden to respond to all this? He was quick to get on the radio and blast ColorofChange and James Rucker...calling him shady...so where is the PROOOF? ColorofChange is sending emails with links to cancelled checks..signed authorizations....AND emails from Jena 6 parents stating they don't know what the hell Michael Baisden is talking about. I have a hard time believing these folks would go through all that trouble to fabricate documents knowing the light has already been shined on them. But hey...if I'm wrong I would like a well researched response from Mr. Baisden and some proof. Something more than "I talked to him on the phone and he sounded shady" THAT sounds shady to me. :confused:

Exactly. I guess if he doesn't respond that will say everything.

[uptownbreeze]

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[Brotherjx]

The Jena 6 families are not unified, I wonder if anyone knows that.
Grassroots activist who help start this movement knows the truth.
I respect Mr. Baisden & Rev. Sharpton for taking our grassroots activism to another level. But the truth is that the Jena 6 families are not on the same page.
Marcus Bell knows it was the ACLU, Friends of Justice, Color of Change. Catina Wallace who is a Jena 6 family member and other groups that stood with them from the beginning. I have video of the first rallies with the families and the very same groups he denounce on Mr. Baisden Show. the Community Defender TV show, producer (Sis. Khadisha) was present at all the rallies.
This Jena 6 "thing" would not be an issue if was not for the grassroots movement that supported Mr. Bell and the other Jena 6 families.

anyone who need earlier video interviews or programs of rallies for the Jena 6
email Bro. J at:
blackaction@cox.net
www.blackaction.net

[quorion]

I am so thankful to Michael and Everyone showing so much love. I love it. For so long, many were asleep. Than You.

[quorion]

For so long, many were asleep. I am so thankful for Michael and Everyone showing so much love. I love it. . THANK YOU.

[Candyx]

Thanks goodness! we are not sleep anymore! keep doing what you are doing!

[delbertwatkins]

Dear Mike,
I enjoy your show and I feel that you are a force to be reckoned with. You are a great voice in this fight for justice. You said something the other day about waiting until after Christmas to purchase expensive gift items rather than spend so much before Christmas. I don't know if you realized it, but you said something that was even more powerful than you probably intended. We just had the Black Out last Friday. But what if we decided to have a Black Christmas. In other words, we would celebrate Christmas on the 29th (or later). And rather than buy gifts now (any gifts), we would totally boycott the Christmas Buying Season and buy all of our gifts when they go on sale after Christmas (Dec. 25th). The challenge is the fact that this includes boycotting the Day After Thanksgiving Shopping Ritual. We save our money and invest a portion of the savings into our future (ie. The Unequal Justice Fund, Trust Funds for our Children's Educations, Charity of Your Choice, etc.). There is no rule that we have to celebrate Christmas on December 25th. As a matter of fact, if we truly celebrate Christmas as the day that Jesus Christ was born, then we ought to celebrate it in the way that we live our lives everyday. God Bless You and keep doing what you are doing.


Pastor Delbert R. Watkins,
Larger Than Life Christian Ministries
"God is Larger Than All of Life's Circumstances!"
www.ltlcm.org

PS Our Check is on the way.

[ELOWE65]

Mike,
I've learned so much from listening to your show. I've sent in my donation for my son and myself. I'm just so mad when I try to talk with all my brothers and sisters about the injustice around us and they seem to have an I don't care attitude. Makes me want to do more. Thanks for all you do. It's really opened my eyes to a lot of things.

[PoeticRipArtist4Justice]

The Jena 6 families are not unified, I wonder if anyone knows that.
Grassroots activist who help start this movement knows the truth.
I respect Mr. Baisden & Rev. Sharpton for taking our grassroots activism to another level. But the truth is that the Jena 6 families are not on the same page.
Marcus Bell knows it was the ACLU, Friends of Justice, Color of Change. Catina Wallace who is a Jena 6 family member and other groups that stood with them from the beginning. I have video of the first rallies with the families and the very same groups he denounce on Mr. Baisden Show. the Community Defender TV show, producer (Sis. Khadisha) was present at all the rallies.
This Jena 6 "thing" would not be an issue if was not for the grassroots movement that supported Mr. Bell and the other Jena 6 families.

anyone who need earlier video interviews or programs of rallies for the Jena 6
email Bro. J at:
blackaction@cox.net
www.blackaction.net
I think we all get your point ...but this is not just about the Jena 6. Most people at the ralley and future ones have their own issues dealing with. How many Black People U know on the same page on anything... Please give us a little more credit than to think this is just about them and what they doing or not. This to me has little to do with them other than they rep the case at the time and they have so many wrong issues we must fight no matter what the family's doing.... Coastal is our issue of no justice in this country be U rich or poor and Black. So U blown your horn... now can U move on to how to help Baisden and Color of Change do better.... Not try and get people mad at one or the other. Un less U one of the many KKK on hear trying to divided and cause us to go back to sleep... If U are.... fat chance of that

[PoeticRipArtist4Justice]

Will this fund help Megan Williams? The woman that was tortured and raped for a week, by Six Whites, (3 males and 3 Females) found Sept. 12, 2007, in West Virginia???

Last I heard, the captors were all charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and battery, possible life in prison. Prosecutors were seeking the maximum sentence on the kidnapping charges... All of the six individuals are accused of 108 different cases of crimes all combined, and being held on $100,000 bail.

AND the UN-EQUAL Justice Department was NOT FILING FEDERAL (HATE CRIMES) CHARGES AGAINST HER CAPTORS.


After they convicted the hat crimes can still be charged is my understanding. I don't want them out eva... and from the way it looks the only way to keep them lockdown is to go after them this way.... I know how U feeling...... This is raw in your face hate.... but we have many more we need fight that are no where near equal justice.... Lets pick another battle to throw down on.... This one will work out. I hate to put it that way but to do it any other way would put people acting like pit bulls back on the streets like in the past to do this again....

[PoeticRipArtist4Justice]

Dear Mike,
I enjoy your show and I feel that you are a force to be reckoned with. You are a great voice in this fight for justice. You said something the other day about waiting until after Christmas to purchase expensive gift items rather than spend so much before Christmas. I don't know if you realized it, but you said something that was even more powerful than you probably intended. We just had the Black Out last Friday. But what if we decided to have a Black Christmas. In other words, we would celebrate Christmas on the 29th (or later). And rather than buy gifts now (any gifts), we would totally boycott the Christmas Buying Season and buy all of our gifts when they go on sale after Christmas (Dec. 25th). The challenge is the fact that this includes boycotting the Day After Thanksgiving Shopping Ritual. We save our money and invest a portion of the savings into our future (ie. The Unequal Justice Fund, Trust Funds for our Children's Educations, Charity of Your Choice, etc.). There is no rule that we have to celebrate Christmas on December 25th. As a matter of fact, if we truly celebrate Christmas as the day that Jesus Christ was born, then we ought to celebrate it in the way that we live our lives everyday. God Bless You and keep doing what you are doing.


Pastor Delbert R. Watkins,
Larger Than Life Christian Ministries
"God is Larger Than All of Life's Circumstances!"
www.ltlcm.org

PS Our Check is on the way.

I am a young rich business woman who can aford anything I want and then some. I have never liked the way we do Christmas anyway. Its like we lost the meaning long time ago as to what Thanksgiving and Christmas is about. I know Baisden don't like going after the boycotting and has said so... I understood his point also...but... We have to re-think this because every day now its the business thats allowing hate crimes to exist on the job now. A rash of law suits and Blacks fired because they complain about the signs of hate at work... I employee 750 people world wide... I take it as my responsiblity to make sure they rescpect each other... Its law... and if U not U out... no games ... U out.... so I'm in on this idea and will pass the word.... I think also many others would be to because the gas oil heating bills will be sky high... This is something each of us can do on our own and don't need a group back it. My gifts this year will be art and crafts I make with lots of love even though I can buy what I want... This Thanksgiving and Christmas its about family and friends....... AMEN

[Athena]

After they convicted the hat crimes can still be charged is my understanding. I don't want them out eva... and from the way it looks the only way to keep them lockdown is to go after them this way.... I know how U feeling...... This is raw in your face hate.... but we have many more we need fight that are no where near equal justice.... Lets pick another battle to throw down on.... This one will work out. I hate to put it that way but to do it any other way would put people acting like pit bulls back on the streets like in the past to do this again....

You are correct. The federal government is the one who would charge a hate crime -- it was determined that the state charges carried far more harsher penalties than a hate crime. These perps are facing life in prison due to the state charges. Had the federal government taken over, the max they would have gotten was 10 years. This case is being prosecuted correctly and like you said after the trial they can still have the hate crime charges filed which would add 10 years to whatever sentencing they get at the end of the trial. Megan Williams will receive justice and unlike the DA in Jena, this DA in W VA is doing his job.

[la renard]

I thought the family should read this:



COMMENTARY
Lessons from Jena, La.
September 20, 2007
By JASON WHITLOCK

Now we love Mychal Bell, the star of the 2006 Jena (La.) High School football team, the teenage boy who has sat in jail since December for his role in a six-on-one beatdown of a fellow student.
Thursday, thousands of us, proud African-Americans, expressed our devotion to and desire to see justice for the "Jena Six," the half-dozen black students who knocked unconscious, kicked and stomped a white classmate.
Jesse Jackson compared Thursday's rallies in Jena to the protests and marches that used to take place in cities like Selma, Ala., in the 1960s. Al Sharpton claimed Thursday's peaceful demonstrations were to highlight racial inequities in the criminal justice system.
Jesse and Al, as they're prone to do, served a kernel of truth stacked on a mountain of lies.
There are undeniable racial and economic inequities in our criminal justice system, and from afar the "Jena Six" rallies certainly looked and felt like the righteous protests of the 1960s.
But the reality is Thursday's protests are just another sign that we remain deeply locked in denial about the path we need to travel today for true American liberation, equality and power in the new millennium.
The fact that we waited to love Mychal Bell until after he'd thrown away a Division I football scholarship and nine months of his life is just as heinous as the grossly excessive attempted-murder charges that originally landed him in jail.
Reed Walters, the Jena district attorney, is being accused of racism because he didn't show Bell compassion when the teenager was brought before the court for the third time on assault charges in a two-year span.
Where was our compassion long before Bell got into this kind of trouble?
That's the question that needed to be asked in Jena and across the country on Thursday. But it wasn't asked because everyone has been lied to about what really transpired in the small southern town.
There was no "schoolyard fight" as a result of nooses being hung on a whites-only tree.
Justin Barker, the white victim, was cold-cocked from behind, knocked unconscious and stomped by six black athletes. Barker, luckily, sustained no life-threatening injuries and was released from the hospital three hours after the attack.
A black U.S. attorney, Don Washington, investigated the "Jena Six" case and concluded that the attack on Barker had absolutely nothing to do with the noose-hanging incident three months before. The nooses and two off-campus incidents were tied to Barker's assault by people wanting to gain sympathy for the "Jena Six" in reaction to Walters' extreme charges of attempted murder.
Much has been written about Bell's trial, the six-person all-white jury that convicted him of aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery and the clueless public defender who called no witnesses and offered no defense. It is rarely mentioned that no black people responded to the jury summonses and that Bell's public defender was black.
It's almost never mentioned that Bell's absentee father returned from Dallas and re-entered his son's life only after Bell faced attempted-murder charges. At a bond hearing in August, Bell's father and a parade of local ministers promised a judge that they would supervise Bell if he was released from prison.
Where were the promises and supervision before any of this?
It's rarely mentioned that Bell was already on probation for assault when he was accused of participating in Barker's attack. And it's never mentioned that white people in the "racist" town of Jena provided Bell support and protected his football career long before Jesse, Al, Bell's father and all the others took a sincere interest in Mychal Bell.
You won't hear about any of that because it doesn't fit the picture we want to paint of Jena, this case, America and ourselves.
We don't practice preventive medicine. Mychal Bell needed us long before he was cuffed and jailed. Here is another undeniable, statistical fact: The best way for a black (or white) father to ensure that his son doesn't fall victim to a racist prosecutor is by participating in his son's life on a daily basis.
That fact needed to be shared Thursday in Jena. The constant preaching of that message would short-circuit more potential "Jena Six" cases than attributing random acts of six-on-one violence to three-month-old nooses.
And I am in no way excusing the nooses. The responsible kids should've been expelled. A few years after I'd graduated, a similar incident happened at my high school involving our best football player, a future NFL tight end. He was expelled.
The Jena school board foolishly overruled its principal and suspended the kids for three days.
But the kids responsible for Barker's beating deserve to be punished. The prosecutor needed to be challenged on his excessive charges. And we as black folks need to question ourselves about why too many of us can only get energized to help our young people once they're in harm's way.
I've been the spokesman for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City for six years. Getting black men to volunteer to mentor for just two hours a week to the more than 100 black boys on a waiting list is a yearly crisis. It's a nationwide crisis for the organization. In Kansas City, we're lucky if we get 20 black Big Brothers a year.
You don't want to see any more "Jena Six" cases? Love Mychal Bell before he violently breaks the law

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I call on everyone, especially black people, to donate at least the one dollar that Michael Baisden is asking for. We spend money every day on things that are not necessary. Skip a soda or a snack just this once and donate that money for this cause. I am already some what embarrassed because one million dollars should have been raised in one day. Please, let us not be embarrassed in front of the world due to the fact that once again we couldn't come together for this extremely important cause.