In Gretna La they are firing guns over the heads of people trying to escape the greatest natural disaster in our nations history and in Jena La they are hanging nooses does anyone sense a problem.The only problem in the white community is that the black community does not say"yes master”.Those fights that were engaged in white on black black on white were the results of the prevailing atmosphere in La.The problem is when you come to the great leveler the law the black kids are charged with attempted murder and the white boys are charged with boys will be boys.When you hang a noose and the punishment is next to nothing what follows is not acceptable but understandable.Louisiana better get used to the fact that those uppity blacks are not going away and are going to demand equal justice under the law.Maybe Strom can come back from the dead and argue states rights again.

When we take a good look at the behavior of these students, one has to think that the problem is more than skin deep, which requires more than a Band Aide. So as a so called civilized society we want to make matters worse by punishing there behavior as adults. Why not let these BOYS live together for six month under supervision and be made to co-exist and when they are all done go public with what they have learned! Children are like trees,if you don’t straighting them out when they are young they will grow crooked.

Religion is responsible, in some measure, for this mayhem, arrogance, recklessness. Our aggression at the national level is also a contributor.

This is the one of a myriad of factors that indicates to me that the worlds’ society is evil and insane. It’s amusing to see that Madison Ave. will use black faces primarily to sell things on TV and yet they can’t sit under the shade tree simply because they have black faces. The black boys that attacked the white boy should be charged with the lesser charge of assault. The white boy has already received his punishment.

Why weren’t/aren’t the teenagers who hung the nooses being charged with a hate crime as the symbolism of their act is overtly racially charged?

The other teenagers certainly should be charged with some offense as violent crimes warrant, however, being charged as an adult seems excessive.

Like many other Americans, I am concerned about the amount of violence and hate crimes and just plain unkindness that are either ignored or minimized (even at the grade school level) all over our great country.  How can any American accept the actions of either group (in the Jena case) as acceptable.  We all have an equal right to the “pursuit of happiness.”