Well, as I have pointed out before, it's up to the asdults to bring the charges... It's up to the judges and juries to figure it out...

Hate crimes is federal... When a noose was recently found at a black progfessors office it was being invetigated as a hate crime... If the prosecutor in Jena had at the very least mentioned that thease white kids could have possibly be brought up on hate crime charges then a ***real*** message would have been sent...

He didn't, and in not doing so sent another message: Jim Coew is just okay, with us, long as you don't kill nobody...

This is a terrible message to send... All it doen is enforce all the emotions that both blacks and whites have had to live with going back a long, long time...

Melissa,

Don't quit now... It's just gettin' good... I mean, meaningful... You can't just stop in and if you don't persuade everyone with your opinions then quit... That ain't what discussions are about... And this discussion is long overdue...

Yes, I fully understand Dick's position and it is one that is heal be lots of people... I don't find fault with it if it is taken purely as one incident... No, we cannot condone violent acts, period...

But we cannot condone acts of threatned violence, either...

That is what is at issue here...

Bobert