Cynthia McKenney runs again for office after serving as congresswoman/feminist/black activist.

There you go , folks.

She's now reduced to running for local office with her Democrat party policies against G.W. Bush.

She spends off time working for your beloved Socialist Party in Cuba, that Utopia......cutting sugar cane.

Most americans know about this woman's shenanigans and how she endorses YOUR most idealistic campaigns against the 'Jews' that control the conservatives...and the English movements against most main stream americans including those 'anarchists'...

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It sounds like she's headed where she belongs...in the political dung heap.

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I can't seem to find much about Cynthia McKenney but I just heard about this incident on our BBC radio and this is what it seems to be about. Thousands Rally in Support of Jena Six

Is there some connection between what is said about Cynthia Mckenney and Jena?

I can't seem to find much about Cynthia McKenney but I just heard about this incident on our BBC radio and this is what it seems to be about. Thousands Rally in Support of Jena Six

Is there some connection between what is said about Cynthia Mckenney and Jena?

Not that I know about. But all civil rights leaders and wannabees are making an appearance.

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I can't seem to find much about Cynthia McKenney but I just heard about this incident on our BBC radio and this is what it seems to be about. Thousands Rally in Support of Jena Six

Is there some connection between what is said about Cynthia Mckenney and Jena?

Not that I know about. But all civil rights leaders and wannabees are making an appearance.

What some seem to forget is that civil rights is for all people...equally.
Those that create smoke just to yell fire are of no service to anyone but themselves and detract from those that are actually discriminated against.

I guess you can call them professional martyrs.

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If a group of six white kids beat up a black kid, they get hung from the yard arm as racists. If six black kids beat up a white kid, they get a massive protest in their support, along with all the black activists jumping in to soak up the gravy??? I would call them professional pimps.

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CNN report:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/19/jena.six.link/?iref=mpstoryview

JENA, Louisiana (CNN) -- There is no link between the nooses hung by white students outside a Louisiana high school and the alleged beating of a white student by black teens, according to the U.S. attorney who reviewed investigations into the incidents.

The events, though likely symptoms of racial tension, were separate incidents, said Donald Washington, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Louisiana.

The events occurred three months apart last year in Jena, Louisiana.

"A lot of things happened between the noose hanging and the fight occurring, and we have arrived at the conclusion that the fight itself had no connection," he said.

Thousands of protesters are descending on the town of 3,000 to demonstrate Thursday against the way the cases have been handled.

Many said they are angry the six black students, dubbed the "Jena 6," are being treated more harshly than the white students who hung the nooses. The white students were suspended from school but did not face criminal charges. The protesters argue they should have been charged with a hate crime. The black students face charges of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy in the schoolyard beating.

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton, speaking to the media in Jena, said there is no intention to stir up violence.

"We didn't come to start trouble; we came to stop trouble," he said Wednesday.

"We're going to walk past the scene of the crime, where this tree was. ... This is a march for justice. This is not a march against whites or against Jena."

While critics contend the nooses and the beating are two sides of the same problem, U.S. Attorney Washington said a direct link would be hard to prove.

There was "no connection that a prosecutor could take into court and say, 'You know, judge or jury, we're prosecuting these white kids for these nooses, and look at all the damage they caused downstream, all the way down to the fight at Jena High School on December 4,'" he told CNN's Kyra Phillips on Tuesday.
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"We could not prove that, because the statements of the students themselves do not make any mention of nooses, of trees, of the 'N' word or any other word of racial hate."

LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters, who oversaw the local investigations into both incidents, rejected the idea there was "a direct linkage" between the hanging of the nooses and the schoolyard attack.

"When this case was brought to me and during our investigation and during the trial, there was no such linkage ever suggested," Walters said in a news conference Wednesday in Jena. "This compact story line has only been suggested after the fact."

Washington noted that after the noose-hanging incident at the start of the school year in August, school routines went forward as usual; there was no apparent lingering anger.

"There were three months of high school football in which they all played football together and got along fine, in which there was a homecoming court, in which there was the drill team, in which there were parades," Washington added.

Asked if the incidents had been blown out of proportion, he replied, "To a degree, I believe so, yes."

The noose hanging occurred after a black student asked whether he and some friends could sit under the tree, a place normally used by whites.

Washington said FBI agents who went to Jena in September to investigate the noose report, and other federal officials who examined what happened, concluded it "had all the markings of a hate crime."

The incident wasn't prosecuted as such because it didn't meet the federal standards required for the teens to be certified as adults, Washington said. A court makes the final decision on whether to drop their juvenile status.

The three white teens were under 18, with no prior records, and no group such as a Ku Klux Klan was found to be behind their actions.

It was left up to the school to discipline the students, who were briefly suspended from classes, despite the principal's recommendation that they be expelled, Walter said.

Washington said federal officials examined the way the school handled the infractions, and whether black students were being treated differently than whites. The officials found it was not unusual for the school superintendent to reinstate students after the principal recommends expelling them.

Washington said he thinks most people were disappointed the three students didn't get more severe punishment.

Racial tension in the town increased after the noose incident. In November, someone burned the main academic building. The arson has not been solved, but many believe the incident is linked to racial tension.

Then, in December, the Jena 6 were accused of brutally beating a white student, Justin Barker.

The beating is considered a state, not a federal, crime, and all six defendants pleaded not guilty.

Parents of the Jena 6 say they heard Barker was hurling racial epithets, but Barker's parents insist he did nothing to provoke the attack.

On Friday, the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Lake Charles threw out the conviction for aggravated second-degree battery against defendant Mychal Bell, saying the charges should have been brought in juvenile court.

Earlier this month, a district court judge vacated a conviction for conspiracy to commit aggravated second-degree battery, saying the charge should have been brought in juvenile court.

Washington said Bell had several previous assault charges on his record.

He and the other five members of the Jena 6 -- all of them African-Americans -- were initially charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the December 4 beating.

Charges against Bell were reduced, as were charges against Carwin Jones and Theodore Shaw, who have not yet come to trial. Robert Bailey, Bryant Purvis and an unidentified juvenile remain charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

I think that this thread is drifting off topic, but under normal circumstances. Two wrongs don't make a right, and what I understand of the Jena situation, leaving the smoke of race out of the equation, is the severity of the charges verses the actual crime is the real issue. Common sense takes a vacation in these types of situations when prosecutors try to make points with the voters at the expense of justice. The Duke University students case in North Carolina comes to mind, and the injustice of tunnel vision comes to the fore. That color card is two sided and equally wrong.

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Sorry if I went off topic,

I just thought there was little info on the subject so put in some real data on what I've been seeing on tv.

I haven't heard anything about Cynthia McKenney, and don't know anything about her. I didn't want to steal the thread so was waiting for some data on Cynthia McKenney.

I found the name of this thread provocative, so thought I'd stop in for some info on it.


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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

I guess I'm confused. When I saw the word 'racist' I immediately assumed it was a 'white' person (of which I am one). I have never heard the word 'racist' used to describe a 'non-white' person.

It seems that only 'white' people can be 'racist' and no other group can, is and ever will be.

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I guess I'm confused. When I saw the word 'racist' I immediately assumed it was a 'white' person (of which I am one). I have never heard the word 'racist' used to describe a 'non-white' person.

It seems that only 'white' people can be 'racist' and no other group can, is and ever will be.

I believe it it the rarity rather than the absence of it in the media. I've known plenty of people who've liked beating on white people when no ones looking.

I dislike them as well and do not associate with them any more.


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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

I guess I'm confused. When I saw the word 'racist' I immediately assumed it was a 'white' person (of which I am one). I have never heard the word 'racist' used to describe a 'non-white' person.

It seems that only 'white' people can be 'racist' and no other group can, is and ever will be.

...time for a reality check?

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This is most disturbing and disgusting, news flash just in from CNN

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Back and forth,

Hate never ends.


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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton, speaking to the media in Jena, said there is no intention to stir up violence.

"We didn't come to start trouble; we came to stop trouble," he said Wednesday.

"We're going to walk past the scene of the crime, where this tree was. ... This is a march for justice. This is not a march against whites or against Jena."

Yeah, right.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Well I still don't know why Cynthia McKenney is a 'racist' as no information about it has been put forward. I thought the Jena incident might be relevant as there was the word 'racist' in the title of the thread.

Reading what I have today in our own UK paper the Guardian, it is not simply plucking out one aspect of the story, such as the beating of a white kid by black kids. If you read it there seems to be one rule for white kids and another for black kids set in a background of ongoing racial tension. from the plantation to the pentitentiary

And since when did the term 'civil rights leaders' become a perjorative?

Well I still don't know why Cynthia McKenney is a 'racist' as no information about it has been put forward. I thought the Jena incident might be relevant as there was the word 'racist' in the title of the thread.

Reading what I have today in our own UK paper the Guardian, it is not simply plucking out one aspect of the story, such as the beating of a white kid by black kids. If you read it there seems to be one rule for white kids and another for black kids set in a background of ongoing racial tension. from the plantation to the pentitentiary

And since when did the term 'civil rights leaders' become a perjorative?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/04/politics/main1469885_page2.shtml

When one hides behind their own race, and accuses another falsely of racism and uses it like a blackjack making the victim into the criminal, makes that person a racist...nothing color blind there.

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If a group of six white kids beat up a black kid, they get hung from the yard arm as racists. If six black kids beat up a white kid, they get a massive protest in their support, along with all the black activists jumping in to soak up the gravy??? I would call them professional pimps.

Exactly...where's the 'hate crime' in that?

I'm against all thought crimes anyway but..sheese!

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If a group of six white kids beat up a black kid, they get hung from the yard arm as racists. If six black kids beat up a white kid, they get a massive protest in their support, along with all the black activists jumping in to soak up the gravy??? I would call them professional pimps.

Exactly...where's the 'hate crime' in that?

I'm against all thought crimes anyway but..sheese!

Thought Crimes..........jeez, now we're really all in trouble.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

When one hides behind their own race, and accuses another falsely of racism and uses it like a blackjack making the victim into the criminal, makes that person a racist...nothing color blind there.

I didn't find the article very clear. So is Cynthia Mckenney a 'racist' or was she accusing someone of being 'racist' towards her, and if that is the case how does that make her 'racist'. She seems to have a pretty good reputation in standing up against the establishment. The incident itself from what I can gather seems to be fairly trivial, after all we had our former deputy prime minister in the uk punch a member of public some time ago and no charges were brought there.

Out of curiousity I wondered about the number of African american women who serve in the U.S. Congress.

87 (16.3%) women are serving of which 21 are women of colour Centre for American Women and Politics.