Why can’t the leaders of the Jena Six protest put the some effort into stopping “Black on Black” crime as well

Question by Jean P: Why can’t the leaders of the Jena Six protest put the some effort into stopping “Black on Black” crime as well
Let us face facts. Nooses in trees will set off violence and resentment. BUT….The Klan can take a permanent vacation because our cities and towns where African Americans live is where Black people live in fear of young black men and Black teen boys. The dealing of crack cocaine and the endless shootings and robberies need the REAL attention. The negative attitude many of our young black men and teens have towards education and proper English needs attention. I am seeing many African American families where the daughter goes to college and the son ends up in prison. Black Africans immigrating to the USA do not have that kind of attitude and their English is damn near perfect, even spoken better than most educated whites. This is a mystery to me. I guess Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are afraid to confront the crack dealers and young black men too, like most people. Or maybe they can’t make any money doing that. The late Corretta Scott King worked for us, not for media hype.

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Answer by Louisa
Your question is valid, but I don’t think yahoo answers is the correct forum for an editorial on the state of black america, unless you just want to know what the racist nazis and klan members on the board think of us.

I suggest opening up this dialog at your church or PTA or other more appropriate community gatherings.

The so-called Jena Six issue was a media thing. People, especially young black people, watch a hell of a lot of TV and you can’t blame them for gettting emotional about something that happened to people their own age, as desribed over and over and over again by Fox and CNN.

Anyhow, the issue, as you describe it above, is complicated and there is no fix for the present without reconciling the past. When it comes to a sickness, which is the situtation you describe, you can’t treat the symptoms unless you know and understand the root of the problem. That’s all I can offer. Again, yahoo answers is not the correct forum for this.

UPDATE***Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are well connected and were called upon by the families of the “Jena Six” to do what their inept lawyers were not able to do which was to get the DA to back off…and he did, the last young man in jail was released on reduced bail. That was it. Jackson and Sharpton are not here to save the world, they work their connections, that’s what they do.

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