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Originally Posted by Caine  This might be an indication that your source is when the story originally broke, and the information obtained by the source was obtained through untrustworthy sources (Like the family members of the Jena 6). |
What evidence do you have that Jena 6 family members are untrustworthy sources? They are undoubtedly biased sources, but so is yours.
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They got in and discovered that there were several myths reported by the mainstream media, probably to get the story more hype and thus more viewership or newspaper sales. However, the Christian Science Monitor got their information the the local Jena news reporters and police, you know, the people who have been dealing with this incident from the beginning of this unconnected chain of events.
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The CSM didn't research this story, it published an article written by the associate editor of the The Jena Times. The article is biased to the point of dishonesty. For instance, the article states:
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There has never been a “whites-only” tree at Jena High School. Students of all races sat underneath this tree."
This is misleading. On rare occasions, students of either race may have crossed the demarcation sidewalk, but the tree was traditionally a white students' gathering spot as admitted by the students.
"(The nooses) were understood to be a prank by three white students aimed at their fellow white friends, members of the school rodeo team. (The students apparently got the idea from watching episodes of “Lonesome Dove.”)
This version has been abandoned in favor of yet another excuse: The nooses were hung in anticipation of the upcoming game with the "Mustangs." So, two versions, and neither of them explain why, if the nooses were only an innocent prank, did the principal originally recommend expulsion?
There are many other examples, but the most flagrant one, IMO, is this:
"When District Attorney Reed Walters spoke to Jena High students at an assembly in September, he did not tell black students that he could make their life miserable with 'the stroke of a pen.' ”
Alan Bean explains:
"No one has ever suggested that Reed Walters threatened to make the lives of students “miserable”–he said he could make their lives disappear (a slight difference in tone, you’ll agree). Also, we must remember that school assemblies in Jena have traditionally been segregated. That’s the way it was when the high school integrated in 1970; and that’s the way it has remained. Black students insist he was looking at the black side of the auditorium when he issued his threat; but I don’t think it matters where he was looking.
We are being asked to believe that an irate Reed Walters told chatty white girls that he would use the power of his office to destroy their lives if they didn’t shut up. This is nonsense; but even if it’s true, is that the kind of prosecutor you want in the LaSalle Parish courthouse?'
Craig Franklin's article is further debunked:
The story you haven’t heard (unless you’ve been paying attention) « Friends of Justice