Of all the civil rights cause celebres of my lifetime, the Jena Six case stands out in its disregard for decency.  Of course, we’ve seen worse, including the rallying of black “civil rights leaders” around the Hi-Fi Murderers and Huey Newton. But the Jena Six case is pretty bad:  these are thugs with no excuse for their criminal behavior; they’ve made a big show of the “noose” pranks of other students (a prank involving students other than the victim) as a smoke screen for their severe beating of a white kid.  At the time, I wrote:

But I don’t understand why–when the crime in question was so violent and brutal, and one of the accused had a prior record, and we can be certain this will someday blow up in everyone’s faces  when one of these obviously violent “youths” gets a murder or armed robbery rap–so many people are earnestly showing their support, as if these guys were wrongly accused or something? They’re guilty at the very least of aggravated battery and deserve to do a few years in the penitentiary.

Since then, one of the six has pled guilty of aggravated battery, and another was arrested in Texas for beating up a fellow student.  These kids are dirt bags, not heroes, and it’s stupid for blacks and liberal whites to make them out to be anything more than that.  There is no “noose scourge” in America today, unless pranks and threats are the equal of real crimes.  When blacks are crime victims, as they are all too often, they are almost always victims of other blacks.  Whites form no insignificant portion of their victims too.  This is the real social problem that civil rights groups should be devoting their energies to, the breakdown of the black family and the explosion of black crime, not phantom menaces such as nooses, the KKK, and imaginary white racists.