Taking “hug a thug” to its limits
Posted October 19th, 2007 at 12:30 PM by Jon HamFrequent commenter Eric M. Weaver Sr., a former Durham policeman, said recently that the DPD has a “hug a thug” approach to law enforcement. Well, the hip hop entertainment industry has taken that approach to the limit by honoring two members of the Jena 6. No matter what you think about whether these guys got overcharged for their crimes by the local DA, no one disputes that they actually engaged in six-on-one assault. When they were introduced the audience gave them a standing ovation. One of the two Jena 6 said the reception they got shows that people can still “rally around a cause” and he made a point to name the other four of the Jena 6 attackers. Hug a thug, indeed. I think this is what Bill Cosby meant when he said, “There’s some insanity going on here.”
Question: If the kids who hung the nooses in the trees at Jena High School were introduced at the Country Music Awards would they get a rousing reception? I think we know the answer to that. But if they did, would it be met with as little condemnation as this?
October 20th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Unfortunately, criminal behavior by blacks is either condoned or excused by what passes for “black leadership” these days. One needs to look no deeper than the “black leaders” who crawled out of the woodwork during the Duke Lacrosse Fiasco. In their mind, it was apparently all a “black good, white bad” sort of paradigm, and forget the facts of guilt or innocence. (Do Mike Nifong and the leadership of the Durham Police Department share a similar, politically correct view of the world? Enquiring minds want to know…)
As I have said, guilt or innocence has nothing to do with it – the “black leaders” are all for excusing the admitted crimes of blacks, like these “Jena 6″ thugs, while taking glee in prosecuting “rich” white men, who in the Duke case did nothing illegal. (And I maintain that nothing illegal happened in this case, despite the views of Nifong and DPD, and the continued howls of perennial Durham “interesting person” Victoria Peterson.)
The best thing that can be said about justice in our court system is that justice is a crapshoot. These “Jena 6″ geniuses rolled the dice when they committed the assault. The dice did not roll in their favor, at least initially, as they were apparently over-charged in court. As we see, this, and some other procedural issues in this case, were fixed. But the “Jena 6″ thugs (and thugs they are,) rolled the dice when they committed their crimes. I shed no tears for them if they do not like the process or the outcome. And neither should any decent black folks, who most certainly outnumber the criminals and thugs in their midst.
The lesson here, for thugs or would-be thugs, would be, “Don’t commit crimes – you might not like what happens to you.” Or maybe, “You play the game, and you take your chances.” And decent folks: Don’t defend the uncivilized.