And this has to do with feminism how?

This is a case of crying racism where none actually exists.

During a fight that broke out in the lunchroom between a white student and a black student, the white student was hit from behind, knocked out, then set upon by other black students who proceeded to kick and stomp his "lifeless" body as he lay unconscious on the floor. The victim, Justin Barker, spent about three hours in an emergency room being treated for injuries to his head and face.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/jena6.asp

Well one of the claims of racism comes from the downplaying of being kicked with a shoe.

They were going to try one of these animals with assault with a deadly weapon for using a shoe.

Samhita majorly played down the importance and made it into a quasi joke - something like, "seriously, since when is a shoe a deadly weapon"?

To which I responded, let someone like little old me kick you in the face with a steel toe boot, and IF you are still alive, tell me it isnt a deadly weapon if your jawbone was still solid.

Really, these kids should be let off the hook because of the color of their skin? Fuck that, that is racism, pure and simple. Maybe if these boys attacked sammy herself, she would feel entirely different.

This is a case of crying racism where none actually exists.

From the same website you cited:

"...a black student jokingly asked the assistant principal of that institution if black students were allowed to sit in the shade of a tree in a square at the center of campus... The next morning, two nooses were found hanging from said tree."

Yeah. No racism here.

Well one of the claims of racism comes from the downplaying of being kicked with a shoe.

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To which I responded, let someone like little old me kick you in the face with a steel toe boot,

Steel-toed boots =/= shoes.

I am still interested in what they are using to support their claims of judicial bias.

It seems unusually close to an argument like this:

"a nonbiased judge would have found for the defendants; this judge did not find for the defendants; therefore the judge is biased."

Those seems to be the most common arguments online. But obviously that doesn't make any sense.

The more I hear about everyone involved in this case the more I feel like it's a bunch of jerks being jerks to other jerks.

Wow, I expected better. Sexism and racism are interrelated, thats how its connected to feminism. Take a look at "Feminsim: From Margin to Center" by bell hooks.

The original sentencing was 22 years for a school yard fight that erupted over negligent official response to obvious racism on campus. People can be jerks all over this country but if its young black males some people think its fine to give them 22 years? Does that sound like justice? Sounds like a prision industrial complex to me. Read "Other Lands Have Dreams" by Kathy Kelly to get a glimpse.

http://www.racialicious.com/2007/09/04/get-up-to-speed-on-the-jena-six-case/

Remember folks, a tennis shoe is a deadly weapon, far more deadly than say, a pump-action shotgun.

"Bailey goes to the Gotta Go convenience store with some friends. One of the white students who beat him up is at the store. After a confrontation, the white student pulls a shotgun from his truck. Three black students take the shotgun away from him and take it to the police department, reporting the incident. Bailey is later arrested for theft. The white student is not charged.

At least two reports say this was a sawed-off shotgun. This means the barrel has been shortened, usually with a hacksaw, making it easier to conceal the weapon and creating a wider shot pattern. They are legal in Louisiana but must be registered."

http://uspolitics.about.com/od/hotpoliticalissues/l/bl_jena6_timeline.htm

And of course it's not racism on the part of local law enforcement and government. Why? Well because local law enforcement and government says so. That should be good enough for you, citizens.

I thought feminism was merely the notion that "women are people too"? Well, what's so anti-feminist about people, regardless of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation, being responsible for their actions? This kid was beaten to a pulp by six others. It was not a mutual school yard fight.

I thought feminism was merely the notion that "women are people too"?

Women of color are people, too. Feminism fails if it only wins "personhood" for white women. Inequalities still exist for people of color and it would be hypocritical for feminism to ignore the intersection of race and gender and its effects on women's lives. Equality is the goal. Real equality.

Well, what's so anti-feminist about people, regardless of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation, being responsible for their actions? This kid was beaten to a pulp by six others.

The argument is not that those involved in the fight shouldn't be punished at all. The argument is that those in Jena are enforcing the law in an unequal manner. When whites were the perpetrators, law enforcement was lenient. When blacks were the perpetrators, suddenly the criminal justice system recognizes how out of control it has allowed things to become and metes out (unjustified) harsh penalties on trumped up charges.

The argument is that by ignoring crimes by the whites, the criminal justice system itself created the conditions where a young white kid got beat up. Those involved in the fight should be punished, but those in the criminal justice system should hold their own inactions previous to this fight in consideration as mitigating factors when meting out that punishment.

Okay, there was a racially charged, and racist atmosphere at the high school. This is bad. The principal wanted to expel the students who hung the noose, however the school board over-ruled him. Still bad. Thankfully the students at least GOT punished.

In the fight outside the Fair Barn party, one of the white students allegedly used a beer bottle as a weapon and got off with simple assault and put on probation. This is bad.

The "gotta go" convenience store incident is very bad. The white student ran to get his gun. The white student should probably be charged with...something.

Justin Barker was knocked out from behind, and beaten on the ground by a group of six teenagers after he was unconscious. He was ambushed. The charges were reduced to aggravated assault. Aggravated assault is not necessarily assault with a deadly weapon, but rather "attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another person". I believe this is the case.

Did the white students receive unfair treatment? Yes. There should be racially equal treatment by the law in Jena, which there evidently has not been.

However, the Jena Six are not heroes to be celebrated. Nor is the "free the Jena Six" attitude a productive one to take. Protesting the racial atmosphere in the area, the light sentences of the white students, this is perfectly warranted. However, the actions of the Jena Six are ALSO criminal.

Protesting legal bias for convicted or admitted criminals (for e.g., the much greater likelihood of a black man being sentenced to death for the killing of a white man, than for vice versa, or the heavier sentencing for offenses involving crack (stereotypically involving blacks) rather than powder cocaine) is still perfectly valid.