On Hannity & Colmes, Jena 6 Demonstration Presented As Issue Of BLACK Racism

[antiimperialist]

September 21, 2007
News Hounds

Only on FOX News would the Jena 6 demonstration be presented as a story about black racism. And just in case you thought it was only the bigoted Sean Hannity, former pal to white supremacist Hal Turner, who felt that way, the issue was framed that way by FOX News, too. From the 9/20/07 Hannity & Colmes. With video.

“Reverse Racism?” appeared on a graphic behind Alan Colmes during his scripted introduction conflating the demonstration over questions of racial bias in the US justice system with remarks by Isiah Thomas and Jesse Jackson. Colmes began, “Are these cases of playing the reverse race card? Thousands gathered in Jena, Louisiana today to protest what they claimed is racial injustice. They oppose the criminal charges brought against a group of black students who beat up a white student in a school fight.”

Notice that the introduction omitted the precursor to the fight, the hanging of nooses by a group of white students on a “white” tree after black students gathered under it.

http://www.newshounds.us/2007/09/21/on_hannity_colmes_jena_6_demonstration_presented_as_issue_of_black_racism.php

[tandot]

1. Of course...

...those black students should have never sat under that "Whites Only" tree or complained about the nooses.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. The racists are defending the nooses as free speech

And there were more nooses last night.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/21/car.nooses/index.html

[emlev]

3. On the other hand, real coverage here

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