Jewel Robertson – 9/26/07

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A modern form of lynching; Jewel Robertson; Beaver County Times; September 26, 2007.

Usually, Ms. Robertson writes letters bashing President Bush. In her first letter, Ms. Robertson opined that President Bush could be listening to Satan. That tells us much of what we need to know about Ms. Robertson.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“While the war is still raging in Iraq, when street violence is escalating all across America, when we thought we had seen the last of the O. J. Simpson saga and when we have not yet seen Louisiana recover from Katrina, we have the Jena Six investigation.”

[RWC] Maybe I’m dense, but what’s the connection between O.J. Simpson, Hurricane Katrina, and the Jena Six?”

“Empty nooses were found hanging from a tree as a symbol of lynching. Our ancestors did not retaliate because they were afraid of the master.

“This is a different day. Young people react differently to certain acts of racism. I am not condoning the fight that erupted, but did it warrant what is taking place at this moment?”

[RWC] If Ms. Robertson is “not condoning” the beating of the single white kid by the six black kids, she sure does her best below to downplay it below as a simple “fight.”

“Could it be that the prosecutor in this case is sending a strong message all across America that it is OK for blacks to beat up on blacks and kill blacks, but don’t you dare touch whites? The white student was injured but not too badly. He attended an event at the school that same night.

[RWC] “[I]t is OK for blacks to beat up on blacks and kill blacks?” Where did this come from? The vast majority of blacks in jail are there for black-on-black crimes, just as most whites are there for white-on-white crimes. For whatever reason, most criminals tend to victimize members of their own race.

“This was not attempted murder. This was a fight where he was roughed up a little.”

[RWC] I don’t know about Ms. Robertson, but six guys beating up one guy doesn’t meet my definition of a “fight.” As for Ms. Robertson’s comments that the “white student was injured but not too badly” and “was roughed up a little,” is that what she calls it when a kid is beaten unconscious?

Note, when she refers to a six-on-one beating as a “fight,” Ms. Robertson is merely using the language of the Jacksons and Sharptons of the world.

“This should be a wake up call for black America to stop the killing and destruction in our communities. The master is still alive in the courts. They’re not lynching you from trees, but they’re lynching you from the courtroom.

“If it had been the other way around, our kids would have been found hanging from that noose.”

[RWC] While Ms. Robertson does her best to excuse the beating on the basis of the hanging nooses, she neglects to mention an inconvenient fact. The white kid beaten unconscious by the six black kids wasn’t even one of the boys that hung the nooses.