Jena 6

Two of the Jena 6 attackers handed out an award at the 2007 BET Hip Hop Awards
I wouldn't touch most of this with a 40 ft poll. Well, i would have at one point in my life but not now. So racist white kids put nooses in a tree, absolutely uncalled for. A fight starts eventually and 6 black kids, now known as the "Jena 6" beat one of the white kids unconscious. Also absolutely uncalled for. People from miles around come to support the 6 because they feel they are being treated unfairly in the court system. These kids received a lot of support and prayers from people.

Obviously those who want the kids locked up for life are upset about their appearance at the awards show, but this is about those who stood up for them and protested for them and marched for them. I couldn't find anything on the BET blog, its huge, about this stuff but two of the posts mentioned in the article are very fair in my opinion.

1. Another wrote on the blog, titled "What's wrong with this picture?" featuring a picture of Jones and Purvis on the red carpet, "... this is what I was protesting for! So that later you could show up at the BET awards and style and profile?"

2. "They can find somebody else to march for them (be)cause I will not be there the next time, and whoever invited them to this should be slapped," one person wrote on the BET blog. "(You're) not setting a good example for the justice that everyone is fighting for. You look like the thugs they said the Jena 6 are. Thanks for making us look stupid!"