Jena 6 Defense Funds Get Looted?
by Jeff Davis
It’s been almost one year since a group of six blacks viciously beat Justin Barker, a white teenager at Jena High School in Jena, Louisiana on December 4, 2006. All the usual culprits in the Civil Rights movement began wailing about the “injustice” of actually punishing or sending to jail black teenagers for committing a racially-motivated assault against a white.
Just when it looked like the Jena 6 were going to hire a legal defense dream team and skate free, it appears there’s a slight problem. Some of the Defense Funds have been looted and some of the fund-raisers for the Jena 6 were nothing but two-bit scam artists.
The Chicago Tribune reports: “Just weeks after some 20,000 demonstrators protested what they decried as unequal justice aimed at six black teenagers in the Louisiana town of Jena, controversy is growing over the accounting and disbursing of at least $500,000 donated to pay for the teenagers’ legal defense. Parents of the ‘Jena 6′ teens have refused to publicly account for how they are spending a large portion of the cash, estimated at up to $250,000, that resides in a bank account they control.”
Perhaps when the parents are arrested for embezzlement, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson will start a fund for them.
The Tribune goes on: “Michael Baisden, a nationally syndicated black radio host who is leading a major fundraising drive on behalf of the Jena 6, has declined to reveal how much he has collected. Attorneys for the first defendant to go to trial, Mychal Bell, say they have yet to receive any money from him. Meanwhile, photos and videos are circulating across the Internet that raise questions about how the donated money is being spent. One photo shows Robert Bailey, one of the Jena 6 defendants, smiling and posing with $100 bills stuffed in his mouth. Another shows defendants Carwin Jones and Bryant Purvis modeling like rap stars at the Black Entertainment Television Hip-Hop music awards last month in Atlanta.”
$500,000 –for young black punks, who viciously beat a white kid. Meanwhile, pro-white organizations (which could theoretically keep America from turning into a Third World cesspool) are endlessly operating on a shoe-string budget. Blacks are able to raise a half million for their criminal spawn’s legal problems. White Nationalists should be getting enough money to run candidates for Congressman and Senator all across America. Instead we’ve got Slappy running around with $100 bills stuffed between his lips.
The story goes on “The teenagers’ parents have strongly denied that they have misused any of the donated money. Bailey’s mother, for example, insisted that the $100 bills shown in the photograph were cash her son had earned as a park maintenance worker.” Boy, little towns in Louisiana must pay their trash-can emptiers and candy bar wrapper picker-uppers really well.
The article notes “Exactly how much money has been collected for the Jena 6 defendants is impossible to know, because many donors did not go through Color of Change, the NAACP or other mainstream groups and instead contributed directly to the defendants’ families. Many Internet operators raised money by selling T-shirts or otherwise invoking the Jena 6 cause, but much of that money disappeared without a trace. Tensions over the money have begun to surface among the Jena 6 families, most of whom are impoverished. Marcus Jones broke with the other families, for example, in criticizing Color of Change. The largest remaining Jena 6 account, said by some activists close to the families to contain up to $250,000, is under the control of Tina Jones, mother of defendant Purvis.”
I think we’re going to see some nice big shiny Cadillac SUVs parked in front of public housing in Jena, Louisiana. Not to mention 50-inch plasma TVs inside some of the Section 8 apartments. And that doesn’t count all the Internet entrepreneurs who popped up, scammed some money in “behalf” of the Jena 6 and then spent the money on crack.
I’m hoping that enough money is stolen from the legal defense funds so that the Jena 6 don’t get a legal defense “dream team” and that one or more of them wind up serving some serious jail time. That would be justice.