I’ve noticed quite a few comments at Town Talk, various message boards, and even on this blog about how the “Jena Six” were inappropriately touching white girls. I guess that was predictable… here in the south, the Klan has gotten a lot of mileage from that meme and to many, it’s conventional wisdom. Black men attacking white women… it’s straight out of Gone With The Wind. Does it ever happen in real life? Yes, it’s on record that in this country, black men have raped white women. As white men have raped white women, white men have raped black women, and black men have raped black women. Regardless of the racist meme that black men are just dying to sexually assault white women, according the the Department of Justice,

Victims of rape were about evenly divided between whites and blacks; in about 88% of forcible rapes, the victim and offender were of the same race.

The allegations can be summarized as “the Jena Six made unwanted advances on white girls. That’s why they wanted to sit under the tree – to be closer to the white girls. The noose-hangers were trying to defend the girls by scaring them off.”

First, there is no evidence anywhere that this is true. Second, if it is true – IF, as one commenter suggested, one of the Jena Six asked a white girl out on a date, what’s the problem? Unless he kidnapped her and dragged her to the movies or a dance against her will, I don’t see the problem. Did he stalk her? Harass her? If so, there are ways she and her parents could have taken action against it. It’s been alleged by a commenter that advances by the Jena Six went beyond asking a girl on a date. They “were being overly flirtatious w/ them (pinching their butts).” IF that were true, that’s not flirting, it’s assault. IF that were true, any girl could have gone to the principal for school discipline to have been applied, or even to the police for criminal charges.

But the truth is there has not been one founded allegation of any impropriety. Just gossip and rumor, stirring up the old black man/white woman myth. So I’m making a challenge. Let’s see some evidence. Let’s see a girl make these claims to a reporter. Let’s see Reed Walters bring charges. Let’s see something other than gossip and innuendo that the nooses were hung because “white boys were protecting their women as southern gentlemen ought.” Put up or shut up. Because otherwise, I emphatically call “bull___” on the whole thing.

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