My two cents: If I understand it correctly, they protesters were angry because the white kids got a more lenient punishment for hanging nooses on school property (it should be a hate crime and taken very seriously), than the 6 who beat a white kid up?

Hanging nooses in a tree and beating up on another kid are two very different (albeit serious) crimes. Am I right?

Granted, I think it was wrong to try to try that Bell guy as an adult - he was only 16. But this wasn't his first offense for assault. I view him as a thug, plain and simple. If he were white, I'd still view him as a thug. What if it were reverse? What if 6 white kids beat up on a black kid? I doubt Sharpton and Jackson would be screaming bloody murder - well they would, but it'd be to have the white kids locked up for good.

Look, I'm all for equality and civil rights. But using 6 thugs who beat up on a kid as "heroes" is NOT the way to promote either. Violence is never justified, neither is hanging nooses.

It's funny that Al Sharpton, who is supposed to be all about "justice" and "equality" was nowhere to be found when the Duke LaCrosse players were acquited - and the prosecutor in the case found guilty for lying and other misconduct. He screamed bloody murder at those Duke kids, but never apologized for unduly dragging their names through the mud. Where's the justice in that?

I think that Jackson and Sharpton are guilty of the same racism they claim to oppose. Yes, racism works both ways.