Date: Wednesday, October 03, 2007By:
Tonyaa Weathersbee, BlackAmericaWeb.com
I hope that Mychal Bell understands that just because a kindly black physician put up $45,000 for his bail doesn’t mean he’s debt-free.
He owes a lot of people. Himself included.
Unless you’ve been living in a cave with Bedouin sheepherders for the past three months, you know that Bell, 17, is one of the Jena Six. He and four other black teenagers were charged with attempted murder -- a charge that had them facing up to 20 years in prison -- for a schoolyard brawl in which they beat up a white teenager who, according to some reports, had taunted them racially.
The plight of Bell and his friends has become the flashpoint for what may evolve into a new civil rights movement; one that centers on equal justice as well as equal access. More than 20,000 protesters descended on Jena, La. last month to show their outrage over a punishment that clearly did not fit the crime -- the white teenager who was beaten up was treated and released from the hospital in time to attend a ring ceremony that night."
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