Okay, flame away
For starters yes it is a horrible situation. Poor Mychal Bell was convicted of two felonies - aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery. Wrong in my opinion. It was a school fight.
But, it is a small community of less than 3000 not the country as a whole, that may very well be why there has been no big national outcry. Al baby could have and should have been there long ago, I seriously doubt he had not known about this very early on. He waited to make the most of if for himself not these boys.
It was in fact allowed for them to sit under the tree by the school. Thats a good thing, sad is that they would even have to ask.
I have also read a great deal of conflicting stories.The dirt balls who hung the nooses were suspended rather than not punished at all
The man who fought with the boys at a conv. store claims they threatend him and he responded. Plus his rifle was found in one of their yards.
The party was attended by both blacks and whites indicating the fight that broke out there was a result of any uninvited kids.
I am not defending the backwards racism that is in that town or the wrongful prosecution of these boys. But for things to change the have to start in their own back yard. It is not every person in that town that is nuts, just the ones in charge and as always a few jerks who mess it up for the rest.