Mychal Bell is a bad boy, didja know that? He was violent. He was a bad boy. And because of that, no one should protest on his behalf, because if they do, they’re misguided, yes, they are misguided because it was far worse, his beating up that white boy, than it was to put some nooses on a tree. No one was sent to the emergency room as a result of nooses on a tree. But Mychal Bell sent a white boy to the emergency room, and he is bad.
Yep. He was violent. And further more, I’m no racist! Oh no, I would be the first to say those white boys who put a noose on a tree should have been expelled! Yes, expelled! And those school board folks and the DA, well they should be held to account, yes they should! But that Mychal Bell, he’s a bad boy, and you are misguided to protest on his behalf. After all, he was violent. What would Martin Luther King say? He would never have marched in Jena.
And I have to say, that Mychal Bell is a lucky fellow, he’s going to have so many opportunities because of all that media attention, all that money coming his way, he’s a lucky boy and I hope he takes advantage of all these opportunities. I wish him no ill, I just hope he realizes how lucky he is!
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All the sentiments above are from comments I have read both at Daily Kos and elsewhere over the Jena 6. My response is below.