Judicial Racism Still Thriving in America

This week Mychal Bell, a member of the Jena Six, was released after prosecutors announced they would no longer fight to try him as an adult. Bell has spent the last ten months behind bars after he and five more black students beat up a white student. LaSalle Parish Dist. Atty. Reed Walters tried to charge five of the six black teens as adults with attempted second-degree murder. These charges could have put them behind bars for up to 50 years. Reverand Al Sharpton expressed his feelings about the unjust standards in this statement, "You cannot have adult attempted murder for some, and a fine for others," The judicial system was trying to deliever the harshest punishment possible for these kids, but what if it was the other way around. Would they work so hard to put 5 white youths in jail for 50 years? Would they want to try them as adults? Although we do not know the answer to this question for sure, I do not believe they would be so determined to put 5 white kids behind bars. A movement is starting behind the Jena Six and I believe that it is a movement this country needs in order to create a more just judicial system that does not play favors to any races, religions, or ethnicities.