NWSF Bullet: Jena Six's Mychal Bell Allegedly Shoots Himself

There are news reports circulating today that Mychal Bell, one of the Jena 6 defendants, allegedly tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chest after being accused of shop lifting, last night.

This is how the Associated Press is reporting the story.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,473904,00.html

Now, this is how the local media in Monroe LA is covering the story:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,473904,00.html

See the difference?

Also, it seems that Dillards has quite a history of being accused of racial profiling:

http://media.www.houstonianonline.com/media/storage/paper229/news/2003/10/07/CollegeNews/Dillards.Ordered.To.Stop.Racial.Profiling-520956.shtml


I'm not sayin' whether Bell is guilty or not.

One, I wasn't there. And two, I don't shop at Dillards, anyway. (Not enough Afrocentric Clothing.)

But I will say this. It does seem that the media jump all over stories when something bad happens to a black person who beats the system.

Remember Rodney King's legal troubles after the LA Rebellion?

Seems like the underlying message that white America gives black folks is:

"See, even when we lose, we win."