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Comment by dlhavema | Hacker News Reader

the title referenced "black children" specifically, but the article didn't mention it at all, is it supposed to be assumed all/majority of the kids sent to jail were black?

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The actual ugliness of the story here is a bit obscured by the distorted framing of that headline. But that seems to be the modus operandi across this Web site:

"President Obama turns 52" (... with a photo from way back when he looked like a completely different man) http://rollingout.com/politics/happy-birthday-president-obam...

"[Tavis] Smiley’s hate of President Obama" (... really absurd if you know the history) http://rollingout.com/politics/funniest-twitter-responses-to...

"Cornel West’s rampage against President Obama" (... same) http://rollingout.com/politics/twitter-blasts-cornel-west-fo...

It's a black site. The girl who got sentenced for the myspace page was white (or whitesque): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html?pagewanted...

how in hell a child can get charged, let alone sent to do actual time, with crime for a mocking page? ok, judge is corrupt. Fine. Happens. Nevertheless, the judge wasn't the one who complained, arrested, charged the child. A lot of adults were involved and they actively facilitated this travesty happening.

People like to blame evil for evil things, yet evil would be able to do much less without reasonable, supposedly good, people actively helping evil things to happen.

I was also shocked by that. How can that be a crime at all? It would seem to be protected speech under the First Amendment. The judge and anyone else involved should have all gone to jail just for that one egregious civil rights violation.

The first amendment is highly restricted when it comes to kids in school much the same way it is inside the armed forces.

Isn't the only way to address that via appeals, which are both pricey and time-consuming?

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