Was BET right to put two of the "Jena 6" teens on the award show?

Infamous "Jena 6" teens presenting the Video Of the Year award

A picture at the celebrity afterparty taken by Sandra Rose

I normally don't like to get into race issues because it is a very sensitive subject to me. I experienced it so bad in the South when I lived in Georgia with some "animals" that could make you just hate white people altogether! A white Manager at a Toronto Blockbuster shop told me how Georgia was so damn racist and he saw how blacks were treated down there which he thought was a complete mess. In my 21 years up North, it was never like that but why would BET even have two of the "Jena 6" teens come and present awards on their show? Completely bad Public Relations. Carwin Jones and Bryan Purvis, two of the "Jena 6" teens were present everywhere literary treated like celebrities. It sends several racial bad messages as far as I'm concerned!

First of all these kids have been glorified on a TV network for what they did. Though they were never tried, they were accused in a group of beating up a fellow white student almost to unconsciousness. By having them on the award show says they are the victims. They thanked the viewers and hip-hop "for supporting" them. Hip-hop? The main one Mychall Bell was sent back to jail again because of prior convictions and probation violations. Did everyone know this when they went to march up there last month. The officials in that town are already racist pigs (just look at how the DA spoke to CNN!) but it does not give BET the right to glorify these young men on national TV. If we all had nooses under a tree in our yards, we won't go out and beat up someone? The federal, state and local Jena government was irresponsible because the case was not treated as a hate crime so everyone took the law into their hands. Now BET glorifying them is bad in my opinion.