Blacks attacked a white kid? How is this news? This is just justice for centuries of oppression? Good for them!!!

JENA, Louisiana: A white teenager allegedly beaten by black schoolmates during a time of racial tension at their Louisiana school told a jury Wednesday that he was hit from behind, knocked unconscious and never saw who attacked him.

Justin Barker, 17, testified that he had just come out of his high school gym with his girlfriend walking ahead of him on Dec. 4 when they turned to avoid a group of black students.

“I turned my back and somebody hit me, that’s all I remember,” Barker said.

Barker testified before an all-white jury in the trial of Mychal Bell, also 17, the first of six black teenagers arrested in the alleged beating. The case drew widespread attention when five of those arrested were charged with attempted murder and conspiracy counts carrying decades of prison time. Charges against Bell, however, were reduced the day before the trial.

Jurors are expected to get the case Thursday. The prosecution rested after calling 17 witnesses who provided sometimes conflicting testimony about Bell’s alleged involvement in the fight. The defense then rested without presenting any witnesses.

The racial tensions leading to the fight began in August in Jena — a town of 2,900 with about 350 black residents — after a black student at Jena High School sat under a tree traditionally used as a gathering spot by white students. Later, three nooses — symbolizing lynching — were hanging in the tree when students arrived on campus.

Justin Barker, 17, testified that he had just come out of his high school gym with his girlfriend walking ahead of him on Dec. 4 when they turned to avoid a group of black students.

“So I cross the streets when I see nigras, momma dun like it when I talk to nigras. Don’t think they all smell, mind ya, but they sure get uppity whens ya don’t pay them for they labah. Just wanna sit on the pohch all day, eatin’ watamelons.”

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