I bet you didn't know that Jesus Christ was looking out for the poor traumatized citizens of Jena, La. last week when all those violence prone, outside instigating colored people invaded that peaceful little town with their raucous protests against all that is good and true and just in the world. I surely didn't. Thank goodness that District Attorney Reed Walters, the man who originally charged the Jena 6 with attempted murder and prosecuted Mychal Bell, a sixteen year old black male, as an adult for assault with a deadly weapon (his shoes) was available to educate us poor, godless liberals as to the extent of Christ's compassion for the white folks of Jena:

Walters also addressed the stress and notoriety the town has been subjected to, saying the only way he and other residents "have been able to endure the trauma that has been thrust upon us is through the prayers of the Christian people who have sent them up in this community."

He also suggested that some kind of "disaster" was averted when thousands of marchers came to Jena last week.

"I firmly believe and am confident of the fact that had it not been for the direct intervention of the Lord Jesus Christ last Thursday, a disaster would have happened," Walters said.

"The Lord Jesus Christ put his influence on those people, and they responded accordingly," he said, without explaining exactly what he meant.

Mr. Walters did not specify what disaster Jesus's intervention avoided, probably out of concern for the white ladies and young children who might hear his remarks (so as not to unnecessarily alarm them), but I imagine we can all guess the despicable deeds to which he implicitly made reference. Who knows what horrors those interlopers led by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson might have perpetrated on the good people of Jena, had Jesus not been at hand to act as their personal security guard.

As for why Mr. Walters knows in his heart of hearts that Jesus protected the white people of Jena from those horrid black protesters, I leave it to the field negro to explain why Jesus doesn't love people of color to the same degree he does the God-fearing Christian men and women of the white race:

I gotta tell you though, thank goodness for JC. If it wasn't for him protecting good Southern white towns like Jena and it's DA, Reed Walters, can you imagine how much trouble we would have had with those black folks down there ? Thank goodness we have JC, to protect all those God fearing white people. (God is JC's dad in case you were wondering) I mean every body knows that JC is just there to protect them. Not the black folks, they (the black folks) are Godless. I mean if JC was looking out for black people, do you think that three times as much blacks would be sitting in prison than on a college campus this fall? Do you think that damn near seven out of ten black households would be run by single mothers? Do you think that over 300 people would have been slaughtered in the bloody streets of Killadelphia, Pistolvania this year alone? And that most of those killed would be black men killed by other black men? I don't think so.

Nope, JC couldn't love us. The protection we got in Jena was collateral protection. The real people being watched over were the good white folks of Jena. The black people marching were just at the right place at the right time.

But thanks again JC for keeping those marchers down in Jena in line. No wonder all those Southern white people love you so much, and they spend so much time in those fancy homes they built for you. But we built some fancy homes for you in the hood too, how come we don't get that kind of love? I mean you protect the town folks of Jena from us, but you won't protect us from each other.

Though, I think Jesus slipped up a little in his white people only protection services, because he also allowed that notorious Mychal Bell to walk out of jail after finally being permitted to post bail:

Mychal Bell, a black teenager accused of beating a white classmate and who was the last of the "Jena 6" behind bars, was released from custody Thursday after a juvenile court judge set his bail at $45,000. [...]

"We do not condone violence of any kind, but we ask that people be given a fair and even chance at the bar of justice," the Rev. Al Sharpton said outside the courthouse.

"Tonight, Mychal can go home, but Mychal is not out of the juvenile process. He goes home because a lot of people left their home and stood up for him," he said.

Then again, considering that the addresses of Mr. Bell and his confederates have been published online by some upstanding patriotic white citizens, I'm sure that the good people of Jena will continue to remain safe despite the fact that a notorious criminal has been released in their midst.

NEW ORLEANS -- The FBI is reviewing a white supremacist Web site that purports to list the addresses of five of the six black teenagers accused of beating a white student in Jena and "essentially called for their lynching," an agency spokeswoman said Saturday. [...]

CNN first reported Friday about the Web site, which features a swastika, frequent use of racial slurs, a mailing address in Roanoke, Va., and phone numbers purportedly for some of the teens' families "in case anyone wants to deliver justice." That page is dated Thursday.

The Rev. Al Sharpton said in a statement Saturday that some of the families have received "almost around the clock calls of threats and harassment," and called on Gov. Kathleen Blanco to intervene.

God does help those who help themselves, after all.

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PS. Seriously, the release of Mychal Bell is a small step toward justice in this case. And DA Reed Walters has exposed himself for all to see as the white supremacist piece of excrement that we all suspected he was when he first indicted these kids for attempted murder by sneaker. As for those that posted the names, phone numbers and addresses of the Jena 6 defendants and their families, its quite apparent that was a deliberate attempt to intimidate them, as well as a not so subtle call for vigilantes to lynch these young men, as Dave Neiwert makes clear in his discussion of the actions taken by these white supremacist vultures now descending on Jena. It's a reflection of the times we live in, sadly, and a direct reflection of the influence that Republicans and conservatives have had on our culture that such examples of hate and bigotry against minorities are on the rise in our society.