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Thursday, February 7, 2008 | 9:14pm

Asshole of the Year Nominee: Jena 6′s Purvis Arrested for Assault.

Posted by Juan

I guess he wanted to get locked up

Purvis
Purvis (L) showing his ass with fellow J6 alumni Carwin Jones.

If at first you don’t succeed try, try again. Apparently Brian Purvis of the infamous Jena Six WANTED to get locked up and overzealous bloggers like me other civil rights activist and the thousands who marched on his behalf foiled his plan.

In his latest attempt, Purvis now 19 was arrested and charged with assault stemming from incident in which he allegedly choked a student and then pushed his head into a bench, bruising his eye. According to police Purvis confronted the student who he accused of vandalizing his car.

According to police the incident did not appear to be a racially motivated or related to the “Jena Six” case. Of course not. its motivated by the stupidity of a dumbass.As my homegirl, Laura at Pursuing Holiness, did an excellent job of pointing a few months back, the Jena case became national headlines because bloggers, the internet’s tastemakers made it so. Deep down we didn’t care about the subjects involved we saw a case of possible racism and pounced on this little town. But as Mr. Purvis has done such a great job of pointing out…he and perhaps some of his other cohorts were bad seeds. Did they deserve they’re punishment? Perhaps not but they definately didn’t deserve the attention nor the stage.

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2 Responses to Asshole of the Year Nominee: Jena 6′s Purvis Arrested for Assault.

  1. E.A. Smith says:

    People always look at me like I am some sort of crazy ass fool, but tha is the ish I’m talking about. Racism is well planted in our country and people pick from it everyday, bu not every incident is rooted from an ignorant fool. We as black people need to stop acting like fools and act right because being a fool just allows the seeds of racism to be planted and grow even more. It works both ways people!

    Sorry, the really piss me off with that ish.

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