No, not the incident itself, which has a host of disgraceful angles involving both black and white individuals.

I mean the hearing in Washington yesterday.

1) Sheila Jackson-Lee, who disgraces Houston on a regular basis, hysterically screeching and raving about being a mother. Excuse me, Congresswoman, but your job yesterday was to be a legislator and to conduct yourself with the dignity of your office.

2) Al Sharpton. Given his involvement in the Tawana Brawley fraud, as well as his willingness to railroad the Duke lacrosse players, he no more deserves to be treated as a leader in healing racial division that David Duke.

3) Rev. Brian Moran of the Jena NAACP.

Several other Republicans on the panel questioned whether the white beating victim, Justin Barker, had been forgotten in all the uproar, but Rev. Brian Moran, president of the Jena NAACP chapter, said that the most pressing issue is justice for the six teens facing criminal charges.

Excuse me, sir -- don't you realize that this is precisely the same argument used by Kluxers, namely that something other than justice for the victims of racial violence was more important? Six black boys ambushed and assaulted a white boy as he lay helpless on the ground because of the color of his skin -- the obscene stupidity of the noose (in which no one was hurt) incident THREE MONTHS BEFORE and the subsequent failure to bring criminal charges provides no justification for giving lenient treatment to the criminals in this REAL LYNCHING of a student not involved in that other incident.