Edited sentence: " Only this was no fight."Two days later came the "schoolyard fight.As Barker went for another exit, he was struck in the head from behind by Mychal Bell.Barker's emergency room bill ran to more than $5,000.Black students barricaded an exit to the gym and lay in wait for Justin Barker.It had had nothing to do with this vicious racist assault.Multiple witnesses say Barker fell unconscious as a gang of eight or 10 blacks stomped and kicked him in the head.The Cagle Post, affiliated with MSNBC, states that, in retrospect, the nooses had nothing to do with race as there was never a whites-only tree and that the violence committed by the Jena 6 had nothing to do with the nooses.The assistant principal who reached Barker thought he was dead.When the six were arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder, none of them and none of the witnesses mentioned the noose incident