The Jena Six

Posted on September 6, 2007

I’m not sure why I have not posted about this yet. I think that I was thinking that it’s being talked about… would me adding my two cents really be worth it?

Then I came to my senses. Maybe one person reads my blog that hasn’t read any other blog that covers it. Then they tell someone else, etc. Then I’ve helped to spread the message right?

It’s so scary to me that this happened within the last year, rather than sixty years ago…

Long story short: the Jena Six are a group black students from Jena, LA who are being charged with attempted murder for beating up a white student who was taunting them with racial slurs. The whole situation began with an incident where white students at their high school hung three nooses from the school’s tree after some black students asked for permission to sit underneath the tree which was typically reserved. You can learn more about the story here or by watching the video below. (And believe me, the whole story is a lot more effed up than that synopsis)

So, you’d expect our “leaders” (you know who, Rev. Al and Rev. Jesse) to be all up and through this case, organizing boycotts, leading rallies, pissing off the folks at Fox News… but it seems that they are more interested in crying racism when it has to do with a football star and his pit bulls than when it has to do with 6 black teenagers accused of murder because of a stupid school yard fight.

Then I guess it’s up to us… the rest of us who see where the “fight” for equality, fairness, and freedom must be fought.

What can you do?

Spread the word.

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