Thursday is a Day of Action to Free The Jena 6. Pam's House Blend has been doing a fabulous job of covering the story. Mad Professah also alerted readers to NPR's coverage of the story several weeks ago. For example, Pam summarizes the story:Last fall in Jena, Louisiana, the day after two black high school students sat beneath the "white tree" on their campus, nooses were hung from the tree. When the superintendent dismissed the nooses as a "prank," more black students sat under the tree in protest. The District Attorney then came to the school accompanied by the town's police and demanded that the students end their protest, telling them, "I can be your best friend or your worst enemy... I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen."In Los Angeles, there are multiple ways one can get involved locally. In addition, here are some ways you can get involved:
A series of white-on-black incidents of violence followed, and the DA did nothing. But when a white student was beaten up in a schoolyard fight, the DA responded by charging six black students with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
It's a story that reads like one from the Jim Crow era, when judges, lawyers and all-white juries used the justice system to keep blacks in "their place"--but it's happening today.
...Robert Bailey (17), Theo Shaw (17), Carwin Jones (18), Bryant Purvis (17), Mychal Bell (16) and an unidentified minor, were expelled from school, arrested and charged with second-degree attempted murder. Bail was set so high -- between $70,000 and $138,000 -- that the boys were left in prison for months as families went deep into debt to release them.
Sign the petition to support the
Jena 6 and be plugged in for future
action by visiting online:
www.colorofchange.org/jena. At
this site, you can also make a donation
to the legal defense fund, buy a “Free
the Jena 6” t-shirt, and join thousands
in demanding that the DA drop all
charges against the 6 young men.
Call Governor Blanco at 866-
366-1121, 225-342-0991, or 225-
342-7015. Tell her to intervene in the
Jena 6 case, and to act immediately to
investigate the DA.
Call the Louisiana State
Visitor Bureau at 225-342-8119.
Tell them you won’t be visiting Louisiana
until justice is served in the Jena
6 case.
3 comments:
I believe the "Jena ^" was repeatedly intimidated and finally provoked. You can kick a dog around for so long and he'll tired.
This whole incident seems straight out of the Jim Crow era. Which means racism and the mindset of white supremacy still exist especially in the south.
Whites have been intimidating, beating, and killing black people for so long, they think they can do whatever and get away with it. Of the over 4,000 lynchings, not one white person was brought to justice.
When integration was achieved legally, black people dropped the baton. The Jews never forget what was done to them. The fight is never over because any people in power do not want to share power or think anyone is equal to them.
Black people have been beaten down for so long and stripped of everything; their names, languages, most of their culture, their religion. A people oppressed for over 400 years needs a lot of help (psychologically and economically). They need reparation.
Racism has made many changes from overt to covert and back to overt. It was only undercover when convenient because of integration policies and the media. Sad to say, integration seems to be a trick to totally deceive a people into believing they have arrived.
Again reparation is what is needed less a people become totally destroyed in the end.
After weighing the information provided by multiple different articles, I think the picture is pretty clear on the events pertaining to the "Jena 6". I am a 24 year old white male who has never witnessed the atrocities of a segregated America. These children are younger than I and I'd bet they haven't either. Why isn't anybody saying "hello, six people beat someone." BEAT SOMEONE! Racially motivated or not, the adults (any who are old enough to drive) go to prison, the younger one can be forgiven. I believe in equal rights, but lets keep them equal.
Do you know all the facts of the story? Do you really believe both the Black students and the White students are getting treated equally by the law in a town where there's a racially segregated cemetery and barber shop??
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