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| | Jena Six |
| created @ 09/3/2007 08:20 pm |
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I dont know how many people have heard about this, but i heard about it tonight when i was watching the news...heres a short article about it.
The Jena Six are six high school students who are facing a lifetime in prison for a schoolyard fight. The case began with nooses hung from a tree at Jena High School nearly a year ago. Racial tension escalated in the town, which is 85% white, after the nooses were hung. The black students led a protest after noose incident. Nearly every black student at Jena High School stood under the tree. The town district attorney, Reed Walters, came to the school and told black students, Stop making trouble. I can make your lives disappear with the stroke of a pen.
One weekend last December, two black students were beaten by a group of white students. Later, a group of black students were threatened with a shotgun by a white former student. Whites were not punished for the noose incident or these other incidents, but the following Monday when a white student was beaten up by black students in a schoolyard fight, six black students, the Jena Six, were arrested and charged with attempted murder.
Protesters yesterday came from as far away as New York, California, Florida and Chicago, with large delegations from Houston, Lake Charles, Monroe, Lafayette and New Orleans. 43,000 signatures on a petition written calling for District Attorney Reed Walters to drop all charges were delivered, and protesters rallied outside the courthouse and marched through downtown Jena.
Jena town officials has no comment, but this week the school board had the notorious tree chopped down.
What I want to know is if this is fair or not, should these 6 black students be tried in court for attempted murder???? |
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