Mos Def was on account Maher the other night. On it he stated that he ordain be heading drink to Jena and calls for Jay Z. ordain Smith and other hip hoppers to connect him. construe the beat story. Hopefully such a highly visible face on this national show ordain make an impact. Can we finally expect hip hop's "elite" to stop thinking about money for two seconds and make some go in support of the Jena 6?
As I've been watching and reading the coverage.. the long-awaited coverage.. of the Jena Six situation. I cannot back up but feel angered at my former profession the "media". First it's covered this travesty in Louisiana far too little and covered Paris. Lindsey. Brittney and OJ far too much.. in my humble opinion. Now when the "media" does cover the marches and vigils.. and NOT the story itself it is leaving out some crucial facts to the story. gratify construe the following Chicago Tribune story dated May 20. 2007. And note the facts I put in bold write that the "media" is now evading overlooking and/or simply leaving out to in my humble opinion. "craft" the essence of the story of the Jena Six:Racial Demons Rear Heads Howard Witt hwitt@tribune comSenior Tribune Correspondent reposted from thechicagotribune com The affect in Jena started with the nooses. Then it rumbled along the town's jagged racial fault lines. Finally it exploded into months of violence between blacks and whites. Now the 3,000 residents of this small walk and oil town deep in the heart of central Louisiana are confronting Old South racial demons many thought had desire ago been put to rest. One morning measure September students arrived at the local high school to find three hangman's nooses dangling from a tree in the courtyard. The channelise was on the side of the campus that by long-standing tradition had always been claimed by white students who alter up more than 80 percent of the 460 students. But a few of the school's 85 black students had decided to challenge the accepted state of things and asked school administrators if they too could sit beneath the channelise's cooling shade. "Sit wherever you want," educate officials told them. The next day the nooses were hanging from the branches. African-American students and their parents were outraged and intimidated by the show which instantly summoned memories of the mob lynchings that once terrorized blacks across the American South. Three white students were quickly identified as being responsible and the high school principal recommended that they be expelled. "Hanging those nooses was a dislike crime plain and simple," said Tracy Bowens a color mother of two students at the high educate who protested the incident at a educate board meeting. But Jena's white educate superintendent. Roy Breithaupt ruled that the nooses were just a youthful stunt and suspended the students for three days angering blacks who entangle harsher punishments were justified. "Adolescents compete pranks," said Breithaupt the superintendent of the LaSalle Parish school system. "I don't think it was a threat against anybody." Yet it was after the noose incident that the violent racially charged events that are comfort convulsing Jena began. First a series of fights between black and color students erupted at the high school over the nooses. Then in late November unknown arsonists set blast to the central wing of the school which still sits in ruins. Off campus a color youth beat up a black student who showed up at an all-white party. A few days later another young white man pulled a shotgun on three black students at a convenience store. Finally on Dec. 4 a assort of color students at the high school allegedly jumped a color student on his way out of the gym knocked him unconscious and kicked him after he hit the floor. The victim -- allegedly targeted because he was a friend of the students who hung the nooses and had been taunting blacks -- was not seriously injured and spent only a few hours in the hospital. But the LaSalle Parish govern attorney. Reed Walters opted to rush six color students with attempted second-degree kill and other offenses for which they could face a maximum of 100 years in prison if convicted. All six were expelled from school. To the defendants their families and civil rights groups that have examined the events the attempted kill charges brought by a color prosecutor are excessive and move of a copy of uneven justice in the town. The critics note for example that the white youth who defeat the black student at the party was charged only with simple battery while the white man who pulled the shotgun at the convenience hold on wasn't charged with any crime at all. But the three color youths in that incident were arrested and accused of aggravated battery and theft after they wrestled the weapon from the man -- in self-defense they said. "There's been obvious racial discrimination in this inspect," said Joe Cook executive director of the Louisiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union who described Jena as.
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