Jena 6

In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a "whites only" shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn't sit beneath the tree. The school said they didn't care where students sat. The next day, students arrived at school to see three nooses (in school colors) hanging from the tree....

The boys who hung the nooses were suspended from school for a few days. The school administration chalked it up as a harmless prank, but Jena's black population didn't take it so lightly. Fights and unrest started breaking out at school. The District Attorney, Reed Walters, was called in to directly address black students at the school and told them all he could "end their life with a stroke of the pen."

Black students were assaulted at white parties. A white man drew a loaded rifle on three black teens at a local convenience store. (They wrestled it from him and ran away.) Someone tried to burn down the school, and on December 4th, a fight broke out that led to six black students being charged with attempted murder. To his word, the D.A. pushed for maximum charges, which carry sentences of eighty years. Four of the six are being tried as adults (ages 17 & 18) and two are juveniles....

[Source: http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/black_high_school_students_louisiana_threatened_lynching]

Okay, so does this sound waaaaaay fucked up to anyone else but me?!

And check this.. one of the kids, Mychael Bell, had to cop a plea bargain and plead guilty to some charges to keep from being tried for assault with a deadly weapon.. The funny thing was he wasn't armed. The jury considered his NIKE'S the deadly weapon because he kicked the boy! OHHH HELLL NOOO! On Thursday, September 20th, 2oo7, the day of the trial, people nationwide are going to show their support by wearing all black.. So dont forget your lint rollers and head & shoulders =]

And one more thing.. why the fuck does "Jena 6" (the city and number of boys going to court for assault) sound soooooo close to the word "genocide" (def- the deliberate extermination of a national, racial, or cultural group).. Hmmm.. I wonder..

-Likely-To-Be-President Lexx