OK time for me to get on a soapbox!!!! This is a very serious subject. I want to bring to your attention the Jena 6. I know you have not heard of them. They are 6 young black boys in LA..sitting in jail facing 22 years, for attemted murder. OK I am goig to make this brief. It all started over the "White Tree" at a school in Jene, LA. It is a tree that only white students sit under during breaks from school. One day a black student asked the adminstration if he could sit under the tree, they told him sit where ever you want. The next day nooses hung from the tree. Later, a white man pulled a gun on 3 black boys and they went to jail for taking it away from him, he walked away with no charges. Then a black student was beaten at a party, and later a white student taunted him about it and was hurling racial slurs. That same night the white student was beaten...and released from the hospital within hours and went to a social event the next day. The 6 black students who beat him up were charged with attemted murder!!!!!!! The all face 22 years in jail!! It is outragious!!! Please take some time to look at these videos and read the stories!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuoiZnr4jLY&mode=related&search=
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/11397/1/141/
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