Time Out
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I’m going to take a timeout and point to an incident that reads as though it occurred 40 years ago; it didn’t. It took place last fall, in 2006.
This is not about a corporate outing with a bunch of people dressing up like the Village People and some idiot trying to create controversy where there is none just to get a little blog traffic on a slow news day. This is about real racism with real people and real lives that are being destroyed:
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."
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.
You can read about it at Color of Change. Here are the bloggers that pointed me to this story:
Racism Is Alive And Well In Jena Louisiana
Bloggers Unite: Stop Jena 6 racist injustice
Now, THAT’s racism.
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Thank you, Tim. Really appreciate you covering this!