Jena, Louisiana is a small town, a town almost no one had ever heard of prior to December 4th 2006 when a white high school kid arrived in the local hospital with a concussion following a beating by his black brethren. The story exploded across, not only the US but the entire world. The six black students were known simply as The Jena 6. What should have been a simple case of assault, moved rapidly into a convoluted case about race, and racism.
The white community was incensed over the attack, and the black kids faced an ‘attempted murder’ charge. Even worse, the legal eagles decided to try the kids as adults. The DA looking for a 100 year jail sentence.
The story actually has its roots in something that had happened several months previous. The school had been fractured over race. And some white kids had put up some nooses in a predominantly black area.
The Jena 6 story is a disturbing one. This DVD explores the story in detail. When you examine the people involved, and the crimes committed, a rather disturbing trend emerges. If you are white, you are just exhibiting youthful exuberance, but if you are black, you are doomed.
The Jena Six story is one that everyone needs to understand, and this DVD gets right to the hub of the issue.
I am old enough, and well seasoned, I know racism when I see it. Justice and Injustice are close bedfellows. Mychal Bell the supposed ring leader of the beating certainly is no angel. His rap sheet is longer th OJ Simpson’s, but was this justice?
You be the judge. Grab your copy from MVD.
Simon Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback“The story actually has its roots in something that had happened several months previous. The school had been fractured over race. And some white kids had put up some nooses in a predominantly black area.”
The “something that had happened several months previous” was found to have no relation to the Jena 6 beating after an investigation by the Feds.
The nooses were put up on the “White kids tree”,not in “a predominantly black area”.
If this is the kind of facts this DVD present,it’s not worth spit.
Simon,check you facts.
I agree with the poster Jimmy Joe, and i will answer your question.
His rap sheet is longer th OJ Simpson’s, but was this justice?
YES YES YES YES
I researched other incidents of beatings and the same charges as those of the Jena 6 were levied, because you can KILL a person doing what Bell did. There have been DEATHS. There is no doubt that these 6 needed a reason to stop their criminal practices before they did kill someone.
If the beaten one had of been black then the crime would have fallen into the USA Stats of black on black crime which shows that in 2005 8,000 murders were committed with 93% of them being black on black.
This is what you should be doing something about , instead of trying to start a race war.
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