Black nooses hanging from the ‘white’ tree from Morgaine @ The-Goddess 19 Jul 2007 11:30 pm
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Facing South:
I don't know whether to cry, scream or throw up. For the love of Goddess, who loves ALL of her children, please go read the rest of the story. The entire succession of events, and the fact that the whites are virtually unscathed while the black are being victimized by the entire system, including a prosecutor who told the black kids "that if they didn't stop making a fuss about this "innocent prank I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen." "
Apparently he's trying to do just that and it's working.
From the article:
People interested in supporting can contact:
The Jena 6 Defense Committee,
P.O. Box 2798
Jena, LA 71342
jena6defense@gmail.com
Friends of Justice
507 North Donley Ave.
Tulia, TX 79088,
www.fojtulia.org
ACLU of Louisiana
P.O. Box 56157
New Orleans, LA 70156
www.laaclu.org or 417-350-0536.
This is an urgent situation, so if you can send money, please do. If nothing else, join the ACLU because your dues go for things like this. This affects all of us, not just because the world is watching, but because none of us is free when shit like this can go down, and you know the Alberto's Justice Department won't do their jobs and stop this the way they should.
Bill Quigley
Guest Contributor
In a small, still mostly segregated section of rural Louisiana, an all-white jury heard a series of white witnesses called by a white prosecutor testify in a courtroom overseen by a white judge in a trial of a fight at the local high school where a white student who had been making racial taunts was hit by black students.
The fight was the culmination of a series of racial incidents starting when whites responded to black students sitting under the "white tree" at their school by hanging three nooses from the tree. The white jury and white prosecutor and all white supporters of the white victim were all on one side of the courtroom. The black defendant, 17-year-old Mychal Bell, and his supporters were on the other.
The jury quickly convicted Bell of two felonies -- aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery. Bell, who was a 16-year-old sophomore football star at the time he was arrested, faces up to 22 years in prison. Five other black youths await similar trials on attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy charges.
Yes, you read that correctly.
The rest of the story, which is being reported across the world in papers in China, France and England, is just as chilling.
I don't know whether to cry, scream or throw up. For the love of Goddess, who loves ALL of her children, please go read the rest of the story. The entire succession of events, and the fact that the whites are virtually unscathed while the black are being victimized by the entire system, including a prosecutor who told the black kids "that if they didn't stop making a fuss about this "innocent prank I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen." "
Apparently he's trying to do just that and it's working.
From the article:
People interested in supporting can contact:
P.O. Box 2798
Jena, LA 71342
jena6defense@gmail.com
Friends of Justice
507 North Donley Ave.
Tulia, TX 79088,
www.fojtulia.org
ACLU of Louisiana
P.O. Box 56157
New Orleans, LA 70156
www.laaclu.org or 417-350-0536.
This is an urgent situation, so if you can send money, please do. If nothing else, join the ACLU because your dues go for things like this. This affects all of us, not just because the world is watching, but because none of us is free when shit like this can go down, and you know the Alberto's Justice Department won't do their jobs and stop this the way they should.