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> AMY GOODMAN
> SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
>
>
> Last week in Detroit, the NAACP held a mock funeral for the N-word. But
> a
> chilling case in Louisiana shows us how far we have to go to bury
> racism.
> This story begins in the small, central Louisiana town of Jena. Last
> September, a black high school student requested the school's permission
> to
> sit beneath a broad, leafy tree in the hot schoolyard. Until then, only
> white students sat there.
>
>
> The next morning, three nooses were hanging from the tree. The black
> students responded en masse. Justin Purvis, the kid who first sat under
> the
> tree, told filmmaker Jacquie Soohen: "They said, 'Y'all want to go stand
> under the tree?' We said, 'Yeah.' They said, 'If you go, I'll go. If you
> go, I'll go.' One person went, the next person went, everybody else just
> went."
>
>
> Then the police and the district attorney showed up. Substitute teacher
> Michelle Rogers recounts: "District Attorney Reed Walters proceeded to
> tell
> those kids that 'I could end your lives with the stroke of a pen.' "
>
>
> It wouldn't happen for a few more months, but that is exactly what the
> district attorney is trying to do.
>
>
> Jena, a community of 4,000, is about 85 percent white. While the black
> community gathered at a church to respond, others didn't see the
> significance. Soohen interviewed Jena town librarian Barbara Murphy, who
> reflected: "The nooses? I don't even know why they were there, what they
> were supposed to mean. There's pranks all the time, of one type or
> another,
> going on. And it just didn't seem to be racist to me." Tensions rose.
>
>
> Robert Bailey, a black student, was beaten up at a white party. Then, a
> few
> nights later, Robert and two others were threatened by a white man with
> a
> sawed-off shotgun, at a convenience store. They wrestled the gun away
> and
> fled. Robert's mother, Caseptla Bailey, said: "I know they were in fear
> of
> their lives. They were afraid that this man was going to shoot them, you
> know, especially in the back, running away from the scene."
>
>
> The next day, Dec. 4, 2006, a fight broke out at the school. A white
> student was injured, taken to the hospital and released. Robert Bailey
> and
> five other black students were charged ... with second-degree attempted
> murder. They each faced 100 years in prison. The black community was
> reeling.
>
>
> Independent journalist Jordan Flaherty was the first to break the story
> nationally. He explained: "I'm sure it was a serious fight, and I'm sure
> it
> deserved real discipline within the school system, but he (the white
> student) was out later that day. He was smiling. He was with friends ...
> it
> was a serious school problem that came on the heels of a long series of
> other events ... as soon as black students were involved, that's when
> the
> hammer came down."
>
>
> The African American community began to call them the Jena Six. The
> first
> to be tried was Mychal Bell, 17 years old and a talented football
> player,
> looking forward to a university scholarship. Bell was offered a plea
> deal,
> but refused. His father, Marcus Jones, took a few minutes off from work
> to
> talk to me: "Here in LaSalle Parish, whenever a black man is offered a
> plea
> bargain, he is innocent. That's a dead giveaway here in the South."
>
>
> Right before the trial, the charges of attempted second-degree murder
> were
> lowered to aggravated battery, which under Louisiana law requires a
> dangerous weapon. The weapon? Tennis shoes.
>
>
> Mychal Bell was convicted by an all-white jury. His court-appointed
> defense
> attorney called no witnesses. Bell will be sentenced on July 31, facing
> a
> possible 22 years. The remaining five teens, several of whom were jailed
> for months, unable to make bail, still face attempted second-degree
> murder
> charges and a hundred years each in prison.
>
>
> Flaherty, who grew up in New Orleans, sums up the case of the Jena Six:
> "I
> don't think there is anyone around that would doubt that if this had
> been a
> fight between black students or a fight of white students beating up a
> black student, you would never be seeing this. It's completely about
> race.
> It's completely about two systems of justice."
>
>
> Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco gained national prominence during
> Hurricane
> Katrina. There's another hurricane that's devastating the lives of her
> constituents: racism. The families of the Jena Six are asking her to
> intervene. The district attorney says he can end the boys' lives with
> his
> pen. But Blanco's pen is mightier. She should wield it, now, for justice
> for the Jena Six.

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