So what has been going on in Black America this week?
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As we all know, the ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />JENA 6 have finally began to gain media coverage, although it is certainly not enough. It was recently announced that on Tuesday October 16th there would be a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. As we all know, Bell's first judge erringly tried him as an adult. Bell's parents and civil rights leaders are currently in the process of trying to get a different judge because the same judge that handled him in the adult case is scheduled to handle the juvenile case in that small town. Already having served a ten-month sentence, the judge fails to show any sense of consideration for this minor. Where is the justice that should exist in our judiciary system?
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Just when we thought we heard the last of hanging noose incidents, another symbolic noose was found hanging on the door of a black professor at Columbia University. Experts say that this situation is not race related but validity of that statement seems to be very questionable. When the dust settles, the hanging of a noose really only represents one thing, racism. As a result, protests have sparked while no one has been found to be responsible.
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On a different note, Barack Obama is one of the most positive and prominent icons of the black community. His intelligent, charismatic, and clean-cut reputation has given him a viable chance to compete in this election although he is still behind in the polls. He is being advised to use more scrappy campaign tactics in order to better compete, but is that really a good idea? Senator Barack Obama has swayed his supporters up to this point with such a respectable approach that it would be out of character to do anything slanderous. With the potential to really make positive changes in our society, he is a great representative not only for the American people, but also for Black America. For this reason, it's the job of his supporters to do whatever they can to become active and help the good guy make it to the top.
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On the subject of Presidential hopefuls, U.S. Senator John Edwards has somehow stayed out of the spotlight. Earlier this week, he made racist remarks regarding the African American youth partaking in violence in a public forum. When asked what to do about inner city kids partaking in violence, he presented the idea that "We cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating-- pretty soon we are not going to have a young African American male population in America." The bottom line is, it is not possible for a presidential hopeful to gain support from the black community making public remarks like that.
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How do the richer continue to get richer while the poorer continue to get poorer? Apparently the U.S. employment numbers have been doctored into meaninglessness, as have all indices of economic growth or decline. According to federal data, income inequality amongst classes has never been greater since World War II. The U.S. and its media are ruled by huge corporations which have warped the English language making all economic jargon impossible for the common person of our society to understand. For this reason, the people with the knowledge a.k.a. the richer get richer, while those without the knowledge a.k.a. the poorer get poorer. What is middle class anymore? What can we as a people do about this growing disparity?
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This last week a 14-year old student opened fire on a group of four black students. Although the student had a history of being crazy and violent, what are the possibilities that this vicious attack was race related? Other students that were asked about him after the incident said that they did not feel personally threatened although they were concerned for his mental health. Although this is the case, the families of the four black students probably have good reason to believe that his rage was racially driven.