From publication “Revolution #98”
The “JENA 6” are the six Black students who face the possibility of going to prison for many years, because of a schoolyard fight.
The story began last September 1, 2006 in the small town of Jena, Louisiana State. A group of Black students sat under a “white-only tree” in the schoolyard. The white racist students responded immediately and the next day nooses were hanging from this tree for all to see.
Soon after these racist nooses were hung on this tree, the 93 Black students in this Jena High School stood in solidarity under the tree, in a courageous show of protest. A Student Assembly was called and the white District Attorney told the Black students to keep their mouths shut about these hanging nooses. He ended with a warning that if he heard anything else about it “I can make your lives go away with a stroke of my pen!”
In this school, because if racism, many fights occur. In one instant, white students beat up a Black student, the white students got probation. In another scuffle a white student was taken to a hospital for about one hour with bruises, but the 6 Black students were charged with attempted murder. These students are now the “Jena Six”.
The main media denies this and calls all of these racist reports as “outside propaganda”, but when some Black people of Jena were interviewed, here are some of their stories:
“I cannot get my hair cut at a barber shop in Jena.”
“ We find nooses hanging all over the town, even on the offshore oil rig and in the oil rig washroom to intimidate the Black workers.”
“ This is the repeat of Jim Crow period in the US.”
COMMENT:
Hey Condolessa Rice, you were just voted the most powerful lady in the USA. And being Black yourself, how about taking a stand on Jena High School racism – instead of pushing the American Imperialist White Racism all over the world!
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