Originally posted by M.Dot @ ModelMinority.com.

Hanging Noose

If I told you that a 16 year old was charged as an adult for attempted murder after allegedly getting into a fight (along with 5 others) with another student, would you believe me?

What if the victim was knocked unconscious but was released for the hospital the same night? What if the alleged victim testified that he didn’t know who hit him first?

Well, this is precisely what happened in the Jena 6 case.

Notably, the victim is white and the members of the Jena 6 are Black.

Bloggers tend to be ahead of the curve. Changeseeker put me on to the Jena 6 petition a month or two ago. However, I wasn’t compelled to write about it ’til Gotty reminded me of how the case was being buried by Micheal Vick stories.

Jena, Louisiana is a town comprised of approximately 3000 residents, and Read the rest of this entry »