Jena 6... Is This Really Happening?
Witizens,
Jena 6. I want to know, hear, and see more about Jena 6. And yet I haven't been all that informative because its just so, UGH! A modern day story of racism? Say it ain't so. I may be mocking myself a little, but I didn't know it was so blatant nowadays. Like maybe in those small southern towns that I am known to want to avoid (or perhaps the whole of Mississippi...); okay, so it's still blatant. I still feel shocked that 6 teenage boys may be getting up to 22 years for a school fight. I've seen a fight at school before. It was brutal and ugly, but no one went to prison. It was over something stupid and violent, what boys are prone to do. No one faced over 20 years of bondage. 16 years old sounds pretty friggin crazy to be locked up with some of America's most deadly criminals.
I want more background information. Am I being fed biased material? Won't I always? Am I only hearing uproar from the black side? Before I go screaming racism, I want to know the story and make it make sense. So far, what doesn't make sense is that for awhile, no one even knew... Or didn't think it out of the norm. And they didn't also think that thought was also out of the norm. Is there that much racial tension that I've been unaware of, and is it building in high schoolers and am I the only one that thinks it is so sad and melancholy?
What the hell is Jena 6 all about? Is it a fight that got out of hand, or is it just fucking out of hand?
Truly,
Not~So~Cosmo
Jena 6. I want to know, hear, and see more about Jena 6. And yet I haven't been all that informative because its just so, UGH! A modern day story of racism? Say it ain't so. I may be mocking myself a little, but I didn't know it was so blatant nowadays. Like maybe in those small southern towns that I am known to want to avoid (or perhaps the whole of Mississippi...); okay, so it's still blatant. I still feel shocked that 6 teenage boys may be getting up to 22 years for a school fight. I've seen a fight at school before. It was brutal and ugly, but no one went to prison. It was over something stupid and violent, what boys are prone to do. No one faced over 20 years of bondage. 16 years old sounds pretty friggin crazy to be locked up with some of America's most deadly criminals.
I want more background information. Am I being fed biased material? Won't I always? Am I only hearing uproar from the black side? Before I go screaming racism, I want to know the story and make it make sense. So far, what doesn't make sense is that for awhile, no one even knew... Or didn't think it out of the norm. And they didn't also think that thought was also out of the norm. Is there that much racial tension that I've been unaware of, and is it building in high schoolers and am I the only one that thinks it is so sad and melancholy?
What the hell is Jena 6 all about? Is it a fight that got out of hand, or is it just fucking out of hand?
Truly,
Not~So~Cosmo
posted by Not So Cosmo @ 7:53 PM
2 Comments:
At 1:12 PM,
Will Work For Shoes said…
AHHHHHH!!!! I got to get on that bus. I'm such an idiot. I don't know if I'll ever forgive myself.
At 7:41 PM,
Not So Cosmo said…
Easy Tiger,
Your devotion to spreading the Jena Six cause has been unwavering since day one. To myself and everyone in your immediate circle, who in turn told others of the injustice. You simply gave a damn, which I've found that not everyone does so much. Even if you miss that bus, you'll still get there. Power, to all People... and Love, Peace, and Happiness.
Truly,
N~S~C
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