Personal issues have prevented me from posting here for awhile, but this one is long overdue.
Today is the national (and international, as it were) day of action against the injustice being done in the city of Jena, Louisiana, in the United States of America. The main campaign is to free 6 wrongfully convicted young black men from what has been called “modern day Jim Crow justice”, and take the state to task for its racist use of power.
It all started with two black students sitting under the “white tree” (so called because only white students sit under it at lunch) at their school. The next day, there were nooses hung from it, as a warning. This led to protests under the tree, by black students, threats from the DA to make the lives of the protesters miserable, clashes between white and black students, and the wrongful arrest of 6 African-American students.
Click here if you want to learn more. I’m really not doing this serious subject enough justice. I urge you all to read more and educate yourselves on this issue.
this is why i hate the world so much. shit like this.
this makes me sick. i forget that bullshit like this still happens.