Jena 6

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Originally Posted by Velocity_14

I'm am just burning up inside. Did you all see the CNN interview with two caucasion residents stating that the image the media is trying to create of Jena is false? I will have to elaborate on that later b/c I am a lil pissed right now.

I saw that too. It's laughable. My parents are from neighboring small towns in rural Georgia where I know they had (we're talking late 80s and through the 90s, and maybe it still happens) two of everything...homecoming queens and courts, cheer squads, prom king and queen...blacks live on one side of the tracks in the city limits, whites on the other. you ask the white folks, like the two that were interviewed, how things are and they spout the whole "we interact with black and we talk to blacks" spiel. of course you do. you ask black folks how things are and you get a labored sigh and an "it is what it is and it's always been that way" kind of response. everyone kind of deals with it until something happens. things happen all the time, it just happened that this time someone, a lot of someones, outside their community heard about it.

Originally Posted by Velocity_14

I think tonight CNN will have an hour special on the case at 8pm central time---correct me if I'm wrong somebody?

The special will be on at 8pm EST/7pm CST

Originally Posted by Velocity_14

I read some of the comments in the other thread titled Jena 6...y'all...I had to step away before snapped on somebody.

I started replying to that thread on 5 different occasions; we're >>here<<.