re: The Jena 6

Greetings to the worldwide blogging community. This is my first blog, and you can probably tell that I'm quite elated. But, since I'll be speaking about the infamous Jena 6 case, this will be a baptism by fire. The whole situation reeks of 50's era conservatism, ignorance, and the classic fabric of American racism.
The following video gives an indepth analysis of the social underpinnings of small town Jena, Louisiana. A town which is 85% white, where several black students were beaten and even threatened with a shotgun in the previous weeks leading up to the retaliation beating of the white student. Since when has it been okay to beat black students and go unpunished, but when one white boy gets knocked out, all of a sudden the charge becomes attempted murder!?!
We can no longer, as the Hip Hop communitiy stand to the side and allow unjustice to go unchecked. Rappers are quick to guntalk when its beef with another artist, but won't step up and say anything when our young brothers are getting mistreated like jim crow is still in effect. Its really quite sickening. Yet in still, the news blasts the latest update on OJ Simpson's latest catastrophe, but barely whispers about the galvanizing protests arising in Jena.
It is my hope that we take note of the rushing tide of ignorance that has swept thru our country as of late. From Don Imus's "nappy headed hoes", to Michael Richard's n word tirade, to Megan William's being tortured for days by 6 white people (2 men, 2 women, a girl and boy), back to good ol' Jena, Louisiana. We...need to wake the fuck up.