That’s the headline on Yahoo! News.
The rally was originally planned for the sentencing of Mychal Bell. Though he’s not going to be sentenced today, folks still flocked to Jena to show their outrage of the injustice that occurred there.
The six were charged a few months after the local prosecutor declined to charge three white high school students who hung nooses in a tree on their high school grounds. Five of the black teens were initially charged with attempted murder, but that charge was reduced to battery for all but one, who has yet to be arraigned; the sixth teen was charged as a juvenile.
“This is the most blatant example of disparity in the justice system that we’ve seen,” Sharpton said Thursday. “You can’t have two standards of justice. We didn’t bring race in it, those that hung the nooses brought the race into it.”
I feel like Sharpton’s words ring hollow considering the time it’s taken him to trumpet the charge against injustice in Jena and Mychal Bell’s trial. Where was he when these young men were being held in jail? Or when Bell wasn’t allowed family members in the courtroom with him? Or when the jury was stacked with friends of the victim? I don’t believe for one minute that he and other activists weren’t aware what was happening down there.
And then Black bloggers took up the call. There was a call to action in the Afrosphere asking for bloggers to bring this story to the media’s attention. Suddenly it’s headline news and thousands are making their way to Jena to protest. That’s definitely a good thing, of course. I just wish it would all have happened sooner and maybe these boys wouldn’t have lost so much time to this nonsense.
Also, Mychal Bell remains in jail because the D.A. is thinking of refiling the charges against him- this time in Juvenile Court. There is a fund raising drive happening right now (the Jena Six Defense Fund) to raise bail money for him. The fact that he remains incarcerated with no charges against him at the moment is itself a travesty. Reed Walters needs to lose his job because of this nonsense. Go to ColorofChange.org to contribute to the Jena Six Defense fund.
Now for the Question of the Week:
Do you think that the blogosphere (or blogovia as my darling Troll likes to call it) had any influence on what’s taking place in Jena, Louisiana right now? And do you think that bloggers (of a certain caliber, of couse) should be taken seriously by the MSM (Main Stream Media) because of what’s happening now?
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Thousands rally in La. to support Jena 6
That’s the headline on Yahoo! News.
The rally was originally planned for the sentencing of Mychal Bell. Though he’s not going to be sentenced today, folks still flocked to Jena to show their outrage of the injustice that occurred there.
I feel like Sharpton’s words ring hollow considering the time it’s taken him to trumpet the charge against injustice in Jena and Mychal Bell’s trial. Where was he when these young men were being held in jail? Or when Bell wasn’t allowed family members in the courtroom with him? Or when the jury was stacked with friends of the victim? I don’t believe for one minute that he and other activists weren’t aware what was happening down there.
And then Black bloggers took up the call. There was a call to action in the Afrosphere asking for bloggers to bring this story to the media’s attention. Suddenly it’s headline news and thousands are making their way to Jena to protest. That’s definitely a good thing, of course. I just wish it would all have happened sooner and maybe these boys wouldn’t have lost so much time to this nonsense.
Also, Mychal Bell remains in jail because the D.A. is thinking of refiling the charges against him- this time in Juvenile Court. There is a fund raising drive happening right now (the Jena Six Defense Fund) to raise bail money for him. The fact that he remains incarcerated with no charges against him at the moment is itself a travesty. Reed Walters needs to lose his job because of this nonsense. Go to ColorofChange.org to contribute to the Jena Six Defense fund.
Now for the Question of the Week:
Do you think that the blogosphere (or blogovia as my darling Troll likes to call it) had any influence on what’s taking place in Jena, Louisiana right now? And do you think that bloggers (of a certain caliber, of couse) should be taken seriously by the MSM (Main Stream Media) because of what’s happening now?
Related posts: