Bush should intervene to bring justice to the Jena 6

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: September 25, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Last week, thousands of peaceful demonstrators came from across the country to protest the criminal injustice done to young African- American men in Jena, La. The protesters spanned the generations and the country's geography. They came because of the chilling injustice in Jena, where a series of fights began after white students draped three nooses over the "white tree" in the schoolyard. The white students involved got slaps on the wrist; six African Americans were charged with attempted murder.

They came because Jena isn't simply in Louisiana; similar injustices take place in our ...

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