Jena, Take Your Nooses Down
I've seen blog posts about John Mellencamp's powerful song about Jena, Louisiana and the Jena mayor's unhappiness about it. Now that I've seen the video, I can understand why the mayor would be upset. When a major recording star such as Mellancamp pens such a critical song, the story of the negative environment blacks endure in Jena finds an even larger audience.
The fact that Mellencamp is Caucasian also frames Jena and the trials and tribulations of the Jena 6 as a wrong or right issue, not just a black or white issue. Unfortunately, many will think the song is only about Jena when it's actually about any situation of racial injustice.
The news has been filled with too many reports of racial violence and threats. As in the previous post, "Here a Jena, there a Jena…"
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Al Sharpton has clearly lost any since of rational thought if he believes the American Public will just blindly believe any thing he says.
This whole case is a perfect example of Al Sharpton's loss of credibility. The case is this, a ring leader who has a documented criminal history gathered up five of his thugs and committed a horrible race-based hate crime of attempted murder. What does Sharpton do? He sees a spotlight and jumps into it, and his thoughtless masses follow him off the cliff.
I personally know of someone who was kicked to death with "tennis shoes" after being knocked unconscious so yes this was attempted murder. And even a blind man can clearly see it is a hate crime based on race! Where is justice? I don't know but I can tell you that Al Sharpton has spent so much of his life skewing the truth that he is unable to see it even when it keeps jumping up in his face. Sharpton now says that because Bell violated his parole by beating ANOTHER person and has to serve time that the Judge is being unfair. Wake up dude! Next he'll be saying that this was all justified because three months before some other kids hung a noose from a tree! Oh, that's right, he's already said that! What a blind fool Al Sharpton is. To suggest that is the same as saying Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deserved to be killed for expressing his views! What those teenagers did with the nooses may have been in poor taste but it was still a peaceful expression of free speech.
The black community needs leaders that are present, out of the '60 and in this century. What I'm saying is the American population is not anywhere as simple as Al Sharpton thinks we are, it's so insulting that he is his own biggest enemy. It’s time to move on and stop playing the race card only to your advantage.
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