Black student Kenneth Purvis asked the headmaster at Jena high school if he could sit under the "white tree" in the school courtyard. The principal said he could sit where he liked. The next day Purvis and his cousin Bryant stood under the tree.
The Following day three nooses were hung from the White Tree.
The three White students where found and the school board suspended them for a few days and later negated the suspensions calling it just a prank.
White man Justin Sloan attacked black students who tried to go to a White party and was charged with battery and put on probation.
A White boy pulled a gun on three black students in a convenience store, one black student wrestled the gun away and took it home. The black student was charged with theft of a firearm, second-degree robbery and disturbing the peace while the white student who produced the gun was not charged.
A group of six black students attacked Justin Barker after they heard him bragging about a racial assault his friend
had made. He suffered a concussion, his eye was swollen shut, he spent a few hours in hospital and then went partying.
The six black students were arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder all facing 22 years in prison.
A march on Jena was organized and was completely peaceful.
When the marchers were leaving Jena last evening they were treated to a red pickup truck which zoomed back and forth in front of the Black crowd, it was trailing two more nooses attached to the tailgate. Two White boys were arrested drunk and with at least one firearm. Just another prank! Racism is a thing of the past. Which is why the GOP is so staunchly against Affirmative Action.
There is no racism in Jena the townsfolk and DA Reed Walters say. Perhaps a few harmless pranks. It is outsiders and the media who are the only problem. Again. CNN news in its coverage calls this a "disconnect" instead of the far more appropriate "bullcrap". About the only place one can get the truth to any of this "bullcrap" is either on a blog or outside the country. Jena from the Guardian.