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Have you heard of the Jena 6

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O.G.twintippa
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I can turn on the news and hear up to the minute coverage on Lindsay Lohan's revolving door status at rehab, but this doesn't even get a mention.

I apologize if this has already been discussed, but I thought it was worth a mention. We can all take two seconds out of our day to show support and go right back to rating eachothers icon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuoiZnr4jLY

http://www.petitiononline.com/aZ51CqmR/petition.html
Aug 15 2007 4:12PM
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Rez4frederick
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wow, havent even heard about this.  That is rediculous. Petition signed
Aug 15 2007 4:18PM
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danedegruyter
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that is rediculas.. never even heard of it.. but i can't sign the petition becusae im canadian
Aug 15 2007 4:35PM
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hoya
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BUMP!
Aug 16 2007 3:50AM
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pdubs113
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This is seriously disturbing....this is why the south sucks...FIGHT THE POWER!!!!
Aug 16 2007 10:58AM
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dweezileast
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Signed
Aug 16 2007 11:41AM
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itsmuhammed
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i would if i could but i live in the uk
Aug 16 2007 2:43PM
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fourhundred
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jena 6?
Aug 16 2007 2:45PM
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Fish_Sandwich.
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Now that is some fucked up shit.  Another reason to hate the south.
Aug 16 2007 3:05PM
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beer.
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bump...people need to see this.
Aug 16 2007 7:38PM
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j3Di
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Thats fucking bullshit. A white dude pulls a shotty on some black kids, they take the gun from him to save their own lives... and they get charged with Theft of a Firearm .... and the white dude who pulled the gun doesn't get any punishment... fucking ridiculous bullshit.

fuck all the southern racist ass motherfuckers
Aug 16 2007 7:46PM
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Scharff2003
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ok this might turn out to be long so sorry in advance. my boss who is from a town called gretna just outside of new orleans and his best friends dad was the police chief and when he would drive down the street he would shoot black people in the leg if they were in a part of town that they werent allowed to be in he told me they know where they can go and where the cant. fast forward to the hurricane a group of black guys went into the local mall in or around gretna and started to loot it and the cops came and surrouned the place and wouldnt let them out so the looters lit the mall on fire thinking the police would let them out but they didnt so they all died. Gretna louisiana is the most racist town in the usa look it up
Aug 16 2007 8:05PM
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860
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This is so messed up, fuck all the racists bastards down there ruining these kids lives
Aug 16 2007 8:32PM
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TMswitch06
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thats so true man u hear about lindsay lohan every 5 min but people are afraid to cover something so controversial as this. Stupid people that think racism is long gone and try to ignore it if it comes up in a discussion. i think that video set white southerners back about 100 years
Aug 16 2007 8:58PM
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dweezileast
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well said hugh
Aug 16 2007 9:46PM
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t-roy
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signed and bumped. everyone should see this.
Aug 16 2007 9:56PM
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newschooler7
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this is so fucked up. I dont even know what to say to this.
Aug 16 2007 9:57PM
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SlickRick.
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22 years? this case should be sent to state court, if not supreme. that is just outrageuos
Aug 16 2007 10:01PM
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CMF
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signed, and forwarded to everyone in my email address book

Aug 16 2007 10:09PM
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O.G.twintippa
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bump
Aug 25 2007 6:09AM
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sammyc25
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wow thats messed up
Aug 25 2007 9:07AM
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grubix2
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There are a lot of racists still in this country. But what is even worse is that there are a lot more people that don't believe that racism is still a problem. Some people are so naive to the fact that things like this go on every day. But here's another great question...

I wonder how many blacks have voted in towns like Jena, LA? Probably none. Out of fear of what might happen if they show up to the polling station. Honest to god, the whole system is fucked up.

Aug 25 2007 10:04AM
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KEVTRON
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signed. for some reason i thoguht this was gonna be a bout porn and jenna jamison or somehting.
Aug 25 2007 11:16AM
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Tolz
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i signed it
Aug 25 2007 11:53AM
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user098123
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signed...shit like that disgusts me, i can't believe anyone can act like that
Aug 25 2007 12:10PM
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jimmer
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i wanna get one of those "free the jena 6" shirts...and that all makes me sick
Aug 25 2007 12:19PM
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doublexl
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and they say desegregation was a big step forward...
Aug 25 2007 3:19PM
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TheButterHashira
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ill be wearing black tomorrow
Sep 19 2007 11:08PM
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RAnderson
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HOLY SHIT i JUST typed a paper on that yesterday for my criminal justice class and about how the system is racist. i didnt see that video but i read the article: http://www.dmiblog.com/archives/2007/07/some_things_like_racism_in_our.html. ill show that video to further support my paper. i think that is so fucked up, def signed
Sep 19 2007 11:31PM
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HHB
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wow major bump. everybody on NS should sign this
Sep 19 2007 11:44PM
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smuggsVT
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i dont know how true all of this is but i will sign it anyway
Sep 19 2007 11:58PM
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Mod
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bump, people need to see this thread.
Sep 20 2007 4:03PM
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Peter.
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signed
Sep 20 2007 4:09PM
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TheMajesticLife
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yah theres no predjiduce in that town jk wow ppl need to find out about this
Sep 20 2007 4:16PM
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skogenjake
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signed it a few days back...fucking facebook groups
Sep 20 2007 4:22PM
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EH_DUBS
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man thats horrible...really shows how racism is still an issue and still in the world though

i hope more people see this
Sep 20 2007 7:10PM
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jimmychung
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STICKY THIS!!

i'll copy and paste my comments:

Unbelievable. How can these black kids get charged so harshly for the same act that white kids did just days previously that no one even had a second thought about? How can racism exist in this younger generation, I thought we all would have learned as kids what was right and what was wrong as opposed to generations before us. Also unbelievable how this has gotten almost zero news coverage, I've only heard just a couple words about it, I had to actually research it to get any information on it. Justice to the Jena 6!
Sep 20 2007 7:18PM
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BusyJohnSohn
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There was actually a picture of the protesters on the front page of the Globe and Mail today
Sep 20 2007 7:46PM
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TheButterHashira
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second definitley. its very sad that racism is still a problem in america but because the majority of NS believes in equality i think this should be stickyed. Black people loved me for wearing black today.

Sep 20 2007 8:19PM
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TheButterHashira
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Dont hate on the south dude. dont hate the haters. just oppose the racists that there are all across the nation not just the south.
Sep 20 2007 8:23PM
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TheButterHashira
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sorry for the triple post but mods or admins whoever i request that this replace the NS chat thread currently stickyed because it is quite unrelevant seeing as no one uses it and the last post was about 9 or 10 days ago
Sep 20 2007 8:26PM
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currentwestman
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they are talking about it on FOX news right now!!!
Sep 20 2007 8:51PM
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T*Ski
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bump
Sep 20 2007 9:01PM
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da-bling
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wow thats redic
Sep 20 2007 9:16PM
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shagalabagala
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Yeah, nam i heard about it

it was on NPR a little while ago i think.  its so fucked up to think that this stuff still happens- i thought we were past all this bullshit
Sep 20 2007 9:23PM
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chickenwang
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yea i wore a green suit today to support them. and i asked all the history teachers in my school if they had heard about it and none of them had. so fucked up.

Sep 20 2007 9:27PM
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TheButterHashira
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why green? is that what people did in your neck of the woods? we all wore black or at least me some hot girls and black people
Sep 20 2007 9:28PM
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Mod
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It was black or green
Sep 20 2007 9:30PM
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Quinny
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070922/ap_on_re_us/a_place_called_jena;_ylt=Ap5jdACwHWuL_evRG9NZnLZG2ocA
Sep 25 2007 10:52PM
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cofreeskier
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So fucking ridiculous. There's also a group for it on facebook so join that too...
Sep 25 2007 10:55PM
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lushlaxstr
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thats what they get for sitting where they dont belong, and trying to burn down the school. (you know wasnt a white kid). black people need to chill out, you dont see any whites doing dumb shit like that.


WHITE POWER!
Sep 25 2007 10:59PM
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