A rally is scheduled in infamous Jena, LA on Monday, the federally-recognized Martin Luther King holiday. This time the rally is planned by the Mississippi-based Nationalist Movement, a white supremacist group. The protest is against celebrating the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and the support generated for the Jena 6.
To make matters worse, the group will be armed…strapped…packing. What a lovely picture of America? The Justice for Jena march and rally will bring more negative attention to that area and again paint their residents as racists.
If there is no public denouncement of the Movement's planned protest by the town's leadership, the people in the town will be forever scarred and accurately depicted.
What say you?
That town is already scarred, at this point there is no turning back for the Jena residents. They will have to either deal wit the issues at the root or blindly go on with life as usual. Either way more people will be hurt/scarred.
The actual march is their choice, we did it so they should be able to also (Freedon of speech, yada, yada), I have no problem with a peaceful march/rally, but I do have a problem with them being allowed to bring, carry, use weapons/arms. That is just asking for more problems.
Posted by: Regina | Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 04:44 PM
I agree with Regina...the whole freedom of speech thing...but to allow them to be armed? This town has issues and they are certainly not going to be solved this way...
Posted by: MarvalusOne | Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 12:23 AM
I say oh, I am sooooo shocked. Yall know that racism is alive and well and having babies everyday!
You let us have come in their with a cream pie to throw and we would be under the jail for life! Let me move on to the next post, I'm gettin' pissed.
Posted by: Shelia | Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 10:39 PM