European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 11 racism resurfaces in Small town it started with nooses on a tree and Rose to 6 attempted murder charges by Howard Witt Chicago Tribune the trouble in Jena started with the then it rumbled along the towns jagged racial fault it exploded into months of Vio Lence Between Blacks and now the residents of this Small lumber and Oil town deep in the heart of Central Louisiana Are confronting old South racial de Mons Many thought had Long ago been put to one morning last students arrived at the local High school to find three Hangman nooses dangling from a tree in the the tree was on the Side of the Campus by longstanding tra had always been claimed by White who make up More than 80 percent of the 460 but a few of the schools 85 Black students had decided to Challenge the accepted state of things and asked school administrators if could sit be Neath the Trees Cooling sit you school officials told the next the nooses were hang ing from the Black students and their parents were outraged and intimidated by the which instantly summoned memories of the mob lynchings that once terrorized Blacks across the american three White students were quickly identified As being respond and the High school Princi pal recommended that they be sex hanging those nooses was a hate Plain and said Tracy a Black Mother of two students at the High but jeans White school superin Roy ruled that the nooses were just a youth Ful stunt and suspended the Stu dents for three adolescents play said the superintendent of the Lasauce Parish school i dont think it was a threat against yet it was after the noose Inci Dent that the racially charged events that Are still convulsing Jena a series of fights Between Black and White students erupted at the High school Over the in late unknown arsonists set fire to the Cen Chris Chicago a request to sit under a tree on the Campus of Jena High school in set off months of violence Between Blacks and trial Wing of the which still sits in off a White youth beat up a Black student who showed up at an Allwhite a few Days another Young White Man pulled a Shotgun on three Black students at a convenience on a group of Black students at the High school allegedly jumped a White student on his Way out of the knocked him unconscious and kicked him after he hit the the victim allegedly targeted because he was a Friend of the Stu dents who Hung the nooses and had been taunting Blacks was helping others become army Strong is in More ways than visit v not seriously injured and spent Only a few hours in the but the Lasalle Parish District Reed opted to charge six Black students with at tempted second degree murder and other for which they could face a maximum of 100 years in prison if All six were expelled from to the their families and civil rights groups that have examined the the attempted murder charges brought by a White prosecutor Are the critics for that the White youth who beat the Black student at the party was charged Only with simple while the White Man who pulled the Shotgun at the convenience store want charged with any crime at but the three Black youths in that incident were arrested and accused of aggravated Battery and theft after they wrestled the weapon from the Man in they Ive lived Here most of my and the one thing i can state with absolutely no fear of contradiction is that Lasalle Parish is awash in racism True a White pentecostal Eddie wrote in an essay he posted on the Here in the Piney Woods of Cen trial Louisiana racism and big Otry Are such a part of life that most of the citizens do not even recognize tech firms pour billions into targeted web ads Washington Microsoft billion Purchase of a major on line advertising company under scores a Core moneymaking Strat egy of the digital Economy watch ing the Deal would give Microsoft the ability to place ads on Sites other than 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