I’m not going to comment on the Jena 6 ordeal. What I am going to comment on is this idiotic, stupid, moronic (every other word synonymous with these one can think of) actions of two individuals (thankfully) arrested yesterday during the march in Jena, Louisiana. Two men aged 18 and 16 were arrested for driving a pick-up truck around with two nooses hanging from the back of it. How stupid can someone be? The picture on the CNN report came from a local citizen who summed it up best when he said
Love explained why he sent the photo to CNN: “People need to see this. It’s 2007, and we still have fools acting like it’s 1960.”
Yes, the two boys were young but they also claimed to be in the KKK. Yes, they’re probably stupid but this ‘I-reporter’ is entirely correct. How, in this day and age, can someone still hold such backwards, uneducated, ignorant beliefs? It astounds me to my very core. In times like this I hang my head in shame at being associated with scum such as this in the great land that is Dixie.
It is so sad that racism still exists the same as it did back then! When will the world learn that everyone was created equal & should be treated as such?