Posted by
The Dave Perkins Brothers on Friday, October 26, 2007 9:27:17 AM
This is a post I made this week on DavoGrande, and it's important enough to crosspost here....
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I tried the link to the Christian Science Monitor on Michelle Malkin's site today, but it wouldn't connect.
So I'll just link to
her page and you can read her account of the media myths surrounding the Jena 6 story from earlier this year.
Irony abounds, considering how far the real story varies from the media's reporting of it.
Most ironic, though, is the bit about the nooses hung from the tree.
The
truth? It was white kids playing a prank on other white kids by evoking
a scene from "Lonesome Dove". These kids had NO IDEA that a noose was
an unpleasant reminder of violent racism in America's past. When they
found out, they were HORRIFIED, and rushed to apologize to everyone
they knew who might have been offended.
That's right-- we are so
far removed from the racist history of Louisiana and of this country,
this newest generation has no idea about it. No clue. As it SHOULD BE.
If
anything, this story should be used to prove that we are NOT the
racists we used to be, that our efforts at removing racism from this
nation are WORKING. How else could we raise a generation that had no
idea the noose was a Klan warning to black people in the south 60 years
ago?