Race

When a farmer leaves the doors to his barn open, the animals get out and the wolves typically enter. Well, such seems to be the case today, a day after “Black Thursday” where there were many people in Jena, LA supporting the famously-known Jena 6.

People made their way to Jena, Louisiana, population 2,867 in 2006, to show their support for the 6 black male high-school students who beat-up a white male high-school student due to their being a beef over the self-marked white-only-tree, that white students hung nooses on after black students decided to cool out under the tree.

Now, we at Worcester Is MAJOR! ™ do not condone violence or excessive use of force to make a point, so we go on record to state that the Jena 6 should be punished for their actions, but certainly not to the extent to which they’ve been prosecuted.

The pundits have hit the airwaves and are condemning those that marched in Jena, LA, Washington, D.C. and in any city were there was a gathering of people showing their support for a fair trial.

After yesterday’s news coverage and visible sign of solidarity, are the young men in Jena, LA going to get a “fair” trial? I certainly hope so, now that the world has seen the case on national television. But the question that begs to be asked still remains…. what is going to come of race relations in the United States?

This is the million dollar question that no one seems to have an answer for, especially in this day and age when there are more and more family that are multi-ethnic and multi-racial in their make-up.

People in the United States have been able travel more and have become exposed to more and more people of various backgrounds and cultures, thus there are more opportunities to learn and become more worldly.

Do you believe that cases such as the Jena 6 set us back in race relations? Feel free to post a comment or email us here.