[doxy]

The following is a 3 minute intro to what this is about, I suggest watching it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuoiZnr4jLY

The below is just a story of my Friday night and how it relates to The Jena Six:

So there I am, enjoying my original martini (gin, sweet vermouth, a hit of orange bitters, lemon twist) and a bloke sits next to me at the bar. It's a hotel bar and so I'm figuring he isn't from here. I'm a social cat and so I ask what he's in town for. He says he came down for the Jena Six. I was immediately pleased to meet his aquaintance. I told him my roommates and neighbors went to the rally, and asked him what he thought of the turn-out for it. He was happy with it but emphasized there's still a ways to go. From then on we discussed my dissapointment with the majority of the white people who are actually from this state, especially those outside of New Orleans.
(yes, this email is politically motivated, you can delete it or email me one on one with your dissapointment in me sending it if you'd like, in the end this state has some serious problems)
The basis of my disspointment was how I felt the majority of this state's double standards that went on and go on in all the small parishes, and even the three bigger parishes, did nothing but leave us in 2007 by technicality alone...we're surprisingly behind the times...hate and ignorance has bred more hate and ignorance so much so I feel at times I'm living in Jim Crow's retirement home and it's quite simply the most backwards state in the union ...and I'm not talking just the continental United States either. (I seriously think we've got Mississippi beat--and that's just because their bigotry is more sophisticated)
Back to the main point of my tale.
So myself and the chap next to me are finding ourselves in good company. He told me I shouldn't just accept that I don't like the way things are here and have my views to just sit there at the bar drinking my original martini...that my lazy self should do something productive about it. True, but damn are those martini's tasty.
Then a couple people walk into the bar and they flip-out over my new friend. I asked him what was up? He told me he was sort of a celebrity. Really? Well who are you, I say. He said his name was Most Def. Later on I found out he spells it Mos Def. Either way I still didn't know who he was but said, "damn, that's cool...nice talking to you."
So yeah, I hang out with Mos Def. We have drinks together at the same bar, we're tight. Check me out.

In ending...god bless america.

[doxy]

GirlyGag, you don't live here .

And so the the bell has tolled...Michael Bell will be tried as a juvenile thus won't have his life written away by the stroke of a pen.
For those of you who want facts so much: the lead witness, Jessica Hooter, doesn't remember agreeing Michael Bell swung first...because in fact Shaw swung first and someone said Barker was knocked out upon impact. There is only one of the ten, and then four, witnesses that can name the attackers above 3 persons. Which is why I said six was ridiculous. Not because I wanted to say it was "more fair" being 3-1 rather than 6-1, just that the story stunk. (not from nothing...if 6 people wanted to kill someone, they'd do it. That's just from me to you, and so attempted murder was ridiculous from go...and the reason for the march on Jena)
While the trial was going on the Barker family had dinner with the original ten witnesses. Some like to call it "memory enhancing." Me? Well no one asked but I call it bullshit.
The highschool coach was never called to the stand and he had the most credible testimonies. Look it up (if any of you still actually care about justice) his name is Beny Lewis. Will be the first to say bystanders stepped on Barker, because they were scared and didn't know what was happening...which is also a reason to suspend the 6 (or three of the six, if you asked me, for starting a riot)
The Jena school gets kids from other schools every year. There are two junior high schools that unload into Jena highschools and they are all white...the kids who hung the nooses were from these schools and thought they had a "backing" to pull the noose incident. (when actually if you think about it, they did have said backing)
How come no one else is talking about any of this?
Nevermind, just wondering if anyone else is grinning about the thought of that ink-pen up DA Reed Walter's ass?

In ending I have a couple more quotes from Grand Wizzard Reed Walters-
"The only way - let me stress that - the only way that I believe that me or this community has been able to endure the trauma that has been thrust upon us is through the prayers of the Christian people who have sent them up in this community," Reed Walters.
(the trauma thrust upon him and Jena is what he refers to as the predominantly black march on Jena this past weekend--side note: my roommies and friends were there, hee hee)
""I firmly believe and am confident of the fact that had it not been for the direct intervention of the Lord Jesus Christ last Thursday, a disaster would have happened. You can quote me on that." Reed Walters
(what Walters means by this is divine intervention was the sole reason all those black people responded respectively while walking about that Jena town)
Gotta ask...are there still any questions?

I say it from Jackson Avenue of the pretty-good city of New Orleans this Buster is sipping the grape juice and happy as all-get-out!
But have to offer this one little deterance from the joy I feel--it's 2007 and we're still fighting.

Tank, it was childish because I read it the wrong way and jumped. I apologize. For the rest of you loving busties...hey, what can I say? Other than I live here and was always going to post about it the way I did. Re-read my posts if you still think there's a gripe to be had, message me about your problem. Sure, I wasn't as bust as I should have been in some parts of sentences, and it may have seemed off the societal norms in other parts of the sentences...but then again I live here and if it weren't for me then who was going to post about it? Think of it as me giving everyone some fun with my antagonistic low-class banter

Not from nothing...thank you, Al Sharpton.
You're a modern day Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, I love you.