[doxy]

Which means what?
Sorry Venetia...don't catch your meaning.

[venetia]

Anyway it's not true. If there was no real change then the whole South would still be segregated, heaven if there was really no change there would still be slavery. Whereas as it stands what happened is nowdays treated as such an outrage that I'm hearing about Jena from way over here on the other side of the world.

[doxy]

My problem is that you say there will be these injustices in the "world" only we're talking USA. Not that it should matter, but unfortunately it does...and for the same sentiments you posted on...which make me sick.

They kicked the kid's ass, fine. The reality is they don't even belong in juvie, just kicked out of the school...but they're in jail.
How many of you have ever been in jail?

The sad reality of the sad reality of your post, tank, is that we don't give a shit about the sad reality.
I'm fucking tired of it. But I don't want my family to write me in jail, but inevitably it seems the only way, I'm that fucking tired of it.
Tank, no offense but sentiments like what you posted are a cop-out.

[tankgirl]

<3 <3 Mos Def


anyway, the sad reality of this story is that, things like this will always happen. im not telling anyone to sit back and not make a stand, by all means for everyone who takes a stand for injustice, a huge movement is made, but there will always be gender/racial/class biases in the world, and it makes me uterly sick.

[pepper]

*laughing ass off* most def, hee!

seriously, what's the update on this? it's probably too soon to expect much action but i'd like to know as soon as something does happen.

[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.