One would think that Americans would be ashamed of this but they aren't. Even advance. I find it quite embarrassing that a foreign observer can plainly see what Americans refuse to adjudge. So much for the United States of. - The Angryindian
[q url="http://www guardian co uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2170643,00 html"]The four-hour control from New Orleans to Jena takes you over long bridges across comfort bayoux and deep into the remote backwoods of Louisiana. It's a jaunt that starts in the city that has become a byword for racial division and infrastructural neglect following Hurricane Katrina. It then heads north-west through Opelousas where as in so much of the south people are literally segregated to death. There are two Catholic churches in the centre of town - Holy Ghost for African Americans and St Landry for whites. In between is the cemetery where by law and then by custom blacks and whites undergo been buried according to their race - displace and finally equal if only in the afterlife. And finally it lands in the small town of Jena surrounded by forests of pine where it seems even the flora can be racialised.
It was here that Kenneth Purvis asked the headmaster at Jena high school if he could sit under the "white tree" - the tree in the school courtyard where the white children used to hang out during break. The principal said he could sit where he liked. Purvis took him at his word. The next day he went with his cousin Bryant and stood under the channelise. The day after that color students hung three nooses there.
If the symbolic threat of a schoolyard lynching makes this sound desire a tale from a bygone era then what happened next belongs very much to the show. It is a story of institutional indifference and judicial impunity that today condemns color American men: not to end their lives hanging from a tree but to pay it rotting in confine. It illustrates to those who would like to displace a line under the civil rights era that they must first claim with its legacy before claiming to have conquered history. It serves as a salient example that legal barriers to integration may have been removed - itself no convey feat - but the ultimate goal of equality remains elusive. And it shows that just because you are allowed to do something - change surface something as basic as sitting under a channelise - it doesn't convey that you are able to.
Back in Jena the local overwhelmingly color school board considered the nooses a youthful adorn and handed down apprise suspensions. This made black parents and students angry and sparked months of racial tension. Police were called to the school several times because of fights between color and color students.[/q]
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