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21 de Septiembre, 2007
Nooseless People
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Violencia | Tags: bush, Jena 6, Katrina, racism, Republicans, The Haunted Land, White Supremacists, White Supremacy
I DON'T EVEN KNOW what to say about this:
ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana (CNN) -- A Louisiana city that hosted many of the "Jena 6" protesters Thursday became the site of a racially charged incident of its own.Authorities in Alexandria, less than 40 miles southwest of Jena, arrested two people who were driving a red pickup Thursday night with two nooses hanging off the back, repeatedly passing groups of demonstrators who were waiting for buses back to their home states. [...]
The driver of the red truck, whom Alexandria police identified as Jeremiah Munsen, 18, was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor -- a reference to the 16-year-old passenger. Munsen also was charged with driving while intoxicated and inciting to riot, according to the police report. [...]
The passenger told police he and his family are in the Ku Klux Klan and that he had KKK tattooed on his chest, the police report said. He also said that he tied the nooses and that the brass knuckles belonged to him, the report said.
Hey, at least we're getting it out into the open. Um...right? Don't know what we can do with it once it's out there. But Bush and his party sure have picked the scab on the slowly congealing wounds of racism in the USA.
Bush was asked about the "Jena 6" -- the six black teenagers in Louisiana charged in the beating of a white classmate. Thousands of chanting demonstrators filled the streets of Jena today in a show of support.'The events in Louisiana are -- have saddened me, and I understand the emotions," Bush said. "And all of us in America want there to be, you know, fairness when it comes to justice.'
When asked why he hadn't spoken out on the topic before, he snapped: 'I just spoke out on it.'"
So large a man. So great a president. So brilliant a leader. Not.
After the GOP's (willful non-)actions before and after the Katrina disaster, inciting racism with this US or THEM line, constant anti-Arab propaganda, equating Mexican migrants with leprosy and crime....I'm not even slightly surprised that people's demons are up and walking. Or in this case, driving trucks.
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Comentarios (7)
tomas el anglo dijo:
Oh, for crying out loud.
Wonder where he learned THAT.
Palabras por tomas el anglo spat forth on el 21 de Septiembre, 2007 at 01:41 PM
M dijo:
Open and proud white supremacists, Mychal Bell is still locked up...
So angry and repulsed right now.
Palabras por M spat forth on el 21 de Septiembre, 2007 at 02:54 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
dijo:
yes. my first version said "if there are people who cannot be reached and refuse to live sanely; if there are those who insist upon restoring old hatred and bloodletting; if there are those who can know nothing but an Us vs Them mentality, you know where I stand, and I'm ready."
I decided to redact that. But my feelings remain. This is some bullshit.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
spat forth on el 21 de Septiembre, 2007 at 03:00 PM
Carmen D. dijo:
Never in my life has my path seemed so clear. Never in my life have I felt so compelled to act. This sleeping giant is now wide awake.
Palabras por Carmen D. spat forth on el 21 de Septiembre, 2007 at 03:27 PM
Joan Kelly dijo:
"if there are people who cannot be reached..."
It makes my brain ache. I don't want to believe that the universe ever spits out monsters. And there's no room for that fantasy, really, when it does nothing, and never has, to slow down the destruction of lives.
Palabras por Joan Kelly spat forth on el 22 de Septiembre, 2007 at 11:59 AM
RickB dijo:
The AP have a a bullshit article about Jena-
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070922/ap_on_re_us/a_place_called_jena
Palabras por RickB spat forth on el 22 de Septiembre, 2007 at 12:30 PM
Carmen D. dijo:
I am VERY concerned about this story. It is already being cited in chat rooms all over the place. NEVER have I read or heard of two nooses with kids playing on them. WTF?
Palabras por Carmen D. spat forth on el 22 de Septiembre, 2007 at 07:50 PM