Jena, Louisiana is
• A town in which only one-quarter of the white population [1] didn't vote for David Duke for governor.
• The seat of a La Salle Parish, which voted [2] 80.39 percent for Bush in 2004. And which, sometimes, votes for Democrats - for instance [3] when the Republican gubernatorial candidate happens to be named Bobby (né "Piyush") Jindal.
• Is the reason federal civil rights law exists - because there is a measure of basic justice beneath which no American, no matter how obscenely racist or corrupt [4] their local jurisdiction happens to be, should be allowed to fall.
Sign the petition [5] demanding a Department of Justice investigation of the railroading of the "Jena Six."
Facebook member? Join this group. [6]
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Links:
[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/newspaper/premium/printedition/Sunday/chi-jena_bdmay20,1,5282147.story
[2] http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/data.php?year=2004&fips=22&f=0&off=0&elect=0&datatype=county&def=1
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jena,_Louisiana
[4] http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/black_high_school_students_louisiana_threatened_lynching
[5] http://www.petitiononline.com/aZ51CqmR/petition.html
[6] http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2548326824