Prometheus 6

Finally, a sane editorial recapping the Jena 6 situation. Thank you USA Today.

You still have the same dickwad commenters, but you have to start somewhere. Getting the story basically correct in a national news source is about as good as it gets in the media.

Given that the city's administration is still dragging its feet on this, still fighting for the harshest possible judgement agaisnt the Black students and still denying the unequal protection that is visible to anyone who hasn't lost an eye while grinding their axe, it still ain't over. This IS the culchuh they would presurhv, after all.

And seriously, a message needs to be sent to the National Noose Network. It would be good to see some sort of follow-up on the explosion of symbolic lynchings this mess seems to have engendered. But that last isn't in the cards at the moment.

Anyway, USA Today called this a missed opportunity and I don't really agree with that. I don't believe the opportunity existed before getting busted forced a little consciousness on them. They now have the opportunity to fan the flames of that consciousness, to learn, to grow a little. Or, as is more likely in my bitter opinion, they can do what they have to so things quiet down and crawl back into their collective cultural shell.  So maybe I should say I don't agree with USA Today yet.