A new Jena 6 "rally" for kindergarten students - supposed to teach them about racism - found a grandmother putting a noose around her granddaughter's neck to teach that dirty, little bitch a lesson! Oh wait, it was to show her what it feels like to have a noose around her neck. Wait - I think it was to, um, oh! Yeah, it was to show a kindergartener what being lynched feels like. Because we all know what a big problem lynching is these days.
Do you remember the famous Psych experiment with the young children, where they separated the kids with green eyes from the ones with brown and then encouraged the children to basically discriminate against one another based on these differences? I don't know that it is effective with kids so young, but the concept behind the experiment was directly applicable to modern society: it shows that something as slight as the color of one's eyes can be used as the grounds for discrimination. That happens - that happens in the real world on an everyday basis across not only this nation, but the world at large.
Lynchings? Not so much so.
Look at it this way: would you find it appropriate for kindergarteners, learning about Classism and political and financial inequality, to have their heads placed in a working guillotine?
Do you remember the famous Psych experiment with the young children, where they separated the kids with green eyes from the ones with brown and then encouraged the children to basically discriminate against one another based on these differences? I don't know that it is effective with kids so young, but the concept behind the experiment was directly applicable to modern society: it shows that something as slight as the color of one's eyes can be used as the grounds for discrimination. That happens - that happens in the real world on an everyday basis across not only this nation, but the world at large.
Lynchings? Not so much so.
Look at it this way: would you find it appropriate for kindergarteners, learning about Classism and political and financial inequality, to have their heads placed in a working guillotine?
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The story's getting worse and worse! Now a bunch of white kids at LSU made a video in blackface of the incident and posted it on Facebook! WTF is wrong with the south. The Civil War is over people, it's time to move on.
Wait, wait - the link isn't coming u for me, probably because I'm on dial-up - they made a video of the noose incident or of the original lynching? 'Cuz really, that's what 6 people beating the hell out of one person is, in effect.
Either way, I have to agree. While I still say the original incident was instigated by the black kid who insisted on sitting under the tree specifically to provoke the white kids who usually sat there, the media has blown this whole thing into a full-fledged race war and people from The South just can't get right.
I do understand where this White Rage comes from, now; we white people - especially we Southern white boys - have become the scapegoat for all things racial in this nation. I mean, this is all coming right on the heels of the Duke Lacrosse Scandal, you know. And that damned Al Sharpton stirs-up hatred wherever he goes - that's all he lives for! - so there's that, but that doesn't excuse making a video in blackface. That's just racist.
Of course, none of this excuses the original lynch-mobbing of the white kid - nooses, no nooses, blackface, or not!
By the way, for those who might have missed it, the guillotine reference is to the French Revolution.
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