Jena 6 - the movie

A new film from Big Noise.

In a small town in Louisiana, six families are fighting for their sons' lives.

Two nooses are left as a warning to black students trying to integrate their playground, fights break out across town, a white man pulls a shotgun on black students, someone burns down most of the school, the DA puts six black students on trial for attempted murder, and the quiet town of Jena becomes the site of the largest civil rights demonstration in the South since the 1960s.

The Jena 6 is the story of hidden racial inequality and violence becoming visible. It is a powerful symbol for, and example of, how racial justice works in America -- where the lynching noose has been replaced by the DA's pen.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Jena
• six
• civil
• rights
• injustice
• racism
• segregation
• KKK
• noose
• white
• black
• tree
• lynch
• hate

[Shadowslamer]

The media made it a Black white thing not me.  Also, we are the legal system.

[Shadowslamer]

Ya, beat someone up and your defense is I am black thats why I get to walk out of jail no problem.

[whitemanwaydownsouth]

@DJ318 so you think racially offending someone warrants killing someone?? you are a moron

[whitemanwaydownsouth]

@sgarrettdeedee indeed, six blacks attack a white student, and its not called a hate crime. this racism is sickening. if six white kids beat up a black kid, jesse and al would be all over this shit. fucking hypocrites

[40rdclip]

These scumbags got what they deserved. These race crime deserve very hard time and harsh punishment, black or white.

[tobiasrobbins72]

100 years in prison hardly has anything to do with the Jena 6 case either, so your comment was pretty pointless. Bell was offered 2 years with one suspended months before this even became a nationally talked about story. Talk of 20 year sentences or more is just nonsense.

[SexyAkaFine]

They are so freakin racist

[ZombiesNTea]

100 years in prison hardly matches the crime.

[sgarrettdeedee]

This confirms that, despite progress made, racism is alive and raging in the US. We still have a long way to go. The price of freedom is constant vigilance.

[weh008]

they commited a crime they should pay nuff said

[DJ318]

its not race its tha fucked up law system...im white and i think, well i know its fucked up..they shoulda jus got suspended or sumthin..i think its racist 4 just a black mob 2 walk threw jena, see cuz i woulda walked too but im not black lol..tha kids who hung tha nuses should be shot

and to tha black people who are bein racist on here.. Imagine this jena 6 issue vise versa..imagin if tha 6 guys were white beatin up a black guy..tell me what you would think about it

[virtualdynamo]

"100 yrs for beating up a guy on school grounds is STUPID!"

No one is getting anything of the sort. that's just a blatant falsehood.