Jim Crow Justice
From the Jena 6 to the Texas Death House
Socialism 2008
June 19, 2008
With Lawrence Foster and Alan Bean
Six African American high school students were threatened with decades in prison for their alleged part in a school fight--a fight that followed a series of racist incidents endured by the minority of African Americans in Jena. Among these incidents was the hanging of nooses from a tree in the high school courtyard.
Meanwhile, Texas has executed 232 people since 1977, nearly 1/3 of all executions in the United States.