Jena 6 defendant Mychal Bell was returned to jail yesterday. The judge, J.P. Mauffrey, who has refused to recuse himself from the case despite calls that he do so, activated suspended sentences […]
Jena 6 D.A. Reed Walters – Jesus loves him, everyone else is just out to get him…
LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters is feeling rather put upon these days. In fact, he’s felt compelled to defend himself in The New York Times. The way he sees it, he’s […]
Jena 6 defendant’s conviction overturned – well, kinda sorta, I mean, you know, maybe it would do the kid some good to stay in jail with an exorbitant bond while the local D.A. tries to ratchet up his remaining charges…
The Associated Press reports that a Louisiana appeals court has overturned the conviction of Mychal Bell, the first defendant in the Jena 6 case. Don’t get excited. It’s not over. The kid […]
Jena 6 update: The NAACP finally gets involved, the good old boys have some fun, and whites in Jena say “we’re not like that, that’s them people over there” yadda yadda…
When Doug Marlette died July 10th, bringing to an end his wonderful comic strip about the South, Kudzu, most of us who “don’t hate the South,†as Quentin Compson would say, were […]
The Jena 6 and the “old” South; or, plus ca change…you know the rest….
“You can’t understand it. You would have to be born there.” – Quentin Compson, Absalom, Absalom, referring to the South Too often those of us born in the South fall back upon […]
Jena reporting – sound and fury signifying…what?
Raquel Christie’s article in the latest American Journalism Review is a thorough analysis and critique of media coverage of the Jena 6 controversy which S&R has done its own thorough job of […]
Jena for cave people…and the empire strikes back
If you’ve followed S&R at all you know that we’re concerned about the Jena case and have been since I began writing about it. The MSM and other bloggers finally caught on, […]
Nooses: they’re not just for Jena anymore….
The good folks in Jena who see using nooses to intimidate blacks as “harmless pranks” must be pleased – and perhaps a little relieved. The bozo rednecks who chose to hang nooses […]
The latest from Jena – Bell to remain in jail….
The massive demonstration in Jena on Thursday against the unfair treatment of the black students known as the Jena 6 hasn’t had the effect that perhaps the protesters wanted. Mychal Bell, the […]
Bush comments on Jena and proves that 59,054,087 people ARE that dumb…
All of us in America want there to be, you know, fairness when it comes to justice. -George W. Bush Bush did not comment on the specifics of the Jena case. Vegas […]
