{"id":199753,"date":"2007-06-29T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/29\/all-white-jury-nope-no-racism-here\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T10:50:00","slug":"all-white-jury-nope-no-racism-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/29\/all-white-jury-nope-no-racism-here\/","title":{"rendered":"All-White Jury.  Nope, no racism here."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Bet you haven&#8217;t heard about this in the news, but a European paper, the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">International Herald Tribune<\/span>, did.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;\" ><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/06\/26\/america\/NA-GEN-US-Racial-School-Fight.php\">All-white jury likely to hear racial fight case in Louisiana<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The Associated Press<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Tuesday, June 26, 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">JENA, Louisiana: An all-white jury was seated Tuesday to hear the case against the first of the &#8220;Jena Six&#8221; \u2014 a group of black youths accused of beating a white fellow student amid racial discord at a Louisiana school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Five women and a man will hear opening arguments Wednesday morning at the courthouse in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana, where the black population is only about 12 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The approaching trial had led to allegations of racism from parents of the accused, who said the original charges \u2014 attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder \u2014 were out of proportion to the crime. The charges carry a combined sentence of 80 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The racial tension began in late August in Jena \u2014 a central Louisiana town of 2,900 with about 350 black residents \u2014 after a black student sat under a tree traditionally used as a gathering spot by white students. The next month, three nooses were hanging in the tree when students arrived on campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">The school&#8217;s principal recommended the students who hung the nooses be expelled, but they served brief suspensions instead.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">On Dec. 4, Justin Barker, who is white, was attacked at school by a small group of black students. He was treated at a hospital.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bet you haven&#8217;t heard about this in the news, but a European paper, the International Herald Tribune, did.All-white jury likely to hear racial fight case in Louisiana The Associated PressTuesday, June 26, 2007 JENA, Louisiana: An all-white jury was seated Tuesday to hear the case against the first of the &#8220;Jena Six&#8221; \u2014 a group &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,972,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-justice","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}