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In the fall of 2006 an african-american high school student in the town of gina louisiana, asked if he could sit under a tree that traditionally had been a space reserved only for white students. the day after the student defied the tradition, three nooses appeared on the tree. shortly thereafter amid heightened racial tensions six black gina high students were arrested after a fight that left a white student with multiple bruises and a concussion. all six students were charged with attempted murder and initially faced up to 100 years in prison without parole. they would be known as. jena 6 an...

And brown men, in particular, and poor people of all colors, not trusting them to somehow solve this problem but taking matters in their own hand and saying we're going to take over the state capitol until a special session is held. it's that sense of urgency and that level of commitment that is required if we are going to ever move beyond these kind of episodic explosions of fury and emotion when incidents like the trayvon martin killing happen, or jena 6 or the execution of troy davis. we're going to move beyond these episodic explosions of anger and then back to business as usual. >> and bu...