Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
We black Americans seem to need a major event or outrage every so often that revives our mass energies in ways that remind of us the 1960s civil rights movement. In the 1980s we had mass arrests at the South African Embassy to protest apartheid. In the 1990s there was the Million Man March to redeem black fatherhood and proper role modeling. In 2007 we have the “Jena 6.”
Thousands flowed by the busload into tiny Jena, La., last week. They came to march on behalf of six black youths who were originally charged with attempted murder for allegedly beating up a white youth in what many describe as a schoolyard fight in December at the local high school.
