This week's Weekly Standard contains a fantastic exposé on the Jena 6 'scandal' written by Charlotte Allen. The Jena 6 affair has been a hot issue among students who uncritically accepted the unequal justice narrative that represented the Jena 6 as innocent victims of institutionalized racism. Like the Duke Lacrosse case, this racial angle turned out to be essentially manufactured. There is certainly residual racism in small southern towns in the forms of de facto segregation and income disparities. Still, this story serves as a good reminder that this racism usually doesn't lie where the Rev. Jesse Jackson says it does.
The article is available for free here:
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/589bfhgz.asp
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