STRANGE FRUIT: NOOSES HANGING FROM SOUTHERN TREES CIRCA 2007

JENA, United States - The racial demons of the Old South have resurfaced in a rural Louisiana town where Black students who tried to sit on the white side of the school yard were met by three hangmen's nooses dangling from a tree.

This Situation, As Billie Holiday Sings About Back In The Day, Is Serious Family:


The students and their parents were outraged by the stark reminder of the mob lynchings which had terrorized Southern US blacks until just a few decades ago.

Months of inter-racial violence followed the decision by a White school superintendent to over-rule the principal's recommendation to expel three White students found to have hung the nooses.

The community became even more divided after a White prosecutor imposed significantly harsher charges on the Black youths caught up in the violence.

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