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Jena Louisiana: A Look At the Numbers
Many of us live in areas much larger than the tiny backwoods town of Jena Louisiana.
The always civic minded staff of YouThinkWhat is providing as a public service a breakdown of the real numbers involved in this case of excessive sentencing and abuse of judicial power.
Because many of us live in metropolitan areas so when we hear the figures 10 or 12 percent we think in terms of extremely large numbers. We relate those percentages to populations of hundreds of thousands, even millions of people living in a town or city.
As you may recall, the population of this town, steeped in racial controversy and known around the world as a throwback to America’s darkest hours in civil rights history, is only 3,000.
The latest U.S. census records the percentage ethnic break down as 12 percent black and the balance 88 percent white.
For our purposes we will use 10 percent to show how ridiculous are the authorities in the parish, led by the school board authorities, the overzealous district attorney and his partner in the miscarriage of justice from the bench the judge.
It has been reported there are nearly 600 students who attend the Jena High School. 10 percent of whom are black. That would be 60 black students at the school. Let us suppose of those 60 students one half are female. That would leave the remaining 30 students to be black males, 6 of whom have been banned from attending classes.
To recap when the students of Jena High attend assembly they segregate themselves-whites on one side of the hall and blacks on the other. Picture this.
540 whites on one side… 54 blacks on the opposite side.
Imagine what a classroom makeup might be. 30 students in the class. 10 percent are black. 27 whites congregated on one side of the room with 3 blacks on the other.
Now let’s consider the town itself. 3000 men women and children. 10 percent of whom are black. That would be 300 blacks. If some news reports are to be believed 6 adolescent black males have the entire town terrorized. Some reports indicate the Jena 6 have been actin’ up for several years. Since the oldest of the crew would be about 18 or 19 that would mean this small country town population 3000, overwhelming majority white has been intimidated by 6 young black males.
Numbers don’t lie. Wow! Black people sure are scary!
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