All these headlines, emails, and articles about:  Racial Profiling? Racism? Segregation? In America in the year 2007?!? Are you serious? What in the world was MLK fighting for? In the infamous words of Marvin Gaye, "What's Going On?"

When I read the email that went out from friends and family about the Jena 6, my mind immediately went back to the times of Civil Rights, and even more revelant my middle school years in Pennsylvania. Americans for some reason think that Integration was the end of the racial hatred in America. Sadly mistaken. There are still places in America, people and entities (group, associations and brotherhoods) that are promoting, practicing and protecting racism, hatred, and segregation even now in the year 2007.

I recall when I was younger, living in Pennsylvania experiencing that individualized hatred, racism even. I was called the N word, which of course caused me to fight the caucasian girl on several different occasions. Each time I was suspended from school. I wasn't punished at home for retaliating, only because of the nature of the situation, but never once did the school, DA, or families think to take me to court or try to impose charges on me for the fight? Not that I am consenting or promoting retaliation (fighting), but she got a well deserved butt whooping!

So, when I heard about the Jena 6, I was utterly appaulled. I couldn't image being in middle school, feeling threatened, called racial slurs (N word, Monkey, Gorilla, etc.) and upon retaliation, charged with Attempted Murder, no less facing 15 years in prison. That just doesn't make sense...no sense at all.  

First of all, I have to ask: How in the world is the U.S. Government allowing a state, city, town, let alone a District Attorney be racial, discriminatory, and down right ignorant? That foolishness should have went out with the Great Depression. I am really outraged!

As you probably can tell, this is a passion of mine, Civil Rights. If I do nothing else at all on this blog, I would like to encourage all of you to take a stand for the Jena 6 and everyone else who is suffering from racism and its horrible effects. It is high time that we stand UNITED, as Christians, despite your ethnic background, against this type of discrimination that is occurring all over the United States and World.

It is high time that we uncover the hidden racism, hidden segregation that is occuring right here in North Carolina, and all over this world.

While listening to the transcript of the Father of the young man, Mychal, who is facing 15 yrs in prison, and his lawyer speak about the details of the case:

These six young people, were inadvertently threatened for sitting under a "whites-only" tree, jumped at a party, threatened at a local gas station by grown men with guns, and prior to all of this threatened by the DA, who told them that he had the power to put them away for life, still not finished...after retalliating on one of the young men who hung the neuse from the tree, was sentenced as an adult to 15 years for attempted murder. Shouldn't that move us to do something?

I am asking all of you, write your congressman and senators, better yet the President, participant in the petition, tell other, donate to the fund, buy the t-shirt, PRAY...PRAY...PRAY! Justice must be served. The prayers of the righteous availeth much. If we pray in unity for these young men, and put forth a conscious effort to educate our children and adults about history and our individual rights and what it took to get to where we are right now, I believe that some change is bound to occur.  We must be adament about this! We must do something and do it now? We can't keep letting things go! We can't keep sweeping the ignorance of others under the rug!

We must stand for something or we are going to fall for anything. This young man, Mychal's future  is in our hand are we going to allow the hatred seed to continue to grow and flourish ruining this young man's life. This is not acceptable, we won't settle for this type of treatment any longer!