Earlier this month, I received an email forward that, unlike most others, stopped me in my tracks. This particular message was from colourofchange, an African-American lobbying group, and was not the usual invitation to attend a swanky fundraiser or join a junior board. It recounted that disturbing tale of the Jena 6, whose responses to racial hate crimes and subsequent criminal sentencing is reminiscent of the Jim Crow era.
Unless you were glued to CNN or MSNBC Thursday...
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