Ten
thousand civil rights protestors show up in Jena, Louisiana 
Friday,
September 21st,
2007
Reuters / Sean Gardner
Reuters / Sean Gardner
Can you imagine the irony of this? A little
hillbilly town called Jena in the middle of Louisiana, that got caught in
a media blitz because of the racism that
went on from a high school to a courtroom, had thousands of black Americans
marching through their streets yesterday.
The protest was organized by Rev. Al Sharpton
and the NAACP, and saw crowds reminiscent of civil rights rallies in the
1950's and 60's. The city's businesses and schools closed. Residents of the
city sat on their porches or peeked from their windows - the entire town
has a population of just 3,000 people, but today they saw over three times
their population. All of whom were Americans that were there to say: this
may be a little town in the middle of Louisiana, but this is still America.
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