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Strange fruit and the Jena 6

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Go. Read LowerManhattanite’s post on his parents’ experiences with lynching, and the fear of lynching, in the South, and what the Jena 6 mean to him.

(I had the privilege of sharing Maha’s car with LowerManhattanite on the way to and from Steve Gilliard’s funeral. He’s an amazing, engaging, man.)

5 thoughts on Strange fruit and the Jena 6

  1. Lower Manhattanite is at the top of my list for bloggers most deserving of massively increased exposure. This is NOT meant as disrespect to Steve Gillard (of blessed memory) but often I would read Steve Gillard’s site as much to get Lower Manhattanite’s brilliant curve on Gilliard’s posts as for the posts themselves.

    I cannot write nearly as well as he can but he makes me extremely proud to be a blogger, no matter what pampered princes like Prince Richard Cohen say.

  4. Nearly fifty years later, and I’ve never since been interested in travel in the South.

    Because you would never be a bigot and judge people based on say, where they are from or what happened where they may have lived fifty years ago.

    I always find this kind of regional prejudice amusing esp. when people try to use it to illustrate how they are *so* *not* *bigots*. You don’t want to travel when it happens that so many black Americans live because you are above bigotry.

    Being bigoted against white southern people does not make you not bigoted against black people. You live in a racist society. You get the messages every day. You have NO IDEA what the Jen 6 experience. That you would be so ignorant and self-congratulatory to suggest that you do illustrates your level of complete naval-gazing.

    We have _no_ _understanding_ of what they experienced. We can respect their experience, but we cannot understand it.

    I know lots of men who understand women better than other men. *snort. *

  5. Zuzu!

    I just wanted to say “Thyank you!” for the kind words and your helping get the word out there. It means a lot.

    And let me say for the record that you are pretty damned amazing yourself, and a joy to be around as well. 🙂

    Thanks again!
    LM

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