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Being an African American student, the Jena 6 really took a toll on me. A racial crime at a high school, is not something I’m accustomed to and that was exactly what happened in Jena, Louisiana. At Jena High School in Jena, Louisiana the students stay segregated. The black students hang out around the auditorium and the white students sit under a tree in the courtyard. This was so, until the beginning of a school year last year when and African American student asked the principal of the high school, if he could sit under the tree as the white students did. The principal replied to the student, that he could sit anywhere he would like to sit. As a result of the blacks sitting under the tree, three nooses were hung from the tree in the courtyard. Many residents in the community wanted the three white boys expelled from school, but that didn’t happen. After the superintendent and others investigated the act, they decided that the......

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