Jena 6 - Jena, Louisiana Rally/March Reported by MTV - Bun B, Mos Def -

JENA, Louisiana — “Justice Even Needs Assistance” reads the shirt adorning one middle-age lady, who traveled with her church group from Dallas to Jena. She’s sitting on a bench in front of what used to be a Jena High School administration building on East High School Drive. The building was burned to a crisp on November 30, 2006, in what was believed to be arson, with blacks and whites blaming each other. The walls are gone and you can actually see part of the hallway from outside.

“No justice! No peace until the six are free,” college students repeatedly yell as they stand in defiance on a huge lump of dirt. The spot is where the infamous “whites-only tree” — as some media outlets have been referring to it — once stood before it was chopped down by administrators earlier this summer. White students allegedly hung nooses on the tree the day after a black student decided to sit under it.

A few feet away, a man with long dreadlocks starts to rail.

“Where was all of this when Patrick Dorismond got shot? What about Sean Bell?” he ranted, recalling two black males who were fatally shot by New York police officers in March 2000 and November 2006, respectively. “We should have been doing this,” he rants.

“I wanna see Ludacris and P. Diddy out here,” he continues. “Where’s Young Jeezy when I need him? Where’s Kanye? The Louis Vuitton Don is not here. … What I am hoping is that it’s not like Easter, where everybody goes to church to hear the sermon, then forgets the message the next week.”

Despite the man’s fervent dialogue, the setting at the school has been very peaceful. It almost feels more like going to a museum rather than a protest march. Although Jena High’s doors are closed, people are walking around the campus taking pictures and talking among themselves.

A little later, the Reverend Jesse Jackson takes command with a speech at the LaSalle Parish Courthouse.

“We will not make any concession until the parents and lawyers sign off,” Jackson has the people repeat. “We will come back again and again and again until Mychal [Bell, one of the Jena Six who has been in jail for almost a year] is set free and the charges are dropped.

“We want all the boys sent to school and not to jail,” Jackson continues, having the people answer him in unison.

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