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Jena, O. J. and the Jailing of Black America
By ORLANDO PATTERSON Published: September 30, 2007 Cambridge, Mass. THE miscarriage of justice at Jena, La. — where five black high school students arrested for beating a white student were charged with attempted murder — and the resulting protest march tempts us to the view, expressed by several of the marchers, that not much has changed in traditional American racial relations. However, a remarkable series of high-profile incidents occurring elsewhere in ...
