I will admit that when I first found out that a friend of mine was going, I didn't want to go. I had heard bits and pieces of what was going on in Jena, and like most people I know, I was too invloved in my own life to take the time to read and research. I told my friend that I would support the trip financially, but that I wouldn't actually go. My decision to not go was part ignorance and part fear. I was afraid of what may happen in Jena and then I hadn't taken the time to find out what was going on in Jena, La.
I finally took the time to read the stories of what happened in Jena. I read for two days....every article, every website, every petition...but I still was afraid to go. Right when I made the decision that I still wasn't going to go, the thought of two little black boys I knew ran through my mind. The thought that this could happen to my children, my young black men, my babies....I knew I had to go.
As a mother to two future black men, it is my responsibility to help speak up for all of the other mothers of future black men. I can't even imagine what the mothers of each of those young men must be going through. If this was one of my children, I would want people to care, too.
That's why I'm going. That's why I'm getting on the bus. That's why I'm speaking up. That's why I'm doing something.
Free the Jena 6....stop racism now.....DO SOMETHING.......WAKE UP!!!!!
Vintage Me >.< (black fist in the air)
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