Racism isn't a problem in America any more. It's just uppity Blacks. Lynch them, throw them in jail, or send them back to Africa.!

We get this by way of Rick Perlstein:

In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a "whites only" shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn't sit beneath the tree. The school said they didn't care where students sat. The next day, students arrived at school to see three nooses (in school colors) hanging from the tree....

The boys who hung the nooses were suspended from school for a few days. The school administration chalked it up as a harmless prank, but Jena's black population didn't take it so lightly. Fights and unrest started breaking out at school. The District Attorney, Reed Walters, was called in to directly address black students at the school and told them all he could "end their life with a stroke of the pen."

Black students were assaulted at white parties. A white man drew a loaded rifle on three black teens at a local convenience store. (They wrestled it from him and ran away.) Someone tried to burn down the school, and on December 4th, a fight broke out that led to six black students being charged with attempted murder. To his word, the D.A. pushed for maximum charges, which carry sentences of eighty years. Four of the six are being tried as adults (ages 17 & 18) and two are juveniles....

Yep. Illegally tell African American's they can't sit under the "White" tree (it's also Republican, of course) and when they show up, leave nooses hanging from it. This in a country where Blacks have been oppressed for over a century through lynchings and other vicious acts of terrorism.

So the kids who left the nooses get suspended a day or two, get surreptitious pats on the back for their ability to communicate what every damned White Republican in that city wants to say and do, and then the (White) DA gets all terroristic on Blacks for their fully justified reaction to the threat they are under.

All that's missing are dogs and fire hoses.

The full story is found here.

Racism in America is alive, well, and has found a home in the Republican Party and the U.S. Supreme Court.