The September 20 rally scheduled in Jena, La. will go on as planned. The rally is going on despite the fact that Mychal Bell's conviction was overturned by the court of appeals.
The NAACP expects as many as 60,000 people from more than 30 cities to descend this week on Jena, La., a poor, rural community of 3,000 at the center of a racially charged case involving six black high school students charged with beating a white classmate.
Jena is just a microcosm of what is really wrong with this country as far as race relations and the justice system are concerned. Young black men and women are constantly railroaded by the system and there is no one to take up their fight. We as a people can't keep sitting idly by and watching this happen. This shouldn't have to happen to someone in our family or to us before we want to get involve.
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