MAYOR SLAMS MELLENCAMP’S JENA SONG
Jena Mayor MURPHY R MCMILLAN has slammed singer JOHN MELLENCAMP’s new song for supporting the six black youths accused of attacking a white school friend.
Despite a host of stars backing the accused six in Louisiana, Mayor McMillin said the song with lyrics like "Jena take your nooses down" has gone too far.
He says, "The town of Jena has for months been mischaracterized in the media and portrayed as the epicenter of hatred, racism and a place where justice is denied.
"However, the Mellencamp video is so inflammatory, so defamatory, that a line has been crossed and enough is enough." A statement from rocker Mellencamp says, "The song is not written as an indictment of the people of Jena but, rather, as a condemnation of racism." Four members of the group face aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy charges resulting from an attack on a white student in Jena, Louisiana. Two of the teenagers have been charged with attempted murder.
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I was ticked off at JM’s song…so we wrote our own. By AWAKE at http://www.weareawake.us/jena.html
Comment by Mark — November 24, 2007 @ 1:41 pm