Racism in Jena, Louisiana

Looking over the chronology of events in Jena, Louisiana, I'm struck by a few things:

• you have to practically be from another planet if you think hanging nooses from a tree in the South is not a racist action


• if they had expelled the students immediately as the principal recommended, this may not have grown into the media circus it now is


• it's disgusting that prosecuting people for knocking someone unconscious and then kicking him and beating him is being construed as racist