via Pursuing Holiness, which goes beyond reaction to analysis of this one.
Forum may ease tension in Jena
By Abbey Brown...In the Justice release about the meeting, the agency said officials are hoping to address the racial tensions in the small community that have built and escalated since last fall with the hanging of nooses in a tree on Jena High School's grounds, interracial off-campus fights and then in December the attack of white student Justin Barker that resulted in six black students being charged with attempted murder.
Carmelita Freeman, regional director of Justice's Community Relations Services, said the agency is the department's "peacemaker" for community conflicts and tensions arising from differences of race, color and national origin.
...He said they plan to discuss legal issues related to these cases and shed light on other issues that have arisen from the "Jena Six" incident.
"We have a concern that something needs to be done to make sure these kinds of things don't repeat themselves next school year," Washington said, speaking of fighting among students over racially related issues or other kinds of adolescent behavior.
"We hope that the folks that attend the meeting come away with the view that there is an intact justice system at the federal and state level and those systems have their best interest in mind."
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