Jena Louisiana

Lynching In Jena Louisiana

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The boys who hung the nooses were suspended from school for a few days. The school administration chalked it up as a harmless prank, The boys who hung the nooses 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.”  Read more 

Surveillance Society

surveillance

I really couldn’t believe it. I know I say that but really! Buzz drones? Come on.

Unveiled in the north of Britain this week, it could be introduced across the country if deemed a success, fuelling an already intense debate over whether the “Big Brother” world George Orwell predicted is now truly upon us, or whether such scrutiny is merely essential for security in the modern era.  Read more