Oprah and the Jena Six: Will the Talk Show Goddess Find the Truth in Jena, Louisiana?

If you haven't heard of The Jena Six yet, you soon will. Because I know you've heard of Oprah.

According to a Yahoo article titled "Have You Heard of The Jena Six?" scuttlebutt is that The Oprah Winfrey Show may be interested in the plight of The Jena Six, a group of six black students in Jena, Louisiana, that are finally attracting national attention.

And I'll be happier than a pig in slop the day Oprah brings the fair and balanced truth to The Jena Six situation to the world at large.

The whole Jena Six (or Jena 6, Gena Six, Gena 6, Gene 6, as people are apt to misspell it) plight reportedly began when a black student at a predominantly white high school in Jena, Louisiana, wanted to get out of the hot sun and sit under a "whites only" tree in the shade.

Yes, you read that correctly. A "whites only" tree. This is 2007, not 1957, and the Jena, Louisiana, school still entertained the antiquated unwritten rule.

Then two black students - like our brave forefathers and ancestors who sat upright at segregated lunch counters in the deep South and carried signs proudly declaring "I AM A MAN" that make my eyes go watery and my lungs fill with indignant air right now with thanks and appreciation as I type these words - dared to sit under the "whites only" tree in Jena, Louisiana.

A few days later, three nooses were strung from the tree - an obvious warning to other black students who would dare attempt to do the same thing. As in Jena, Louisiana, and elsewhere around the world, nooses are as hateful a symbol to African-Americans as swastikas are to Jewish people.

Nooses represent the days when racist Whites would castrate black men and hang them from big oak trees and - with children at their feet - have picnics and take pictures smiling with the decomposing bodies.

Pure hellish evil. But good God...

...can overcome this evil, and hopefully use Oprah to get to the bottom of what really happened in The Jena Six situation.

After the noose-hanging incident, the high school principal, Scott Windham, urged that the three white teens who hung the nooses be expelled from Jena High School. Too bad his thoughtful plea wasn't heeded.