Biggest News Stories of 2007

By Christopher Kendalls, published Dec 13, 2007
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It was a very, very long year, here are some of the cool stories of 2007, my own personal thoughts, and reflections on what this means in the grander scale of things.

The Jena 6 Controversy

When 6 black teenagers were charged with the beating of Justin Barker, a white teenager at Jena High School in Jena, Louisiana, the cities long history of racial indifference came to light and was put on display on a national scale. To no one's surprise the Jena 6 were just the latest in a series of hate crimes that had occured throughout 2006, but the real controversy did not occur until September of 2007 where anyone and everyone with an interest in news about race crimes and racial injustice took to the streets of the small town and protested the arrests and charges of the black teenagers. It was a media spectacle concerning race we hadn't seen since the original O.J. Simpson trail back in the early nineties, and was one of the largest racial protests of the 21st century.

Have we learned anything from the Jena 6; this writer tried to avoid talking about this story but got pulled into it once the enormous outpouring of support was too large to ignore. Why don't African-Americans get together and show such solidarity and support at any other time, why does it take something like the Jena 6 occurance to bring us together. About as many questions as to what it means to be Black in America as there were answers, but it was great to see the topic of injustice on the table once again.

Don Imus calls a group of collegiate basketball players "Nappy Headed Ho's"

 
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well that seems to be a bit of an article but like adam said you seem a litttle to focaused on racism and the media try to not so much focus on that and more on the facts.

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Posted on 01/04/2008 at 9:01:34 AM

 
That's what stood out to me this year. I left a lot out, like Barak Obama running, if he is black enough or if he is too clean to be a black president. I think his being too clean happened in 2006 though.

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Posted on 12/16/2007 at 6:12:37 PM

 
Hmmm... interesting article. You seemed to focus on media and racism, but I guess that's probably what most of America focused on too. Thanks for sharing the memories and offering your own take on it all.

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Posted on 12/16/2007 at 3:12:53 PM

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