Jena Update

Jena, Louisiana is

• A town in which only one-quarter of the white population didn't vote for David Duke for governor.

• The seat of a La Salle Parish, which voted 80.39 percent for Bush in 2004. And which, sometimes, votes for Democrats - for instance when the Republican gubernatorial candidate happens to be named Bobby (né "Piyush") Jindal.

• Is the reason federal civil rights law exists - because there is a measure of basic justice beneath which no American, no matter how obscenely racist or corrupt their local jurisdiction happens to be, should be allowed to fall.

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