Jena 6 – UPDATE – students can’t wear shirts

[Anita Garcia]

Jena 6 – UPDATE – students can’t wear shirts in support of the Jena 6

“As the system has made it clear that it intends to press forward with the legal lynching of the Jena 6, students at Jena High continue to resist. On August 28, eight or nine students went to school wearing t-shirts that read “Free the Jena 6.” Students told Revolution newspaper that at the end of the day the principal got on the loudspeakers saying that the t-shirts could no longer be worn because they “offend” some people. To this we say: Racist upholders of white supremacy should be “offended.” But all those who stand against white supremacy should also put on “Free the Jena 6” t-shirts and oppose the blatant censorship of Black students at Jena High.” - by Alice Woodward - Revolution #100, September 9, 2007 -


The school system has no school dress code in place that prohibits the wearing of these types of shirts.
Also, this is the same school system that described the hanging of three nooses in the "whites only" tree as a "silly prank".