Bad Art for a Cause

[teaberryblue]

So, basically, the situation in Jena, Louisiana is getting pitiful coverage around here which is not to say that it's getting no coverage so much as it's getting a mix of no coverage and coverage that is woefully short on details.

This means that I explained it about five times to five different people, in detail, over the course of the past two days.

And pretty much everyone has the same reaction, which is "WTF WHAT DECADE IS THIS?"

Anyway, I decided that I could do my part to help tell people what is going on.


Read my Jena, Louisiana Primer


This is just the first chapter. Yes, it is highly snarky. Yes, it is badly drawn. But I think it gets across my general feelings about the situation.

Comments

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

It is honestly probably not you. The story has apparently been getting a lot of attention on blogs, but not in major news sources. It's slowly been picking up, but there was a big rally there on Thursday with thousands of people, and unfortunately, I have heard from a lot of people that they didn't know about it until the rally and they would have gone down if they had. I certainly didn't start finding out a lot of the more specific details until then-- a lot of the newspapers have been misrepresenting the story as "OMG six black boys beat up a white boy and people want them to be let out of jail scot-free!"

[rainy-day.livejournal.com]

I dunno if that makes me feel better or worse...

I try to keep up with CNN, the BBC, and one site with Japanese news but I haven't seen anything about this at all. which, in retrospect, is probably because I typically read the news and work and we've been without web access this week--but still.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

No, seriously, my coworkers who read the news every day and live in New York didn't know about this. My mother didn't know about it until Thursday and she listens to the radio every day.