Howard University's Dr. Carr put it another way. He said protesters aren't going to Jena, La., in hopes of changing hardened racist views. There are bigger expectations, Carr said.
"There is no reason to expect that these hard-crafted racial attitudes will be softened by any pleas to a common humanity," he added. "That, in fact, that is not what African people should be aiming for anyway.
"We have to support the Jena Six because any of those boys could be any of us, and that they are lending financial support and going to Jena on September 20th to bear witness to a higher moral standard," Carr continued. "That African-Americans have never pled for our humanity to whiteness, but rather have called this country to be better than its racist history and thereby reach a standard of humanity that Africans brought with us on the boats that brought us here."
- Tracie Powell
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