In a few weeks, the Jena Six incident will disappear from the front pages of newspapers and the lead story of broadcast news. The marches will have ended and many Black youth will have made the long bus ride from Jena back to their communities. Racism will again slip just below the shallow waters until another egregious racial incident occurs. The Jena Six incident, wrong as it was, has given the Black community an opportunity to encourage and motivate our Black youth to take their rightful place as the next generation of highly educated Black leaders. The challenge is how to capture this momentum to inspire and motivate African-American youth to become lawyers, judges, legislators, prosecutors, public defenders and law enforcement officials to push racism in this country into deeper waters. At least, at this moment we have their attention.
Professor Weatherspoon teaches Civil Rights at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio.
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