Jena: Thank God for Civil Rights ... and Civil Fights

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... And the winner for this week's People Who Suck Award goes to members of the Nationalist Movement who showed up in Jena, La., to make asses of themselves on MLK Day.

This group, which The Associated Press estimated at about 50, had the nerve to truck themselves down to the small town that made headlines last fall to moan about the Jena Six and to protest the national King holiday.


Yeah, yeah, I know. First Amendment. Defend rights to Free Speech.

But if the group, an organization of white supremacists, has the rights to denigrate both justice for blacks and one of its most ardent defenders, then I've got just as much right to publicly call them out for being jerks.

Fortunately there was a multicultural group of counter protesters who came to bring the pain, and shut 'em down.

That's what's great about America. Anyplace you have someone standing up to sound like an idiot, anyone else is free to stand up and tell them to sit down and shut the hell up.

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