This is the most balanced article on the Jena 6, I've seen

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so far. Funny how we now learn  that the victim was not so virtuos after all, while the assailants' run-ins with the law were immediately played up by the press.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20071005/cm_usatoday/inlaamissedopportunityignitesaracialuproar;