As The Reverend Al Sharpton said in Jena, there are Jenas all over the United States. Toledo Ohio is another of our nation's Jenas and deserves the utmost attention. Like Jena, the catalyst for the trouble in Toledo begins at a high school with overt racist provocations. Like Jena the authorities handled the situation through the lens of racial preference, waging a campaign of repression and defamation against the community.

Whereas white students hung 3 nooses in a tree to intimidate and insult black students, the city of Toledo allowed a full detachment of uniformed Neo-Nazis to protest "black crime" at a largely black high school in a largely black working class community.

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