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TEMPERS ARE STILL aflame in Jena, La. Cries of injustice and “free the Jena Six” have been heard across the country. The story has dramatic, “Movie of the Week” elements to it: nooses, six jailed African-American teens and tens of thousands converging on a small Southern town in protest. But perhaps protestors were too quick to point to racism as the cause of the Jena Six’s current plight.

Picketing students lined the Free Speech Area yesterday carrying signs and repeating “free the Jena Six.”