Jena - John Mellencamp Music Video

[Chovexani]

Run time: 03:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6flvlq7xjdg   Posted on YouTube: October 03, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 06, 2007 By DU Member: Chovexani Views on DU: 1672

 
Song & Music Video by John Mellencamp about the Jena 6 situation. It's some powerful stuff.

[cascadiance]

1. Mellencamp rocks! He's one cougar with his teeth chewing on the right things!!!

[Chovexani]

2. I love that man and I don't care who knows it

:)

[Jack Bone]

3. I happened across this piece today..

Jena Mayor Slams Media in Complaint to AP About 'Inflammatory' John Mellencamp Song
By Noel Sheppard | October 6, 2007 - 11:15 ET

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/06/jena-mayor-media-complaint-ap-inflammatory-john-mellencamp

Media's power was on full display last week when a popular rock singer published a song about the Jena 6.

The lyrics angered the embattled Louisiana city's mayor so much that he wrote a letter to the Associated Press complaining about how his town has "for months been mischaracterized in the media and portrayed as the epicenter of hatred, racism and a place where justice is denied."

The latest episode in this bizarre story began with the posting of this video at the website of John Mellencamp featuring his most recent song "Jena." In it, Mellencamp sings:

Oh oh oh Jena
Take your nooses down

The town's mayor, Murphy R. McMillin, wasn't pleased by this, and wrote the AP:

"The town of Jena has for months been mischaracterized in the media and portrayed as the epicenter of hatred, racism and a place where justice is denied," Jena Mayor Murphy R. McMillin wrote in a statement on town letterhead faxed on Friday to The Associated Press.

He said he had previously stayed quiet, hoping that the town's courtesy to people who have visited over the past year would speak for itself. "However, the Mellencamp video is so inflammatory, so defamatory, that a line has been crossed and enough is enough."

Mellencamp posted at his website Thursday: "The song is not written as an indictment of the people of Jena but, rather, as a condemnation of racism."

This didn't assuage McMillin's displeasure:

"I do not want to diminish the impression that the hanging of the nooses has had on good people," McMillin wrote. "I do recognized that what happened is insulting and hurtful."

But, he said, "To put the incident in Jena in the same league as those who were murdered in the 1960s cheapens their sacrifice and insults their memory."<snip>

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[WillyT]

6. Big K & R !!!

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[SeattleGirl]

7. Amazing video and song.

Thanks for posting it.

[WillyT]

8. Me Too !!!

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