Another Noose incident in Louisiana draws eyes of nation to GSU

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http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071002/NEWS01/710020312/1002

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Grambling State University President Horace Judson began Monday a full investigation of facts surrounding a Sept. 20 incident at one of Grambling's lab schools in which a noose was placed around a kindergarten student's neck.


The incident happened Sept. 20, the same day thousands of protesters took part in a civil rights march in Jena alongside the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to speak out against the arrests on adult charges of six black defendants accused of beating a fellow white classmate into unconsciousness. The mock rally of smaller scale took place at Alma J. Brown Elementary School, which is on the GSU campus and run by the university.


Concerns about child safety follow the incident in which teachers used a noose and other means because "the children asked questions" about the Jena Six incident, said Justin LaGrande, the reporter at the GSU student newspaper, The Gramblinite, who originally covered the event.


Social worker sophomore Marleika Williams said she understands teachers appealing to the visual learning style of youngsters with paper shackles and a hanging noose. "But it still went too far," said Williams, 23. "At their young age, they can't differentiate between what happened back then as opposed to today. So they might take it today as, 'That's what they do to us' when they look at white people."

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1. I agree that it went a little too far

but understanding is key. I have learned that the youth today don't realize the price some paid. Telling them just doesn't get the point across. Kindergarten and 1st grade are a too young though.

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