Waxing Nostalgic – “I want to interview your nigger son that beat up the White boy…”

A Docudharma Exclusive — The Sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change — front-page fashions, unique musical styles, a call for sexual freedom and gay rights, a controversial and devisive war, a strong anti-war movement, civil rights confrontations….

Hold on a minute! Did I say the Sixties?

Well… they’re back!

October 1, 2007 — JENA, LA. — Things went from bad to worse for the Blacks of Jena and especially for the Jena 6 the day following the rally where more than 20,000 Blacks converged on the little town in LaSalle Parish, La.

Friday, just one day after the rally, Tina Jones, mother of Bryant Purvis, began receiving phone calls from individuals claiming to be from the KKK and other hate groups.

“This is Michael Burks. I’m with the American National Socialist Workers Party,” said one caller, bold enough to leave his name. “I want to interview your nigger son that beat up the White boy with a gang, just like a coward. So you can call me at 502-474-5373. White Power.”

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways,
I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard,
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.

You know what bugged me the most about the Iraq War?

History repeating itself — without a single deviation in the details. The outcome was already pre-destined — a bunch of dead soldier-kids, their wasted lives memorialized in a 5×7 photo sitting on their parent’s television set.

We had already been there.
We had already done that.
Hell, we invented the fucking tee-shirt as an art form.

Why is America recycling the worst decades of its history. And why now?

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’,
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin’,
I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.

The American National Socialist Party was founded in 1958 by U.S. Navy Commander George Lincoln Rockwell, who died on the heels of the civil rights movement in 1967, leaving a legacy of hatred and ignorance behind. The party was initially known as the American Nazi Party, but the name was changed in 1967. The party became virtually non-existent soon after his death, but resurged in 1990s. The party’s worldview is predicated on White supremacy and the fear that the White race will someday be eradicated.

Michael Burks is the Midwest Regional Leader and heads a branch in Louisville, Kentucky with five branches beneath him, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. The organization also has leaders in Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Montana and Utah.

Attempts to call Burk back were not successful. However, another caller actually left his correct number. The caller admitted calling and repeated his desire to see Bryant Purvis one of the Jena 6. Tina Jones, Purvis’ mother, gave all of the caller’s names and numbers to State Troopers who had been called the day before, but did not show up.

Additionally, an Anglo man wandered into Caseptla Bailey’s home asking for Robert Bailey. When Ms. Bailey asked what he wanted with her son, he said he heard he could buy some crack from him. He was promptly escorted out by a male guest present at the time.

According to CNN, the sheriff stated they had no intentions of increasing security for the families of the Jena 6 who became the subject of a White Supremacist website. However, later, District Attorney Reed Walters, along with Sheriff Carl Smith issued a statement condemning the violent threats and warning, “Such vile and cowardly acts will not be tolerated in Jena or LaSalle Parish.

The editor and commander of this well-known White Supremacist website has threatened to have the boys of Jena 6 murdered if attempts to have charges lessened against them are successful.

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’,
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’,
Heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody listenin’,
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin’,
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.

Names, numbers and addresses for the boys were listed on the [Supremist] website, which has since been temporarily dismantled. However, addresses were posted to at least two other websites the same day. Overthrow.com and a private forum, Vanguard News Network, listed the phone numbers and addresses of each of the members of all but one of the Jena 6. The so-called “leader” was unable to locate information for the juvenile involved in the case, however, he wrote he was, “working on it.”

A member of the forum, whose user name is Ron Doggett, stated ANSWP Commander was, “the only White leader in this cause who has done anything for bringing at least some pressure from our side on the Jena 6 who attempted to murder a White student.”

“Tell me about it,” the ANSWP Commander responded. “I am astonished there is no White counter-action being organized in Jena. I wish we had an organizer somewhere around there … We’re working on an action from a distance, but I wish something was set up on the ground.”

Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony,
I met a white man who walked a black dog,
I met a young woman whose body was burning,
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
I met one man who was wounded in love,
I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.

Members of the forum congratulated ANSWP Commander, calling him “Bill.” William A. “Bill” White, who is located in Roanoke, Va., was listed as the previously mentioned Web site’s editor and commander of the ANSWP.

“Thank you,” he responded, adding, “It is my sincere, personal belief that if the justice system fails-which it has not done yet-but if the justice system fails and these niggers are acquitted, that they should be drug out of their homes, hung in the town square and set on fire “until the black smoke from their black skin blackens the sky.

“This is why there have been lynchings in America’s past, and why there may be again.”

Oh, what’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what’ll you do now, my darling young one?
I’m a-goin’ back out ‘fore the rain starts a-fallin’,
I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden,
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
Where black is the color, where none is the number,
And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’,
But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’,
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (along with law enforcement personnel in Louisiana) is investigating. The Feds commented…

“Since these investigations are ongoing, we cannot comment any further.”