A group of white Louisiana college students dressed in mud and reenacted the Jena 6 assault while a friend snapped photos and videotaped it. Images and videos were later posted to one of the participant's Facebook page. The photos were taken late last month on the bank of the Ouachita River, where students from the University of Louisiana at Monroe giddily acted out the racial attack. The photos and video were posed on the facebook page of Kristy Smith, a freshman nursing student. The album of images was entitled "The Jena 6 on the River."
In the video, three students with mud smeared across their bodies stomp on a fourth student, while two of the participants are heard to say, "Jena 6." One man can also be heard saying, "Nigger put the noose on."
After the video and photos on Smith's page were discovered by fellow students, she removed the material and made her Facebook page private. Smith, who did not respond to a The Smoking Gun e-mail sent to her school address, apologized for the images in several recent Facebook postings.
"We were just playin n the mud and it got out of hand. I promise i'm not racist. i have just as many black friends as i do white. And i love them to death," she wrote.When faced with heated online criticism from fellow students, Smith yanked the photos and video from Facebook, but not before one student downloaded the photos and another videotaped the video directly from her computer screen (and then posted the clip on YouTube).
Source: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1002071jena1.html
