John Mellencamp Draws Criticism Over Jena Six Song

Was at the Toronto Mellencamp show....was having a grea time until the "Jena" song...then during this song, it really hit me....I thought about the hype he was enduring.....He is of the few artists that has spoken(or sung) his mind in a long time..cheers to John............don't hide behind the political rightness..You have the freedom, as do all of us.......thanks for you honesty..Face of the Nation........Chiliman

I was ticked off at JM's song...so we wrote our own. By AWAKE at http://www.weareawake.us/jena.html

John Mellencamp is a "has been" and hasn't done anything good since The Lonesome Jubilee album in 1987. Seriously, He acts like a politician these days. Who cares what he thinks? Just because somebody's a movie star or washed up ex-rock star, why do they suddenly think there words are golden? Learn to think for yourselves people and quit hanging on to every word that comes out Mellencamp's mouth.

Alrighty then, so my links in the last comment got hosed. Let's try it this way:

My story on Mellencamp's "Jena" song
http://morethings.com/log/2007/10/john-mellencamp-needs-this-jena-song-in.html

My fan site for the Little Bastard
http://www.morethings.com/music/john_mellencamp/index.htm

They print this little disclaimer of Mellencamp's about how the song called "Jena" really isn't about Jena - as if it's a matter of fact rather than an absolute and unmistakable certainty that Mellencamp was of course talking about Jena. First clue: the song is named "Jena."

Makes me want to bring the pimp hand down on the Little Bastard. Wrote A STORY ABOUT IT, yes I did.

You are right Crimson, the news media never reports the whole story only that part that has controversy and will "sell" the storyline. Mellancamp should just write and sing , nevermind about editorializing on a situation that he has no intention of fixing!!!

I think the problem is the whole story was not put out there.

Yes, the White students did hang the nooses. And yes the Black students did beat up the White boy.

But the incident right in between, the incident that the media always seems to "not mention" is the White boy that got beat up was making fun of the Black boy that got beat up a couple weeks at a party by 3 White boys. One of them, that hit him with a object. And that White man that hit that boy was like 22 years old. Now, nobody talks about that at all.

That white boy that got beat up was calling the Black boy that got beat derogatory names. And then the other Black boys jumped in and then it turned physical. And the boy went to a party later on that night, so it wasn't like he was in the hospital at all. So no need for the attempted murder charge.

See it's easy to see things in complete black and white. But not all the facts were presented. So what that does is keep White Americans from hearing the whole truth. The white boys that beat that Black boy up at the party, they didn't get charged with attempted murder. One of them even got probation.

And you go to other countries and they ALWAYS distinguish their races within their own countries, especially if you are of a brown or black pursasion.

STORM YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD I LIKED THE COMENT,IMUS HAD A SENIOR MOMENT ON HIS SHOW AND NO ONE WAS IN THE TRUMA WARD HANGING ON FOR THIER LIFE,BUT LOOK AT THE FIRE STORM HIS 10 SECONDS OF BAD CHOICE OF WORDS CAUSED,HE WAS EVERY THING BUT HUNG ON THE CROSS THAT WEEK,HE LOST HIS JOB THAT WEEK AND 31 V TECH STUDENTS LOST THEIR LIVE'S THE NEXT,I THINK WE WOULD HAVE HAD A CIVIL WAR THAT WEEK HAD A WHITE GUY DID THAT AT A BLACK COLLEGE.WE WEREN'T CUSING THE KOREANS.

PEOPLE PEOPLE,KIDS WILL BE KIDS THE ADULTS ARE THE ONES WHO ALWAYS THROWS THE GAS IN THE FIRE MAKING A FREAKING MOUNTIAN OUT OF A MOE HILL,THESE GUYS BEAT A WHITE BOY HALF TO DEATH THEY BROKE THE LAW NO MATTER WHAT COLOR THEY ARE .YOU CAN'T LET A PERSON OR A GROUP GET AWAY WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER.I DON'T BELIEVE
IN RACISM.SPEND THE TIME IN FINDING OUT WHO THE KIDS WERE THAT HUNG THE NOOSE AND TEACH THEM ABOUT BEING KIND TO THE HUMAN RACE.

Obviously you did not get the whole story ,no one said that they should not be punished, we just wanted the punishment to fit the crime. The white kids did beat up the black kids and they were suspeneded,how come when the black kids beat up the white ones they were arrested and charged with attempted murder. Come on now we are all americans should'nt the punishment be the same? The kids who the attempted to murder was out partying the same night of the fight.And what does public assisstance have to do with anything? It would be nice if you had your facts straight before you took the time to write all of this nonsense but that is why the internet is so popular because so many cowards will get on line and say things that they would not actually say to someones face. There is a black and white issue , when cops stop following us around the store for no reason and no longer charge us with dwb(driving while black)there may start some healing. If race division bothers you so much ,move into a black neighborhood,mingle with black people see how we live, start a petition so the census could be abolished. There are a lot of things that you can do to end racism . Oh and you also need to look the word racism up to know that it could never apply to black people.