Can you believe that now, in the year 2007, in this century, there are still people using nooses to threaten, intimidate, and oppress African-Americans? What is even worse is that they were high school students doing so!

My heart is heavy. I am praying for the people of Jena, Louisiana. And I am wondering about the future of our country if we have high school students engaging in such hateful behavior as was done there and in Newark where a high school student allegedly took part in the execution style murder of three graduates headed off to college.

Children are attacking each other, sexually assaulting each other, murdering each other...all across America...all without impunity... and oh, so terribly easily...