New Mellencamp song angers Jena mayor

piemaker720 · 10-08-2007, 09:45 AM

http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps.../1130/Sports01

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A video in which rapper-actor Mos Def asked students around the country to walk out Oct. 1 to support the "Jena Six" escaped comment by this town's mayor. But when Hoosier rocker John Mellencamp sang, "Jena, take your nooses down," he took issue.
"The town of Jena has for months been mischaracterized in the media and portrayed as the epicenter of hatred, racism and a place where justice is denied," Jena Mayor Murphy R. McMillin wrote in a statement on town letterhead faxed on Friday to The Associated Press.
He said he had previously stayed quiet, hoping that the town's courtesy to people who have visited over the past year would speak for itself. "However, the Mellencamp video is so inflammatory, so defamatory, that a line has been crossed and enough is enough."

I don't understand why these entertainers has to get involved and people have to keep this crap going.

joepole · 10-08-2007, 10:04 AM

Take your nooses down? Like they're still up or something? That tree isn't even there, anymore.

AnimeSpirit · 10-08-2007, 10:08 AM

If Mellencamp sang for them to take the nooses down, then he must not be a supporter of the violence. This offends Jena's mayor?

I've got a solution right here and now. Take the nooses down, convict the @$$holes behind that beating like any other criminal, tell Jackson and Sharpton to mind their own business, and move along.

AnimeSpirit · 10-08-2007, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by joepole

Take your nooses down? Like they're still up or something? That tree isn't even there, anymore.

Metaphors, Joe. I'm sure Mellencamp didn't mean the specific nooses hanging on that specific tree.

Isaac-Saxxon · 10-08-2007, 10:30 AM

Mellencamp is stirring the pot. He is using the fact that he is a singer in a band to draw the media and feel like he is in the know

Yet another case of politics mixed in the music

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If you laugh at this, Al Sharp ton & Jesse will be on your ass.

piemaker720 · 10-08-2007, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by AnimeSpirit

Metaphors, Joe. I'm sure Mellencamp didn't mean the specific nooses hanging on that specific tree.

Anime, I think you should check out the song and the video before you defend Mellencamp. He may not mean those nooses but he is defintely stirring the pot with a big spoon.

Pocahontas · 10-08-2007, 11:47 AM

This has gotten so out of control! I think the media and entertainers are enjoying putting our state down! Oh and don't forget the $$$ that will be made over making us all look like backwoods Klansmen yet again!

AnimeSpirit · 10-08-2007, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by piemaker720

Anime, I think you should check out the song and the video before you defend Mellencamp. He may not mean those nooses but he is defintely stirring the pot with a big spoon.

I'm not actually defending him as a pot-stirer, but it's suspicious that Jena's mayor said nothing until someone advocated against the nooses. Personally, I think Mellencamp is crossing into Jackson and Sharpton's territory (the agitators).

These music artists just need to stay out of politics. Remember what happened to the Dixie Chicks?

Isaac-Saxxon · 10-08-2007, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by AnimeSpirit

I'm not actually defending him as a pot-stirer, but it's suspicious that Jena's mayor said nothing until someone advocated against the nooses. Personally, I think Mellencamp is crossing into Jackson and Sharpton's territory (the agitators).

These music artists just need to stay out of politics. Remember what happened to the Dixie Chicks?

Do not forget Da Bruce Springsteen

I agree with your post Anime. I know many of the bands/singers are good at singing but I would guess the reason they are doing what they do is because they could not do much in school. When some one living in a glass bubble thinks they need to agitate or push their political agenda there is a big price to pay. Shut up and sing

piemaker720 · 10-08-2007, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by AnimeSpirit

I'm not actually defending him as a pot-stirer, but it's suspicious that Jena's mayor said nothing until someone advocated against the nooses. Personally, I think Mellencamp is crossing into Jackson and Sharpton's territory (the agitators).

These music artists just need to stay out of politics. Remember what happened to the Dixie Chicks?

[/quote] He said he had previously stayed quiet, hoping that the town's courtesy to people who have visited over the past year would speak for itself. "However, the Mellencamp video is so inflammatory, so defamatory, that a line has been crossed and enough is enough.[/quote]
He says why he hasn't said anything before now.

AnimeSpirit · 10-08-2007, 01:33 PM

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He says why he hasn't said anything before now.

I got that part. I'm just not sure I buy it.

Isaac-Saxxon · 10-08-2007, 05:32 PM

Everybody has a right to voice their opinion not matter what it might be. When someone in any business or music uses their status to push a certain agenda and particularly a political one it is wrong. When their agenda is to insult our country I find it offensive to "me" ! Why can not we agree do disagree

It is about the only free super power left on the planet and it is worth fighting our ass for and make no mistakes they the enemy would love to see us the "haves" turn into the have knots !!!!!!!!!!!! and yes there are plenty of enemy's from within.

10-08-2007, 10:08 AM	#3
AnimeSpirit SBLive! Veteran Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Nowhere Age: 42 Posts: 1,659 Rep Power: 268	If Mellencamp sang for them to take the nooses down, then he must not be a supporter of the violence. This offends Jena's mayor? I've got a solution right here and now. Take the nooses down, convict the @$$holes behind that beating like any other criminal, tell Jackson and Sharpton to mind their own business, and move along. __________________ Confuscious says~

10-08-2007, 10:30 AM	#5
Isaac-Saxxon SBLive! Veteran Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 4,421 Rep Power: 324	Mellencamp is stirring the pot. He is using the fact that he is a singer in a band to draw the media and feel like he is in the know Yet another case of politics mixed in the music A Zebra dies and arrives at the Pearly Gates. As he enters, he asks St. Peter, "I have a question that's haunted me all of my days on earth. Am I white with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?" St. Peter said, "That's a question only God can answer." So the zebra went off in search of God. When he found Him, the zebra asked, "God, please - I must know. Am I white with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?" God simply replied "You are what you are." The zebra returned to see St. Peter once more, who asked him, "Well, did God straighten out your query for you?" The zebra looked puzzled. "No sir, God simply said 'You are what you are.'" St. Peter smiled and said to the zebra, "Well then, there you are. You are white with black stripes." The zebra asked St. Peter, "How do you know that for certain?" "Because," said St. Peter, "If you were black with white stripes, God would have said, "You is what you is." If you laugh at this, Al Sharp ton & Jesse will be on your ass. __________________ Maranatha Mat 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

10-08-2007, 11:47 AM	#7
Pocahontas SBLive! Veteran Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,691 Rep Power: 278	This has gotten so out of control! I think the media and entertainers are enjoying putting our state down! Oh and don't forget the $$$ that will be made over making us all look like backwoods Klansmen yet again! __________________ "The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain." Jennifer Aniston

10-08-2007, 05:32 PM	#12
Isaac-Saxxon SBLive! Veteran Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 4,421 Rep Power: 324	Everybody has a right to voice their opinion not matter what it might be. When someone in any business or music uses their status to push a certain agenda and particularly a political one it is wrong. When their agenda is to insult our country I find it offensive to "me" ! Why can not we agree do disagree It is about the only free super power left on the planet and it is worth fighting our ass for and make no mistakes they the enemy would love to see us the "haves" turn into the have knots !!!!!!!!!!!! and yes there are plenty of enemy's from within. __________________ Maranatha Mat 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

10-08-2007, 10:04 AM	#2
joepole SBLive! Veteran Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,606 Rep Power: 265	Take your nooses down? Like they're still up or something? That tree isn't even there, anymore.

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