The Jena Project

it's ok for 6 people to jump one person that person who could of been killed. that's ok. he didn't even have anything to do with it. never seen a black person fight another person especially white without all their friends jumping in. stop blaming the white man. it's their fault 60% of the black youth don't know who their father is. blame your self for your own problems. why do you think smart black people move out of the ghetto. and dumb white people move in. face reality.DarkViper47 via youtube

The Jena Project is a remixed, visual analysis of online speech, as seen through a year's worth of comment threads and discussions of photographs and video made by Michael David Murphy during last summer's trials, protests, and marches for the Jena Six in Jena, Louisiana.

A mixed-media project, The Jena Project pulls back the curtain on America's "conversation on race", while mapping language from an up-close (and often binary) street-level perspective.

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The Jena Project opens at Opal Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, September 12th, at 7 pm. The installation runs through the 27th. A panel discussion will be hosted at the Hammonds House Museum on September 20th at 2:00pm, the one-year anniversary of the march on Jena.