A journey begins with the first step

My eyes popped open at 12:00 a.m. on 09/20/07 finally this day has arrived but I'm a little worried about what this day will bring because the world is saying that we can't behave let human begins that we are nothing but animals, I'm sitting on the side of my bed hoping and praying Lord, that we prove them wrong.
Finally, we are all dressed, packed and on the road, after a short prayer for traveling grace and safety for all that are also traveling to Jena, It's my Mother, Aunt, my son, uncle and myself. we are about 100 miles into our travels now and a conversation begins about things that I have only heard of or seen on TV about the civil rights movement events like the Woolworth's sit-ins, the ways that our people were beaten and how attack dogs, fire hoses and night sticks were used on our people to keep the peace, how people were never seen again after standing up for what was right, and how we were hung from the nearest tree at the drop of a hat which reminds me of something an gentleman Mr. Frank Collins Sr. who's decreased now once told me when we always talk about the old days of is childhood when asked about where blacks were hanged at he would always take me to his kitchen window and point to the big oak tree just outside it which by the way was count down days after his death, he would say right out there son, right out there. I am almost in tears because it is so unbelievable that we as a race were or should I say are so hated!!!!!! And for what and I’m willing to bet they don't have clue as to why either. I just don't think I could have with stood all of the unjust treatment that was being shelled out to our people at that time.
As our journey continues we are about 50 miles on the out skits of Jena now and I'm beginning to feel like my heart is about to jump out of my chest not from fear but excitement because you can now see the caravan of buses, cars, motorcycles and mobile-homes and all the many black faces that have formed under one banner to free the Jena 6, o' yea this will be a day for the history books. Now I can’t wait until there is enough daylight so I can see more.
More to come later!!!!!!!