It was only a matter of time before amateur Jena Six parodies (complete with the ubiquitous college blackface shots) started appearing on Facebook. Or Blackfacebook, as the Smoking Gun has ingeniously renamed it. A freshman at the University of Louisiana at Monroe posted a video and an album showing her friends re-enacting the Jena Six assault on her Facebook page. It was a move she surely regrets now.

In the video, three students with mud smeared across their bodies stomp on a fourth student, while two of the participants are heard to say, "Jena 6." One man can also be heard saying, "Niggers put the noose on." After the video and photos on Smith's page were discovered by fellow students, she removed the material and made her Facebook page private.

Smith, who did not respond to a TSG e-mail sent to her school address, apologized for the images in several recent Facebook postings. "We were just playin n the mud and it got out of hand. I promise i'm not racist. i have just as many black friends as i do white. And i love them to death," she wrote. She added in a later message that her friends "were drinking" and things "got a lil out of hand."

Oh, the black friend defense! If every racist has so many black friends, I might trust whites who don't know a single black person more.

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