Posted on 03/24/2011 5:07:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
University of Kentucky officials are investigating two incidents in which someone hung signs that called President Barack Obama a racial epithet.
On March 15, a professor noticed one such sign hanging on a door to the UK School of Law on South Limestone. He turned it in to campus police, who are investigating, said spokesman Jay Blanton.
Early Thursday morning, third year law student Ches Clark said he found a sign affixed to a bus shelter on South Lime near Maxwelton Court. The sign said "How Do You Spell Nigger? OBAMA."
The letters looked to be cut out of a menu, glued to another piece of paper and photocopied, Clark said.
UK police could charge whoever posted the signs with third degree criminal mischief, Blanton said. It's not clear whether anyone from UK was involved, but police are investigating because the first sign was on UK property, he said.
Clark took the sign to his law-school class on racism and criminal law and posted a copy of it on his Facebook page.
His law professor, Roberta Harding, said the sign looked juvenile, yet someone had gone to a lot of trouble to make it.
The general sentiment in class was that whoever posted the sign should "get over" Obama being president, Harding said.
"I think people were upset in a positive way," she said.
In 2008, two college-age men were arrested after hanging an effigy of Obama from a tree on the UK campus with a noose around its neck.
The grand jury dismissed charges of second-degree burglary, theft by unlawful taking and disorderly conduct against Hunter Bush and Joe Fischer, who had graduated from UK.
Fischer and Bush expressed remorse but said they were reacting to news about a Sarah Palin effigy in California.
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Just heard on Fox that when Obama got back, he found he was locked out of the Oval Office.
They didn’t expect him back so early and forgot to unlock it. LOL
I just call him Urkel. If he were white, I’d call him Goober Pyle.
There is always a lefty behind these kinds of things.
i know you are but what am i?
You never can be sure but I bet it was a minority. I know several similar cases in which nooses, racial epithets etc. have ended up not being what it appears at first glance.
Survey says: Fake Race Hate Crime
BFD, it's littering. Only to the thought police is it "third degree criminal mischief".
If that is a crime, how come Chris Mathews hasn't been arrested at least a dozen times?
How many times did the police go looking for the people that hung kill Bush signs out on campus? Uh, that would be none.
“signs that called President Barack Obama a racial epithet.”
The worst of all crimes in modern day thought police leftism.
Just another “Reichtag Fire” tactic. Expect a lot more of this.
When something like this happens, my first thought is it was done by leftists trying to create a narrative.
“Just another “Reichtag Fire” tactic. Expect a lot more of this.”
Exactly. It’s funny how the “racist right-wing extremists” always seem to do these things in areas dominated by hard-core left-wing liberals, especially university campuses. When is the last time we heard about one of these incidents in deep red country?
This appears to be Biden’s handwriting?
Potentially a great story....
It actually hit me at how pervasive this concept is when Jeffrey Dahmer said that he wanted to "set the record straight" that he "wasn't a racist".
Being a known cannibal was fine, but he just couldn't bear to have someone thinking he was racist.
That was a real eye opener for me.
Quite frankly I can't keep up on what those people imagine to be insulting.
I agree. I have no doubt that this was done as a "dirty trick" by a member of the democratic party.
My evidence is the number of democrats outed at Tea Party gatherings who would carry inflammatory signs with the pure intent of making the Tea Party look bad.
Lexington, Kentucky is absolutely NOT a racist town. The opposite, actually....it's sort of stuffy, elitist, democrat.
Uh...yeah...and do you mind if we look around your office a bit?
“I think people were upset in a positive way,” she said.
What the heck does that mean? Is that possible? Can you frown and smile at the same time?
Well, a smile is a frown turned upside down!! LOL
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