This is just stupid. Most if not all countries that have hung people hung them with black hoods DUH
Posted on 10/16/2007 1:29:08 PM PDT by Westlander
MADISON, N.J. — Public uproar that compared an image to a lynching has led a Madison family to remove a hanged dummy from its Halloween display.
Cheryl and David Maines fear for their safety.
The couple's 27-year-old son has decorated their home for seven Halloweens. The hanged dummy, which has a black hood, is usually partially hidden.
But police started getting calls on Sunday, saying the display was racist. The state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said it was offensive and insensitive.
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Every other sane person in town should have immediately put up another hanging dummy. That would have been the end of it.
Every other sane person in town should have immediately put up another hanging dummy. That would have been the end of it.
This is just stupid. Most if not all countries that have hung people hung them with black hoods DUH
So is this racist, or is it offensive towards witches??
In any case I drive by this house on my way home that is covered with silly Halloween stuff and has been for weeks. People overdo it, IMO. In any case there are stuffed dolls hanging from the porch by the neck. This is on a street that is largely minority and I haven’t heard a peep of criticism. I think the people who live there are African American in fact.
A noose was used to hang criminals in the last century. It wasn’t held exclusively for the hanging of racial minorities.
This is preposterous. As you’ve noted, minorities found the use of the nooses to be a Halloween lark. This wasn’t mant to send a message of racism.
It wasn’t for the other family either. This just shows how much better race relations are in our nation, when folks have to build a case out of vapors, to prove racism still exists.
I passed three black guys on the sidewalk today. As I passed I said hi. None of the reciprocated. I was the whitey none of them wanted to acknowledge for fear the other two might think they were door mats for whitey.
Racism isn’t a one way street. Big deal. At another time any of the three probably would have said hi back.
People walk around with a chip on their soulders, looking to prove things are bad. If that’s their goal, they’ll find something to entice Sharpton/Jackson into a quick shakedown-visit.
I was ‘offended’ by a recent commercial on television. It was a warning against Nigerian e-mail scams. Of course the con man was an older white guy.
So now the race gang has made it a hate crime to do what thousands of people have been doing at Haloween for years.
Note: I think it’s sick to display images depicting corpses, graves, ghosts, and hanged bodies. I’d like to see it stop. But I DON”T THINK FOR ONE MOMENT THAT IT”S RACIST!!!
When people cave into this stuff it just makes it worse next time. The NAACP is stealing a page from the muslims book, feeling offended. This year it seems to be nooses as if the only people ever hanged in this country were black. It is time to start fighting back.
“Why in the hell did these people cave in? Why didnt’t they just tell everyone to kiss their butts and keep the dummy up. I would have said to the police “Either arrest me or leave me alone. If it isn’t against the law I will keep the Dummy up and anyone who doesn’t like it can just bite me.”
You are exactly right. The only way to stop this nonsnese is to stand up against it. Unfortunately most conservatives comply so as to not “make trouble”. We give in, they advance. They draw a line, we obey, so they draw another line, and we don’t go there, etc. If we were libs we would immediately hire a lawyer and threaten to sue the town. Its time to get MILITANT against this sh*t.
The National Association of Angry Colored People strikes again!
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