[Alice in Wonderland]

Trouble is a-brewing on The Rock. Same paper ... a week later:

Nooses Found In Parks Office Anger Workers, Officials

Two hangman’s nooses, long the symbol of slavery and oppression of black people, were found wrapped around the collars of clothing in the lockers of two Parks Department supervisors when they opened their lockers at a Rockaway facility on Saturday morning, police officials say.

http://www.rockawave.com/news/2007/1102/Front_Page/001.html

[Altura Ct.]

long the symbol of slavery and oppression of black people

It was? Since when? What about white people who were lynched? What about common hangings during the days of the old west? What about execution by hanging?

[TheThinker]

This father needs a defense fund set up. If a white parent can’t protect his child, then that’s just the most unjust circumstance imaginable. If this were a black child then the streets would be on fire. Maybe that’s what is what it’s going to take. After all these years after the civil war and the civil rights movement and after all the turmoil endured blacks and whites, this is what we come to; whites being prosecuted for protecting their children against black children. Whites hide in their homes for fear of racial violence and nobody says a thing. White people get murdered and tortured by blacks and no hate crime is charged (Chattanooga couple). It just seems that blacks use any excuse to further power and violence against whites. And it’s all because they are in denial that they can be bigots and racist and unjust and the culture allows it.

[pillut48]

"...long the symbol of slavery and oppression of black people"

Huh?!? [deeply puzzled] I'm 46 years old, and in my lifetime, the noose has been a symbol of: a)spaghetti westerns that my late father loved b)Halloween haunted houses Since when did the noose become 'the symbol of slavery and oppression of black people' all of a sudden?! I HATE reinvented history!!! >:-(