Students Suspended For Talking About Nooses

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[Plains Drifter]

Great question——no one because our side is too busy watching football and basketball. I’ve always said the white man only cares about three things: Can I get in another round of golf on Sunday before the football game and is there enough propane to barbecue. He doesn’t care about his country, his job, his family — just sports. My answer to your question.

[MarkL]

I live in Lee's Summit. When I first moved here, about 17 years ago, it still had something of a small town feel to it. You could buy a hunting license and shotgun shells at the video rental counter of the Hy Vee grocery store on M291. You could buy guns and ammo at the drug store on 3rd street. And there was a city wide celebration known as "Cole Younger Days."

Now, as one of the fastest growing cities in the state of Missouri, things have really changed. That drug store has closed, you can't buy shotgun shells or hunting licenses at the Hy Vee any more, and Cole Younger Days is now known as "Old Tyme Days." Although they haven't taken that old murderous bank robber's name off of any streets just yet. I guess this is an example of how things have changed...

Mark

[MarkL]

how does Mark Twain still get away with it?

He doesn't. Every year you can read about school districts and cities that want to ban his books from libraries and required reading lists, replacing them with the works of Maya Angelou.

Mark

[Smokin' Joe]

We used to use the noose knot to hang deer up after field dressing them.

I had learned how to tie one by the age of ten.

It is a handy knot, and just a knot, an arrangement of rope, but I can see why the politicians and bureaucrats might want it banned.

I guess once people have pretty much driven the Confederate Battle Flag out of the public venue, they need some other "symbol" to hate.

Frankly, I hope none of these folks ever needs a chain for anything.

[Plains Drifter]

bump

[PapaBear3625]

Here's a one male to two female adapter.

Back in my high school's audio/visual unit, we referred to female/female and male/male adapters as homo or lesbian connectors. But that was many years ago. I can only imagine what would have happened to us today

[dragnet2]

Travis was accused of using a racial slur for saying the word 'noose.' Then he was suspended for 10 days

Noose is a racial slur?

Kansas City?

[LukeL]

This is insane, they act like no white person has ever been on the wrong side of a noose.

[traviskicks]

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[P.O.E.]

“Ain’t got nothin’, ain’t got nothin’ to lose”

- Bob Dylan

[CSM]

Ho, ho, ho, Merrrrrryyyyyy Christmas!

[Plains Drifter]

Great tag line

[DBrow]

“Remember, in any population, 50% are less intelligent than the average.”

50% are less intelligent than the median- the average (mean) can be different from the median.

If you have 10,20,20,20,50,80,100,100, the average is 50 and the median is 35, so half are higher than 35 and half lower.

[reg45]

Ok! Ok! You are technically correct. I should have used proper terminology - after all this is Free Republic, not The Daily Kos (where the population is highly skewed towards the lowest quartile of the bell curve).

However, in a normally distributed population, the mean (average), the median, and the mode are the same value.

BTW, when I think of nooses, I associate them with "Hang 'Em High", "The Oxbow Incident", and "Judgment at Nuremberg".

[reg45]

In the final analysis, there is no real difference between the KKK hanging someone they don’t like and those other guys engaging in a “drive-by-shooting”.

[reg45]

Don’t forget Adolf Eichmann and Saddam Hussayn who also had encounters with nooses.

[VeniVidiVici]

That's quite the niggardly noose you have hanging there.

[LukeL]

We better get rid of handcuffs as they are far too close to shackles.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Travis' mom said her son is almost an Eagle Scout, he knew how to tie it...

The Boy Scouts of America do not teach how to tie a noose.

[Freedom2specul8]

The boyscouts will now be sued...