Posted on 09/21/2012 12:37:54 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A folding chair with an American flag, tied with a rope and hanging from a tree has brought a lot of attention to a northwest Austin neighborhood.
Weeks after Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood's chair skit mocked President Obama at the Republican National Convention, an Austin homeowner is drawing criticism for his folding-chair display, which some call a racist attack against the nation's first black president, Austin's KVUE reports on Thursday.
....KVUE says cameras rolled as homeowner Bud Johnson removed the rope and placed the chair on the lawn. He told the TV station those complaining about the display have the wrong idea:
"... It's a misconception," Johnson said. "It has nothing to do with racism. Nothing."
But Austin NAACP leader Nelson Linder disagrees, telling KVUE:
"When you put up a chair in your lawn with a rope around it, you're sending a very powerful message," said Linder. "It's also very insensitive. Black folks know what that means. It happens in the workplace for example. Nooses in the workplaces are unacceptable. It's no different in your yard. Even though it's private property, it goes beyond individual expression."
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
By the way, you following things in Venezuela these days, CW?? Just curious.
A hanging chair or thousands of hanging chairs is the least of our worries.
I don’t see news organizations beating down the door to talk to the New Black Panthers and question them. And they have made actual threats of bodily harm!
F-it I am tired of this one-sided BS game. I don’t care anymore.
I think it’s hilarious that an empty chair is no longer an empty chair. Obviously more people watched Clint’s speech than want to let on.
....”By the way, you following things in Venezuela these days, CW?? Just curious.”
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I’m following news on the presidential campaign and situation in Venezuela, and noting it from time to time.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/665723/posts?q=1&;page=1288#1288
We have our own “rising Marxist” situation right here in the U.S. - the parallels are there.
For those of us concerned about the First Amendment we ought to be very concerned about the tendency in the left today to trump the First Amendment with subjectivism.
We see it in the immediate news reports today concerning the flap over the anti-Muslim film trailer and whether the federal government can and should block its distribution only because it is offensive to Muslims and Muslims will get violent. This is not a new position for the left but so far it has been concentrated within the black and the Muslim "communities." Witness the removal of the Washington DC Councilman for the use of the word "niggardly "quite properly by referring to fiscal stinginess but the ignorant African-American community demanded his political execution because it did not understand the dictionary meaning of the word.
In other words, their subjective reaction to the speech was all that mattered. Not the real meaning of the word, not the intent of speech, and certainly not any First Amendment protection for the speech.
We see in this quote set forth above the assumption by the spokesman that that which is offensive to African-Americans (or because "black folks know what that means" ) trumps not only the rights of property-for which the left as no regard and upon which it predicates no civil, human, or constitutional rights-but for the Bill of Rights itself.
So the Bill of Rights is now made conditional upon identity politics. Pretty soon all your constitutional rights will be determined by your DNA.
They don’t like the rope? How about nailing the chair to the tree?
I happen to think that obama’s new blood soaked flag tribute to himself is racist. It is, after all, mostly whites that are dying for his brand of muslim support and he seems to be enjoying every American life that is lost.
It's not just the First Amendment. It's the entire Consitution.
Inside every liberal, there lurks a totalitarian.
The American Left would be perfectly happy with a dictatorship -- so long as it was one of their's.
With every day that passes, this becomes more and more obvious.
The whole west is turning into soviet states and neanderthal tribes. I see war.
So, is it illegal for me to be a non-acting racist in my own belief system?
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So, is it illegal for me to be a non-acting racist in my own belief system?
Sure, if you’re not white.
The thing that struck me about the news video of the man with the chair was his anger.
I believe there are millions of Americans just as angry as that man who will stop at nothing to vote out the Kenyan.
Oh, wait, I GET IT! The empty chair (a sartorial comment on the pres) is now off limits, as it represents Zero. Ban empty chairs! All chairs must now be occupied!!
Or, how about millions of hanging chairs? What about having "Hanging Empty Chair Day" just to protest harassment of Bud Johnson? Let's keep everyone busy investigating THAT instead of doing something productive. Who cares if a 70+ year-old-man hangs a chair in his front yard?
Finally the American people are waking up. Instead of throwing tea bags into the harbor, they are doing all kinds of things with an empty chair. Empty chairs need to appear everywhere. I've got one in my front yard right now.
An empty chair propped on an overpass.
An empty chair on top of a building.
An empty chair pulled on a rope by an airplane.
An empty chair sitting on the shoulder of the road.
An empty chair mounted on top of a van.
An empty chair on the lawn of every courthouse possible.
An empty chair _____________________________________ .
Open chairs in every Wal-Mart and leave one in the aisle.
An empty chair in the parking lot of every store.
An empty chair in front of every school building.
An empty chair ______________________________ .
“Open chairs in every Wal-Mart and leave one in the aisle.”..
I think I’ll make up a sign and put it on one of the empty chairs in Wally World..........bet that will get a lot of attention BEFORE the sign and I both get booted out of the store........might be fun!
Soooo,
How about hanging a black manny quin with Dumbo like ears from a high tree,
Willthat get you on some fbi list?
Business people, wake up! Offer a REAL discount to anyone who comes into your business between now and election day and says "I like the empty chair idea!". Let the Obama supporters pay more for everything.
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