[Jaysun]

Why should a noose be up there in the 1st place is my question. I personally would be offended if I were Muslim or black. I guess I don't have a sense of humor anymore. I can well understand those people being offended. I think whoever put it there needs to be fired if they can prove who did it. As for a lawsuit since nobody got hung there shouldn't be one. It was in bad taste in my opinion and not the smartest thing to do for a manager or whoever did it. Personally I don't care for Muslims but how would that manager like it if one came to work with a big sword like they use to behead people? He would be fired and jailed. We all need to get along and causing problems at a work place is plain stupid.

Why is a good question. A few years ago we had a big "noose controversy" in our city. A guy running for city council vowed to get rid of the parking meters downtown and had a billboard (or something) depicting a parking meter being hung. The NAACP went insane and he dropped out of the race. In that case I think the NAACP was being petty and absurd.

[pandoraou812]

That was silly. Not the same thing at all.... I think if I was black and saw a noose hanging at my work place I would be a bit upset. I live in NJ and some of the blacks here would not have been amused. They would have beat that manager up or called their Bloods or Crips brothers to do it. We are having quite a problem with drive by shootings in the towns close to me.

[Jezebelle]

You make a good point. These people carry this stuff to the nth degree of ridiculousness. They have no right to control somebody's speech by picking an idea, a word, a picture, or a symbol and deciding they want to take offense and then getting a fat payday off it so they don't have to work again.

Being offended is a choice, a First Amendment choice, and nobody else should be forced to kowtow to somebody else's choices as it pertains to speech.

[supremedoctrine]

#54----was the parking meter black?

(And I'm still in shock over Snoopy)