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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They should put up a figure of Kurt Busiek’s “The Hanged Man” and tell people it’s a comic book reference, not a racial one.
So change the “head” to a white cloth.
So change the “head” to a white cloth.
People really need to unclench.
I can see the day coming when someone puts watermellon rhinds and KFC boxes out on garbage day that they will be arrested for "racist displays"...
"Wake up Amerika !"
Awesome question.
Muslims? making the calls?
Facts don't matter to race baiters. People called the Cure song "Killing an Arab" racist when it is blatantly just a description of the pivotal scene in Camus' book "The Stranger," to include mentioning the main character's name at the end of the song.
“Where’s the ‘outcry’ on ghosts ?”
I saw some ghosts out in someone’s yard display that looked like muslim women in burkas.
The outrage for that is coming.
There was a guy in my parents’ neighborhood who put up a manger for Christmas and had a big disclaimer next to it with a list of people/religions he said might find offense.
Then on the last line it said, “I really don’t care if you’re offended...kiss my butt..and Merry Christmas.”
Is there anyone in NJ who’s not a moron?
Purists in the PC business refuse to read books or newspapers because the words are just arrays of miniscule black dots confined to a field of white.
They would, for Ramadan, hang dhimmis..
The complainers are the real racists.
“The state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said it was offensive and insensitive.”
I knew it.
...Put a Dick Cheney mask on it and they’d be idols to the Left!
Yeah - that would be “protected free speech!” Each day I feel more like we are living in the twilight zone...
“The state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said it was offensive and insensitive.”
If it had a Nixon or Bush mask on it, then it’s free speech.
How many Muslims got hanged in Salem MA?
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