[Recovering_Democrat]

Because of some crybaby, the people who've had the noose display up for YEARS, felt very public pressure to remove their decorations.

No, they weren't forced to per se--but the social outcry pressured them to do it.

People need to get a life.

[Recovering_Democrat]

"This is very sensitive. This is something that has gone on in American history that we won't forget," Millie Hazlewood. "But we don't have to keep on recycling and bring it back up, and at this point in time, no."

From now on, we all must get our Halloween decorations approved by the Politburo. Millie Hazlewood will be chairperson.

[jrestrepo]

It happened in my neighborhood in Charlotte, NC when I lived there two years ago. The hanging body was the bad guy from the “Scream” move I think...

[reflecting]

If you can not understand that a noose is offensive to African Americans, then either you are very young or have a very limited life experience.

[Williams]

The article makes it sound like this reaction was reasonable. It wasn’t.

[rockabyebaby]

The whole neighborhood should have gotten together and hung up more and more of them............

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I’ve decided not to press my luck and offend anyone this year so, instead of hanging my dummy, I’m going to strap him to a gurney and give him a lethal injection. The problem is that it doesn’t pack much punch in the fright department because it just looks like a guy getting an IV.

[Joiseydude]

So how long will it be before crosses are deemed offensive and churches are forced to remove them?

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

If one considers that most of the 300 or so negro lynchings that occurred from the civil war on were performed by shooting or beating to death, you’d think displays of shotguns or clubs would be offensive.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

My neighbors were doing this here in Illinois. I too thought it looked like a lynching, especially since there was (fake) blood oozing around the neck and out of the mouth and nose (on the dummy). Their home was on a corner property into our subdivision. I put a complaint in at the subdivision association level. The lynching display was soon taken down. It's in INCREDIBLY POOR TASTE.

Thanks for posting the picture so we could all discuss.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Stock up now before it is illegal to buy.

We are at the end of our rope with this unsettling prop. Stop hanging around and order one today! Total length approximately 26 inches. Stock# 1018002

http://www.frightcatalog.com/Halloween-Props/Weapons/Rubber+Noose-1018002/

[exit82]

No noose is good noose.