A noose hanging from a tree outside our Pittsburgh home is tied to a much larger problem

Public Source Org ^ | October 30, 2017 | Jamelia N. Morgan and Dustin P. Gibson

[ro_dreaming]

Excerpted

Last week, we received a death threat in the “most livable city in America.” It hung wrapped around a tree in front of our Regent Square home, visible from where we sit every day at our dining room table. The black cord was twisted into the shape of a killing device used to publicly hang the bodies of Black people for generations in this country.

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Indeed, we are not the first residents of Pittsburgh to have experienced acts of racial intimidation. We are acutely aware of it as we both work actively to dismantle forms of systemic racism and oppression — one as a Black disabled community builder who works to undo ableism and racism and the other as a civil rights attorney working to end race- and class-based mass incarceration.

[ro_dreaming]

Are you kidding me? Now, not being disabled is an -ism, more specifically, "ableism"?

Ok, officially, the inmates are running the asylum of the entire country.

[Az Joe]

10-1 its a hoax

[circlecity]

Guaranteed - another racial hoax crime. False flag.

[Fido969]

Yes, a larger problem of race hoaxes and victimhood mentality.

Let’s have THAT conversation.

[A_Former_Democrat]

I remember the line from All in the Family where Archie said “Don’t blame the entire group for the acts of a few”

And then Meathead smirked and repeated it

Gee, how the worm has turned

[kearnyirish2]

From the title I assumed the problem was the tree, maybe blocking someone’s view or disrupting sewage lines: “tied to a much larger problem”.

[clintonh8r]

They sound like a fun couple, don’t they?

[Fiddlstix]

[Leaning Right]

> one as a Black disabled community builder who works to undo ableism and racism and the other as a civil rights attorney working to end race- and class-based mass incarceration <

Interesting job titles there. The odds are high that this is a set-up, done to generate publicity.

[ClearCase_guy]

70% chance — they hung it themselves.
20% chance — Halloween
10% chance — it was a shoelace.

[kearnyirish2]

“Racial/gender hoax du jour”...

[I want the USA back]

Nooses were used to kill Whites and Catholics. They are currently being used in iran to kill gays.
So STFU.

[TomGuy]

The black cord was twisted into the shape of a killing device used to publicly hang the bodies of Black people for generations in this country.

Similar devices were also used to hang:

horse thieves
cattle rustlers
murderers
rapists

and probably some other nefarious characters.

[meatloaf]

Regent Square is an upscale neighborhood. I often drive through to and from the VA hospital. Seeing a noose there is more than a surprise. Could be fake. The male could be garnering a shit load of virtue signalling points. If I was a neighbor, I’d use a hidden game camera to “help” the police.

[sipow]

LOL.

The noose is tied to a much larger problem?

What does that mean? Is there some inner city thug hanging from it? They are a bigger problem.

[grobdriver]

The black cord was twisted into the shape of a killing device

Dollars to donuts there's some matching black cord in that house somewhere.

LOOK AT ME!!!

[Mashood]

Guy must be a kneeler...he got kneepads.

[Terry Mross]

It was the black guy next door.

[surroundedbyblue]

Reagent Square is one of the most liberal & progressive sections of Pittsburgh. I’m finding this really hard to believe.

[heartwood]

She went 32 years before seeing her first noose. So they’re not common, anyway.