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Originally Posted by varangian
Po, calm down and think.
This was done on a University where blacks attend. Some of whom surely have elders and ancestors who were terrorized by symbols like nooses.
The two situations are not comparable.
I agree that the Palin thing was in bad taste too, but this University one has deeper implications.
The Palin one -- stupid
The Obama one -- EXTREMELY stupid and likely illegal.
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MY point is , that it should be considered at the very least a hate crime to hang an effigy of ANYONE, a rope doesnt care if you are black or white or red or purple with green polka dots
it is a vile thing to do
as for history , as a bi-racial person I can tell you that hanging was not only done to blacks , nor were most people in history who were hanged Black.
this is a "reverse racism" thing
I consider it a veiled threat or at the very least an incitement to that act.
it should be considered a hate crime , whether the person is white , black , or whatever.
I only belong to one race , the human race.
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