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COBB COUNTY, Ga. - Halloween decorations featuring a body hanging from a noose startled neighbors in a Marietta, Georgia, community. The display includes tombstones, witches and skeletons, in addition to what appears to be a man with a hood over his head, with hands and feet tied, swinging from a rope.
I'm going to build a cotton farm in my front yard with nooses in the tree and wear a pin that says "registered Democrat"
The location matters. Between the end of the Civil War and 1950 Georgia was second in the nation for the lynching of black citizens by mobs:
Mississippi - 654
Georgia - 589
Louisiana - 549
Arkansas - 492
Alabama - 361
Texas - 335
Florida - 311
Tennessee - 233
South Carolina - 185
Kentucky - 168
North Carolina - 123
Virginia - 84
Cobb County itself was infamous for the lynching of Leo Frank a Jewish man.
While this may be no big deal to you, it is all too real of a terror for people who still remember family members lynched in the 40's, 50's, and even 60's.
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I'm going to build a cotton farm in my front yard with nooses in the tree and wear a pin that says "registered Democrat"
I went to the Halloween Party in Kindergarten as a Confederate soldier. This was in Yankee land in Pennsylvania. It was 1963, and the TV series "The Rebel" with Nick Adams was relatively popular. I wore the grey uniform, had a plastic, toy replica 1851 PISTOL, had a Confederate Battle Flag of Northern Virginia, and trailing behind be I dragged a toy CANNON that shot plastic cannon balls. I didn't use the artillery piece in school, however. A few weeks later, JFK was assassinated.
Nobody thought I was "racist", or my mother was racist for dressing me up that way. No Black people were "offended", no media showed up. It was just a cute costume. Can you imagine that today? Our neighbors hung ghosts, or witches, or vampires in their yard, had tombstones, skeletons, etc. Nobody related that to lynching blacks.
Today, for some reason, maybe to make themselves feel special, or important, some people LOOK for ways to be offended, as if it is their right not to be.
I went to the Halloween Party in Kindergarten as a Confederate soldier. This was in Yankee land in Pennsylvania. It was 1963, and the TV series "The Rebel" with Nick Adams was relatively popular. I wore the grey uniform, had a plastic, toy replica 1851 PISTOL, had a Confederate Battle Flag of Northern Virginia, and trailing behind be I dragged a toy CANNON that shot plastic cannon balls. I didn't use the artillery piece in school, however. A few weeks later, JFK was assassinated.
Nobody thought I was "racist", or my mother was racist for dressing me up that way. No Black people were "offended", no media showed up. It was just a cute costume. Can you imagine that today? Our neighbors hung ghosts, or witches, or vampires in their yard, had tombstones, skeletons, etc. Nobody related that to lynching blacks.
Today, for some reason, maybe to make themselves feel special, or important, some people LOOK for ways to be offended, as if it is their right not to be.
Probably they didn't relate it to the lynching of blacks because according to your description there wasn't a person being lynched. But, in this case, there is more to it than just a spooky depiction. Did you look at the video or pictures? It is very realistic looking - very. I am surprised the police didn't receive calls about it.
The residents of the home did voluntarily take it down after the reporter tried to interview the roommate.
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Probably they didn't relate it to the lynching of blacks because according to your description there wasn't a person being lynched. But, in this case, there is more to it than just a spooky depiction. Did you look at the video or pictures? It is very realistic looking - very. I am surprised the police didn't receive calls about it.
The residents of the home did voluntarily take it down after the reporter tried to interview the roommate.
Even for Cobb County...this just looks like routine Halloween stuff to me. Why should the residents have to alter their lives, for eternity, because lynchings used to happen? If it had a black face or was wearing a Kipa, I think that would be inappropriate, but I remember two people chasing people around in the dark with blade-less chainsaws in a community-set up haunted house I volunteered at. Another guy sat outside his private residence pretending to be an inanimate dummy, then he'd get up when people came near them and wave around his blade-less, but still functional chainsaw. It was great, but spooky. That stuff seems much worse to me than the stuff in this article. I looked at the dummies and was immediately unconcerned.
I'm going to build a cotton farm in my front Epictetus yard with nooses in the tree and wear a pin that says "registered Democrat"
Why would you do that?
I don't really find it offensive because it's Halloween. However, when you have people depicting black people hanging & you know damn well what those people are up to then yeah, I have a problem with it.
Aside from the politics, I hate hanging figures at Halloween. Neighbors had a son who hanged himself in their garage and the father found him. Every time I pass a yard display with a hanging fake body I cringe thinking about how the father must feel when he passes by.
I love Halloween but think public displays should be PG-13 in terms of horror. Leave the really gory stuff to Haunted Houses that people pay to go through.
All ghouls, goblins, monsters etc must be placed in the yard and positioned on one knee to join the NFL protest.
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