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WEST WHEATFIELD, Pa., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Investigators said they were trying to identify the people who lit a cross on the front lawn of a white Pittsburgh-area couple with a black adopted son.
Joe and Mary Walbeck of West Wheatfield told WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, the family was "hurt" by the cross-burning.
Sad to say it but it doesn't surprise me at all. Racism is alive and kicking as subtle as it is. If one is a racist, I would much prefer that you just state it but most people are too afraid like these guys that under the cloak of darkness decided to use KKK intimidation methods.
WEST WHEATFIELD, Pa., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Investigators said they were trying to identify the people who lit a cross on the front lawn of a white Pittsburgh-area couple with a black adopted son.
Joe and Mary Walbeck of West Wheatfield told WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, the family was "hurt" by the cross-burning.
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Sad to say it but it doesn't surprise me at all. Racism is alive and kicking as subtle as it is. If one is a racist, I would much prefer that you just state it but most people are too afraid like these guys that under the cloak of darkness decided to use KKK intimidation methods.
This is awful. As the white member of a mixed-race couple, I've seen the daggers in people's eyes before. Some kind of metaphorical violence always precedes real violence.
How sad, but not surprising. When I was a child in SE Pennsylvania, our neighbors took part in a program to show inner city children rural life - neat things like farming. One summer, they had two black kids, and someone burned a cross on their lawn.
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I know that burning a Cross is a bad thing but it seems like there is much more to it.
Am I missing something? Does it mean something else too?
This is a really cool question. Some people argue that lynching was to some extent a civic religion, and that it incorporated religious imagery. If you're interested, see Chapter 2 of Orlando Patterson's *Rituals of Blood.* I don't much like the first and third chapters, but the second does a good job of explaining the religious undertones of racist expressions in the public sphere.
this is why we need stronger property rights... and why a lot of liberals should stop saying it's absurd to think a human can own land.....
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