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View Poll Results: Was the hanging chair a racist statement?
Yes it was obviously a racist statement. 54 43.20%
No, it was not necessarily intended as a racist statement. 69 55.20%
Other opinion - please explain. 2 1.60%
Voters: 125. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-23-2012, 10:12 AM
 
Location: Area 51.5
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So Sarah Palin is black? Well, who knew! Ya learn something on this forum every day!

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Old 09-23-2012, 10:31 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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So when the left use actual nooses and effigies hanging from them there is no racist symbolism ?
But a chair tied to a tree with a rope is all racist and we're going back to post Civil War days.

FAUX OUTRAGE on the left. I think what you did with the Bush/Palin effigies was much, much worse.
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Old 09-23-2012, 10:33 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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Lynching was an action that was applied to black people in the south. Get it?
Not exclusively - the largest mass lynching to take place in the United States was in new Orleans(the South) and involved 11 Italians whom were executed.
NIAF MileStones

Furthermore - it requires a leap of imagination(not to mention an unhealthy hangup on race) to conect the chair to lynching. That was the farthest thing from my mind when I saw the picture. It is rather disturbing that it is the first thing that you think of - as is the fact that some people see the president as a black man rather than as a human being and the president of the United States.
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Old 09-23-2012, 11:01 AM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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So many racist defenders these days. What crack in the earth are they crawling from, because we need to seal it up.
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Old 09-23-2012, 11:15 AM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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So Sarah Palin is black? Well, who knew! Ya learn something on this forum every day!
sarah palin apparently has no race, so no shrieks of 'racism!!' can be invoked there. but an empty chair sloppily tied to a tree branch?
RACISM!!!
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Old 09-23-2012, 11:20 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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How come people didn't see that chair hanging and think "Oh that guy listened to Clint Eastwood and agrees with him" ?
Clint Eastwood did talk to the empty chair just recently.

What if the guy put a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in that chair and hung the chair ? Is that double racism ?
Those on the left have very thin skin and get highly offended by anything said. With a Dem in the Oval Office that is Black everything under the sun is now deemed "racist" in nature.
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Old 09-23-2012, 11:27 AM
 
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" How come people didn't see that chair hanging and think "Oh that guy listened to Clint Eastwood and agrees with him" ?"

That's exactly what normal folks did think.
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Old 09-23-2012, 12:03 PM
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Location: Fort Worth
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How come people didn't see that chair hanging and think "Oh that guy listened to Clint Eastwood and agrees with him" ?
Clint Eastwood did talk to the empty chair just recently.

What if the guy put a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in that chair and hung the chair ? Is that double racism ?
Those on the left have very thin skin and get highly offended by anything said. With a Dem in the Oval Office that is Black everything under the sun is now deemed "racist" in nature.
Yeah.... because NOTHING was ever seen (and rightfully so, in several cases) as racist before Obama even came into the national conscious....
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Old 09-23-2012, 12:08 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Yeah.... because NOTHING was ever seen (and rightfully so, in several cases) as racist before Obama even came into the national conscious....
Not to the extent it has been for the past 4 years.
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Old 09-23-2012, 02:48 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Lots of closet racists around here who won't man up and be real to the world(and themselves)...
Obviously anyone who disagrees with you is a racist....

or maybe its you that has a problem here.
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