Obama Election Brings Racists Out of the Closet

This Associated Press story recounts some of the hundreds of racist/hate crimes that have occurred in the US since the election."Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.Incidents...

If Palin was Black would a 'Hanging Palin' for Halloween be called free speech?

It has been reported by the AFP and other news outlets that a resident in California is displaying a Governor Sarah Palin hanging by a Noose in from of their home.  Folks in the area, especially those...

Revisiting the Jena 6: Media Distortions Cited by Local Journalist

In this eloquent piece, a local journalist from Jena dispels the myths that sprang up after a group of local thugs ambushed and stomped another student. Craig Franklin, assistant editor of the Jena Times, speaks...

Columbia Noose Professor Likely to Be Fired for Plagiarism

Alleged plagiarism outed in Columbia University professor's case--but are there racial overtones? After Madonna Constantine claimed she found a noose hanging on her office door, some have said she manufactured the incident to protect herself from ongoing investigations.This...

Ottawa Fatal Attraction: Murder Suicide Couple

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorTwo murder suicides in one week, lovers whose lives ended for no reason, as families come to grip and say why?Calgary's Murder Suicide of the Lall family by the husband...

Law Makes Noose Display a Felony

The new New York governor David Patterson has signed legislation to make displaying a noose, a symbol of the lynching of African Americans common during the reconstruction era, illegal in New York state."Gov....

Pregnant woman gives birth while Hanging

"A Papua New Guinea woman gave birth prematurely as she struggled to free herself from a hangman's noose, after villagers lynched her and her husband believing they were involved in sorcery, local media...

Vandals place noose on Tupac Shakur statue

vandals tie a noose around the neck of the bronze statue of Tupac Shakur (2Pac) Hat Tip: ThugLifeArmyThe Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation (TASF) regrets to report that a series of attacks have taken place...

Haunted House Murder

What better place to kill your wife, just hang her up and use her as a prop. "Spokane, WA (KXLY) - He wanted to avoid a divorce, so police say a Spokane man took his wife to his garage to show her a haunted house...

Reports Of Nooses Appearing Across U.S., As Police Investigate Episode At Col...

I have yet to hear the neo-conservative far-right in the United States that swears on the Christian deity of wrath that anti-African racism is long dead say a word about this.  Not only are African students...

Columbia Prof. Taunted by Lynching Noose Assault on Campus

Americans are really losing it.  War and occupation does that to societies.  - The Angryindian------------------------------------------------"October 10, 2007 -- A bitter rivalry could be behind the...

Noose Lesson Gone Bad at Grambling?

 The hangman’s noose is a hated symbol of Old South lynchings and figured prominently in the case against six black teens in Jena. They were charged in the beating of a white schoolmate in the culmination...

Noose Hung in Long Island Police Station

A noose was found in a suburban police headquarters in Long Island, New York. One article about the incident states the department recently noted its participation in a national effort to...

What Constitutes a Threat?

It is amazing how the application of law manages to defy logic in so many circumstances. Merriam Webster's Eleventh edition lists two definitions for threat:    - an expression of intent to...

Apart from the noose, this is an everyday story of modern America

One would think that Americans would be ashamed of this but they aren't.  Even further, I find it quite embarrassing that a foreign observer can plainly see what Americans refuse to acknowledge.  So much...

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