ljsdesign says: Just when you think things are getting somewhere you find you haven't even begun. The more things change, the more they stay the same. New York City is known for its racial and ethnic diversity, and the suspected hate crimes follow recent national attention and protests in Jena, Louisiana, where three nooses were found hanging from a tree at a high school there last yearOther possibilities:- 1.He/she did it themselves. Needing personal attention. 2.A group did it themselves. Jealousy of the usual attention going instead to blacks. 3. Someone took someone's boy/girl friend, someone's money, respect, anything you wish but enough to want to put in a little scare and the noose idea clicked as the way to go. 4. Someone's idea of a great joke, especially at Halloween. 5. Well if I thought long enough I'd ha... So are saying that the victims of these "pranks" are wrong for speaking out against them? I don't think people really understand the connotation behind the noose and how it makes people (Black, Jewish, or whatever) feel when it happens to them. It is not funny and its not a minor incident. Its wrong and whoever is doing that needs to be punished. My idea of a prank is egging someone's house, not leaving a noose on their property. My idea of a prank is egging someone's house, not leaving a noose on their property.And if you read mine carefully you would see that you are agreeing with me. I believe that the new nooses should be treated as a issue of its own and a sprayed swastika should not be allowed to cloud that issue. So are saying that the victims of these "pranks" are wrong for speaking out against them?I am saying that victims of pranks don't get the same status at the same time as nooses are appearing in much more sinister circumstances than a prank. So, prank doesn't equal lynching threat, ever. I can see the images of hanging blacks in America but NO Jews! The coincidence of the prank at this time is my point. IMO, both are symbols of threatening hatred, both have a historically murderous connotation. Both are vile representations of discrimination.IMO. But, RightHand has a point about other possibilities. There are those that don't really understand what these are symbols of but know they get people riled, scared and hurt. It's sick but sometimes true. I am not certain I follow righthand's message either. Hanging and nooses and swastikas are signs of hatred. We are growing up with a generation who may be farther removed or sensitized to what these messages mean, and think it is just "funny". Like repurposing the word "gay". But we do need to be cognizant of what the person meant... which, by my way of thinking... was meant to be something not nice to whomever involved. Otherwise, he/she would have put a daisy or a smiley face up on the wall. They meant to inflict emotional harm. I am obviously not expressing myself clearly. First the joining together of nooses and swastikas is what I find disturbing. No swastikas killed anyone IN America. Nooses did. Many. On CNN recently I saw images of 3 black youths hanging dead. 14 more were saved only by calling out the National Guard. The white girl had NOT being attacked or RAPED!!! Oppps! Another black of about 50 described being hung by his co-workers with the knowledge of his superiors. How young need you be to not know of what I'm speaking of. Yet victimhood does not sit well with blacks. White America never embraced its own victims like it did embrace Europe's victims, who are still exploiting their victimhood status... |
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