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Noose, racist slur found by builders of suburban Home Depot
chicagotribune.com ^ | 10/09/07 | Carolyn Starks

Posted on 10/09/2007 7:04:04 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3

South Elgin police are investigating a possible hate crime after a racial slur was painted on a work counter and a noose was found hanging from an exit at a Home Depot store under construction, authorities said today.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hatecrime; homedepot; noose; racialslur; thisishugenews

1 posted on 10/09/2007 7:04:07 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
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To: TornadoAlley3
Noose, racist slur found by builders of suburban Home Depot

At least no one's ass got glued to a toilet.

2 posted on 10/09/2007 7:04:35 PM PDT by jdm
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To: TornadoAlley3

Is that the rope department ?


3 posted on 10/09/2007 7:07:36 PM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Any know where Al Sharpton was???


4 posted on 10/09/2007 7:08:16 PM PDT by GregB (Please pray for my grandchildren,Anna and Jacob!!!)
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To: GregB
Any know where Al Sharpton was???

Planting it there.

5 posted on 10/09/2007 7:10:15 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: TornadoAlley3

Found by the builders? Exactly who do they think put it up? Management?


6 posted on 10/09/2007 7:11:25 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: TornadoAlley3

If this keeps up, Dickie Daley will be moving for Chicago to have the strongest rope control laws in the nation. And that should be no problem, there should be little resistence because unlike firearms the constitution does not protect the bearing of rope.


7 posted on 10/09/2007 7:14:19 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: TornadoAlley3

A noose here and a noose there. I guess hanging a knife or a bullet is too expensive to make a statement.


8 posted on 10/09/2007 7:16:29 PM PDT by TOneocon (The reason there is so much poverty is because of the uneven distribution of capitalism...Rush)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Nobody should be writing slurs or leaving nooses around, but when you make this stupid stuff a “hate crime” you elevate something really weak into a major problem. If someone is threatened with a noose, as in “this will happen to you” that’s a different story. But turning every grafitti racial slur into a “hate crime” is giving too much attention to some unworthy jerk.


9 posted on 10/09/2007 7:19:34 PM PDT by Williams
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To: TornadoAlley3
How about some names to go with the article? I don't know about Chicago, but I do know that Blacks and Mexicans aren't being good neighbors in L.A.

And what's with thise noose business lately? I'll bet it isn't skinheads doing that. That herd is almost extinct.

10 posted on 10/09/2007 7:23:12 PM PDT by BobS (I><P>)
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To: GregB
"Any one know where Al Sharpton was???"

My first thought exactly.

Chicago + Deep Pocket = Race Baiting Poverty Pimp

11 posted on 10/09/2007 7:29:39 PM PDT by Desron13 (If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

I used to work for a very PC software company. One day, one of the employees (a supervisor) parked his Toyota 4Runner in the lot and went in to the office.

Some of his underlings then came out, attached a length of chain to the back of the Toyota, ran it along the ground, and then drew a chalk outline of a body with one hand near the end of the chain.

Most everyone who worked there and saw that thought it was pretty funny, but upper management was not amused, of course.


12 posted on 10/09/2007 7:30:37 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Political Correctness is criminal insanity writ large.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Come on people get with it. It’s obvious that either Hillary Clinton camp or Barak Hussein Obamas camp is stragecially placing these. In their minds this will create a racial divide. You know the kind of thing the Dems pray for every night. Remember a perceived racial divide lets them stir up feelings of poor me. Driving more black votes to the Dems.


13 posted on 10/09/2007 7:36:11 PM PDT by cquiggy
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To: BobS
"I don't know about Chicago, but I do know that Blacks and Mexicans aren't being good neighbors in L.A."

The blacks weren't being good neighbors when they bussed them into my high school thirty years ago. Between classes, they would bunch up in large groups in the hallways and smoke cigarettes at the center of the group. They were loud, obnoxious and intimidating to the white students. I doubt if this situation has improved with time.

And no, I don't mean all black students. We had black kids going to my high school all along and everything was fine until they started busing in the inner city crowd in my junior year. The suburban black kids were the first to be targeted as Uncle Toms and for "acting white".

14 posted on 10/09/2007 7:41:06 PM PDT by Desron13 (If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

I think it’s mostly teenagers who’ve seen the kind of reactions and attention these incidents get and want to play copy-cat. Add beer to equation and you’ve got your answer.


15 posted on 10/09/2007 7:45:01 PM PDT by joebuck
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To: cquiggy

Yeah remember the church burnings in 1996?


16 posted on 10/09/2007 7:46:05 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Congratulations Brett Favre! NFL's all-time touchdown leader)
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To: TornadoAlley3

minorities the nation over have found new fun...


17 posted on 10/09/2007 7:46:50 PM PDT by wardaddy (Behind the lines in Vichy Nashville)
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To: Disambiguator
"...but upper management was not amused, of course."

I agree. A good prank or stunt done right has to be funny and enlightened and secret. Leaving people secretly scratching their ass wondering why they didn't think about doing it. I have military training in this subject. My graduate degree is my Honorable Discharge:) Those were good ones:) I hid in plain sight.

18 posted on 10/09/2007 7:47:25 PM PDT by BobS (I><P>)
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To: TornadoAlley3

I smell a new wave of copy cat extortion artists coming out to play.


19 posted on 10/09/2007 7:53:49 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: TornadoAlley3

You know, that could have been planted there.


20 posted on 10/09/2007 8:12:51 PM PDT by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: TornadoAlley3
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They hung a what???!!!

21 posted on 10/09/2007 8:18:42 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: TOneocon
"A noose here and a noose there......."

...........a noose noose here and a noose noose there...........here, a noose, there, a noose, everywhere a noose noose.......................

C'mon, Everyone, sing a-long.............

22 posted on 10/09/2007 8:24:48 PM PDT by soozla ("It is God's job to judge the terrorists....it is our job to arrange the meeting" - U.S. Marines)
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To: Desron13
"The blacks weren't being good neighbors when they bussed them into my high school thirty years ago."

I went to HS in Irvington, N.J. and that happened there too around '72. Parents were out there rioting and getting worked up. While we were smoking pot and sneaking some guy's parent's wine because they weren't home! And another guy's father's beer the next day. That didn't go over very well with his dad. Or mine.

The funny part is the Black kids in a HS in Newark were doing the same thing while their parents were going nuts.

I remember it as wasted kids walking around laughing at the adult entertainment being provided for us. Clothed, of course. I haven't been to NJ since out-processing from McGuire AFB in '86. I won't be coming back. It's gone.

23 posted on 10/09/2007 8:51:32 PM PDT by BobS (I><P>)
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To: Williams
"If someone is threatened with a noose, as in “this will happen to you” that’s a different story."

That is what I think is happening. Black-White crime has been decreasing since the last two generations got older. And live around and know each other. This is a plan that 3 stories like this happened in one week.

I have seen this crap in the past. Rush is right. We have to study Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals". Hillary Clinton is a radical. This is of her making. Read it like Patton studied Rommel's book.

24 posted on 10/09/2007 9:13:33 PM PDT by BobS (I><P>)
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To: BobS
Two points. These incidents are totally hyped, a racial slur at some construction site is not much viewed in context. But, blacks fall for this stuff 100% and that is what the democrats count on.

Destroy their families, and bring in millions of Mexicans to take all entry level jobs, no problemo. But tell the story of one N word scribbled at a Home Depot construction site, and blacks will turn out in droves to punish whatever "racist" the dems point to. Which will be every republican.

25 posted on 10/09/2007 9:23:55 PM PDT by Williams
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To: milford421; FARS

Ping.


26 posted on 10/10/2007 12:54:19 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (This is "Be an Angel Day", do something nice for someone today.)
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To: SteveMcKing
Some blacks at Grambling University in North Louisiana (a mostly black school) know how to make a noose. They picked school children up and put their heads in one. There are pictures of that on the internet. I wonder if anyone from Grambling are from Illinois. ;0)
27 posted on 10/10/2007 3:37:15 AM PDT by seemoAR (Absolute power corrupts absolutely)
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To: TornadoAlley3
A Noose once bit my sister

Oh wait .. that was a Moose. Never mind.

28 posted on 10/10/2007 5:25:02 AM PDT by Condor51 (Rudy makes John Kerry look like a Right Wing 'Gun Nut' Extremist)
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To: TornadoAlley3
MARTIN LUTHER KING IS ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE

AFTER ALL HIS HARD WORK, AND THE WHITES ARE NOW VERY KINDLEY TO THE BLACKS.. SEEMS LIKE THE NAACP IS STILL TRYING TO STIR UP RACISM IN THIS COUNTRY AND IT WILL BACKFIRE ON THEM, SURE AS THE WORLD TURNS!

29 posted on 10/10/2007 5:35:46 AM PDT by oswegodeee (Dee ( Born and raised in the south, yummy corn bread and BBQ ))
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To: TornadoAlley3

OK, apparently this is becoming the “fad” of the moment, at least in the news if not actions.

I always look askance at alleged “hate crimes” (should be HATRED; when did the verb form become a noun?), not only because they’re specious in principle, but they’re so easily “faked”. Easy to make it seem what it’s not.

Like that black teacher painting “racist” (i.e., white) stuff on walls, and correcting his English in the middle of it.


30 posted on 10/10/2007 5:39:37 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
The planting of nooses and the painting of racist or anti-Semitic slogans have often proven to be the handiwork of left wingers or racial activists attempting to stir up trouble or push legislation. Several years ago, when a hate crimes bill was under consideration by the Texas Legislature, a prestigious black church in Dallas had its exterior walls painted with swastikas. It turned out that the graffiti (usually associated with anti-Jewish rather than anti-black agitation) was painted with the same type and color of paint that was utilized on an ongoing project to paint interior rooms of the church. This information was essentially suppressed by the local media, except for a few talk show hosts. Both the Republican controlled legislature and GOP Governor Rick Perry retreated rather than face charges of racism.

If we cannot trust the so-called conservatives to stay strong against liberal attacks, as was the case in Texas, this nation's future is grim.

31 posted on 10/10/2007 6:05:01 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Williams
"Destroy their families, and bring in millions of Mexicans to take all entry level jobs, no problemo. "

That's the main point. Whites and Blacks are being played against each other. That's old now. Only democrats use the same old tricks over and over. I suspect Mexicans/SA's learned this with coaching. From who? When Islamic radicals use democrat terms in their speeches guess what I think? Blacks and Whites better join together on the same page about this stuff and fast.

32 posted on 10/10/2007 9:12:52 PM PDT by BobS (I><P>)
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To: Disambiguator

That’s pretty good, but the best one I’ve ever seen was when two of my coworkers used a pair of forklifts to surround our zone manager’s car with bundles of landscape timbers.


33 posted on 10/10/2007 9:19:15 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (The Hunt for FRed November. 11/04/08)
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