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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At least no one's ass got glued to a toilet.
Is that the rope department ?
Any know where Al Sharpton was???
Planting it there.
Found by the builders? Exactly who do they think put it up? Management?
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.
A noose here and a noose there. I guess hanging a knife or a bullet is too expensive to make a statement.
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.
And what's with thise noose business lately? I'll bet it isn't skinheads doing that. That herd is almost extinct.
My first thought exactly.
Chicago + Deep Pocket = Race Baiting Poverty Pimp
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.
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.
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".
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.
Yeah remember the church burnings in 1996?
minorities the nation over have found new fun...
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.
I smell a new wave of copy cat extortion artists coming out to play.
You know, that could have been planted there.
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