Posted on 10/30/2009 5:32:24 AM PDT by RetroSexual
Three dummies hang from a willow tree in Baker Park as part of the City of Frederick Parks and Recreation Department's Halloween program.
Guy Djoken, president of the local NAACP, said from a distance the dummies look like dead bodies.
He is trying to get the city to remove them.
"A dead man hanging in a tree, that takes us back to a dark day we don't want to go back to," Djoken said Thursday. "Whoever did this needs some sensitivity training."
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Maybe the dummy was a horse thief?
They need to get over it. These mock hangings have been a staple of halloween for years. The mock outrage has only been around for a handfull of years.
It looks like a white guy in the noose.
Could the dummy’s head be a whole lot WHITER?
Maybe they should have just urinated on the dummy like Larry David....then they could call it “art”!
Everything offends me...except beer
My thought also....”Hang’em High!!...One of my favorites.
Halloween has devolved into another dismal commercial holiday. All the Saints, may they rest in peace.
Perhaps you would want the city to have a triage center set up for the zombie population that is going to be out tommorow night, or taxi rides for the headless horse men, How about telling the stupid shiite to complain if the dummy is hanging up next week.
They don’t have a point unless the guy in the noose is black. Not only black people were hanged. The only dark day he doesn’t want to go back to is when he had to have a real job.
Bull. We have a long history of hangings in this country and not every hanging was an African American. This is just a guy in search of an issue. Personally, I think the dummy looks like Nathan Hale. ;-)
That head is almost as white as his hand is, I guess he will say it represents Michael Jackson and is even more racist than if they used a black pillowcase.
More blacks were killed LAST YEAR than all the blacks hanged in the south during slavery. These guys need to GROW UP AND GET REAL.
....Guy Djoken needs the STFU...he’s not even an American negro, but a professional race hustler from Cameroon in Africa.
The Colored people should really lighten up.
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I suspect that more whites have been hung in America than blacks. I hear lots of hype but no hard numbers.
Baloney.
'Ghosts' hanging from trees has been an outside Halloween decoration longer than the phony outrage from the race hustlers has been around.
And the only 'idiots' are those who get offended over nothing. They're probably 'offended' by the words 'Niggardly' and 'Black Hole' too. They need to get a friggen hobby.
They look like “whiteys” to me. Why is the NAACP upset? Jeremiah Wright, Louis Ferrakhan, Jesse Jackson and all the other troublemakers, including 0bama’s horse - michelle, would be proud
Yeah...just tell them it’s a “parody”...that excuse apparently works for HBO.
Is “get over it and yourself,” addressed to me?
Ask any Liberal or black fear-monger how many innocent black people were actually “lynched” in this country’s history, and they will likely tell you it was tens of thousands: wrong.
While an innocent person of ANY color being lynched is a tragedy, the myth has become the truth in this case because NO ONE has the guts to tell the truth.
The dummy looks white to me.
The guy in the picture is well known locally as a race-baiter. Everyone involved in the story knows his true motivations.
But the display in general is tacky and guaranteed to attract the attention of these clowns. I was amused that the mayor seems to think that moving them to a different tree would solve the disagreement.
Next, Ghost outfits will be banned because only Klan members wear white sheets.
That dummy can’t represent a black guy, because its pants are pulled all the way up to the waist.
Takes us back....
You were never there!
The noose was in fashion and was used, not just on blacks.
White lynchings of Blacks is a terrible facet of our history. White lynchings of WHITES is also.
However, here is a little perspective.
http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/ACLAText/USLynch.html
“Table 2-2. Black Victims of White Lynch Mobs by State, 1882-1930
State/ No. of victims
Deep South
Mississippi/ 462
Georgia/ 423
Louisiana/ 283
Alabama/ 262
South Carolina/ 143
Border South
Florida/ 212
Tennessee/ 174
Arkansas/ 162
Kentucky/ 118
North Carolina/ 75
Table 2-3. Black Victims of Lynchings per 100,000 Blacks by State, 1882-1930
State/ No. of victims per 100,000
Deep South
Mississippi/ 52.8
Georgia/ 41.8
Louisiana/ 43.7
Alabama/ 32.4
South Carolina/ 18.8
Border South
Florida/ 79.8
Tennessee/ 38.4
Arkansas/ 42.6
Kentucky/ 45.7
North Carolina/ 11.0”
(Note: these rates are over the course of 48 years, NOT PER YEAR, if I read this correctly.)
http://faculty.berea.edu/browners/chesnutt/classroom/lynchingstat.html
“Of the lynching that did not take place in the South, mainly in the West, were normally lynchings of whites, not blacks. Most of the lynching in the West came from the lynching of either murders or cattle thief’s. There really was no political link to the lynching of blacks in the South, and whites in the West.
Not all states did lynch people. Some states did not lynch a white or a black person. Alaska, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut were these few states that had no lynchings between 1882-1968.
Although some states did have lynchings, some of them did not lynch any blacks. Arizona, Idaho, Maine, Nevada, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin were some states that did not lynch any blacks to record.
Quite a few states did in fact lynch more white people than black. In the West these greater number of white lynchings was due to political reasons not racial reasons. California, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming lynched more whites than blacks. “
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm
[Sorry, I don’t know how to insert the charts which accompany this report]
Racial differences exist, with blacks disproportionately represented among homicide victims and offenders
In 2005, homicide victimization rates for blacks were 6 times higher than the rates for whites.
To view data, click on the chart.
Homicide Victimization by Race[D]
For more information about racial patterns in violent victimization
see Key Facts at a Glance.
In 2005, offending rates for blacks were more than 7 times higher than the rates for whites
To view data, click on the chart.
Homicide Offending by Race [D]
(It appears that Black homicides occured at a rate of roughly between 30-40 per 100,000 Black population EVERY YEAR from the mid 1970’s to the mid 1990’s.)
The funniest part of the “niggardly” incident was that the (WU) professor in question is a hardcore Bush-hating leftist, being hung by his own PC petard.
Liberty Valance-when myth becomes truth, print the myth...
The guy is an idiot using political correctness on gullible white people to exert his personal power issues.
FAR more white people have been hanged in history than blacks.
The largest mass lynching of people in American history was in Louisiana - and they were all Italians.
I’m sick and tired of certain ethnic groups trying to pull a guilt trip on other segments of the population. This is 2009, not 1860 or 1900 or 1940.
These people shouldn;t even be given any press anymore.
Maybe we should outlaw chains as they “take us back to a dark day we don’t want to go back to”.
What an idiot.
“...from a distance the dummies look like dead bodies.”
Isn’t that the idea?
I guess the war on Christmas was all booked,so he had to start a war on Halloween!
NAACP is whining again. So what is new?
LOL Beer!
The body HAS A WHITE HEAD! Idiots.
Can we get a hard number? I’m sure you’re right, but I’d like to have the facts handy.
Oh my Lord, not everything is about the black man and it’s very self centered to think it is.
“Whoever did this needs some sensitivity training.”
I’m guessing I may need sensitivity training myself, as it turns out I have too much of a life to let things like this upset me. I’m not even upset about this guy getting press coverage about being upset. Am I too insensitive?
What a world of whiners. I’m glad my parents raised me to be an adult.
Some people just get up in the morning everyday looking for something or someone to blame their bad on.
Of course not, he was white - so that is okay!
Favorite....Western...EVERRRRRRR!!!
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