Posted on 02/04/2020 9:34:05 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
"Regardless of the intent of the display, its impact cannot be ignored — people were hurt and offended," Emily Guerrant, a university spokeswoman, said.
Michigan State University has apologized for a campus gift shop display that depicted prominent black figures hanging from a tree.
Krystal Davis-Dunn, a student at the university, uploaded photos to Facebook last week of doll-like figures hanging on tree-shaped displays at a gift shop in the Wharton Center for Performing Arts, saying the imagery evoked lynchings.
Among the figures in the display hanging by twine from the tree were former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, the abolitionist Harriet Tubman, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and the singers Prince and Diana Ross.
"At the Wharton they are hanging prominent black figures from trees," Davis-Dunn wrote in her post, "what a way to honor Black History!"
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The elephant dung Madonna is still ok...
Piss on the Flag? - Check
Light the Flag on Fire? - Check
Trump’s severed head? - Check
Clobber conservatives over the head? - Check
Antifa? - Check
By God - you don’t hang a dem in effigy though.
“Regardless of the intent of the display, its impact cannot be ignored “
Well yes, it can.
Idiots...........................
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
It's an outrage I tell ya'll
they are ornaments that hang on trees, to imply they are being lynched is asinine.
Pretty soon....no Christmas tree ornaments.
How dumb can you get?
Oh noes! They hung Aunt Jemima!
What will the fragile snowflakes have to say about the little pine trees which Ahmed has hanging from the rear-view mirror in his Uber vehicle?
OMG - they’re not “hanging” as if being lynched - they’re hung like ornaments!
There’s no noose around their necks and while it’s hard to tell from the pic - I bet the string is attached to the backs.
You.
Idiots.
Worse - the school capitulated to a stupid whiny ignorant backwater twit to what is an honest and harmless display.
This was really stupid.
I don’t think it is an outrage, or anything. But somebody did not think this one through.
they are ornaments that hang on trees, to imply they are being lynched is asinine.
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The dolls don’t appear to be “hanged”. They seemed placed there in a particular order or hierarchy. ..the tree is symbolic ....as said below. .
“The ancient symbol of the Tree has been found to represent physical and spiritual nourishment, transformation and liberation, union and fertility. ... They are seen as powerful symbols of growth and resurrection. In many of folk religions, trees are said to be homes of spirits.”
More stupidity from the left.
I guess all the white dolls that had been on display sold.
Also, Tubman would not have been a Democrat.
Or maybe they did. Anything that triggers and offends idiot snowflakes is OK with me.
I guess all the white dolls that had been on display sold.
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Sold. Heh.
Remember the outrage when black Barbie’s sold for less than white ones? So they priced them both the same. Nobody bought the black one. Only the white ones.
Out the Outrage!
Crap. Does Mrs. Butterworth know about this?
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