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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

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1 posted on 10/09/2007 7:04:07 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
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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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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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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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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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"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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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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"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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"...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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