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NAACP decries Halloween display as insensitive
The Frederick News-Post ^
| Oct. 30, 2009
| Pamela Rigaux
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at fredericknewspost.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: frederick; halloween; naacp; waronhalloween
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I have to admit, I can nearly side with the Colored People on this one. Someone at my local parks and recreation department is an idiot.
To: RetroSexual
Maybe the dummy was a horse thief?
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:33:43 AM PDT
by
PeteB570
(NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
To: RetroSexual
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.
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:36:06 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: RetroSexual
It looks like a white guy in the noose.
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:36:24 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(We need more Joe Wilson's. OBAMA is ACORN ACORN is OBAMA)
To: RetroSexual
Could the dummy’s head be a whole lot WHITER?
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:37:11 AM PDT
by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: PeteB570
Maybe they should have just urinated on the dummy like Larry David....then they could call it “art”!
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:37:15 AM PDT
by
massmike
(...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
To: RetroSexual
Everything offends me...except beer
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:38:15 AM PDT
by
orlop9
To: PeteB570
My thought also....”Hang’em High!!...One of my favorites.
To: JimRed
Where were they when this effigy was put up?
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:39:27 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Obama can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
To: RetroSexual
Halloween has devolved into another dismal commercial holiday. All the Saints, may they rest in peace.
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:39:55 AM PDT
by
Broker
(Sharpen the knife.)
To: RetroSexual
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.
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:40:02 AM PDT
by
bdfromlv
(Leavenworth hard time)
To: RetroSexual
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.
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:40:27 AM PDT
by
Hacklehead
(Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
To: RetroSexual
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. ;-)
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:40:28 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: RetroSexual
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.
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:40:48 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: RetroSexual
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.
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:40:51 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Prom rape of 15 year old? "Hug-a-thug" liberals will soon come to comfort to the rapists..)
To: RetroSexual
More blacks were killed LAST YEAR by black gang members than all the blacks hanged in the south during slavery. These guys need to GROW UP AND GET REAL.
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:41:40 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Prom rape of 15 year old? "Hug-a-thug" liberals will soon come to comfort to the rapists..)
To: PeteB570
....Guy Djoken needs the STFU...he’s not even an American negro, but a professional race hustler from Cameroon in Africa.
To: RetroSexual
The Dummy looks white to me..The Colored people should really lighten up.
sw
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:46:27 AM PDT
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife)
To: RetroSexual
Total garbage! People have been doing this for decades, nothing racial about in any way. It's about Halloween and dead people...you know ghosts and goblins...not about racially motivated lynch-mobs.
People who are offended by this are people who looking for reasons to be offended. This guy is just another race-pimp looking for some attention.
Get over it and yourself.
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:52:30 AM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
To: Hacklehead
I suspect that more whites have been hung in America than blacks. I hear lots of hype but no hard numbers.
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posted on
10/30/2009 5:53:00 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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