Posted on 02/27/2010 7:36:56 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
(CNN) -- The University of California San Diego has suspended a student who admitted to hanging a noose in a campus library, school officials announced Friday.
"We are feeling real pain, and we will take real action," said UCSD chancellor Marye Anne Fox told reporters. "The safety of our students, faculty, and staff is my primary concern."
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“The FACT is that a noose to a black person is a threat. It says “leave or we will kill you.”
If a black person hangs the noose, what is the message????
My guess is that the probability of a hoax turns out to be much higher if the event occurs on a college campus.
>>A noose was a sign of frontier justice as well as being used on slaves. What made you jump to the conclusion that the noose was a threat against blacks? Why wasn’t it a threat against car thieves (modern equal to horse thieves)?<<
Because that is how the black community takes it. Non-blacks’ opinions on whether that should be so don’t matter.
So, are you saying a noose on a campus in 2010 is a message to horse (car) thieves? Only if you are insane.
It is either targeted to the Blacks or was planted by Blacks to cause a stir.
Blacks strung up all the time during slavery days?
Sorry, slave owners looked at slaves as expensive investments and considering the time it took a lot of money to buy a slave. It made zero sense to destroy that investment. Punished, yes. Killed, seldom.
>>I give you 2 to 1 odds it was a black that hung the noose.<<
On that, I agree. My point is the significance of the symbol. If it is a hoax, then I hope all blowback hell breaks loose.
Blowback hell never happens because blacks that hang nooses are always excused as “crying out for help” or any of a dozen other liberal reasons it is not their fault they did it.
Correct.
By the same forementioned noose?
>>Punished, yes. Killed, seldom.<<
It was done often enough for the symbol to last. A chronically uppity slave eventually worked better as an example than the trouble of constantly fighting him.
My point remains that the noose is seen as a symbolic threat in the black community and with at least some good reason. Why people want to close their eyes to this is beyond me.
To complicate the matter further, a Youtube video has surfaced featuring black Internet personality Jiggaboo Jones, in which he claims the party was a promotional event for his DVD release. The video is widely linked in comments on news stories and forums — used to prove party planners weren’t being racist.
So, because someone has an imagined offense, we should all bow down to it? Nope, more like they should get mental counciling. If they take offense at something that is inoffensive, they have a real problem.
‘It’s unclear how long the student is suspended for.’ Did they really say ‘suspended’? Everyone knows that is what a noose does...how insensitive to use this ugly word; especially in this context.
BTW, since most whites don’t understand the noose connection, it’s no wonder that these noose sightings are usally planted by blacks.
Why people should care that they see it as a symbolic threat is beyond me ...
>>So, because someone has an imagined offense, we should all bow down to it? <<
If it is a hoax, it is using a powerful symbol — up there with cross burning. I mean, how bad could a cross burning be, right? Or yellow stars put on a Jewish frat house
>>Nope, more like they should get mental counciling. If they take offense at something that is inoffensive, they have a real problem.<<
If someone texts “187” to your cell, it doesn’t mean anything. Why take offense? It is just 3 numbers.
The fact you don’t KNOW what a noose means to the Blacvk Community is just a sign of your ignorance.
I am amazed at the number of people here who don’t know history, much less current events.
Ignorance seems to be running rampant at FR.
>>BTW, since most whites don’t understand the noose connection, it’s no wonder that these noose sightings are usally planted by blacks.<<
Now that is a fascinating observation. It does explain a lot.
>>Why people should care that they see it as a symbolic threat is beyond me <<
It is not a symbolic threat — it is the symbol OF a threat. It means “leave or we will kill you.”
BS ...
I know my history ... I refuse to let some fringe group minority decide to reserve part of it for their own interpretation.
You’re the one who first used the term “symbolic threat”. I simply carried on from there.
Blacks were shot. Blacks were whipped. Blacks were drowned. Does water become a symbolic threat? Does a whip mean anything more than that? How about a gun?
Sorry, I'm not willing to cede a fringe minority group the right to take an object and make it such that it means only what they want it to mean.
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