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U.S. flag on crane mistaken for noose sparks Memorial Day outrage on college campus
Just the News ^ | May 31, 2021 | Greg Piper

Posted on 05/31/2021 6:35:32 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo

Local NAACP offended by steel cable loop holding an American flag on a construction crane.

A possible noose reported to Central Connecticut State University turned out to be a common sight across America: an American flag hanging from a construction crane.

That didn't stop the university or the local chapter of the NAACP from taking offense at the display, The College Fix reports.

“A construction crew working on campus hung an American flag from the crane’s cable to recognize Memorial Day,” President Zulma Toro wrote to the campus community. It was the second steel cable loop recently mistaken for a noose in the area.

“Quite frankly, I think it is reckless and tone deaf behavior,” Toro wrote. “We have been in contact with the construction company and demanded that the cable be lowered tonight. We have a team on site tonight monitoring the situation.”

John Tully, interim vice president for student affairs, told Fox 61 that the university spoke to some people "who certainly felt some pain" at seeing the "noose-like appearance," and "we feel that pain" as well."

Ronald Davis, president of the New Britain NAACP, told the station: "Regardless of what someone else says about that, what I see, as a black man? That’s a noose. Period. Take it down."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: absurdity; connecticut; education; flag; insanity; naacp; noose; pc; racism
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1 posted on 05/31/2021 6:35:32 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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Morons.


2 posted on 05/31/2021 6:36:40 PM PDT by madison10
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These people are insane. They’d have a heart attack at a Boy Scout knot tying instruction session.


3 posted on 05/31/2021 6:37:04 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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They stopped their emotional development at four years of age.


4 posted on 05/31/2021 6:37:18 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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Control freaks.


5 posted on 05/31/2021 6:37:48 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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Look at the picture..There are 3 other loops..Doesn’t seem to trigger them.....


6 posted on 05/31/2021 6:38:33 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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7 posted on 05/31/2021 6:39:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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The company should tell what they can do with their request, who they can do it with, what they can do it with, and where they can do it. Then before the ignorant white girls that drive such things can boycott tell they university they will never do business with them until there is a written apology.


8 posted on 05/31/2021 6:40:15 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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For crying out loud. We're surrounded by thin-skinned cretins.


9 posted on 05/31/2021 6:41:24 PM PDT by fidelis (Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
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To: Hambone 1934

I hate nooses to pooses!


10 posted on 05/31/2021 6:43:26 PM PDT by alstewartfan (The dawn is turning away The ghost of Charlotte Corday. Al Stewart)
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Clown world.


11 posted on 05/31/2021 6:44:10 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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Whining pussies-all of ‘em. The NAACP is a RACIST organization.


12 posted on 05/31/2021 6:44:13 PM PDT by doc maverick
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Sooner or later; we won’t have to...


13 posted on 05/31/2021 6:44:23 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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No, racist bastards who have no morality beyond their skin color.


14 posted on 05/31/2021 6:46:03 PM PDT by Fungi
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Idiots, morons, scumbags, lowlifes, whiny little victim filth.
You’re always living in the past.
Therefore, you’ll never have a future.


15 posted on 05/31/2021 6:46:07 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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Ronald Davis, president of the New Britain NAACP, told the station: "Regardless of what someone else says about that, what I see, as a black man? That’s a noose. Period. Take it down."

Proper response: "No, we're not taking it down. It's not a noose. Grow up. Stop acting like a damn baby. It's embarrassing to the rest of us black folk. People are more concerned with gas prices and inflation more that your emotional outbursts. Period. But if you can't control yourself, go up there and take it down yourself."

jimjohn - OUT.

16 posted on 05/31/2021 6:50:59 PM PDT by jimjohn (...like Donkey Kong.)
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the university spoke to some people "who certainly felt some pain" at seeing the "noose-like appearance," and "we feel that pain" as well."

We've become a nation of Karens.

17 posted on 05/31/2021 6:52:04 PM PDT by McGruff
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We have a very great number of Liberals who spend every waking moment looking for a reason, any reason whatsoever, to be offended at anything and everything their twisted, brainwashed, public-school indoctrinated little pea brains come across or can imagine.
They are sick. They are demented. But, they are determined and dangerous. And, they have the MSM, the Democrat Party, Hollywood, Nashville, the Tech Giants, China, Soros, etc...behind them.
A very powerful Conglomerate.
But, if WE stick together, maintain vigilance, Keep the Faith and wholeheartedly support MAGA we will prevail. Our greatest enemy’s hope is to drive us apart and demoralize us with propaganda.
The Nazis attempted this. The Imperial Japanese attempted this. The Communists during the Vietnam War attempted this
Today, the CCCP with their allies in the MSM, Hollywood, Nashville, Big Tech, the Democrats, the Complicit RINO Republicans, etc...are once again attempting the same tactics. They failed in the past and if we are all onto their tactics they will fail again.
God Bless America!!!


18 posted on 05/31/2021 6:52:28 PM PDT by ocrp1982 ( Bibicly)
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They just see what they want to see.


19 posted on 05/31/2021 6:53:21 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Except bears. Bears will definitely kill you.h)
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Crazy CT.


20 posted on 05/31/2021 6:56:19 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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