[Lassiter]

How exactly does one make an effigy of a black person without making the dummy black?

[Lassiter]

Carr bros. bump.

[3AngelaD]

Curiously, the Rev. Gil Ford and Watley were not offended by and did not condemn the actual murders, which were as racist and bloodthirsty as they get. No sensitivety there at all.

[Marobe]

You have to hang white dummies, then its not racial.
Then you use eubonics, in large letters to explain, slowly, that it was their knuckel dragging mentality and brutality that is being protested. Of course it wasn't a racial issue ... just becasue they raped and murdered white folks .... Give me a friggin break !

[countryDon]

Let’s see, five white folks stripped of their dignity and brutally murdered; but a couple of stupid effigies are all the NAACP is talking about? "I realize there is some NAACP prejudice, but I didn't think it was to that level."
Seems these people have the victimization role down to fine art.

[blau993]

I guess they will really get bent out of shape when we hang up the real things!

[Texas_Jarhead]

how sad the truth is off limits so often nowadays - to that brave and outraged resident I say KUDOS

[discostu]

Well of course it's offensive. Ettiquette dictates that you BURN people in effigee, not hang them.

[End Times Sentinel]

The Rev. Gill Ford, the NAACP regional director in Denver, said he heard about the display from the local NAACP branch. To many African-Americans, he said, a noose is especially repugnant, "It's going to be like the swastika to somebody who's been in a concentration camp.

Really, "Reverend" Ford?  You'd find an equivalence between the "African American Experience" and a concentration camp?  After 30+ years of racial set asides, an un even playing field, affirmative action, quotas, hate crime legislation, blindingly rapid rising standard of living, and seeing your "community" rise in stature to have the purchasing power of the fifth largest country on earth to be in someway comparable to a concentration camp?

Or did you really mean a death camp?  Where Millions of Jews, Gypsies, Mental Defectives and various other "Undesirables" were worked until near fatal exhaustion or were exposed to ghastly medical experiments and then were gassed or shot in the head?

You know, I've got to say, you've lost me in that comparison.  Maybe you should re-examine the statement as it seems like it might have been made by someone with an umbrage disorder.

It's an effigy of two animals who committed a horrific act.  You've got something missing from your soul if upon seeing this you somehow relate to the Carrs and feel offended.  You've long exhausted my compassion for your "plight" and are rapidly expending that of my fellow Americans.

 

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[stands2reason]

ping

[tracer]

Better they should hang their effigies in effigy.....

[Sloth]

Michael Watley, a 35-year-old black carpet layer, said he found the display to be a very public and racially offensive symbol

Pretty specialized... is there that much demand for black carpet?

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[GovernmentShrinker]

Earth to Loony-lefties: The Carr brothers were not selected for hanging in effigy on account of their race.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Luckily none of these people were offended by the actual murders. /yuck

[Jimmy Valentine]

Cordially suggest that they hang them publicly "in fact".

And don't drop them; too quick. Take them up slow and leave their feet loose.

Let's see them dance.

[Blue Screen of Death]

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Unless you offend someone, in which case none of the above apply.