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??!! Obama Doll Found Hanging from a Noose Outside a Store in Georgia
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:33 PM
Secret Service gets involved. Store owner won't comment, telling a reporter, "That's not a story." Video of local TV coverage here.
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Well, he's right. It's not really news that there's a redneck in Georgia who wants to lynch Pres. Obama. Probably a lot of them, in fact.
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I laugh at the people running around calling people rednecks. Because the fact of the matter is, they don't know what a redneck is. And when it comes to racism, Obama supporters have no room to show their age level.
I never once heard even one of comrade Obama's supporters having any problems when the conservative media reported of all the name calling that went on about the black Super Delegates that were supporting Hillary instead of BO. Comments ranging from calling them Uncle Toms to threating their lives over it. I have never heard a liberal having a problem with all of the name calling that went on when former Secretary of State Rice was in office calling here a monkey. But look all that went on when the god of the liberal party was referred to as a monkey! And the same thing went on with US Supreme Court Clarence Thomas because he's not a liberal. And when was the last time the liberals had a problem with such people as Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, etc. with all of their racial remarks? So, who's kidding whom?
I never once heard even one of comrade Obama's supporters having any problems when the conservative media reported of all the name calling that went on about the black Super Delegates that were supporting Hillary instead of BO. Comments ranging from calling them Uncle Toms to threating their lives over it. I have never heard a liberal having a problem with all of the name calling that went on when former Secretary of State Rice was in office calling here a monkey. But look all that went on when the god of the liberal party was referred to as a monkey! And the same thing went on with US Supreme Court Clarence Thomas because he's not a liberal. And when was the last time the liberals had a problem with such people as Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, etc. with all of their racial remarks? So, who's kidding whom?
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@StreetRace442, I'm black and a Dem. Rice never really had my respect until recently because of her views on affirmative action, a system that help catapult her to where she's at today. Yes she worked for it and is a brilliant person. But after Katrina and the fact that the black community was on to her due to her response to Katrina, she started to see the light, look around her and saw how long she had kept her head in the sand. She publicly commented on the obvious lack of diversity in the state department and wanted to see more people of color working there. She held her laughter when asked to comment on Palin, then basically alluded that she wasn't voting for McCain at all. That's when I started to respect her.
As for Clarence Thomas, the evidence is there how he basically is an Uncle Tom and he basically votes against any cases that would favor the minorities or economically disadvantaged. This coming from a man who was born poor and disadvantaged and raised on the barrier islands of Georgia, speaking a pigeon language as his first language.
As for Sharpton, Wright, JJ Sr, you won't hear whites complain about them. You will definitely hear blacks complain about them on sites like BET and BlackPlanet. I'll openly complain about them as well. They've done some great things in the black community when they shut up and put their minds to it. But in the past 5-10 years, they've basically become those old bitter men who want their say to have people realize that they're not dead yet. Lately, the media seems to have pushed them aside for Obama and other younger prominent powerful blacks, which is about time.
As for Clarence Thomas, the evidence is there how he basically is an Uncle Tom and he basically votes against any cases that would favor the minorities or economically disadvantaged. This coming from a man who was born poor and disadvantaged and raised on the barrier islands of Georgia, speaking a pigeon language as his first language.
As for Sharpton, Wright, JJ Sr, you won't hear whites complain about them. You will definitely hear blacks complain about them on sites like BET and BlackPlanet. I'll openly complain about them as well. They've done some great things in the black community when they shut up and put their minds to it. But in the past 5-10 years, they've basically become those old bitter men who want their say to have people realize that they're not dead yet. Lately, the media seems to have pushed them aside for Obama and other younger prominent powerful blacks, which is about time.
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I laugh at the people running around calling people rednecks. Because the fact of the matter is, they don't know what a redneck is.
So, everything I learned from Jeff Foxworthy was a lie, then?
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I'll never live in the south. Those people fucking scare me. I know, I know: "It's not everybody! We're not all rednecks!" Ok, fine, but still, I'd never live in a place where this kind of fucked-up shit happens. Blue states on the east coast & west coast would *never* see this shit. I mean, fucking lynchings?? What the fuck is wrong with you people and your evil fucked up history?? There's gotta be some shit in the water down there. I say cut 'em off from America and let 'em make their own fucked up nation. They don't add much anyway.
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#4, genius:
This is pretty classic. The implication is clearly that if he never heard of it, it probably doesn't exist.
Anyway, if anyone called Secretary Rice a monkey, I'm going to have a pretty big problem with that. I might even call whoever's using this word to describe the former Secretary of State a redneck. And I'm a liberal.
Now he's heard of one!
I have never heard a liberal having a problem with all of the name calling that went on when former Secretary of State Rice was in office calling here a monkey.
This is pretty classic. The implication is clearly that if he never heard of it, it probably doesn't exist.
Anyway, if anyone called Secretary Rice a monkey, I'm going to have a pretty big problem with that. I might even call whoever's using this word to describe the former Secretary of State a redneck. And I'm a liberal.
Now he's heard of one!
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I'm curious about what this gem means:
Any insights?
By the way, it was Bush who was compared to a monkey, not Rice.
And when it comes to racism, Obama supporters have no room to show their age level.
Any insights?
By the way, it was Bush who was compared to a monkey, not Rice.
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Washington state expresses regret over 1884 lynching of Canadian teen
Last Updated: Thursday, March 2, 2006 | 9:38 AM ET
CBC News
Washington state legislators have moved to make amends 122 years after a mob of American vigilantes crossed into Canada and lynched a native teenager, in an incident that nearly started a cross-border race war.
Members of the state's House of Representatives approved a Senate resolution on Wednesday that expressed "deepest sympathy" for the descendents of Louie Sam.
Sam, who belonged to the Sto:lo First Nation whose homelands lie in the Fraser Valley, east of Vancouver, was falsely accused in the 1884 murder of a shopkeeper near Sumas, Wash.
A mob rode across the border, snatched Sam from Canadian police custody and hanged him from a tree.
Canadian investigators later determined that he never committed the crime and was framed by two white Americans who stirred up the mob.
"Through this resolution, the Senate joins its peers in the government of British Columbia, acknowledging the unfortunate historical injustice to Louie Sam and the proud Sto:lo people," Washington Lt.-Gov. Brad Owen said at the capitol building in Olympia.
"It is meant to further ensure that such a tragedy will never be forgotten, nor repeated."
Owen then handed the resolution to Sto:lo Grand Chief Clarence Pennier, who said members of the tribe had never forgotten the injustice of Sam's death.
He thanked the legislators for righting the historic wrong by acknowledging it.
The passing of the resolution was followed by a traditional native healing circle. The sounds of beating drums and chanting echoed through the capitol building as state officials, a B.C. cabinet minister and Sto:lo Nation elders joined in.
Owen's staff had hired two historians to help prepare the legislative resolution.
One of them, Keith Thor Carlson from the University of Saskatchewan, has long studied the case and is writing a book about it.
He has said Sto:lo leaders turned Sam over to the Canadian police after he was accused, believing he would be safe in custody.
They were outraged when the mob of up to 120 vigilantes abducted and killed the teen.
Carlson said some members of the tribe argued after his death that they should cross the border and randomly kill 120 Americans – the number believed to have been in the lynch mob.
The historian said many believed the incident nearly started a race war.
The B.C. government tried to keep the peace by sending two undercover officers south of the border, who returned with statements incriminating two Washington men in the slaying.
Neither man was ever prosecuted.
The legislators fell short of issuing a full apology, because of legal reasons and in part because Washington did not become a state until a few years after the lynching.
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Last Updated: Thursday, March 2, 2006 | 9:38 AM ET
CBC News
Washington state legislators have moved to make amends 122 years after a mob of American vigilantes crossed into Canada and lynched a native teenager, in an incident that nearly started a cross-border race war.
Members of the state's House of Representatives approved a Senate resolution on Wednesday that expressed "deepest sympathy" for the descendents of Louie Sam.
Sam, who belonged to the Sto:lo First Nation whose homelands lie in the Fraser Valley, east of Vancouver, was falsely accused in the 1884 murder of a shopkeeper near Sumas, Wash.
A mob rode across the border, snatched Sam from Canadian police custody and hanged him from a tree.
Canadian investigators later determined that he never committed the crime and was framed by two white Americans who stirred up the mob.
"Through this resolution, the Senate joins its peers in the government of British Columbia, acknowledging the unfortunate historical injustice to Louie Sam and the proud Sto:lo people," Washington Lt.-Gov. Brad Owen said at the capitol building in Olympia.
"It is meant to further ensure that such a tragedy will never be forgotten, nor repeated."
Owen then handed the resolution to Sto:lo Grand Chief Clarence Pennier, who said members of the tribe had never forgotten the injustice of Sam's death.
He thanked the legislators for righting the historic wrong by acknowledging it.
The passing of the resolution was followed by a traditional native healing circle. The sounds of beating drums and chanting echoed through the capitol building as state officials, a B.C. cabinet minister and Sto:lo Nation elders joined in.
Owen's staff had hired two historians to help prepare the legislative resolution.
One of them, Keith Thor Carlson from the University of Saskatchewan, has long studied the case and is writing a book about it.
He has said Sto:lo leaders turned Sam over to the Canadian police after he was accused, believing he would be safe in custody.
They were outraged when the mob of up to 120 vigilantes abducted and killed the teen.
Carlson said some members of the tribe argued after his death that they should cross the border and randomly kill 120 Americans – the number believed to have been in the lynch mob.
The historian said many believed the incident nearly started a race war.
The B.C. government tried to keep the peace by sending two undercover officers south of the border, who returned with statements incriminating two Washington men in the slaying.
Neither man was ever prosecuted.
The legislators fell short of issuing a full apology, because of legal reasons and in part because Washington did not become a state until a few years after the lynching.
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Georgia resident here. Yes, we have rednecks here. Many were born and raised, other are transplanted from the north and west. We also have good southern folk who are good people.
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Ummm, it was just a doll...
Why is everyone freaking the f'rick out?
It isn't news-
Is it illegal to hang a doll with a noose?
Dang, you people are LEOTARDED!
And need to get a life!
Why is everyone freaking the f'rick out?
It isn't news-
Is it illegal to hang a doll with a noose?
Dang, you people are LEOTARDED!
And need to get a life!
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You do not need to go to the south to find this sort of behavior. Just leave the Seattle metropolitan area. It is all around you.
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Time to ban all flights from Georgia and assume they're all terrorists. Get the drug sniffing dogs retrained to smell hooch and bombs.
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The last time I checked Black people were not afraid of dolls or rope. This is an impotent display of aggression from a nameless, faceless weakling. I can just hear the denial now... "I'm not a racist, I was merely opposing his policies! Honest."
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Time to ban all flights from Seattle and assume they're all cop killers. Get the ass sniffing dogs retrained to smell hipsters and homos.
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