Halloween decoration bunches panties

[Fash]

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Chesla Flood couldn't believe her eyes. A hangman's noose circled the neck of a black-hooded, jeans-clad dummy suspended from the chimney of a house in Madison.

Flood called her mother, Millie Hazlewood, who reported the Halloween display to police. She wasn't the only one. Police went to the property at least three times starting Sunday, and even the mayor asked the homeowners to take down the figure.

At 8 last night, the family relented, saying they feared for their safety.

"It's no more like freedom of speech anymore," Cheryl Maines said. "My son had to take this down because these people have blown this thing out of proportion."

Before the figure was removed yesterday, Madison Mayor Ellwood "Woody" Kerkeslager said "the appearance and the suggestion (of racism) is there, and it's inappropriate."

At least four recent noose displays -- one each in Jena, La., and Philadelphia and two in New York City -- are drawing renewed attention to a potent symbol of racism, lynchings and the era of Jim Crow segregation.

Unlike those incidents, the Madison figure was part of a Halloween display, and for two days, homeowners Cheryl and David Maines, the borough's superintendent of public works, refused to budge. They said they had done nothing wrong.

Meanwhile, the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People denounced the display as offensive, racist and insensitive.

"I think there are many people who understand the significance of a noose as it relates to the history of African-Americans," said James Harris, president of the NAACP's state chapter. "We thought we lived beyond the era when people felt it was okay to have that type of display."

Last night, the Maines family said they would be replacing their Halloween display and erecting a sign reading: "Thanks to the assistance of Millie Hazlewood and her friends, Halloween and Christmas decorations will no longer be celebrated here."

The mayor said the appearance and suggestion of racism was there, but was it really??... The figure was wearing a hood, but there was no suggestion of the figure's skin color. You know this wouldn't have happened if not for all that Jena 6 shit and subsequent noose appearances around the country.

May as well make nooses illegal now and remove it from all the knot making manuals!

[Midnyte_Ragebringer]

When they ban gang members, rap artists, etc. from making gang signs then we can start making our way down to fucking nooses. It's Halloween for fucks sake. Stop with the racial sensitivity non-sense.

[Zaelath]

I reckon we should round up these PC Nazis and lynch the lot of them.

[Canelek]

You know this wouldn't have happened if not for all that Jena 6 shit and subsequent noose appearances around the country.

Well, here is the thing....

That Jena shit.... well, there were some pretty fucked up racial overtones there, I would think. Maybe you do not live in the south.... if so, that is ok also, but there is some pretty fucked up racial overtones (as well as undertones) all over that motherfucker. It is the south, ya see? Deprive those fucks of their bible and some sorta jesus-like whatnot--introduce them to some sort of foreign culture..and maybe even some domestic culture--and maybe they will chill with the passive-aggressive noose business.


edit disclaimer: Not fair to those who live in them south and are on the level....but I am sure yall know wtf I am talking aboat...that, or I just see and hear some fucked up shit every time I go to Mississippi. I know there awesome folks in the south. But really...the blatant racism is utterly retarded. So, just wanted to separate the racist asswads from regular southern folks....sorry aboat that...

[Xyun]

There's a dummy hanging from a noose of a 2 story house on my street. No big deal.

[Kilmoll the Sexy]

You better turn them in to the police before they lynch your brown ass next!