Obama hanged in effigy

Praxius

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Obama hanged in effigy - Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca

LEXINGTON, Ky. — University of Kentucky authorities were investigating Wednesday who hanged an effigy of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus.

College spokesman Carl Nathe said the effigy was found Wednesday morning. Police immediately took it down. A faculty member said he saw the effigy with a noose around its neck, hanging from a high tree branch.

University president Lee Todd said he planned to apologize to the Obama family on behalf of the school and that he is "personally offended and deeply embarrassed by this disgusting episode."

Federal authorities have been notified, Todd said. He said the effigy violates the university’s code of ethics and won’t be tolerated.

"I am outraged because we work very hard, every day, to build bridges across the divides," Todd said. "Diversity and inclusion are among our most precious core values. Episodes like this serve only to erode our confidence in and respect for one another."

Mike Lynch, a faculty member who works in a building near where the effigy was found, said he saw it at about 8:40 a.m. He described it as life-sized with an Obama Halloween mask, a suit jacket and sweat pants.

"This, as far as I’m concerned, says nothing — absolutely nothing — representative of this university or this community," he said.

In September, George Fox University in Oregon, a small Christian college, punished four students who confessed to hanging a likeness of Obama from a tree.

Well for some it seems the redneck shines through.
 

Ron in Regina

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This type of behavior gives Rednecks a bad name. Don't call them Rednecks....call them
Racist Bigoted @ssholes like they really are. I relate this type of behavior with the
severely undereducated, but this happened at a University? Very, very ugly...
 

scratch

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Obama had to know (given the racist history) that this would and will continue to happen.
 

Walter

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Palin mannequin hanging from noose

Oct 30 - An effigy of U.S. Republican Sarah Palin hanging by a noose as part of a Halloween display has caused many compaints.

A mannequin dressed to resemble the Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, with her trademark beehive hairdo and glasses, was hung by the neck from the eaves of the home in famously liberal West Hollywood. Authorities have said they will not ask the homeowners to remove the installation and that it is protected under the Freedom of speech act.

Palin mannequin hanging from noose - Truveo Video Search
 

mabudon

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Yeah, the Palin one is just as bad, we know how gangs of Hollywood-liberals used to lynch white bible-thumpers, how tasteless. The Obama one was historically accurate and appropriate, but the Palin one is WAY out of line
 

Avro

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Palin mannequin hanging from noose

Oct 30 - An effigy of U.S. Republican Sarah Palin hanging by a noose as part of a Halloween display has caused many compaints.

A mannequin dressed to resemble the Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, with her trademark beehive hairdo and glasses, was hung by the neck from the eaves of the home in famously liberal West Hollywood. Authorities have said they will not ask the homeowners to remove the installation and that it is protected under the Freedom of speech act.

Palin mannequin hanging from noose - Truveo Video Search

Yep, that's just as disgusting as the Obama hanging.

Thanks for that post Walt.
 

Praxius

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Palin mannequin hanging from noose

Oct 30 - An effigy of U.S. Republican Sarah Palin hanging by a noose as part of a Halloween display has caused many compaints.

A mannequin dressed to resemble the Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, with her trademark beehive hairdo and glasses, was hung by the neck from the eaves of the home in famously liberal West Hollywood. Authorities have said they will not ask the homeowners to remove the installation and that it is protected under the Freedom of speech act.

Palin mannequin hanging from noose - Truveo Video Search

Yes, because in historical reality, hanging white, hypocritical-christian rich-b*tches from your house was a common practice in the US. :roll:
 

karrie

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Effigies, no matter who, speak to a desire to visit violence upon a person. It is, as clear as day, a threat to that person, and should be treated as such.

And Prax, there is an even more deeply entrenched human trend of violence towards women, than there is of violence towards black people. Men are the leading cause of death for pregnant and recently postnatal women for example. Hanging one or the other (anyone for that matter) in effigy, should be viewed as the same essential message imo.
 

missile

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JMO, but the black Woman has to be the most oppressed and violence prone species on the planet. Sarah Palin will never know how badly that situation could be. This was just another dumbass political stunt.
 

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Yes, because in historical reality, hanging white, hypocritical-christian rich-b*tches from your house was a common practice in the US. :roll:

You mean uppity women who tried to act like men and vote and do other unchristian things?


Don't you think its just possible that Obama was hung in effigy for political and not racist motives? I refer you to this very issue when it was discussed on south park.

Sometimes a bunch of folks just like to dance around another person being hung from a tree...just because one happens to be black and the others white, sometimes it is just coincidence (and remember, that was on south park before you bitch at me)
 

Avro

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Exactly. I find it hard to believe the party actually selected a black man to run, espacially given his background.

They selected him because he is going to be the next president of the U.S. and no red neck is going to scare him away no matter how brain dead they are.

Get use to it....you lose.:lol:
 

Risus

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They selected him because he is going to be the next president of the U.S. and no red neck is going to scare him away no matter how brain dead they are.

Get use to it....you lose.:lol:
His muslim background is going to rear its ugly head....

And no, I don't use, the yankees do...
 

Avro

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His muslim background is going to rear its ugly head....

And no, I don't use, the yankees do...


He's no Muslim....let it go.

What's going to rear it's ugly head is the fear machine the con media will send out to destroy Obama....won't happen, nobody could be as bad as Bush Jr.

It's the other sides turn now, the cons failed.....just like you ignoring me.
 

Praxius

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You mean uppity women who tried to act like men and vote and do other unchristian things?

1st, you should be very aware that I don't follow Christianity and I couldn't give a rats ass about the "Christian" thing.

2nd, I believe women should have equal pay, equal rights, able to vote, and all that other good stuff.

3rd, if Clinton won out over Obama, I'd still support her over McCain or Palin anyday.

4th, her sex has nothing to do with it, her principles of forcing her hypocritical Christian garbage onto everybody else does.

5th, in comparison to the amount of suffering and racial attacks on african americans within the US such as hangings have occured much greater then the amount of white christian females... or males for that matter.... therefore the stigma that comes with that sort of imagry doesn't connect the same way as it does with black people... that was my point.... sorry if that was too complicated for you.

Don't you think its just possible that Obama was hung in effigy for political and not racist motives? I refer you to this very issue when it was discussed on south park.

Sometimes a bunch of folks just like to dance around another person being hung from a tree...just because one happens to be black and the others white, sometimes it is just coincidence (and remember, that was on south park before you bitch at me)

Oh.... ok... South Park.... yeah I enjoy that show as well, but I sure as hell don't use it to mould my views and morals on the world.... it is two guy's opinions made for entertainment purposes.... if someone gains something out of their cartoon, so much the better, but I sure as heck ain't gonna rely on South Park as if it's the new age bible.

And I am aware it was hung for political motives.... if he wasn't running for president, this thing wouldn't have been hung on a tree like many blacks have been hung so many times in the past by people like the KKK and the sort.

If you want to make a non racial political statement, burn the thing like this:



^ Nothing racial about that..... just Bush being Satan on Earth.

Seriously, are you going to tell me whoever hung the Obama effigy didn't put two and two together and know what most would think? Come on.
 

tracy

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Obama's biological father was a muslim. He met him something like 3 times in his life. Obama is a christian. The right should know that since they were attacking his preacher for weeks.