Yet more nooses
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
As if the preceding post wasn’t enough proof that the use of nooses as racial threats is on the rise, today comes news that someone hung a noose on the office door of a black professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College. And since this happened in a building accessible only with an ID, it’s quite likely that it was done by a student, staff, or faculty member. (Thanks egypt4) It’s just one in a long series of racial incidents at the school. Click the link under the photo on the right-hand side of this page to see a timeline of events.
I really think that racial tension is at an all-time high on college campuses across the country. The fall semester has barely started, but I’ve already seen it up close at the speaking engagements I’ve done so far. In the three years I’ve been speaking at colleges, I’ve never seen it this bad.
Oh and in case you were wondering where you could buy this chic gold noose necklace, it’s sold by none other than Disney. Yes, Disney. Part of Disney Couture’s Pirates of the Caribbean “Dead Man’s Chest” collection.
Wow, I just read one of the comments in response to the Columbia Spectator’s editorial:
I will bet dollars to donuts that the ‘incident’ was created by either a black student or a black student organization that is going out of its way to bring the eeeeeeeevils of raaaaaaaaaacism into the forefront. 99 times out of 100 these ‘incidents’ are staged and fake. White people simply dont have the balls to go around hanging nooses anymore.
We seriously dont think of black people all that much, I promise you. The only ones obsessed with race these days are the militant leftist afro-centric organizations on liberal college campuses such as yours, and self hating white liberals.
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