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What if instead of a chair, it was a tampon or maxi pad? Would that be a hate crime toward women?
Chumpy?
http://www.burntorangereport.com/dia...rthwest-austinToday, Burnt Orange Report received the photo at right, taken in front of a home in Northwest Austin. The resident, a Republican, lynched an empty chair from a tree in his yard, which one can easily interpret to represent a racially motivated act of violence against the President.
Now, one could easily argue "it's just a chair, what's the big deal? That's not racist!"
However, in light of Clint Eastwood's speech at the Republican National Convention, in which he had a largely one-sided conversation with an empty chair he pretended was Barack Obama, this imagery is now associated with the President.
The image of the chair is associated with the President. Now, lynch that chair from a tree, and you've got a pretty awful racist sentiment calling for lynching the first African-American President!
Lynching was a horrific and commonplace act in Reconstruction-era Texas and continued until the mid-1940's, spurred on by Ku Klux Klan groups. Texas is third amongst all states -- behind Mississippi and Georgia -- in the total number of lynching victims between 1885 and 1942. Of those 468 victims, an overwhelming number were African-American.
Perhaps the most well-known and horrific lynching in Texas occurred in 1916, when Jesse Washington was accused of raping and murdering a woman near Waco. He was sentenced to death, and lynched in front of a crowd of onlookers, after which members of the mob castrated him, cut off his fingers, and hung him over a bonfire. Pieces of his body were sold as souvenirs. The gruesome event became part of the NAACP's anti-lynching movement.
Most recently, in 1998, James Byrd Jr. -- for whom the Texas Hate Crimes Prevention Act is named -- was lynched by being dragging behind a vehicle in East Texas.
We have a sad and awful history of white people lynching African-Americans in Texas, and this history is exactly what this Republican's front yard display taps into.
What if instead of a chair, it was a tampon or maxi pad? Would that be a hate crime toward women?
Chump would be the last person to do that bull .
After attacking other poster's children, that's good to know...
Somebody have ugly kids or something? what did i miss?
I said I hope SA210's daughter doesn't die because SA210 is too stupid and proud to have her immunized, even though he had all his childhood immunizations.
He and dan are on the defensive about their respective 9/11 non-theories, so they claim I attacked the daughter.
I admit the remark was out of place and we started a new topic about that stupidity, but I would never retract that statement. I've seen to many kids suffer from easily preventable diseases.
Man, you're really busted up about the paint chips.
Yep.
Looks like he can no longer find the leaded ones. Only unleaded.
This guy lives a couple miles away from me tbh.Updated 6:28 p.m. I called the homeowner to ask about his display, citing my concerns as a fellow Austinite. He replied, and I quote, "I don't really give a damn whether it disturbs you or not. You can take [your concerns] and go straight to and take Obama with you. I don't give a . If you don't like it, don't come down my street."
Ironically, the homeowner in question, Bud Johnson, won "Yard of the Month" in August 2010 from his Homeowners Association. I guess his display was a little different that month?
I am a little surprised the HOA is letting this go.
I'll be using this information to my advantage.This guy lives a couple miles away from me tbh.
Are you going to try to Wild Cobra my location?
That type of effort and pinpoint accuracy would be difficult to match tbh
I agree.
I've stated my general location several times. I don't know how it could be used to anyone's "advantage."
just another proof that right-wingers hate the n!gg@ primarily because he IS a n!gg@. and Repug politicians and other right-wing rabble rousers blow those racist dog-whistles all the time.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 09-20-2012 at 05:34 AM.
lol proof
those chairs suck. it had it coming
TB
Repugs know how to dog-whistle to chair-lynchers, and know their base is rotten with racists and xenophobes.
do you think the chair-lyncher is probably a Democrat?
Actually, I thought it was kinda funny. But then again, I'm not predisposed to an opinion like you and your dog callers.
cut and paste boutons. Good Boy!
Rollover bou. Good Boy!
There are always nutbags that do this kinda crap, but I'm painfully aware that this one is special, because Obama is half black.
Here's one of Palin
And aren't these cute?
Good thread tho
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