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by Auguste
So I got a rare opportunity to sleep in this morning, but I did have a really weird dream: I dreamed that Augustienne, who had gotten up before me, came in to tell me that some bigoted asshole at my alma mater had hung a noose and a cardboard effigy of Obama from a tree.
OH WAIT.
A custodian discovered the cutout of Obama about 7 a.m. Tuesday and removed it. The cutout was hung from a tree with fishing line near Minthorn Hall. He said the image of the African-American Democratic nominee for president was accompanied by the ...
Obama Hung In Effigy At Christian College
Firedoglake —
Probably just a buncha liberals trying to make conservative Christians look bad.
A likeness of Sen. Barack Obama was found hanging in the George Fox University quad early Tuesday along with graffiti aimed at minority recipients of a scholarship ...
Obama Racism/Muslim/Unpatriotic/Scary Black Dude Watch, #85
Shakesville —
Fucking hell: A [life-sized effigy] of Sen. Barack Obama was found hanging in the George Fox University quad early Tuesday along with graffiti aimed at minority recipients of a scholarship program, the university president told The Oregonian this morning. …A custodian discovered the cutout of Obama about 7 a.m. Tuesday and removed it. The cutout was hung from a tree with fishing line near Minthorn Hall. He said the image of the African-American Democratic nominee for president was accompanied by the words, "Act Six reject." Act Six is a ...
Obama Hanged In Effigy
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
At a Quaker college, no less. So depressing.
The Ugly Season
Hoffmania! —
... The cockroaches of racism come out in the least likely places. Disgusting.
Effigy
Bitch. Ph.D. —
It's a good thing we live in a post-racial society now, and that racism has been eradicated, otherwise I'd be really upset by this: A campus custodial crew discovered the cutout of the Democratic presidential nominee about 7 a.m. Tuesday. Crew member Katlyn Search, 21, a George Fox senior from Battle Ground, Wash., said the cutout was hung by fishing line from a tree near Minthorn Hall. She, another student on the crew and their supervisor took down the cutout and reported the incident to the administration. Search said Obama cutouts can be purchased at a local ...
A Likeness Of Hussein Found ‘Hanged’ Beside ‘Minority Graffiti’ On An Oregon Campus
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
I’m calling “Bullshit!”
From what I understand … Oregon is NOT exactly a hotbed of republicans or conservatives … So, what are the odds it’s an ‘inside job’ made to play to the race card?
Been done on college campuses before … by professors, no less. Black professors, as a matter of fact.
George Fox president denounces Obama display
by Noelle Crombie (The Oregonian)
The president of George Fox University this morning denounced the hanging of a ...
Now the financial crisis is our fault, too?
BlueOregon —
... In the process of racial reconciliation through presidential election, it seems it's two steps forward and one step back. I have a heart full of hope that Barack Obama will be president. I'm getting past the whole "he'll get shot" thing, I see citizens of all colors rising for change, and I can almost see this lovely family of color in the whitest of institutions. Then I see The Oregonian story of the Obama effigy hanging in a tree in front of the scholarship dorm. What's worse than the article? The comments section. ...
Hang Sarah Palin in Effigy and It’s “Art” Hang Obama and It’s RACIST!
Flopping Aces —
... It was wrong when someone hung a cardboard Obama in effigy in Oregon. But it’s equally wrong when someone hangs Sarah Palin in California. But if the left can’t see that, then they have no right to get all worked up about it when someone does it to Obama. ...
John Lumea: John McCain at the Craps Table of History
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... to a ghostlike Obama effigy noosed and hanging from a tree, with an upside-down Obama sticker, "Husain" scribbled across its chest, and a Star of David on his head?
In the same breath that he told Fox News's Chris Wallace, two Sundays ago, that his Ayers robocalls were in-bounds, McCain said --- again --- that he had "repudiated every" inappropriate comment.
John McCain has not repudiated the Obama effigy in Ohio (or the ones in Kentucky and Oregon).
Nor has he repudiated the illustration that appeared in the October newsletter ...
