I think that’s called ‘wishful thinking,’ Pam.

I wish they’d gotten us a picture of why they thought it was Obama-related.  Or what was hanging from its legs.

Horseplay is now a form of racist effigy?  I always thought it involved splashing at the swim hole..

Really, lets be honest with ourselves.  This should be considered offensive and wanted the perpetrators caught as quickly as possible.  Why can’t we stand up and say something?  Is it the fear of mob rule, the secret underlying racist feelings, or just a generic fear of facing this thing head on?  Really, how hard is it?  We’re not talking about the finer points of choosing a religion, this is cut and dry racism and if anything anti-government (aka: unpatriotic). 

These are the events that regardless of how racist the north may be subtly or the west may be out right.  As long as the south will hang obama dolls in effigy we will point a finger directly at them and call them out.  So I find myself cringing having to teach at UGA even more.

This is pretty much the same as threatening in a letter to murder the President and I hope it will be treated as such.

Man, I am SO glad I moved out of this state. We may have the Skinheads down in Oregon City but nothing like this shit.

All those chickenshit white townsfolk who would rather not say a word are just as bad as the inbred mouth-breather who hung the effigy.

Silence is collaboration. Always has been. If more white people throughout history grew a goddamn spine and denounced racism whenever it reared it’s ugly head, there is no way it would have been allowed to perpetuate and become so ingrained in American society.

Oh, my people.

I was hoping very hard that this WOULD turn out to be just horseplay.

Crissa, you can’t see from this picture, but the effigy has a Xerox of Obama’s face taped to its head.

This is pretty much the same as threatening in a letter to murder the President and I hope it will be treated as such.

Actually threatening to murder anybody in a letter sent through the US mail system is a federal offense.  It’s terroristic threats using the mail.  If you meant to downplay it, I think you meant to imply it was not a serious attempt to kill the president, but we all agree it isn’t an actual attempt, but allowing these things to continue while we stand by silently is advocating we silently accept this approach and thus emboldens them.

At the very least this is a trespassing crime, followed up by terroristic threats.  The perpetrator should be caught and put in jail so we can say we don’t accept this attitude.  It’s an issue amongst society that goes beyond government authority and gets to the core of democratic beliefs in elected officials and how we are the people.