Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Noose hysteria backfires: Encourages Copycats

We read:

"When he reached his third-story workstation at a construction site near Pittsburgh two weeks ago, Errol Madyun saw the noose -- thick, neatly knotted and strong enough to hang a man. 'It was intimidating,' said Madyun, a black ironworker.

More than 400 miles south in North Carolina, Terry Grier, superintendent of Guilford County Schools, saw the same type of noose last month at predominantly black T.W. Andrews High near Greensboro. 'It was huge,' Grier, who is white, said of a noose he discovered hanging from a flagpole, one of four nooses placed at the school. ...

Law enforcement authorities, including the Justice Department, are expressing concern over a recent spate of noose sightings in the aftermath of events in Jena."

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