WTF?! I just read the following article in this morning’s newspaper:
Obama effigy found hanging from Ore. campus tree
By MARY HUDETZ, Associated Press writer
Wed Sep 24, 6:43 PM ETNEWBERG, Ore. - Officials of a small Christian university say a life-size cardboard reproduction of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was hung from a tree on the campus, an act with racial undertones that outraged students and school leaders alike.
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Taped to the cardboard cutout of the black senator from Illinois was a message targeting participants in Act Six, a scholarship program geared toward increasing the number of minority and low-income students at several Christian colleges, mostly in the Northwest…
What outraged me more than this hateful, racist act was that the reporter chose to describe it as “an act with racial undertones” — UNDERTONES!
This is not an act with racial undertones. It is an act with racial OVERTONES! The meaning behind lynching Obama in effigy is implicit and obvious.
I can’t imagine why the Associated Press would choose to play down the obvious racism behind this act.
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