NO-area noose display prompts suspension

[EFerrari]

Source: Associated Press

HARAHAN, La. (AP) - A public works department supervisor has been suspended amid allegations he displayed two nooses, a bullwhip and a dart board with a black man as the bull's-eye in his office, the Jefferson Parish president said Thursday.

"Jefferson Parish is an equal opportunity employer and we will not tolerate this type of activity in the work place," parish President Aaron Broussard announcing an investigation into the allegations.

The FBI is also investigating claims by Terrence Lee, who is black and went public with the complaints Wednesday, saying he was fed up with the racist symbols in his white superintendent's office at a sewage lift station in Jefferson Parish.

"I've been in this department 6 1/2 years, and when I got to the department they were there," Lee said.

Read more: http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=afxnews&articleid=6382893&subject=general&action=article

[EFerrari]

1. Related story: N.C. State investigates noose left in restroom

N.C. State investigates noose left in restroom
Friday, Nov. 9, 2007 7:45 am

RALEIGH (AP) — N.C. State University police are trying to find out who left a noose made of toilet paper dangling from a restroom stall door in the Sullivan Shops building.

"This could be someone's idea of a prank, or it might constitute a crime," Chancellor James Oblinger said. "In either case, it is inappropriate. This is an act that has become symbolic of racial hatred."

An employee found the 10-inch noose Thursday morning in the building that houses a maintenance shop for school vehicles. Few students use the facility, which is on the far western edge of campus and away from residence halls and classrooms.

School spokesman Keith Nichols said campus police were talking to employees who work in the building.

http://news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071109/NRSTAFF/71109003

[Ian David]

2. Hate Crime are Domestic Terror. n/t

[EFerrari]

3. These are just "pranks", like waterboarding is just "persuasion".

No one seems to be taking these incidents seriously. :shrug:

[Trillo]

4. I hope they start arresting people wearing neckties.

Seems to be the same symbol, but the neckties seem worn with impunity.

[Acadia Blue]

5. Nooses are not pranks! Read about the lynchings in the South.

Mainly blacks were lynched but whites were also. In Texas they lynched and TORTURED, and there was that recent torture death of a black man in Vidor Texas.
Nooses are the same as a swastika..................

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. It's contagious

I am also sure these stories are just the tip of the iceberg.

[EFerrari]

7. I agree. It's a big green light for the haters.

And I bet we don't even hear about half of these incidents.