Thread: Race Card Played Again

So, there is no connection between the noose and racism or the KKK, it's all media hype, I see.

I suppose them blacks shouldn't have sat under that tree, if they have no sense of humour?

Originally Posted by stroller

So, there is no connection between the noose and racism or the KKK, it's all media hype, I see.

Non-sequitur.

It is you that made the statement that the noose is/was a KKK symbol.

I suppose them blacks shouldn't have sat under that tree, if they have no sense of humour?

Leading....and baiting.

I have already stated that I think everyone, of all backgrounds, should be able to sit under the tree.

You have altered the argument from symbols, to the tree, to the apparent humous that is, or is not behind it, if there is any.

My original questions, still not fully answered:

Originally Posted by stroller

So, the noose isn't a racist, KKK symbol, then? Was it put up to threaten the White folks of Louisiana?

Originally Posted by stroller

My original questions, still not fully answered:

Originally Posted by stroller

So, the noose isn't a racist, KKK symbol, then? Was it put up to threaten the White folks of Louisiana?

Nice try to avoid, again.

I believe you know, as well as I think I know,

That the nooses were used to make a political statement, racist statement, or profess the views of those who displayed them.

And yes, as you already know, to intimidate, threaten, and/or send a message to blacks.


Grow up.

So, the nooses weren't a joke, after all, unlike you stated earlier?
And my original comment wasn't aimed at you, but a response to blackgang. Yet you picked it up - interesting...

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Milkman

Leading....and baiting.

Stroll can't let go of old habits...

Originally Posted by Milkman

Originally Posted by stroller ^ It's a piece on townhall.com, "where our opinion counts", not "the truth", bg

Everything in this thread so far is media hype, no one on this forum was there to know exactly what took place, yet blame is being placed fro the media postings.
Do you stroller know what is truth or hype?

I think not as you were never there either.

Originally Posted by stroller

And my original comment wasn't aimed at you, but a response to blackgang. Yet you picked it up - interesting... Thanks

so the previous post is in answer to you

Originally Posted by stroller

So, the nooses weren't a joke, after all, unlike you stated earlier?

I don't recall stating it was a joke. It may have been a joke. Not sure.

And my original comment wasn't aimed at you, but a response to blackgang. Yet you picked it up - interesting...

Thanks.

I thought it was directed towards me. You're free to state any opinion you have. However the non like non-whites is not true and that was a hurtful comment.

cheers.

Originally Posted by blackgang

Everything in this thread so far is media hype, no one on this forum was there to know exactly what took place, yet blame is being placed fro the media postings.

Are you saying that we dont know if there were really nooses?

Or are you saying that we wouldn't be able to decide if it was offensive and racist without the media telling us it was?

Or criticising the media for reporting it at all?

Yes Lily, you are absolutely correct on all points,, someone gets a bone and runs with it, never knowing what is true and what is bullshit.

Bit of an update/post-script to this thread. Seems that the whole thing has far from subsisded and the small town of Jena's still somewhat of a focal point for racial issues:

White supremacists march in Louisiana on King holiday

12:40PM Tuesday January 22, 2008



Members of a white supremacist group march under a Ku Klux Klan flag in Jena, Louisiana. Photo / Reuters

JENA, Louisiana - About 25 white supremacists marched through this central Louisiana town on Monday in a white power rally on the US national holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

They called for the holiday to be abolished and demanded harsh justice for the "Jena 6" - six black teenagers who beat a white schoolmate in a racially-charged incident in 2006.

"I'm just here to help get some justice for that boy for getting his butt kicked by six coons," another marcher, David Dupre of Tioga, Louisiana, told Reuters.

The march, organized by the Mississippi-based Nationalist Movement, a self-described "pro-majority" group, drew an opposition protest about 10 times larger and much more vocal in a sometimes tense confrontation.
"I'm a firm believer that you have to confront evil and I think these people are here to promote evil," John Hill, a black former US Marine from Monroe, Louisiana said of the marchers.

At least 150 policemen kept the opposing camps separated.

The Nationalists were led by founder Richard Barrett as they walked through town. They did not wear robes like their white power brethren in the Ku Klux Klan, but some wore Klan patches.

Jena, a town of about 3,000, has become a flashpoint for US racial issues since the black teenagers were charged with attempted murder for beating up their white schoolmate when a noose was hung at Jena High School.

About 20,000 supporters marched through Jena in September protesting what they saw as overly-harsh treatment of the teenagers. The charges against the defendants now have been reduced to battery.
Only a few townspeople came out to watch the march.

"I think its very disrespectful, I think it's unnecessary," said 18-year-old black Jena resident Latara Hart as one of the marchers walked by with a noose hanging from his belt.

Barrett spoke for more than an hour in a speech that finished with just five people listening.

"Today I'm saying that King has no credibility," he said. "We want to abolish the Martin Luther King holiday."

He called for referendums to roll back the civil rights legislation of the 1960s that legally ended racial segregation in the US South.
- REUTERS

Funny thing was-- the kkk was calm cool and collective and anti violent during the march, seems the blacks couldn't say the same for themselves

got a bit of news coverage here in the states

White Nationalists and White Supremicists have always marched on MLK day.

Why all of the attention?

Why the hoopla?

Because the media wants it.

People watch.

Because the race card sells.

Just like post #88

Damn it! Two years running, I've forgotten to take a day off for MLK.

Next year I'm going to take three days off.

Yep, always someone is ready to stir some shit to keep things hot and bubbling..

Originally Posted by Texpat

Damn it! Two years running, I've forgotten to take a day off for MLK. Next year I'm going to take three days off

Well come on over to my house and we tie up a few nooses. and maybe go coon hunting, Racoon, Racoon ,Racoon...

Originally Posted by blackgang

Yep, always someone is ready to stir some shit to keep things hot and bubbling..

Originally Posted by blackgang

Well come on over to my house and we tie up a few nooses. and maybe go coon hunting

Yes indeed.

Originally Posted by Milkman

White Nationalists and White Supremicists have always marched on MLK day.

Why all of the attention?

Why the hoopla?

Because the media wants it.

People watch.

Because the race card sells.

Just like post #88

Sad but true milkman

Here in kansas city an appointed member of the parks and rec. dept. was a memeber of the minute men organization. an organization thats only agenda is to secure the border of the united states and help uphold laws that are in place concerning illegal immagration.

LARAZA- a hispanic organization pulled their national convention from kansas city stating that the parks and rec board member was a racist. Then the southern christian leaders confrance pulled out also-- IT IS AMAZING WHAT SOME ORGANIZATIONS WILL DO SIMPLY TO GET MEDIA COVERAGE !!!
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Originally Posted by KID

LARAZA- a hispanic organization pulled their national convention from kansas city stating that the parks and rec board member was a racist

Well, was he?

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Originally Posted by KID

LARAZA- a hispanic organization pulled their national convention from kansas city stating that the parks and rec board member was a racist

Well, was he?

It was a she, and what facts link the minute men association to anything racist????

^^, KID,

La Raza is a racist organization, IMO.

If someone is a racist that's their own business.

As long as one doesn't discriminate against people in their line of work.

I'd have to look at documented and corroborated evidence that the official actually did that things in his line of work that were racist.

And no, the Minutemen are not racist.

ILLegals come into the U.S. from all areas of the world. It just happens that most are hispanics because of the geographical closeness.

Originally Posted by KID

It was a she, and what facts link the minute men association to anything racist????

Ok then she. Who said anything about the Minute Men being associated to anything racist? We're talking about an individual here.

Originally Posted by Milkman

And no, the Minutemen are not racist.

That may be the case but it is not to say that they don't have racist members.