Comments on: Racist Hangman’s Noose Found on Columbia University Prof.’s Door

By: chris

chris — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:25:30 +0000

Toto–I’d say that this noose iconography’s enough to at least make a good faith statement that yeah…maybe…racism…ok. A rebuttable presumption, let’s say. the fact that I have to explain that to you is troubling…indeed, more so than with Dan’s babble up there. The Klan in it’s heyday had millions of members. But that wasn’t the crazy thing. The kicker was the clump of many more millions who didn’t know or didn’t care what they were about.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:20:48 +0000

Dan–if that’s your real name. Thank God for the Internet. First, you certainly don’t have the balls to talk that nonsense to anyone in public. Second, it allows you to surf for porn, which is about as close to sex as you likely get.

Send me a snail address and phone number if you got the sack for it. I’m easy to find. I don’t hide…like the clowns who used to lynch for real…

By: toto

toto — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:30:44 +0000

I guess i must have missed the new article(s) that stated that it was proven (not just assumed) that the incident was perpetrated by someone other than a person of color. I wonder what the response would be if it determined after an investigation that the act was in fact committed by other than someone of the caucasion persuasion. Without any proof or indication one way or the other, this is automatically a racist incident, thus soliciting waves of disgust and indignation, protests, firing up blood pressures, etc., and all based upon an automatic assumption. I think it would be better in a time where racism is becoming the first response for the insult d’jour, for cooler heads to prevail and wait until some determination of fact has occurred before the immediate comment of racisim is screamed all over the media. What if it turned out to be that an Asian cohort had a falling out with this professor, or a non-white student didn’t like the last marks received, etc. I wonder if those results would even get any press time. Why was Columbia so hesitant in releasing the surveillance video that may shed light on the issue? Was it because they wanted to make certain there was nothing therein to cause the school embarrasement, or somesuch?

By: thoughtmerchant

thoughtmerchant — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:46:59 +0000

Dan, would you make that statement if a Jewish Prof. found a small swastika taped to her door at an elite University? Particularly after 11 other swastikas were found at other locations?

By: dan

dan — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:10:51 +0000

Ok thinking people, so everybodies panties are in a bunch over a peice of rope. Get over it. You have discredited yourselves using this incident as a reason stomp and cry. This young man is a thug. The young black students created the problem. The white kids were minding their own business.

In Baltimore an incident has accured, the NAACP has been brought in, Local congressmen enlisted because, get this, for the lynching of a tampon in a school locker.

You folks have too much time on your hands. Life must be good.