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Wonder how long till he is on TV bleating, “That’s just is not who I am!” The old out-of-body experience, as lawyers print out the routine statement on forgiving a single, terrible “mistake” that started out as a joke, blah-blah.
I must admit, that even as a hard core, left liberal, baby boomer, who grew up in NYC, I was well into adulthood before I realized that the noose symbolized anything other than Old West justice for horse thieves. Its embarrassing how little of the violence routinely imparted to enforce segregation was known to myself and other whites and how much we must have misunderstood about the deep racism infecting our nation, even throughout and following the Civil Rights surge in the 1960s. I doubt now that anyone could mistake the public display of a noose as anything other than racial intimidation, yet it still occurs regularly. We have far to go before we accept and achieve equality.
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Slip it over the kid’s head and toss him over the balcony. It’s getting to the point a bit of a thinning of the herd might put a dent in the swelling racist/xenophobic/misogynistic/homophobic citizenry we all find ourselves dealing with. No doubt he’s bound for a life of hatred and abuse of others if kept around.