In fairness, they also don’t seem to realize the confederate flag stands for racism, division, slavery, and evil.
*I can’t bring myself to capitalize confederate.
Must have PC art, of course.
I have no idea what the local word is about this, but it seems kind of obvious to me that this is about comparing the ongoing attacks - both real and legislative - against gay people, including transgender people, among the very same kind of people in the very same places, to the lynching and oppressing and discriminating against black people in general for a couple hundred years.
What else could it be?
C’mon, y’all!
How could a mere college student in Tennessee
(in Nashville, almost 55 miles north of the Pulaski birthplace of the KKK)
know how nooses slung over trees had been used in the Volunteer state?
At least she volunteer’d to take 'em down, once the bad news reached her!
I did not see a gender specified in the article. Could you please explain where you found information stating the artist was a woman?
"A student at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, had her art project
featuring six rainbow-colored nooses swiftly removed from a tree by campus police Tuesday.
The female student, whose art project elicited complaints less than an hour after it was put up on Monday,
said she did not intend to be insensitive to the gay or black communities…"
Ridiculous.