City Official: “It was a cold and wintry summer’s night here in Elaine, and local townspeople were desperate in their search for kindling to stoke the fireplaces of their homes. Once felled, this particular sapling proved not to be suitable. What’s so hateful about that?”
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Someone needs to start a GoFundMe to raise money to plant 1000 trees in its place.
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*Deplorable beaver.
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One of the major problems in Midwest is the die-out of trees that have been recently planted. Most of the time the planters plant it and go away, instead of watering and caring for it for the first year. The tree is lucky if it gets a bag of water around its trunk. It lasts the first couple of months, maybe. And then the tree is stuck with it empty around its trunk. And it doesn’t survive the summer. And if it somehow manages to survive it, the winter is just too much.
It’s hard to tell what the tree was because we are seeing it dead. And it’s been dead for a day or two before the pic. The leaves curled and died. So. And we don’t know what it was.
All we know is that someone hates people of color so much that he’s ready to take it out on a tree. The cut was manual, so a man with an ax. Judging by the cuts, not a person who was taught how to use an ax before. Amateur. Weakling.
And it begs the question: how in the world are we going to fix this?
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Plant a hundred in its place, how about?
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Everybody knows if it were vandalism there’d be tire tracks on the lawn.
A midteen future incel. The tree was a willow, article didn’t say what type. I assume they’d have gone with something native.
Endorsed. I live and work in far NW TX–same thing here.
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I assume it was chopped down because we’ve fixed racism?
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This being Arkansas, chances are pretty good that they weren’t earning a living in the first place.
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And a camera security system.
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Find who did it. Deport them. And ban them from ever setting foot in this country again.
They’re not American, and don’t deserve to be here.
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However, Arkansas continues to have significant problems at times with white supremacists, KKK, Aryan types and others. 54 arrests were made earlier this year on federal charges, https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/multiple-white-supremacist-gang-members-among-54-defendants-charged-rico-indictment they were all New Aryan Empire gang members. of those arrested and convicted for crimes committed at Charlottesville, one was from Arkansas https://wset.com/news/local/arkansas-man-found-guilty-in-black-mans-assault-in-charlottesville . And a self-proclaimed ‘leader of the KKK’ keeps paying for white nationalist billboards around Harrrison. https://news.sky.com/story/ku-klux-klan-leader-warns-there-could-be-more-violence-in-us-11002205 .
There are a lot of us here in Arkansas who are swimming against this tide of racial animus, but much like those who wanted to stay in the union in the days before the civil war, I worry that we will not succeed in surviving this wave that looks to be coming at us.
BTW, Cotton won by 56.5% over Mark Pryor (a 2 term incumbent who ran unopposed in 2008) in 2014.
Arkansas has some significant issues that it continues to need to address. The racial hate that triggered the Elaine massacre STILL percolates in some corners of Arkansas culture. Only 2 weeks ago did Governor Hutchinson suggest that Arkansas needed a hate crime law (being 1 of 4 states that do not have any).
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Isolated Proud Boy
Over zealous Klansman
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Yep. That occurred to me too. So–cut off all their gub’mint assistance.
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I’m just glad Scalia survived long enough to witness post-racial America.
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I met a guy from Arkansas once (who had decided to “flee the embassy” as it were) who said he had members of his family who would still say (with all the hate and derision you can imagine) that it was, “The war of northern aggression where them rotten yankee bastards came down here and stole our way of life!”
One seldom plants a fully developed “tree”. What you saw in the photo was a sapling somewhere around 1,2,3 years.That is what is typically planted when planting something expected to grow quite large and be around for decades. I am certain the tree was meant to be around for a very long time: The fully mature trees in my front yard were planted in 1967.
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The tree was planted by people from Arkansas. The descendents of the survivors are Arkansas. Maybe you should think before slamming everybody in the state over this as not having any class?
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Yeah the oaks that were planted between the sidewalk and street at the apartment complex where I lived as a college student in the early 80s are pushing up the sidewalks now. Why folks plant trees that get that big in a small place like that always makes me wonder.
