So, Now Halloween Displays Are Racist?

This is really getting out of control. The NAACP and even a local pol weighed in and the family has now taken down the display out of "fear" for their safety. These people need to get a life.

Chesla Flood couldn't believe her eyes. A hangman's noose circled the neck of a black-hooded, jeans-clad dummy suspended from the chimney of a house in Madison.

Flood called her mother, Millie Hazlewood, who reported the Halloween display to police. She wasn't the only one. Police went to the property at least three times starting Sunday, and even the mayor asked the homeowners to take down the figure.

Comments

[seekeronos]

Nooses seem to be in bad taste these days.

Certainly a poor choice in Halloween displays given the noose-mania in the media lately. I'd stick with the faux headstones and the scarecrow in the deck chair, myself.

[Fred Beloit]

Well, I don't suppose we'll be seeing westerns like "Hang Em High" for quite a while. Condoning stupidity is bad for democracy.

[jj]

seek, the noose is no more racist than the dummy those people used in their display. I've been around for a good many years, and I've never heard the NAACP complain about nooses in Halloween displays, until the Jena 6 used the noose excuse to beat the hell out of some poor white guy. But the black folks are getting wise to the Muslim tactics, so look for more of the same, anything to gain an advantage. Here again we have more proof of black people shooting themselves in the foot.

[Go_Fish]

Unless the dummy was black, which would have been in the poorest possible taste, what the heck is the big deal???g A pox on hypersensitive cry-babies and the politicos who pander to them.

[Go_Fish]

How's this for a halloween display? Suspend a dummy dressed in a burqa from a construction crane. They do it to real people in Tehran and that scares the bejeezus out of me.

[seekeronos]

"--- Suspend a dummy dressed in a burqa from a construction crane. They do it to real people in Tehran... ---"

No lie about that. That'd scare plenty of people, I reckon.

[Larry Sheldon]

The display, as described, sounds like another pointless, in-your-face display of bad taste.

Is bad taste illegal, et c., et alia. Heck no. Is it useful? Hell no.

[dumbblonde]

"Unless the dummy was black, which would have been in the poorest possible taste"

Why, exactly, is it in poorer taste to hang a black person than it would be to hang a white or purple person?

(Not that in any case it would be in *good* taste, but it's Halloween. Freddy Kruger. Elvira. Etc. Halloween and "poor taste" kinda go together.)

[Wahoo Willie Sez]

"(Not that in any case it would be in *good* taste, but it's Halloween. Freddy Kruger. Elvira. Etc. Halloween and "poor taste" kinda go together.)"

Exactly!! and it is incredibly sad that people cannot tell when they are actually being "threatened" as opposed to halloween foolishness.

[seekeronos]

I'm used to seeing certain holidays either commercialized or criticised out of the true purpose of their existence -

Christmas >> going from a celebration of the arrival of the Saviour to fat bearded guys and reindeer to a generic winter "Holidays" season

Easter >> going from a celebration of the passion and resurrection of the Saviour to a fairy tail about easter bunnies and later just getting a week of freedom from classes and/or a week of debauchery in selected partying cities

Thanksgiving >> going from a day of giving thanks for God's deliverance of some pilgrims and the help provided them by the local Indians to a day more or less forgotten by the marketers except for it being the "day before the Holiday Seasonal Spending Crunch". And a football game.

But Halloween? That has its roots in some sinister practices from the Dark Ages, mixed in with the Day of the Dead/All Soul's Day traditions from the Roman Church... milled down in our age to kids dressed up in Chinese mass-produced plastic costumes and runs to Sam's Club for scores of pounds of candy.

But splash all that... someone puts out an effigy and a noose, and the NAACP rolls right on into it.

[tally]

well, i just hung my scarecrow out front. he's of straw and burlap racial origins. what's next, guillotine's in fright houses? hmmm, english commoners might be offended.

[Al in St. Lou]

Seek,

Are you leaving out the Lions or the Cowboys (or just the letter "s")?

[seekeronos]

I'm more of a Steelers fan myself.