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Originally Posted by LateNight
so correct me if I'm wrong.. but with Halloween coming up.. seems I've usually seen the occasional noose hanging from a tree etc.. used for Halloween decoration..
I guess that'll be a crime now ?  |
Like this:
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?se...cal&id=5709523
New Jersey couple removes hanged dummy from Halloween
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A photo of the Halloween decoration at the center of the controversy shows a faceless, but life-sized figure hanging from a chimney. Some members of the community thought it represented a lynching and that the figure in the noose was black.
"This is very sensitive. This is something that has gone on in American history that we won't forget," Millie Hazlewood. "But we don't have to keep on recycling and bring it back up, and at this point in time, no."
The decoration has now been removed, replaced by a sign claiming they will no longer decorate for Halloween and Christmas.
The homeowners place the blame for that decision on Millie Hazlewood.
Cheryl Maines showed us a video of some of the elaborate Halloween decorations their son David had set up in the past, which include the figure hanging by a noose.
"That's all my son wanted to do was to please children," Cheryl Maines. "It wasn't a lynching. It wasn't cause to go against any race. It was merely a Halloween display."
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I wonder if all cowboys should take offense as well, didn't they hang bad cowboys in western times. Also besides burning, didn't they hang witches too.
What about the Indians? Stupid me, I forgot they were alll black not white. Give it a rest people and quit hollering about bullsh##.