Noose "Incidents"

Ever since the infamous 'Jena 6' incident, during which violence erupted between students after nooses were found hanging from a de facto "whites-only" schoolyard tree, tensions apparently continue; an unusually high number of "noose incidents" are being reported nationwide.

  Raw Story

Okay, people are just effed up, but I lay a lot of this at the feet of the present administration which has incited xenophobia and caused economic despair in this country, while defending torture as a means to get what it wants, and its “leader” who has shown himself to be a consummate bully, strutting about, war-and fear-mongering and making it appear acceptable to treat other people with disdain and contempt, and generally act like a jerk, while still publicly proclaiming, “As a civil society, we must understand that noose displays and lynching jokes are deeply offensive.” Now watch this drive.

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White Supremacist Backlash in Jena

No sooner did tens of thousands of African-American demonstrators depart the racially tense town of Jena, La., last week after protesting perceived injustices than white supremacists flooded in behind them.

First a neo-Nazi Web site posted the names, addresses and phone numbers of some of the six black teenagers and their families at the center of the Jena 6 case and urged followers to find them and "drag them out of the house," prompting an investigation by the FBI.

Then the leader of a white supremacist group in Mississippi published interviews that he conducted with the mayor of Jena and the white teenager who was attacked and beaten, allegedly by the six black youths. In those interviews, the mayor, Murphy McMillin, praised efforts by pro-white groups to organize counterdemonstrations [...]

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McMillin has insisted that his town is being unfairly portrayed as racist.

  Chicago Tribune