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.
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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