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Columbia U. decries hangman's noose found on black professor's door

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Posted by Fred 2007-10-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Two points. It is a good knot and this bigotry in this nation shall not be elevated to the level that it is. How do you destroy bigotry when people consistently point to it as a means for victimization.

I have little pride in the south right now. Bigotry is alive and well and I find it ignorant and despicable. But most people have moved on.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-10-11 00:08|| 2007-10-11 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 #1: "I have little pride in the south right now. Bigotry is alive and well"

Yes, it is - especially in some areas of the NORTH (not to mention DC and LA).

Some yankee (in all likelihood) hangs a noose on a door in a leftist college in a Yankee town. And you bring up the South - just as the "reporter" felt the need to bring it up, with no evidence that the incident had anything to do with the South, either of today or of 100 years ago. Nice.

But thanks for playing.

(And I won't even get into the title of the professor's book....)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-11 00:16|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-10-11 00:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I didn't know my b******t meter hadda siren.

(Ditto on wot Fred sed.)

Posted by Gabby Cussworth 2007-10-11 00:16|| 2007-10-11 00:16|| Front Page Top

#4 wot Barbara Skolaut sed!

Northern Liberals along with other Race Pimps thrive on racism, in fact they've invented more ways to hate than an old garden variety lynching KKK member.

Remember William Kunstler and his definition of Black Rage?.... it basically gave Black Men the right to Kill Whitey Today because of Slavery way back then.

STOP now before I git going...

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-10-11 00:42|| 2007-10-11 00:42|| Front Page Top

#5 What a rash of fabricated controversies the left has cooked up lately. It ain't gonna work boys. We're on to you.

Here's a thought: Why not bitch about REAL problems, instead of making up a falsehood about Limbaugh or O'Reilly, or printing up fake "we hate Islam" posters and placing them on a college campus, or hanging a noose on your liberal friend's door.

But that would require honesty, integrity, some sense of honor and perhaps a soul. I forgot you lack all of those.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-10-11 01:09|| 2007-10-11 01:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Check for a tag on the noose with small print something like the following:

Brought to you by Students for Conservativo-Fascism Awareness

How soon we forget! Look through Wednesday's Rantburg article about a poster which appeared at George Washington University to get a sense of how the Left offers its version of Hate Crimes as satire.

Now who could be responsible for this? Hmmmm....

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-10-11 02:08|| 2007-10-11 02:08|| Front Page Top

#7 I recall several instances from college campuses in the past few years where the 'victim' of some racist attack fabricated the whole thing. And this one is on a most liberal northeastern campus, right after the Ahmanidiot episode. Just down the road from Sharpton's Shawanna show. And right after the Jena 6 publicity. And maybe right after the GWU fiasco (not sure of exact timing of events). I suppose it could be a Klansman (or wannabe), but the victicrat-education-socialist 'industry' has even less credibility.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-10-11 07:33|| 2007-10-11 07:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Strangely the article doesn't mention the words "liberal" or "conservative", "leftist" or "rightwing" at all.

Rightwing forum-goers here however immediately decided that this is an attempt by liberals to slander conservatives.

Let's for a moment ignore their tremendous leap to such a assumption and assume that this whole thing was indeed staged. In what way would it be a slander against conservatives to pretend at the continuing existence of racist bigots in Columbia University? Aren't most universities in the US considered primarily left-wing by people here? As such wouldn't the presence of racists there (whether faculty or students) be a blow on the prestige of a left-wing institution?

Unless it is, that conservatives in Rantburg still consider racist bigots to be originating from their own ranks. KKK may have had a historical connection with the old *Democrat* party, and Lincoln may have been *Republican*... and yet Rantburgers consider racists so much part of their own circle nowadays that bashing *racism* is immediately considered an attack on *conservatism*.

Posted by Aris Katsaris">Aris Katsaris 2007-10-11 07:38|| http://katsaris.livejournal.com]">[http://katsaris.livejournal.com] 2007-10-11 07:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey, Aris is back. Some things don't change. Its not as if 'Fake but real' is a novel concept on the Left, especially when it comes to slurring political opponents on the Right.

BTW, I liked the siren on the BS meter comment.

Posted by phil_b 2007-10-11 07:58|| 2007-10-11 07:58|| Front Page Top

#10 An excerpt from the NYT coverage:

The professor, Madonna G. Constantine, whose specialty is race, racial identity and multiculturalism, stood before protesters at midday and thanked her supporters.

I am upset that the Teachers College community has been exposed to such an unbelievably vile incident, she said, and I would like us to stay strong in the face of such a blatant act of racism.

Baffled and anguished students and professors wondered how this could happen at Teachers College, which cherishes its image as a bastion of liberalism and multiculturalism.

Baffled, indeed. I'm sure there's more to come: more state and federal grant money, not to mention the liberal foundations' cash troughs awash with lucre.

Posted by mrp 2007-10-11 08:48|| 2007-10-11 08:48|| Front Page Top

#11 What is the Left's deal with this sort of thing? I know plenty of racists back home, and they'd never do something like this. A hangman's noose? WTF? Nobody thinks in symbols like this except professors.

Posted by gromky 2007-10-11 09:06|| 2007-10-11 09:06|| Front Page Top

#12 Left over from the 'Secure Our Borders' demonstration by the socialist internationalists?

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-10-11 09:14|| 2007-10-11 09:14|| Front Page Top

#13 10-1 it is a setup for the left and the NAACP to scream about.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-10-11 09:36|| 2007-10-11 09:36|| Front Page Top

#14 welcome back aris. You'd have to live in the states, gone to a university here, interact w/the average liberal arts professor, couple that w/the normal american media coverage of these events and their generous use of adjectives/analogies of said incident (i.e. "the old south" when this happened way up north), add the past instances of hoaxes in the same situations, i.e. what just happened at GWU by leftists in order to smear conservatives that the media didn't vet properly until after an innocent conservative group was wrongly villified by the campus - again before all the facts came out, i.e. just like the Duke lacrosse incident. Add that w/most of the folks on the 'burg here being college educated in the states and understanding how that college atmosphere works might make you more fully appreciate the cnyicism of all the "right-wingers" here.

If some neo-nazi idiot bigot did do this noose thing then he/she will be villified here appropriately. Most of us here doubt that's the case. We're also sick of idiot lefty kids on campus pulling these stunts, baiting the media to go on a witch hunt of conservative kids on campus and then the facts come out to the contrary. Tiresome.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-10-11 09:57|| 2007-10-11 09:57|| Front Page Top

#15 What makes this fail my sniff test is that it is such an obvious ripoff of the Jena incident. Makes me suspicious that someone is pushing the meme past the edge of the envelope.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-11 10:52|| 2007-10-11 10:52|| Front Page Top

#16 Jeebus, Aris, what's your freakin' deal? I think others have already outlined enough "incindents" as of recent to call this act into question also. Let's see, we have:

(1) The Duke "rape" case: 3 "white, upper-class, old-south" students (MSM's definition) are accused of rape, which is later not only found out to be false (remember, one of them wasn't even there), but the DA involved has now been charged and faced debarment. Sure, this actually happened in the "deep South", but the rush to judgement was so ridiculous that even the DA is now the one facing charges. Heck, even Whoopi Goldberg (far-left by most of us) has asked for Rev. Al Sharpton to apologize to these kids. Remember, they spent literally MILLIONS just defending themselves in court, when it was ALL false, and the girl in question really was a "ho."
(2) The "I hate Muslims" fiasco just this week, which ended up being a set-up by the lefties and Muslims at GW University (not exactly "deep south").
(3) The "Jena 6" incident in Louisiana. Sure, it also happened in the deep South, and I condemn (as others here did too) the noose found at the tree. Yet, to compare that to the "Jena 6" beating a white kid (who had NOTHING to do with the whole situation), which could've killed him (reports say that the ringleader slammed the kid's head into a brick wall several times, which is something that's VERY dangerous, and oh, by the way, that ringleader has a rap-sheet a mile long) to hanging a noose in a tree is excusing violence while excusing bigotry. This is the one incident (of the 4 I'm outlining) here that *might* actually have some "deep South" bigotry involved, yet why are no "hate crimes" being charged against the "Jena 6" for beating a white kid who had NOTHING to do with the original incident (if that's not racism, I don't know what is)?
* This incident, which happened WAY up north and will *probably* be proved to be tied to some left-wingers, if not some of the faculty themselves. The reporter's attempt to tie this back to the racism perpetrated in the South over 140 years ago (and the North also had slaves, lest we forget) is ludicrous.

The timing of all of these (not to mention a few other "anti-Muslim" actions that ended up being tied to the "Muslim victim" themselves, just call into question the *intent* of all these lefties/Muslims in perpetrating these acts. They all want *victim* status.

Posted by BA 2007-10-11 11:57|| 2007-10-11 11:57|| Front Page Top

#17 "Yes" I'm white, and "Yes" I'm male, but I simply don't get this anymore. If I found a noose on my front porch tommorrow morning, I'd pick it up along with the morning paper, deposit the noose in the trash and go on with my day. Have we become that soft as a society that it's now allowable to have a nervous breakdown over a piece of rope?

Posted by Crusader 2007-10-11 12:00|| 2007-10-11 12:00|| Front Page Top

#18 Ahhhsymbolism. Best rip the entire door right outta the wall and replace it with one made from a variety of wood to symbolize diversity and harmony. That seems appropriate in light of the decision to cut down the frikken shade tree in Jena La.

Posted by DepotGuy 2007-10-11 12:29|| 2007-10-11 12:29|| Front Page Top

#19 And then there was the hate crime hoax by Psych. Prof. Kerri Dunn at Claremont-McKenna College, in CA, 3/04
....A week after a reported campus hate crime drew national attention, sparked protests and shut down the prestigious Claremont Colleges, police on Wednesday called the incident a hoax staged by a professor who slashed tires, shattered windows and spray-painted racist graffiti on her own car. ....

Posted by Phinater Thraviger 2007-10-11 13:02|| 2007-10-11 13:02|| Front Page Top

#20 Columbia did not immediately say which professor was targeted, but she was identified in the local media as Madonna Constantine, a professor of psychology and education and author of a book entitled "Addressing Racism: Facilitating Cultural Competence in Mental Health and Educational Settings."

Not possible that the good professor would seek a bit of publicity (or relevancy) for her book on racism, is it?

Feh.

The good professor has been taking notes from the muslim playbook which - coincidently - was copied from the professor's forebares.

The whole deal is way too pat for my liking.

If PROFESSOR Constantine wants to talk about current examples of racism let's talk about Bobby Mugabe and his treatment of white FARMERS, shall we?

Posted by Mark Z">Mark Z 2007-10-11 13:12|| 2007-10-11 13:12|| Front Page Top

#21 "Jeebus, Aris, what's your freakin' deal?"

As Velouchiotis admitted on Monday, he's only here to vent his Euro-moral superiority and not actually learn anything. Don't spoil his ugly ego party with beautiful facts. (g)

Posted by E. Brown 2007-10-11 13:54|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2007-10-11 13:54|| Front Page Top

#22 I didn't know my b******t meter hadda siren.

Bwahahaha! I am so stealing that one, Gabby Cussworth. Effing priceless!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-11 14:28|| 2007-10-11 14:28|| Front Page Top

#23 ..Fox News says that the Columbia administration is refusing - flat-out REFUSING - to release to the NYPD security tapes that show the noose being placed.

Wonder why?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-10-11 14:33|| 2007-10-11 14:33|| Front Page Top

#24 Watching Columbia U. is like watching Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton in a meltdown and about to go to rehab.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-11 14:46|| 2007-10-11 14:46|| Front Page Top

#25 Looks like the story may be unraveling. Columbia isn't turning over the securty video.

Posted by Gabby Cussworth 2007-10-11 15:30|| 2007-10-11 15:30|| Front Page Top

#26 I expect Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to show up anytime--The ~~fat lady~~ professional race hustlers haven't sung yet.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-11 19:22|| 2007-10-11 19:22|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Aris Katsaris 2007-10-11 20:28|| 2007-10-11 20:28|| Front Page Top

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