Posted by
Bert Chapman on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 7:06:49 PM
There have been incidents of nooses being found in various academic institutions around the country. Some of this stems from the recent incident in Jena, LA where a noose was placed on a tree in front of a local school. Because of its association with lynching, nooses have a particularly unsavory place in American cultural history. My hometown Marion, IN received a lot of notoriety in 1930 when a miscarriage of justice resulted in two criminals being hung by a noose in the courthouse square before normal judicial proceedings could commence. This incident is ably documented in James Madison's 2001 book A Lynching in the Heartland.
The recent recurrence of these hanging nooses are examples of despicable human behavior that cannot be eradicated by "hate crime" statutes or the diversity and sensitivity training hailed as panaceas by adherents of the diversity cult prevalent in our academic institutions. When such incidents occur, these fools respond by demanding more diversity training and denouncing supposed institutional racism as being responsible for these institutions. Yet the publicity over these incidents only adds fuel to the fire of the victimology of liberal diversity advocates and emboldens the perpetrators of these disgusting acts. These activities should be quietly investigated by local law enforcement and the perpetrators should be punished if they can be caught. Such incidents are only going to decline when educational institutions, particularly universities, stop classifying people as members of groups and begin treating people as individuals who are created in God's image who have strengths and weaknesses he has assigned to them. The idiotic liberal focus on group identity has to end and liberals must recognize that you can no more abolish racism or other boorish behavior than you can abolish racism or any other naturally occurring phenomena.