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When you hang a Confederate battle flag and nooses in front of your house, you are a racist. Period. Dont lie about it, please, because nobody is stupid enough to believe you.
A Michigan tree trimmer and one of his employees set up a display featuring a Confederate flag and a pair of nooses and they dont care about neighbor complaints. Neighbors complained about the display outside Robert Tomanovichs home in Livonia, where he hung a noose from a tree and a Confederate flag, printed with the slogan I aint coming down, on a fence,reported WXYZ-TV.
After the complaints, a second noose was hung from a tree outside a second home Tomanovich owns down the street and used for his business, Roberts Discount Tree Service.
Tomanovich fled inside his home when a WXYZ-TV reporter asked him for comment, but one of his employees admitted to hanging the second noose in response to the neighbor complaints.
I love it, said the employee, who displayed a Confederate flag license plate on his work pickup truck. Screw em. The employee, who declined to give his name, said he and his boss would not take down the flag or nooses.
Hell, no, he said. Were going to put up more.
Tomanovichs wife, Lindy, said the display was not intended to be racist.
She claimed her husbands family is from the south and they simply like the way the Confederate flag looks.
Maybe Ms. Tomanovich is stupid enough to believe her own stupid words. Unlikely, but possible.
But even if that were the case, nobody else is gonna buy that hogwash. Yo, Bobby and Lindy: you are a pair of racists, as is your employee. Just admit it.
Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)I just do not understand how any business can openly display racism, bigotry, etc. and hope to stay in business. This guy probably will lose a lot of his tree trimming deals because he's a dumbass. And then he'll cry about it.
riqster
(13,986 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)the Confederate flag looks". He apparently likes the way it looks next to a noose. Asshole. I hope his business sinks because of his ignorance.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Lots of northern racist fucks also like the Stars and Bars. These assholes are trying to play the"regional culture" card. Phhhhht.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Southern roots are far from unusual around these parts. The car factories that built the suburbs of Detroit are filled with many,many people who came here from the South in search of better paying jobs.Southern roots are commonplace here,mostly from Kentucky and Tennessee.
riqster
(13,986 posts)But not all of it came from the South. There were lots of other racists from other areas that latched onto the imagery because it suited their existing prejudices, and provided a ready-made way to spread hate.
riqster
(13,986 posts)As one of them pointed out, it would be easy for a kid to climb the tree and get stuck in the noose, possibly hanging him- or herself.
But these scumbags don't care.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)start a go fund me campaign like the racist idiots in Indiana?
riqster
(13,986 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)I found some culture of similar quality growing on some old salsa when I cleaned the fridge recently...