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riqster

(13,986 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 12:21 PM Apr 2015

Lying Racists are the Worst Racists.

https://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/lying-racists-are-the-worst-racists/

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When you hang a Confederate battle flag and nooses in front of your house, you are a racist. Period. Don’t 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 don’t care about neighbor complaints. Neighbors complained about the display outside Robert Tomanovich’s home in Livonia, where he hung a noose from a tree and a Confederate flag, printed with the slogan “I ain’t 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, Robert’s 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. “We’re going to put up more.”

Tomanovich’s wife, Lindy, said the display was not intended to be racist.
She claimed her husband’s 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.
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Lying Racists are the Worst Racists. (Original Post) riqster Apr 2015 OP
Yet another dope. Bluzmann57 Apr 2015 #1
And go on Faux "News" to beg for $. riqster Apr 2015 #7
"She claimed her husband’s family is from the south and they simply like the way sufrommich Apr 2015 #2
"From the South", my ass. riqster Apr 2015 #4
His town is next to the town I grew up in, sufrommich Apr 2015 #9
Understood. Cleveland had a lot of that too. riqster Apr 2015 #11
The neighbors are also concerned about safety. riqster Apr 2015 #3
and if the lying racist's business suffers will he guillaumeb Apr 2015 #5
Probably. riqster Apr 2015 #6
Ah, come on, it's about "heritage." The heritage of hatred. Hoyt Apr 2015 #8
Ah yes. Culture at its finest. riqster Apr 2015 #10

Bluzmann57

(12,336 posts)
1. Yet another dope.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 12:25 PM
Apr 2015

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.

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
2. "She claimed her husband’s family is from the south and they simply like the way
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 12:27 PM
Apr 2015

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)
4. "From the South", my ass.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 12:32 PM
Apr 2015

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)
9. His town is next to the town I grew up in,
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 12:44 PM
Apr 2015

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)
11. Understood. Cleveland had a lot of that too.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 01:31 PM
Apr 2015

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)
3. The neighbors are also concerned about safety.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 12:29 PM
Apr 2015

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)
5. and if the lying racist's business suffers will he
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 12:33 PM
Apr 2015

start a go fund me campaign like the racist idiots in Indiana?

riqster

(13,986 posts)
10. Ah yes. Culture at its finest.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 01:26 PM
Apr 2015

I found some culture of similar quality growing on some old salsa when I cleaned the fridge recently...

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