Effigy of Obama found lynched at George Fox University in Oregon.

[Selatius]

NEWBERG -- Students and campus leaders at George Fox University denounced the hanging of a life-size cardboard cutout of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama on campus, vowing to work together to fight racism and intolerance.

A custodial crew at the 3,355-student Christian university found the Obama likeness hanging by fishing wire from a tree at 7 a.m. Tuesday and tore it down before students arrived for classes.

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The Obama image at George Fox is the third publicized incident on Oregon college campuses in the past year involving racist images hanging from trees.

At Oregon State University in Corvallis last fall, a noose was left hanging from a tree after a fraternity Halloween party. And at Reed College in Portland, a Halloween display last year included dummies, supposed to represent ghosts, hanging by nooses from trees on campus. In both incidents, students said they didn't intend the images to be racist.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/racial_incident_rattles_george.html

Sadly, this country still has a long way to go in terms of race relations.

[CountAllVotes]

1. this story has been posted about 10 times already

ENOUGH!

[Coventina]

2. I second your motion

[zbdent]

3. guy in a bar makes a joke about a "burning bush", Secret Service hauls his ass in ...

2000, Howard Stern show, a caller says he'll kill Lieberman; Stern, Baba Booey, etc, beg and plead to the caller, telling him to say it's a joke, he's kidding, the guy refuses. Minutes later, the Stern show gets a phone call from the Secret Service. Howard Stern show provides the caller's info (as required by law).

$5 says that this doesn't merit much investigation, despite probably having fingerprints of the likely perp(s) ...

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[Oak2004]

6. "Minorities are at the bottom because they decide to stay there."???

I think I smell pizza.

[Gwendolyn]

5. We used to hang ghosts made out of old sheets from the trees...

...bordering the house on plenty of halloween occasions. It had nothing to do with race at ALL, I'm shocked anyone would take it that way. :wow: