Showing posts with label noose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label noose. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Another Noose Incident, This Time At A NYC Post Office: Okay, So What's Up???
There was yet another disturbing discovery involving a noose near Ground Zero in Manhattan Thursday. This time one was found hanging from a lamppost at the Church Street Post Office.
While police said it's not clear where or at whom the Church Street noose might have been directed, detectives at the NYPD Hate Crime task force have 56 hours of surveillance tapes to comb through, trying to catch the person who hung a noose on Professor Madonna Constantine's door at Columbia University. A colleague, who Constantine is suing for defamation, says she had nothing to do placing this vile symbol of racism at her door.
Nooses -- deplored as symbols of lynchings in the Old South -- have appeared in recent incidents in the New York area and across the country. In Queens, a white woman was arrested after threatening to kill her black neighbor's children with a noose. Other nooses have been found at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, and in the Hempstead Police Department's locker room on Long Island.
Has the Jena 6 case caused all these copycat? Is it Barack Obama backlash? Is there something deeper afoot? While no real database on nooses around the country, we have seen an increase in the last 10 to 15 years all over the U.S. -- not just the south." Hate crimes in New York City were up 10 percent last year, with 256 incidents reported.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Black Columbia University Prof Finds Noose On Her Door: Since When Did Racist Symbols Become The New Fashion Statement?
Town Hall Meeting Held Today To Find Out What The Hell Is Going On Here!
Students and faculty at Columbia University are pissed over the discovery of a hangman's noose dangling from the door of a black female professor at its Teachers College.
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," was the sistah who was targeted. Constantine also teaches a class on racial justice.
Students and faculty at Columbia University are pissed over the discovery of a hangman's noose dangling from the door of a black female professor at its Teachers College.
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," was the sistah who was targeted. Constantine also teaches a class on racial justice.
The hangman's noose was discovered Tuesday morning, in an echo of other recent incidents involving the symbol reviled by many for its association with lynchings in the Old South. Last year in Jena, La., three white students hung nooses from a big oak tree outside Jena High School. They were suspended but not prosecuted. A noose was also found recently dangling in the locker room of the headquarters of the Hempstead Police Department on Long Island.
"This is an assault on African Americans and therefore it is an assault on every one of us," President Bollinger said in a statement. "I know I speak on behalf of every member of our communities in condemning this horrible action."
A town hall meeting today allowed students, administrators and faculty an opportunity to discuss what happened to Professor Constantine. Some students wore black in a show of solidarity, before everyone agreed that it was time to give the idots responsible for this bulls*** a major beatdown.
"This is an assault on African Americans and therefore it is an assault on every one of us," President Bollinger said in a statement. "I know I speak on behalf of every member of our communities in condemning this horrible action."A town hall meeting today allowed students, administrators and faculty an opportunity to discuss what happened to Professor Constantine. Some students wore black in a show of solidarity, before everyone agreed that it was time to give the idots responsible for this bulls*** a major beatdown.
"You would think, Columbia being such a diverse campus and New York being such a diverse city, it shouldn't happen here," said student Mikayla Graham. In the message to the college's 5,000 students and 150 faculty members explaining why police were on campus Tuesday, college president Susan H. Fuhrman said: "The Teachers College community and I deplore this hateful act, which violates every Teachers College and societal norm." The incident has been reported to the New York City Police Department (Detectives Bureau of Manhattan) and is under active investigation by the Hate Crimes Task Force.
Teachers College, founded in 1887, describes itself as the nation's oldest and largest graduate school of education. According to its Web page, the college brought black teachers from the South to New York for teacher training in the early part of the 20th century, when schools in the South were segregated. The college has a diverse student body, including students from nearly 80 countries. The racial breakdown is 12 percent black, 11 percent Asian American and 7 percent Hispanic.
Columbia has been the site of other campus turmoil, most recently in September when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to speak, prompting protests by groups angry over his statements questioning the existence of the Holocaust.
Columbia has been the site of other campus turmoil, most recently in September when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to speak, prompting protests by groups angry over his statements questioning the existence of the Holocaust.
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