Comments on: Make-believe lynching of a little girl

By: SuperSub

SuperSub — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:37:16 +0000

You have to love the product that ed schools are putting out these days…
Next time it will be elementary students waving around cardboard AK-47’s and burning the American flag. Wait, that’s probably already happened in some schools…

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:16:00 +0000

I find it all foolish… the 3 nooses from the tree… the beating that ensued and the mock demonstration. I gather the children in the mock demonstration had the most to lose… their innocence.

By: Frank Zavisca

Frank Zavisca — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:16:45 +0000

Self indulgence and self pity of the worst kind.

Excuse me, but as a “Rich White Guy” I understand Black History a lot better than some of these pathetic people from Grambling. I don’t need a noose around my neck to understand the intimidation value.

And likely these folks just don’t want to know – Blacks were not the exclusive victims of lynchings.

This is a lot like the behavior of Palestinians teaching their children to hate Jews – and using the resources of the school to do their own political work.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:30:33 +0000

You’re right, Myrtle. Many black bloggers (and others) are furious about the pretend lynching.

By: gbl3rd

gbl3rd — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:40:35 +0000

Long ago I recall reading that mock executions of adults are considered to be psychological torture and abuse. It could only be worse for children.

By: Myrtle

Myrtle — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:11:35 +0000

Almost worst than learning that nooses are safe is the unquestioned explanation that morality must be taught by personal experience.

It raises the question of how they plan on teaching about murder, kidnapping, and rape to children.

Much of the upper and middle class still believe that there are some underlying principles that can be taught without physically recreating every unjust act.

The Fox article quotes a faculty member from Southern U. in Baton Rouge, another HBCU. I can only imagine that there was quite a bit of uproar within the black community itself over this incident.

By: Walter E. Wallis

Walter E. Wallis — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:15:12 +0000

They need to check their dictionaries – there was a lynching – 6 against one to protest an offense.
Cowardly swine cloaking their cowardly actions in the hood of virtue. Perhaps the time is past for racist institutions like Grambling.