Schaaf said officials must “start with the assumption that these are hate crimes.” However, the mayor and Nicholas Williams, the city’s director of parks recreation, also said it didn’t matter whether the ropes were meant to send a racist message.
“Intentions don’t matter when it comes to terrorizing the public,” Schaaf said. “It is incumbent on all of us to know the actual history of racial violence, of terrorism, that a noose represents and that we as a city must remove these terrorizing symbols from the public view.”
“The symbolism of the rope hanging in the tree is malicious regardless of intent. It’s evil, and it symbolizes hatred,” Williams said.
Eliminate racist rope from society!
No matter how it is used.
Every time you think it cannot get anymore ridiculous, along comes some bureaucrat with a "Hold my beer!"
[–] 24348788? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Eliminate racist rope from society!
No matter how it is used.
Every time you think it cannot get anymore ridiculous, along comes some bureaucrat with a "Hold my beer!"
[–] puggy [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Start with the assumption that a useful object has been turned into a symbol of evil.
Create panic and publicity by calling in (((the media))) and professional victims.
Refuse to back track even when the person who put the object there tells you it was for a productive purpose.