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Black Students Take Over University; "Real Pain, Real Change"
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Pay attention to what the AP is doing.

They didn't report the Noose hanger was a minority student that sympathized with the protesters - and they hid her ID, now there's this!



Noose scribbled on bathroom door at UC Santa Cruz

The Associated Press
Posted: 03/02/2010 07:13:00 AM PST
Updated: 03/02/2010 07:13:00 AM PST

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say they found the image of a noose scribbled on the inside of a bathroom door.

The graffiti was discovered Monday in the school's Earth and Marine Sciences building. School spokesman Jim Burns says the words "San Diego" and "lynch" were written on either side of it.

The graffiti follows a string of racially charged incidents at the University of California, San Diego. A noose was found dangling from a light fixture of a campus library last Thursday.

That incident followed an off-campus party mocking Black History Month on Feb. 15.

UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal said the graffiti clearly made reference to the noose found at UC San Diego.

He called the incident "deeply disturbing."

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_14497542


Not too obvious, huh.



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I thought it was the beginning of the Age of Grievance.


That was Nov 2008...
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I wish I had a penny for all the "deeply disturbing" things that people have left in public bathrooms. Maybe they should start reporting them all.

It's been at least 30 years now where public bathrooms in large school systems (high school) have no doors on the stalls because of the problems they created.

But, play along with the fantasy.

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How can these people run univeresities and not have a clue as to what is really going on? The MSM, have these administrators number, just feed them enough information to get the statement you want.

I also love how they left out race, even though the offender put her race in her apology.
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It appeared that her statement did say she was a minority. But we do not know which minority. Since the cops are still looking into the incident created, by a minority person, as a hate crime, I am assuming that she is not black. Therefore, it appears that non black minorities can be investigated for hate crimes.
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Chatham, there was something in the news story in the first post of this thread that struck me as odd. I'm not sure what to make of it. Maybe it fits in here.
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Mustafa Shahryar, 21, said he had seen the noose as he left the library.

Shahryar, who is from Afghanistan, told the crowd he grew accustomed to racial slurs while growing up in Southern California but was stunned to see the noose.

"Nothing phased me until last night," he said. "I just took that noose as an attack on all of us."
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Okay, Chatham, you are correct, but the relevance of her stating that she sympathizes with the black students protesting is great. I say her status as a minority is also highly relevant.

The media knows her ID, yet they hide it. The school hides it. The female student said the school thanked her when she reported she was the nooser. The school thanking her sounds weird indeed.

I agree we don't know exactly what type of minority this person is, however, the media needed to report what she did report in her letter.

To muddy things further, the same reports that stated they were investigating it as a hate crime said that she was being held in custody, something she said is and was an outright lie.

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Any school official that doesn't want to get set on fire would not use the term - "misguided" - to describe reported racist acts. The misguided term was used by the chancellor and I believe she was aiming it directly at the Noose placer - and that the school officials determined early on that she placed it to ignite things and bring attention to the perceived racial climate.

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Racial State of Emergency after crude KKK style pillow case and a flower found on a statue of Theodor Seuss Geisel (a white man) on UCSD campus.

The area was declared a crime scene and DNA testing and crime lab processing was undertaken. The public area was also dusted for fingerprints.



KKK-style pillowcase found at UCSD
The symbol was draped on a statue outside the library

By Steve Schmidt, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Roger Showley, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Originally published March 2, 2010 at 2:43 p.m., updated March 2, 2010 at 3:19 p.m.

University of California San Diego police say a crudely-fashioned KKK-style hood was found outside the campus library late Monday.

The hood was on a Theodor Seuss Geisel statue -- at the location where the campus was going to celebrate the children's author's birthday today. The event was called off given racial tensions that have grown seemingly daily on the campus for the past two weeks.

In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, campus authorities say the hood -- apparently made from a white pillowcase -- was discovered about 11 p.m. outside the library that carries Geisel's name. A rose was inserted in the statue’s fingers.

“The items have been removed and the police are processing them for evidence, including fingerprint and DNA analysis. An aggressive police investigation is underway,” the statement read. “We will pursue this with all of our authority and individuals who are responsible will be punished to the full extent of the Student Code of Conduct and all applicable laws.”

Chancellor Marye Anne Fox is quoted in the statement as saying that “we will not allow this incident, or any incident, to deter the progress we are making to change and heal our university community.”

Audrey Geisel, widow of Theodor Geisel, said the chancellor and campus librarian called her to inform her of the incident.

If her husband, who died in 1991, were alive, she said he would find the incident bizarre.

“The vast, vast majority (of students) are just the greatest – they’re just splendid, fine, period,” she said. “A little faction always exists in all places and they get a little carried away, I think. ‘Now, hear this — somebody’s paying attention’ — and they get kind of rambunctious.”

Mrs. Geisel, who donated an estimated $20 million to the campus’ central library, named after the children’s author, also donated the statue of Dr. Seuss and the Cat in the Hat in 2004. It was designed by her daughter, Lark Grey Dimond-Cates, and modeled after a similar sculpture erected two years earlier in Seuss’ hometown of Springfield, Mass.

The campus has been hit by a series of race-related incidents in recent weeks that has spurred demonstrations and led to renewed calls for tolerance. Most recently, a noose was found late Thursday on the seventh floor of the library.

The events started with a Feb. 15 "Compton Cook Out" party off campus that mocked Black History Month. A student-run TV show subsequently ridiculed blacks and called them ungrateful for their reaction to the party, using a racial slur.

A community forum will be held tomorrow on the race-related turmoil.

San Diego City Councilman Tony Young, UCSD Chancellor Fox and other prominent local figures are expected to appear at the 6 p.m. event at Mt. Erie Baptist Church, 511 S. 47th St. The forum is titled, “UCSD On My Mind: Education is a Civil Right.”

The Urban League of San Diego County and the National Council of Negro Women are among the groups organizing the event.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/02/kkk-style-pillowcase-found-ucsd/

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I agree, the media is not doing their job. Do they ever? Well, they do report minority status when posting silver alerts or missing persons. We have become way, way to PC. Here is someone who, if telling the truth, did not hang a noose to offend anyone. Yet, other people got seriously offended at something it was never meant to be. It is like we as a people have decided that it is far far better to assume the worse about an event, person or mistake rather than wait for an explanation or reason for that event, person or mistake. It is always guilty until proven innocent. Guilty until proven innocent. Our PC instructors have done a wonderful job of teaching us the new rule of guilty until proven innocent.
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This whole thing is beginning to "feel" like a setup to me. I have a really bad feeling that even the party and the party invitation were designed for a larger purpose. It's the same "feeling" I had over the Jena 6 Hoax, the Columbia Noose Hoax, and the Duke Lacrosse Hoax.
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This whole thing is beginning to "feel" like a setup to me. I have a really bad feeling that even the party and the party invitation were designed for a larger purpose. It's the same "feeling" I had over the Jena 6 Hoax, the Columbia Noose Hoax, and the Duke Lacrosse Hoax.
When I saw the Headline blaring a KKK pillowcase I thought it was a parody, like the Onion or something.

This is ridiculous, really.

I view most of this as feigned fear and manufactured outrage.

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The noose is a sad reminder of what happened in the past. But we cant forget that the KKK also hung a lot of white people during those same times. History has been biased in a way to make it look like some people were never hung unless they were black.

Who did the KKK hang and kill.

Although the KKK attacked blacks on a more regular basis they also targeted Republicans and those that were against the KKK were hung or killed in other more torturous ways. In 1871 the KKK was prohibited by law and clan members were put in jail. In 1915 the KKK reorganized for the second time and kept most of their old rituals and traditions. Men that were white and Protestant could join the KKK. The targets of their attacks were against the black communities; Jews and Catholics.
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Mar 2 2010, 09:35 PM
The noose is a sad reminder of what happened in the past. But we cant forget that the KKK also hung a lot of white people during those same times. History has been biased in a way to make it look like some people were never hung unless they were black.

Who did the KKK hang and kill.

Although the KKK attacked blacks on a more regular basis they also targeted Republicans and those that were against the KKK were hung or killed in other more torturous ways. In 1871 the KKK was prohibited by law and clan members were put in jail. In 1915 the KKK reorganized for the second time and kept most of their old rituals and traditions. Men that were white and Protestant could join the KKK. The targets of their attacks were against the black communities; Jews and Catholics.
In the largest mass-lynching in this country - Italians were hanged - in New Orleans.

I don't expect the facts to get in the way though.


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