on the news i saw a story about a woman who decorated her house for halloween with a monster hanging out front. the naacp and a local reverand claimed it was racist because the "ghoul" had dark skin and it suggested hanging black people. i tried to find the story by googling it and apparently there was more than one case of this.
now, c'mon black people. not all white people are racist. quit looking to be offended, stop being paranoid. it's friggin halloween. ok, if it wasn't halloween and there was a dark skinned dummy haning, yeah, you have something. if it is halloween and the "hanging ghoul" had an afro and clearly resembled a black person, then yeah, it's racist.
i know there is still racism going on in parts of the us. i know there are racists in every town (both white and black) but, how about instead of jumping on the "you are a racist" platform, you look at the circumstance, use some deductive reasoning, and then determine if the dummy hanging is a racist symbol or just an attempt at being spooky.
oh, here is a link to one of the stories. i'm not sure this is the one i saw on the news...
http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/loc...280191707.html
[edit] this is the story here, found it
http://www.newstimes.com/news/ci_7258153