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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNoose-wearing Obama costume sparks outrage at Wisconsin football game
On Saturday, a pair of fans at a University of Wisconsin game showed up with an Obama mask and a noose, sparkling outrage and backlash over the overt racism inherent in the display.
The person wearing the the Obama mask was wearing a black and white prison outfit, and the Obama mask was at one point replaced with a mask of Hillary Clinton. The other fan was wearing a mask of Donald Trumps face.
This is racism, why was this allowed into the stadium? tweeted out one bystander who snapped a picture of the display.
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While the fans were asked to remove the offensive parts of the costume, they were not asked to leave because what they were doing was considered to be protected by free speech.
The costume, while repugnant and counter to the values of the university and Athletic Department, was an exercise of the individuals right to free speech, the university said in a statement.
More: http://thegrio.com/2016/10/31/police-union-president-apologizes-for-halloween-photo-of-clinton-arrest/
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That is not free speech. It is free hate. It also is a threat on our Presidents life. I don't think I can stand much more of this.
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Noose-wearing Obama costume sparks outrage at Wisconsin football game (Original Post)
sheshe2
Oct 2016
OP
Here is evidence of deplorable, they just can't help themselves. There should be
Thinkingabout
Oct 2016
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)1. Here is evidence of deplorable, they just can't help themselves. There should be
An investigation like they would forva death threat.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)2. deplorable, disgusting, demented
spanone
(135,880 posts)3. trump loving racists...he's emboldened them....
sheshe2
(83,925 posts)4. He is at the end of his term.
I thought this part was over for him. I can't stand this, I can't.
Trump is escalating the hate and I fear for both candidates.
Nooses are a trigger for me. My brother hung himself. I can't do this anymore.
I love you.
brer cat
(24,609 posts)11. One of those times
there simply are no words. I love you, too.
spanone
(135,880 posts)9. most of america loves Obama, there will always be racist haters & trump has encouraged them.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)10. Oh sheshe......how horrible for you to have that memory.....
I am really pissed also, that 8 years of Obama's Presidency seems doomed to be erased by even worse hate speech than before he ran.
Down here in the South, I sadly expect crap like that, but reading about the crap that is happening country wide makes me realize how widespread racism continues to be.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)5. As it should.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)6. We need to see this stuff.
Leaves no doubt about their motives.