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riversedge

(70,238 posts)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:04 PM Jan 2017

#TrumpEffect: Girls basketball team greeted by hanging black dummy at mostly white NJ high school

If I had been the couch from this visiting school, I would have had the team re-board the bus and taken them home.




http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/union-county/2017/01/07/officials-investigate-black-dummy-hanging-plainfield-game/96297268/

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Girls basketball team greeted by hanging black dummy at mostly white NJ high school

Travis
09 Jan 2017 at 08:52 ET




Dummy found hanging at Johnson High School




A girls basketball team in New Jersey found a black dummy hanging by its neck in a classroom when they arrived for a game at another school.

The Plainfield High School team, which comes from a community that’s 50 percent African-American, was visiting Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark, where less than 1 percent of the population is black, reported My Central Jersey.

The girls were given a classroom to change into their uniforms for a game Saturday morning, and they found the dummy hanging by its neck from a string tied to a post with a basketball attached.

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Someone on the team photographed the dummy and posted the image on Facebook.

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#TrumpEffect: Girls basketball team greeted by hanging black dummy at mostly white NJ high school (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2017 OP
Not only should the coach have had his/her team reboard the bus JPPaverage Jan 2017 #1
what are you talking about??? heaven05 Jan 2017 #5
My (step) daughter is an immigrant JPPaverage Jan 2017 #11
I am sure heaven05 Jan 2017 #14
I would do the same! Initech Jan 2017 #2
exactly what Meryl Streep was talking about....making hate 'okay' spanone Jan 2017 #3
Perzactly. Tactical Peek Jan 2017 #10
+1 uponit7771 Jan 2017 #12
Good post. Yes. riversedge Jan 2017 #13
well. heaven05 Jan 2017 #4
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Jan 2017 #6
Disgusting Bettie Jan 2017 #7
Sick! I hope they find and punish whoever was responsible. smirkymonkey Jan 2017 #8
They sure are emboldened treestar Jan 2017 #9
Damn racist Southerners! KamaAina Jan 2017 #15

JPPaverage

(508 posts)
1. Not only should the coach have had his/her team reboard the bus
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:12 PM
Jan 2017

But Johnson HS should have been made to forfeit the game and shut down the basketball program until the offenders are found, kicked out of school (expelled not suspended), and prosecuted.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
5. what are you talking about???
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:20 PM
Jan 2017

haven't you heard, this is 'normal' behavior, again... We'll see if anything happens to these perps....and you're right, I would have taken my team back home.

JPPaverage

(508 posts)
11. My (step) daughter is an immigrant
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:36 PM
Jan 2017

Completely legal, her and her mother have green cards, etc. but I'm real worried that the Nazi bastards will try and take them away. And if they do, there will be a fight. I mean physical. I will do what I need to do to protect them.
Last year, when stupid was running, he made a visit to our city. At the same time, across the street, there was a packet pick up thing for people who were running in our world renowned 7 mile race. My daughter was doing the kids version of the race so we went down there to pick up race packet for her. There was a mini spray park down there and like a lot of other kids, TJ decided to get wet and cool off. There was a trumpite down there who was saying hi to the people in line. When he got to me and TJ, he said, "She doesn't belong here. trump will take care of that." I offered to rip his head off of his shoulders and shove it straight up his ass. He accused us liberals of being "violent" and I told him that I will do whatever it takes to protect my daughter from pieces of shit like that. A cop came over and told that guy to move along before he arrested him.
Yeah, maybe I handled it wrong, but like I said, I will do whatever it takes to protect my family against these bastards.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
14. I am sure
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 03:00 PM
Jan 2017

when the nazi takes office, occurrences like this from his 'deplorables' will be normalized and the violent reaction to these assholes will be made abnormal. Good luck, take care..

Tactical Peek

(1,209 posts)
10. Perzactly.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:35 PM
Jan 2017



“And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing.”

- Meryl Streep

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
4. well.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:18 PM
Jan 2017

ameriKKKa will reap what it has sown, this time. What I can't understand is that while white americans have ALWAYS been the responsible party for the mess, racially, historically that we are in today, white people of the hateful kind wants the racism and misery to continue. And it's not just a few miscreants perpetuating the hate and response to hate, but MILLIONS.....why?

This is unacceptable behavior in a so called civilized society, which in voting for a fuhrer, is NOT anymore. This is not my ameriKKKa that I fought for here and abroad, anymore. The new massas and misses are feeling their oats and wanting to return to ameriKKKa when it was great... I am sure it won't happen without a fight...this time. I won't take it.

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