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A photograph from a Halloween corn-maze in Tennessee is causing controversy on social media. The image is entitled Hung up, and features a white man stringing up what appears to be an African-American child with a noose. The child, however, is actually white and wearing blackface.
One visitor to the corn-maze, Timothy Moore, told WMC-TVs Action 5 News that the issue is you have a Caucasian man with a young boy, not even an African American boy, but a young boy with black face. [It's] almost like minstrel times just hanging from a noose. Its something that shouldnt be tolerated.
Chris Taylor, who owns the corn-maze, says that its a medieval scene, and that [t]heres a little bit of black makeup on his face. He sometimes wears a mask, but its more camouflage. Although execution by hanging was the most common form of execution in medieval England, it is unclear why the victim would be wearing camouflage.
Taylor insists he never meant for the scene to offend, but Timothy Moore says Ive had relatives that were lynched and my great grandmother was a slave. So, to see something that depicts slavery and not only slavery but the ugly side where lynches occurred, it was so insensitive to the African American community.
Taylor told Action News 5 that he has no plans of making any changes to the maze.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/09/tennessee-man-refuses-to-remove-blackface-hanging-scene-from-corn-maze/
Skittles
(153,174 posts)it's a medieval scene? Stupid f***ing racist ASSHOLES.
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)either for inciting a riot, hate crime or encouraging a criminal activity
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)It's a little disappointing to see DUers so ready to ignore the First Amendment. By your logic, the creator of "Piss Christ" should be arrested if it caused Catholics to riot.
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)but there have been cases in which speech by the courts is deemed a hate crime
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)That is, likely to provoke an immediate act of violence. Which is clearly not the case here.
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)it's also on his property, not public property.
2naSalit
(86,743 posts)a mid-sized bulldozer couldn't fix.
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)It's despicable, but it is a protected form of free speech.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,136 posts).