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sheshe2

(83,925 posts)
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:10 PM Oct 2016

Noose-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 Trump’s face.

“This is racism, why was this allowed into the stadium?” tweeted out one bystander who snapped a picture of the display.

— Prayer circles on deck: Preparing for life after First Lady Michelle Obama —

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 individual’s 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 #1
deplorable, disgusting, demented napkinz Oct 2016 #2
trump loving racists...he's emboldened them.... spanone Oct 2016 #3
He is at the end of his term. sheshe2 Oct 2016 #4
... brer cat Oct 2016 #7
I can't. sheshe2 Oct 2016 #8
One of those times brer cat Oct 2016 #11
most of america loves Obama, there will always be racist haters & trump has encouraged them. spanone Oct 2016 #9
Oh sheshe......how horrible for you to have that memory..... dixiegrrrrl Oct 2016 #10
As it should. In_The_Wind Oct 2016 #5
We need to see this stuff. HassleCat Oct 2016 #6

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. Here is evidence of deplorable, they just can't help themselves. There should be
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:21 PM
Oct 2016

An investigation like they would forva death threat.

sheshe2

(83,925 posts)
4. He is at the end of his term.
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 07:34 PM
Oct 2016

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.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
10. Oh sheshe......how horrible for you to have that memory.....
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 08:37 PM
Oct 2016

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.

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