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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The American noose syndrome

you may try to blame this one on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,



By Christine Kearney

New York (Reuters) - A noose found on the office door of a black professor at New York's Columbia University is being investigated as a hate crime, police said on Wednesday. Police said 44-year-old Professor Madonna Constantine arrived at work on Tuesday to discover the noose outside her office at Columbia's Teachers College. It was the second involving a noose to occur this week in New York. Police arrested an 18-year-old woman earlier this week for hanging a noose on a tree in her yard and threatening to hang the children of her black neighbors. Nooses have long been seen in the United States as potent symbol of racist lynchings and hatred of blacks and experts speculate they may have replaced the burning cross used by the Ku Klux Klan. The incidents in New York, known for its racial diversity, follow protests that recently focused nationwide attention on Jena, Louisiana, after three nooses were found hanging from a tree at a high school there last year. Michael Osgood, commanding officer of the New York Police Department's hate crime unit, said the two incidents were the first noose-related cases in New York in at least five years. "Hanging the noose on my office door reeks of cowardice and fear on many many levels," Constantine said in a statement, calling the incident "vile," as well as "heinous and highly upsetting. "Outside Columbia more than 100 students gathered to protest against the incidents. The university's president, Lee Bollinger, called the act "a terrible incident of bias" and "an assault on all of us."

 

 

 

 

 

 

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