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November 25, 2007
Mapping Hate Crimes
The New York Times has an interesting op-ed in its opinion section today.
With the resurgence of nooses around the country, the newspaper has a graphic that maps the U.S. states where nooses have been found in the last two years.
The majority of them were found on the East Coast. The most recent noose sightings? Orangeburg, NY; Orangeburg, SC and Cicero, IL.
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At 12:09 am on November 26, 2007, Blair commented:
The New York Times map of noose hangings includes nooses that have long since proven not to be racist symbols. For example, The Army ended its investigation into the “noose” found at Anniston Army Deport when the noose turned out to be a tie-down that had fallen from a delivery truck. In Louisiana, the “noose” found in the doctor’s lounge at a large medical center was identified as a medical device used in physical therapy. The noose found hanging in an munciple office in Lousiana presented to a white supervisor years ago by employees teasing him about his management style. The nooses hung as part of Halloween displays appear to be nothing but Halloween displays with no racial connotations. Many of the nooses, particularly those on or near college campuses, are probably “fake hate crimes. Others have come forward to admit hanging nooses but claim, convincingly, that they were not meant as racist symbols. If they had hung the nooses as a racial threat, it’s unlikely they would have freely admitted hanging the nooses. Probably only a couple of the nooses, including the nooses that dangled from a pickup in Alexandria, Lousiana, will turn out to have been hung by racists.
What the copycat noose hangings reveal is that relatively few Americans made any connection between nooses and racism until the Jena Six incident. The three white students who hung the nooses from the tree at Jena High School say they did it to poke fun at friends who were on the school rodeo team, an idea they say they got from the lynching scene in the movie Lonesome Dove. They say they were unaware the nooses would be perceived as racist symbols. Federal agents and local authorities are on the record say they believe the student’s story. The New York Times makes reference to a “tree apparently reserved for whites” because the myth that a “white tree” ever existed at Jena High has been throughly debunked. Administrators, teachers and students say students of both races congregated from time to time beneath the tree.
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