Ethnically Speaking, April 4
by Larry Meeks
Dear Larry: I read your column faithfully, and though I do not agree with a large percentage of your commentary or advice, I still respect and enjoy your differences of opinion. However, after reading R.S.' letter concerning a proposed law against nooses and your subsequent response, I find that I am absolutely stunned by your logic.
A noose not only is a highly unpleasant symbol on its own but also has historical connotations for the African race that cannot be denied. It is conscienc ...
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Posted by: VAdame
Comment: #1
Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:34 PM
Matt -- John Wilkes Booth died of a gunshot wound to the neck -- he wasn't hanged.
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Posted by: Matt
Comment: #2
Sat Apr 4, 2009 5:22 PM
Good for Larry for standing up to this letter-writer. S/he sounds like one of those people who thinks that "hate crime" legislation is a good thing - that's it's just marvelous to aggravate the penalty for some act because the perpetrator had bigotry or prejudice in his heart. That's absurd - murder is murder, vandalism is vandalism...and trying to pass some (unneeded) law because some people are upset by the sight of a tied rope, is absurd. I'd like to remind that letter-writer that while many innocent black people met their ends at the end of a rope, the noose was also used to dispatch some very bad people - John Wilkes Booth (murdered Abe Lincoln) for example, and more recently Saddam Hussein, AKA "The Butcher of Baghdad," responsible for the deaths of thousands upon thousands of innocent people. As Larry said, it's just a symbol. What you make of it is what matters, and I've had enough of society being forced to bend over backwards because someone, somewhere might be offended by something.
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Posted by: mypitts2
Comment: #3
Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:35 PM
By the reasoning of this column, then one has to assume that Meeks supports blacks using the n-word. Many African Americans who use the n-word make the same claim he is making about the noose: That their repeated use of the word in conversation, music, movies, literature and other art lessons the sting of the word and takes away its power.
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