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Hanging From A Tree

By The Daily Dish
Oct 29 2008, 1:04 AM ET

An email forwarded to the Dish from the University of Kentucky:

Dear Colleagues,

It is with profound sadness that I must report to you that an effigy of Obama was found hanging from a tree on campus this morning.   It was taken down immediately, but the damage and hurt will linger for a long time.  I literally feel sick to my stomach.  There will be a statement from the President shortly, and we are also considering other expressions of outrage.  In the meantime, please alert your staff and be prepared to counsel students, staff, and faculty of color, in particular, as needed.

This was done to an effigy of Palin too, in Los Angeles, to the shame of those morons who did such a thing. But a black man hanging from a tree in Kentucky has real resonance.



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