It's About Heritage, Not Hate
So some students at a Quaker university in Oregon hung an image of Barack Obama from a tree. Really. I know that sounds bad on the surface but we should remember that hanging a black man from a tree is an age-old form of American protest.
And if you look at the situation in context you can understand the act. There was a note attached indicating that the demonstrators were protesting a university outreach program targeting minorities. From what I hear, a good number of the kids at George Fox had their Harvard and Yale spots taken from them by less qualified minority students. So, you know.
A Quaker school. In Oregon.
Anybody want to talk me down?
2 comments:
It looks like the school did a fair job of condemning the act. And it doesn't mean that the people who did it were Quakers. But it's still an abomination.
(I think this is a much better use of that word than the usual context. What do you think?)
I am all for calling this an abomination- especially over gowing different crops in the same field.
You talked me down a little bit.
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