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https://nypost.com/2020/06/07/brooklyn-officer-suspended-over-post-depicting-obama-lynching/A Brooklyn court officer was suspended and is under investigation for allegedly posting images that depict the lynchings of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, The Post has learned
Sgt. Terri Pinto Napolitanos gun was taken away and she was referred to the state court systems inspector general for an investigation over the post on her Facebook page over the weekend, which shows doctored images of the former president and former secretary of state.
Titled The True American Dream, the post shows Obama hanging from a rope, with the words We Will Not Yield and Your day is coming TRAITOR!
The second photo appears to show Clinton as she is walked to the gallows by seven people, with the words ITS NOT OVER TILL THE FAT LADY SWINGS.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The racists and the bigots are just in "fuck it" mode, letting their prejudice flags fly. Either they're trying to rally the like-minded, or they truly don't know what a small segment of the population they represent. They talk to each other in their little private chat groups and because they're all in on the circle jerk, they never get any push-back and think they're the majority.
Wrong-o, dipshits.
Cha
(297,305 posts)They learn NOTHING from others getting FIRED.. which I hope she does.
Racist Fucks
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)The hate in this country is getting out of control.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)and is issued a GUN
no, just NO
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,390 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)Echoing from the past. My start in life has always haunted me, but this is a new can of worms.
Nevilledog
(51,121 posts)Never an acknowledgement that what they said or did was WRONG.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)That's only "celebrities" who want to keep getting work.
Someone like this will end up on FAUX whining and insisting they have black friends who all vote Trump.
napi21
(45,806 posts)Newspaper? Employers, teachers, parents, ANYONE can & does read your posts! There are vicious racists in our Country. We all know that. Yes, I believe DT s Prez has whipped them up & convinced them they can be open with their remarks now & there'd be no problem. Believing that is as naive as believing in him is. Your employer isn't going to think like DT! You could lose your job for being stupid. Threatening a former President is AGAINST THE LAW! Secret Service SURE isn't going to think your OK.
I can only hope when a new President takes office, these Jack A's will go under ground again & wither away from being ostracized from society.
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)There were comments about how the posting was meant to be Political and not Racist, so therefore the pics were Ayy O.K.
Staph
(6,251 posts)That's what y'all say when something similar happens in West Virginia.
Racism is not just a southern thing. Racism is not just a country thing. Racism is not just an Appalachian thing.
Racism is everywhere, and we have to fight it everywhere. And we have to take our allies where ever we can find them. Even up in the hills of West Virginia.
/end rant
brush
(53,787 posts)like no one will ever see it. Or like the racist cops who kill people while being videotaped. Or the stupid Cooper woman in Central Park, or the bicycle guy snatching blm flyers from a young girl. Both ruined their lives and got fired, as if twitter doesn't take videos and the twitter detectives don't know how to doxx.
It's 2020 for God's sake. Technology is everywhere. Your old racist tricks don't work anymore.
stopdiggin
(11,316 posts)Sadly, racism is very much alive and well in this country coast to coast.
And a lot of it is (seemingly) coming out of the woodwork .. more open, more vocal and more visible now. Anybody that doesn't think that DJT has had a big influence on this is delusional or in denial.
Also sadly true .. even with the shocking new "visibility" .. in a lot of places (and particular areas) it was never particularly well hidden in the first place. And that kind of sums up the difference. Places where it perhaps had been undercover. And places where nobody really bothered.
Edit: and just to be real clear some of those particular places have always been urban, western, and northern. which doesn't at all let the south off the hook for their own little particular versions of nastiness and games. just to say they have never been alone.
(check out the treatment of the Chinese, or anyone not card carrying Anglo, in the west!)
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stopdiggin
(11,316 posts)'All lives splatter' .. because, ya' know, that there's some funny ...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213563289
Staph
(6,251 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Just sayin'.
Staph
(6,251 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Sorry.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Cha
(297,305 posts)work there.
Hav
(5,969 posts)What could go wrong? Right, we are seeing the consequences of that mindset right now.