Tennessee man refuses to remove blackface hanging scene from corn-maze

[cynatnite]

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A photograph from a Halloween corn-maze in Tennessee is causing controversy on social media. The image is entitled “Hung up,” and features a white man stringing up what appears to be an African-American child with a noose. The child, however, is actually white and wearing blackface.

One visitor to the corn-maze, Timothy Moore, told WMC-TV’s Action 5 News that “the issue is you have a Caucasian man with a young boy, not even an African American boy, but a young boy with black face. [It's] almost like minstrel times just hanging from a noose. It’s something that shouldn’t be tolerated.”

Chris Taylor, who owns the corn-maze, says that it’s “a medieval scene,” and that “[t]here’s a little bit of black makeup on his face. He sometimes wears a mask, but it’s more camouflage.” Although execution by hanging was the most common form of execution in medieval England, it is unclear why the victim would be wearing camouflage.

Taylor insists he never meant for the scene to offend, but Timothy Moore says “I’ve had relatives that were lynched and my great grandmother was a slave. So, to see something that depicts slavery and not only slavery but the ugly side where lynches occurred, it was so insensitive to the African American community.”

Taylor told Action News 5 that he has no plans of making any changes to the maze.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/09/tennessee-man-refuses-to-remove-blackface-hanging-scene-from-corn-maze/

[Skittles]

1. he never meant for the scene to offend?

it's a medieval scene? Stupid f***ing racist ASSHOLES.

[gopiscrap]

2. then arrest the racist redneck ignorant fucker

either for inciting a riot, hate crime or encouraging a criminal activity

[Nye Bevan]

5. Nope. It's disgusting but it's protected free speech.

It's a little disappointing to see DUers so ready to ignore the First Amendment. By your logic, the creator of "Piss Christ" should be arrested if it caused Catholics to riot.

[gopiscrap]

6. I was rash with the riot part

but there have been cases in which speech by the courts is deemed a hate crime

[Nye Bevan]

8. The criterion is whether or not you use "fighting words".

That is, likely to provoke an immediate act of violence. Which is clearly not the case here.

[Ranchemp.]

9. Not only is it protected form of free speech, no matter how ugly it is,

it's also on his property, not public property.

[2naSalit]

3. Nothing that

a mid-sized bulldozer couldn't fix.

[gopiscrap]

7. I love it

[Ranchemp.]

10. That would get the dozer operator arrested for trespass, destruction of private property.

It's despicable, but it is a protected form of free speech.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Another one doubling down on stupid

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