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[tk2kewl]

Task force member warned of racially hostile climate

Bob Zellner says he told officials in Southampton 3 years ago about similar cases of racial harassment

BY MARTIN C. EVANS
Newsday Staff Writer
Staff writer Mitchell Freedman contributed to this story.

October 13, 2005

After a racial incident last week involving a blackface doll hung in a noose from the back of a Southampton Town employee's pickup truck, a member of the town's Anti-Bias Task Force said yesterday he previously had warned town officials that a climate of racial hostility existed in the highway department.

Task force member Bob Zellner said the anti-bias group three years ago brought incidents of racial taunts and harassment - including one involving a similar doll attached to a truck - to the attention of Town Supervisor Patrick A. Heaney and Highway Superintendent William H. Masterson Jr.

One week ago, two town highway department workers were told by a passing motorist that the pickup they were driving was dragging the doll.

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"The people in charge continue to take it so lightly that the people in these departments believe it's OK, that racial practices are OK," Zellner said. "The rank and file don't get the message that this is not right."

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[Burma Jones]

1. Jeez, it's the Hamptons, whadda ya want?

Unless you're a very wealthy darker hued person, you are going to be harassed.

Why, don't you think the put upon folks of the Hamptons have the right to discourage anybody they deem undesirable from showing their dark dark and eeeeveeeelllll faces near the diner. I mean for Chrissake, we let the Italians and Greeks open restaurants here, didn't we????


:sarcasm:

[awoke_in_2003]

2. "the pickup they were driving was dragging the doll"

you know, how can this not be interpretted as hate. As a Texas resident, I remember what happened in Jasper. For the uninformed, some real "tough" redneck locals decided to teach darky a lesson. So, do they find a black man who might be able to defend himself? OF COURSE NOT. They found a man confined to a wheelchair, hooked him to the back of his truck, and drove down the road. The man died. This is in no way funny (of course, no one here would think it would be- except maybe the lurking freepers). I have heard people use the term, jokingly of course, "A Jasper Taxi ride".

Sometimes i really hate to think that I am of the same species as these animals.