Thursday, October 18, 2007
In Our World - Be careful what you hang
Perhaps some people see what "they" want to see...
At HumanEvents.com, Katie O'Malley reports:
"Thanks to nosy neighbor Millie Hazelwood, Madison, New Jersey has its own Gladys Kravitz to make sure that delicate sensibilities are not offended. Millie spotted a hanging figure amongst the Maines family Halloween display and found an opportunity for relevance and her 15 minutes of fame. Poor Millie was so offended by the hanging figure, which has hung at the same house for the last five years amongst a plethora of ghoulish and obviously Halloweenish displays, that Millie had the vapors and called the local police department.
Let’s be clear: this was a hooded figure covered in chains, not an effigy of any identifiable race, ethnicity or what have you.
When it was clear to our lovable Mrs. Kravitz that local law officials did not have the authority to remove a Halloween display, Millie’s delicate nature forced her to call 1-800-hatecrime, in the form of the NAACP. It was, she reasoned, a symbol of slavery and Jim Crow segregation. The family must be racists, haters, evil. Millie and the NAACP said so, so it must be true. The NAACP can read minds. The NAACP can reach inside the darkest depths of your soul to find the inner racist in you. The NAACP is all knowing, all seeing."
