UK (as in Uni of KY) police investigating signs that call Obama a racial epithet
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University of Kentucky officials are investigating two incidents in which someone hung signs that called President Barack Obama a racial epithet.
On March 15, a professor noticed one such sign hanging on a door to the UK School of Law on South Limestone. He turned it in to campus police, who are investigating, said spokesman Jay Blanton.
Early Thursday morning, third year law student Ches Clark said he found a sign affixed to a bus shelter on South Lime near Maxwelton Court. The sign said "How Do You Spell Nigger? OBAMA."
The letters looked to be cut out of a menu, glued to another piece of paper and photocopied, Clark said.
UK police could charge whoever posted the signs with third degree criminal mischief, Blanton said. It's not clear whether anyone from UK was involved, but police are investigating because the first sign was on UK property, he said.
Clark took the sign to his law-school class on racism and criminal law and posted a copy of it on his Facebook page.
His law professor, Roberta Harding, said the sign looked juvenile, yet someone had gone to a lot of trouble to make it.
The general sentiment in class was that whoever posted the sign should "get over" Obama being president, Harding said.
"I think people were upset in a positive way," she said.
In 2008, two college-age men were arrested after hanging an effigy of Obama from a tree on the UK campus with a noose around its neck.
The grand jury dismissed charges of second-degree burglary, theft by unlawful taking and disorderly conduct against Hunter Bush and Joe Fischer, who had graduated from UK.
Fischer and Bush expressed remorse but said they were reacting to news about a Sarah Palin effigy in California.
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:colbert:
Not only should we ALLOW the south to secede, I would be okay with declaring Martial Law to FORCE them to secede
"Oh man, you know what would be really funny? If we hung these signs around campus! We'll be so cool and get all the chicks!"
Similar story: Around my town, graffiti started showing up on the sides of schools and public buildings that featured Anti-Bush and 9/11 remarks. Turns out 4 Catholic School students did it.
Clearly they are not an English student. That is not how you spell it at all! In fact it seems odd that they spelled it correctly earlier in the sign yet when they actually spell out the word to show you how it is spelled they do it wrong.
[QUOTE=Jiyoon;28804282]Not only should we ALLOW the south to secede, I would be okay with declaring Martial Law to FORCE them to secede[/QUOTE]
Not everyone in the south is a judgmental extremist you horses ass.
[QUOTE=ZakkShock;28804305]Not everyone in the south is a judgmental extremist you horses ass.[/QUOTE]
We should evacuate those who aren't and let the rest have their own little country to fuck with.
[QUOTE=ZakkShock;28804305]Not everyone in the south is a judgmental extremist you horses ass.[/QUOTE]
I live in virginia. We invented LYNCHING. I know some good wholesome people here, so anybody who wants to take refuge in DC or Maryland can.
plus its the south and our shitty politicians/pseudolibertarianism thats dragging this country down. Even if SOME of us are good...
[QUOTE=Jiyoon;28804350]I live in virginia. We invented LYNCHING. I know some good wholesome people here, so anybody who wants to take refuge in DC or Maryland can.
plus its the south and our shitty politicians/pseudolibertarianism thats dragging this country down. Even if SOME of us are good...[/QUOTE]
Mate, I live in ARIZONA. We've become the definition of idiocy.
Viva Baja Arizona!
[QUOTE=Jiyoon;28804350]I live in virginia. We invented LYNCHING. I know some good wholesome people here, so anybody who wants to take refuge in DC or Maryland can.
plus its the south and our shitty politicians/pseudolibertarianism thats dragging this country down. Even if SOME of us are good...[/QUOTE]
We also invented mental institutions. Or at least we had the first dedicated mental institution in the US.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;28804996]We also invented mental institutions. Or at least we had the first dedicated mental institution in the US.[/QUOTE]
Great idea johnnymo! they can take all the psychos and sickies with them!
We're not [I]the south[/I], damnit. I don't care what the Census Bureau says, we never seceded. :colbert: