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I'm white, and even I can see the difference between the two effigies. For decades Southernors lyched blacks and hung them from trees while the town (or rather the whites in the town) used it as a social occasion. If my memory is correct, the KKK got its most dynamic start in of all places southern Indiana, which borders on Kentucky where I am GUESSING kkk activity was pervasive. Hanging Obama or any effigy of an Afro-American can never be looked at as art because of this lynching history and the fact that it is easy to see that it may be more than against Obama, it may be directed to the entire black race. These states are working hard to overcome racial discord in their cities, so the strong reaction to me goes along with that effort.

Hanging Palin in effigy is to me a whole different matter. There is no national history of white lynchings that the effigy could be a reminder of, and Palin herself is a bigot. Her effigy is actually hanging the bigotry she so clearly represents. That is part of the reason she thinks small towns are the true America, while city folk in Blue Areas pay 92% of our tax revenue. Small towns in the heartland of America are almost always pure white with maybe one token black family. I should know, I grew up in one, and got the hell out as soon as I could and never regretted the decision.

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