It's a noose that's causing all that noise, again

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It's a noose that's causing all that noise, again

Post by Jim Mathias » Tue Jul 12, 2022 11:40 pm

https://www.theroot.com/lynching-displa ... 1849169859
Lynching Display at Las Vegas Mall Draws Protest
The National Action Network has called for a public apology from the curator of the display.
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Why, it's like straight out of the Old West!
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As children and families passed the bubble blowers, hermit crabs and miscellaneous toy stands in Sunset Mall, they also grazed their eyes upon a toy train stand featuring the display of a lynching. Protestors gathered outside the mall in Galleria, Las Vegas to express their disgust with the display, according to WHIO TV 7.

The Las Vegas Garden Railway Society had been responsible for the train display. It featured two trains rolling on tracks around various scenes, one of which was three white people preparing to hang a Black man. Residents along with the National Action Network of Las Vegas expressed their anger with the scene with a protest outside the mall.

“-community members are outraged that a racist train display showing a Black man being prepared to be hung was tolerated and allowed at the mall for hundreds of children, families & community members to see,” said NAN Las Vegas in a statement, KLAS reported.

More on the incident from WHIO TV 7:

The president of the Las Vegas Garden Railway Society, Sue Jerrems, apologized for the display, saying they never meant to offend anybody.
“We never looked at it as a Black man before,” Jerrems told the Las Vegas Sun. “It was just part of a frontier scene. It had no racist implications. Once someone pointed out the implications of it, we took it down. We apologized.”

“I’m saddened that we are here again protesting things that we thought were over with — a lynching display,” Bishop Bill McDonnell with the Wealthy Place Church told KSNV.

The National Action Network in Las Vegas has called for a public apology, and has asked for the railway society to get cultural sensitivity training, KLAS reported. Jerrems told KSNV that she felt the diversity training would not be necessary, and told the station that its members “didn’t mean any harm.”

Well if Jerrems never saw the figure as a Black man…what else would it be?

Anyways, the owner of the mall issued an apology saying they didn’t even know that bit was going to be included in the train display.

“We want to apologize to everyone who was offended by this, and everyone should be offended. … We are horrified and truly apologize,” said Linsday Kahn, director of public relations for Brookfield Properties, via the Las Vegas Sun. Kahn also said they will not be working with Las Vegas Garden Railway Society in the future.

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak also responded to the incident condemning the display as racist. “Racism has no home here in Nevada. This is completely unacceptable and our community deserves answers,” he tweeted.

The display went up May 30 and was taken down July 5, reports say.
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Re: It's a noose that's causing all that noise, again

Post by FolkishFreya » Fri Jul 15, 2022 11:31 am

Model trains are so cool! This group is going to suffer unfortunately though. Although it is a accurate depiction of history people fail to recognize and accept the past. Seems like if it was promoted by the naacp or some other afro group as a "teaching tool" everyone would be okay with it. However, since it was not everyone is up in arms over this tiny display.

I visited the groups site and it looks like they've canceled all future events.
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Re: It's a noose that's causing all that noise, again

Post by White_Vengeance » Sat Jul 16, 2022 5:41 pm

I suspect that if the display was instead a tribe of wild-ubangi, subhuman, barbaric negroes burning down another formerly-great major metropolis somewhere in America, the White onlookers, passersby, and gazers would have, in their cuckish, sell-out, deracinated ways, nodded approvingly, silently clapped, and even did a little dance--perhaps a jig (no racial epithet intended)--while they smiled and proclaimed how impressed they are with the arsonist and violent criminal skills of the modern, cannibalistic, feral simian negroes and how their ability to burn down major metropolises keeps them busy, "enterprising" negroes; and that they are only "peacefully protesting" the "horrific treatment" they've received from the evil, colonialist, racist White European Americans--and especially since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

And you can bet your lily White keister that outside the Las Vegas Mall there wouldn't be ANY protesting by deracinated, pandering, cuckish Christian Bishops, pastors, or reverends from a tax-exempt, Bible-thumping "haven of Christendom" named Wealthy Place Church. No--if anything, the so-called "Bishop" would instead be pontificating to the press about the need to protect and defend the "poor, mistreated, misunderstood, dispossessed, persecuted" negroes.
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