This spring after a long and at times bitter process, activists following the killing of George Floyd pushed for and finally got the city of Placerville to remove a noose from the city’s seal but the council opted to keep the Gold Rush-era nickname, “Hangtown.”
The noose was probably not historical – and probably not incorporated into the city logos until the 1970s but is now widely considered a hate symbol.
Leading the way in the battle over the noose was the young activist Lizzie Dubose. She is joined by Stuart Harmon, a documentary filmmaker who chronicled the fight.
Listen as Lizzie Dubose describes her motivation and the hardships of taking on what turned out to be a very disharmonious process – with anger and hate erupting along the way.
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Not by normal people.
It was a symbol of brutal frontier justice, though. In other words, history of the West.
And nothing to do with skin color.
The coolest thing about Placerville was coming into that town and seeing that (white?) effigy hanging outside of the site of the hanging tree. And knowing that the stump is still somewhere under that building.
Too bad that the modern-day “lynch mob” got to them, causing them to remove something that had nothing to do with what they claim.
This is a different issue than statues honoring military leaders in the South (in public squares).
Oh, well – who gives a sh*t, really. If it makes the modern mob happy, that’s all that really matters.
“Not by normal people.”
I guess the ADL isn’t normal.
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/noose
The thing that was most interesting to me is that the noose was put in during the 70s, just like most of the confederate monuments were enacted during the early 20th century – it’s not historical. It was put in during a time when they should have known better.
“Oh, well – who gives a sh*t, really.”
And yet you comment when clearly a lot of people do give a poop as illustrated by the conversation and the experience of the young lady we interviewed that you didn’t listen to.
Probably Probably ? How hard could that possibly be to nail down?