NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials at a Tennessee university say six nooses arranged in the colors of the rainbow were part of an art display for a sculpture class and were not intended to be a political statement or hate symbol.
Austin Peay State University President Alisa White told students Tuesday that the unnamed student who made them was concerned about the perception of the display and apologetic.
The nooses were hung from a tree near the art building at the Clarksville campus Monday afternoon. Campus police removed them after a complaint.
The student issued a statement saying the display was meant to invoke the cycle of death and rebirth represented by springtime.
Some students at a community forum Tuesday were skeptical that anyone would not know nooses are a symbol of lynching.
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In fairness, they also don’t seem to realize the confederate flag stands for racism, division, slavery, and evil.
*I can’t bring myself to capitalize confederate.
Must have PC art, of course.
I have no idea what the local word is about this, but it seems kind of obvious to me that this is about comparing the ongoing attacks - both real and legislative - against gay people, including transgender people, among the very same kind of people in the very same places, to the lynching and oppressing and discriminating against black people in general for a couple hundred years.
What else could it be?
C’mon, y’all!
How could a mere college student in Tennessee
(in Nashville, almost 55 miles north of the Pulaski birthplace of the KKK)
know how nooses slung over trees had been used in the Volunteer state?
At least she volunteer’d to take 'em down, once the bad news reached her!
I did not see a gender specified in the article. Could you please explain where you found information stating the artist was a woman?