{"id":30702,"date":"2010-12-19T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T15:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=30702"},"modified":"2013-11-23T03:47:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T08:47:47","slug":"recent-examples-of-racist-acts-by-individuals-trigger-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/19\/recent-examples-of-racist-acts-by-individuals-trigger-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Recent Racist Acts by Individuals (Trigger Warning)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abbotsford, Wisconsin’s\u00a0Mark Prior posted a sign reading “NO NEGRO’S ALLOWED” sign [sic] at the entrance to his strip club. \u00a0From the story at NBC<\/a> (via Racialicious<\/a>):<\/p>\n

“Our mistake is sometimes we look for logic in something that is just plain stupid,” says Dr. Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, an African American historian at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Meanwhile, in Hayden, Idaho, Mark Eliseuson celebrated the first snow with a KKK snowman, complete with noose. \u00a0According to KTLA News<\/a>, Eliseuson took down the snowman after being told that he could be charged with a “nuisance”:<\/p>\n

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(Thanks to Dmitriy T.M. for the tip off.)<\/p>\n

See also our post on race-themed parties at colleges and universities<\/a> and our post on The Compton Cookout<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abbotsford, Wisconsin’s\u00a0Mark Prior posted a sign reading “NO NEGRO’S ALLOWED” sign [sic] at the entrance to his strip club. \u00a0From the story at NBC (via Racialicious): “Our mistake is sometimes we look for logic in something that is just plain stupid,” says Dr. Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, an African American historian at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[283,285,133],"class_list":["post-30702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30702"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59383,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30702\/revisions\/59383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}