NEWBERG, Ore. - Officials of a small Christian university say a life-size cardboard reproduction of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was hung from a tree on the campus, an act with racial undertones that outraged students and school leaders alike.
George Fox University President Robin Baker said a custodian discovered the effigy early Tuesday and removed it. University spokesman Rob Felton said Wednesday that the commercially produced reproduction had been suspended from the branch of a tree with fishing line around the neck.
Taped to the cardboard cutout of the black senator from Illinois was a message targeting participants in Act Six, a scholarship program geared toward increasing the number of minority and low-income students at several Christian colleges, mostly in the Northwest.
The message read, "Act Six reject."
The disturbing image found near the heart of the campus recalled the days of lynchings of blacks and was all the more incongruous at a university founded by Quaker pioneers in 1891. Felton said he had been at the school since he enrolled two decades ago, and "I've never experienced or heard of any type of overt racial act."
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who you do and do not support...
THIS IS JUST WRONG!
- Just the KAT, thinking out loud again.
That some are ready for the change in the country.
Still clinging to the old ways. The not so distant past creeps back in and haunts us.
I am not an Obama supporter and do not subscribe to the change he dicates . But lynching (real or symbolic) is not the reaction of reasonable intelligent people when voicing dissent.
- Just the KAT, thinking out loud again.
A declaration, I do not support any of the mainstream candidates, because they are more of the same, as are the candidates in the House or Senate.
America is not really ready for change, but let the banks and financial system collapse and then we will see change, when people are in the streets.