<p>"All it takes is a single disgruntled individual at Columbia who harbored racial hatred, and felt compelled to direct it toward this particular professor."</p>
<p>Yes assuming the motive was racial hatred and not something else. Kerri Dunn didn't festoon her car with racial and ethnic slurs and slash her own tires because she hated Blacks and Jews. She did it because she hate people who hate Blacks and Jews, and felt I guess, they were falling down on the job of raising our awareness of their nefariousness.</p>
<p>At the moment the only persons we know for sure were disgruntled are the alleged victim and the fellow faculty member she is involved in a lawsuit with. Since Harlem isn't a hotbed of white supremacists it might be worth looking at anyone with a possibly motive.</p>
<p>"Bollinger likely responded to the police the way he did because the university administration wants to see the video BEFORE the NYPD does."</p>
<p>And why would that be necessary? Certainly they would have no intention of interfering in a police investigate! </p>
<p>What makes you think that wouldn't have been the first thing they did when the story broke? It is more likely they already know what is on those tapes. I couldn't get lucky and have it be Ahmadinejad hanging the noose could I?</p>
<p>Police are continuing to investigate an anti-semitic message that included a swastika found etched into a bathroom wall at Columbia University, just two days after a noose was discovered hanging from the door of a professor at Teachers College.</p>
<p>"higherlead, are you saying that there are no white racist in Harlem> too funny a comment"</p>
<p>What I am saying is I am going to wait and see what the investigation turns up without jumping to conclusions and if it was either a threat or a hoax I hope the perpetrator is punished to the full extent of the law.</p>
<p>BTW Amadinejad does know how to make a noose.</p>
<p>NEW YORK (CBS) ― There was a disturbing discovery near Ground Zero in Manhattan Thursday. A noose was found hanging from a lamppost at the Church Street Post Office. This is just the latest message of hate striking the city.</p>
<p>simba... I completely agree - I am hurt, too.</p>
<p>While I sincerely believe these are just copycat crimes, you don't copy someone with whom you don't share some sort of affiliation with. It may be some sicko who just wants to see their anonymous actions spread all over the news, but if they didn't have a hatred towards blacks, they'd pick another crime to copycat that would also get press attention. If you truly did not have a racist bone in your body, you wouldn't be hanging nooses for attention.</p>
<p>"the white supremists have gotter smarter, and don't walk around with shaved heads and in brown shirt, they have learned to blend"</p>
<p>I don't know...when people are actually apprehended for such crimes they are usually pretty dumb people. I resist the idea that the actions of mouth-breathing morons are representative of general social attitudes. If there really are clever white supremacists out there, they probably aren't hanging nooses.</p>
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Well, they certainly couldn't have grown any dumber.</p>
<p>I agree, Hunt, that white supremists or seperatists are certainly not representative of general social attitudes. It's silly to even bring them up when discussing attitudes toward interacial marriage, as they would never progress far enough in a relationship with a black person to even share a meal, never mind a marriage! They are really a tiny, statistically insignificant group. Great subjects for crime shows & shoot-em-up movies, though.</p>
<p>More from the WCBS story:
"Nooses -- deplored as symbols of lynchings in the Old South -- have appeared in recent incidents in the New York area and across the country. </p>
<p>In Queens, a white woman was arrested after threatening to kill her black neighbor's children with a noose. </p>
<p>Other nooses have been found at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, and in the Hempstead Police Department's locker room on Long Island. </p>
<p>According to Morris Dees, co-founder of Southern Poverty, "Maybe Jena, Louisiana, has caused a copycat situation. There is no real database on nooses around the country, but there's been an increase in the last 10 to 15 years all over the U.S. -- not just the south." </p>
<p>Hate crimes in New York City were up 10 percent last year, with 256 incidents reported. Most recently, a Swastika was discovered in a bathroom stall at Columbia University. "</p>