On top of all that comes news that the Custer County Patriots,
a group related to the Tea Party movement , displayed a hangmanÂ’s noose at their booth at the Eastern Montana Fair in Miles City last month.
The display raised quite a ruckus and moved a lot of people to write letters of condemnation to the editor of the Miles City Star.
Brian Schoof, a member of the Custer County Patriots and a Republican House candidate, brushed off the noose by saying, “A lot of ads use symbolism to make something stick in your mind. That’s all it was.”
Rhonda Campbell, a rancher who visited the fair and was outraged by the “symbol,” set Schoof straight. She told the Star: “A noose means one thing, and that’s a hanging. Anybody over the age of 10 knows what a noose means in the United States of America. It’s an instrument of terror against black people, and there is a black man sitting in the White House.”
Thank you, Rhonda. ItÂ’s nice to hear an adult speaking like an adult, and telling the plain truth.
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