a sad little noose and a couple swastikas are not at all indicative of race relations in nyc. here we despise everyone that annoys us regardless of race or religion. easy!

Um, OK -

1) Everybody knows by now that the first incident with Madonna Constantine with probably fake.

2) It's unlikely that this is her again. It's some random moron.

3) Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Yeah, the Mason Dixon thing is a bit unimaginative. Is our thinking about racism really so unsophisticated? Were there not just a string of brutal hate crimes all over New York, perpetrated by and against all kinds of people? Why do these get classified as anomalies, while every example from the south is typical?

For this country to REALLY get serious about ending racism, self-satisfied northerners need to banish the idea that this region is somehow above it all.

gadzooks! By publishing that picture of a noose, gothamist has inadvertently become a perpetrator of hate against all of us. eh, whatever.

The college bureaucrats in charge of "diversity" and "multiculturalism" have to justify their lavish salaries somehow.

They better watch out, we got the Amish on our side now! Put a call in(they do have a community phone) to ezekial and the barn raisers will be up here and have our backs in no time and frankly if you've ever seen he forearms on those guys... well you better take your swastikas and run.

And what with an average of seven children per woman, the Amish aren't going away anytime soon.

"Mason-Dixon Line"?!?

Are you implying that planting fake racist symbols in one's office as a red herring to divert investigations for unethical conduct is a... SOUTHERN thing?

This is either one seriously stupid person merely acting out (I mean, to send one to a professor who is known to have been fired and even held a press conference over it) or it's someone on the inside who felt a need to pour a little butane on "the struggle."

The Constantine noose is highly suspect considering that she was staring down plagiarism allegations at the time and a noose on her door would have had the potential to obfuscate whatever penalty she would eventually face. Fire the poor woman who had the noose placed on her door? Inconceivable! Surprisingly, Columbia had the balls to do it anyway. Not surprisingly, she immediately played the race card after they did.

In case anyone doubts whether any of these noose incidents would/could be staged, read this:

http://wjz.com/local/noose.baltimore.fire.2.600211.html

Now I'll stand aside and let the bleeding hearts run wild.

They better watch out, we got the Amish on our side now! Put a call in(they do have a community phone) to ezekial and the barn raisers will be up here and have our backs in no time and frankly if you've ever seen he forearms on those guys... well you better take your swastikas and run.

I smell a hoax. It's happened before.

Hordes of klansmen aren't exactly sweeping across the urban landscape terrorizing all in their path. The city does, however, seem to be teeming with agenda-driven race hustlers trying to stoke up racial tension.

Front page headlines were made in the 80s when windows in Borough Park were smashed on the anniversary of the Nazi's infamous KristalNacht.

A month later the culprit was caught: a Jewish man. The story was buried on page 9.

Go figure.

I hate to agree with you Ides but you could be right. That very thing happened at my ultra-liberal SoCal college several years back. A crazy prof smashed up her own car and marked it up with swastikas so she could a. commit insurance fraud and b. incite the college into a super-liberal frenzy. The latter worked really well, but once the cops got involved, her ass went to jail for insurance fraud.

CMC alum here...if you really went to CMC, I don't know how you could describe it as "Ultra Liberal"

It's about the most moderate school you could find

I'm referring to Pomona, where it actually happened and where the liberals went batshit. I know the crazy prof was from CMC.

Ah, Claremont.

I remember reading about that. The media shouted the original story from the rooftops. When it turned out to be a hoax, they weren't so keen anymore.

Mason-Dixon Line? Way to let your bias shine through! Only southerns whites can be the target of scorn without inviting protests and demands for apologies.

Also, has anyone checked out the plagiarist prof? It seems she was crying "noose" to get sympathy and detract from the investigation into her unethical and unprofessional conduct. This may be her way of getting back in the limelight. The note to the Jewish professors may be just a red-herring.

If it wasn't the prof, my bet is on black students. It has happened many times before; sort of like the arsonist firemen.

Without googling it, do you even know where the Mason-Dixon line is?

Yep, I do. I immediately noticed that too. As if NYC should be immune from racism when in fact the city is actually an epicenter of it. Living in NYC I've seen just as much of it as I did living in North Carolina. You can pretend that Southerners still run around with water cannons blasting people on the weekends all you want, doesn't make it true.

Here is something entirely true: I lived in Harlem for close to two years (I'm white) and I experienced more black to white racism here than any other place I've lived before. The comments against my girlfriend and I were sick and my girlfriend would get catcalled on nearly a daily basis (usually with something about white girl thrown in there).

Racism is alive and well in NYC folks. And guess what? UNC, UVA, UGA, Vanderbilt don't have people throwing nooses on other people's doors that only happens in NYC nowadays...you know...the backwards sticks.

hey henricus, maybe you didn't experience much racism in the south and elsewhere because you weren't surrounded by black people all the time. crazy thought.

Crazy thought, but I've actually lived in mixed race neighborhoods which are common to smaller cities (not Atlanta and Houston) and towns throughout the South. Hell, the neighbors on either side of me were black and we got along this side. It's only in Harlem that I ever got the eyes like daggers racial experience in America.