Even though the KKK were Democrats, it was Democrat governors (Faubus, Wallace) who opposed civil rights and it was a Republican President (Ike) who sent the troops in against them. But we can't expect a Leftist professor to know any history, can we? History is far too inconvenient to them.
"An adjunct professor at Wednesday's protest said she has noticed an increase in discriminatory behavior and attributed it to the current political climate in the United States.
"It's horrifying obviously," said Cris Beam, who teaches creative writing. "We're in a culture right now of escalating racism, in an increasingly conservative (environment). We all live in this country, so it seeps in."
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If that is not a slur, I don't know what would be. The fat black woman who was the "victim" is looking mightily pleased with herself in the photo above. The incident has gotten her vast publicity that she would never have gotten otherwise. Given past instances of "hate crimes" faked by Leftists themselves, the possibility that she put the noose there herself cannot be dismissed. There is another good list of fraudulent Democrat publicity stunts here
I wonder if Cris Bream also thinks that it is "conservatives" who are responsible for the big revival of antisemitism among Leftists in recent years.