At the time that I wrote this, it was commonly reported that there were three nooses hanging from the tree. Apparently, this was misreported and there were only two.
Originally printed in The Flyer on Sept. 18, 2007.
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Racism is supposed to be dead. When Crash, a film about racial tensions in Los Angeles, won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2006, Annie Proulx, author of “Brokeback Mountain” complained that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had given the award to a film about an outdated issue. She facetiously predicted that the nominees for the award next year would be about “the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves, and the debate over free silver." (Link to article.)
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